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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 Archival Collections.” This three-year project was designed to build and expand community-driven col...
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. Those issues were unprocessed backlogs, underrepresented communities/topics, and collection developm...
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 many people within marginalized communities do not understand that our history is important and worth d...
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 excited to have this opportunity to serve the diverse communities across Arizona. ASU Library is proud an...
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 reasons (time, staff and student commitments) unfortunately the previous bl...