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Nancy Godoy and Alana Varner As you may have seen in our previous posts, we often tag our blog posts with the hashtag #archivesglow. We would like to explain the meaning behind this hashtag and provide moments from the Community-Dri...

Welcome back and Happy New Year!  Bj Bud Memorial Archives     This collection spotlight series highlights collections we here at Community-Driven Archives (CDA) feel very passionately about and would like to share with others....

Happy holidays from the Community-Driven Archives (CDA) team. This fantastic image is from the Bj Bud Memorial Archives which represents one of my many goals for the holiday season. We will be taking a break from the blog for the upcoming holidays to spread some holiday cheer within our families and...

This image from the Bj Bud Memorial Archives has been selected to start our visual theme series titled “Moments of Joy” for the Community-Driven Archives (CDA) blog. Titled “Costume Dance Party” taken at a Sons of Apollo (SOA) Motorcycle Club gathering of their members event on June 4, 1986. SOA was...

In 2017, the Arizona State University Library was awarded a $450,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the project titled “Engaged, Educating, and Empowering: Developing Community-Driven Archival Collections.” This three-year project was designed to build and expand community-driven col...

Starting in 2009 archivists attending the annual Arizona Archives Summit (AAS) began to address serious concerns from archivists around the state regarding a number of issues facing Arizona archives. Those issues were unprocessed backlogs, underrepresented communities/topics, and collection developm...

Anyone can be a community archivist. If you have a passion or drive to preserve the history of your family and the people within your community we encourage you to become a community archivist. So many people within marginalized communities do not understand that our history is important and worth d...

The Community-Driven Archives (CDA) team here at Arizona State University is what we proudly call the “dream team”. With a background as diverse and community oriented as the CDA team is, we are excited to have this opportunity to serve the diverse communities across Arizona. ASU Library is proud an...

The Community-Driven Archives (CDA) team at Arizona State University (ASU) is excited to be back on this platform with the work our group is embarking on in community-driven archives. Due to various reasons (time, staff and student commitments) unfortunately the previous bl...