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Collection Spotlight: Bj Bud Memorial Archives
Welcome back and Happy New Year! Bj Bud Memorial Arch...
Happy Holidays from the Community-Driven Archives team!
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 ...
Moments of Joy Series
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...
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant
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 ...
Why is it important?
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. ...
What is a community archivist?
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 man...
Who we are
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 excit...
Welcome to the relaunch of the Community-Driven Archives Blog!
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 r...