Oral History, Donor Engagement, and the Co-creation of Knowledge in an Academic Archives

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dc.creatorWeaver, Robert G. (TTU)
dc.creatorHernández, Zachary R. (TTU)
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-28T16:30:13Z
dc.date.available2022-05-28T16:30:13Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.descriptionAuthors of manuscripts accepted for publication retain copyright in their work and are able to publish their articles in institutional repositories or elsewhere as long as the piece is posted after its original appearance on archivaria.ca. Any reproduction within one year following the date of this agreement requires the permission of the General Editor.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis article examines attempts at the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech University’s Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library (SWC/ SCL), in Lubbock, Texas, to integrate its oral history program into collection acquisition, arrangement, description, and discovery processes. Beginning with the creation of a staff position dedicated to acquisition, and continuing through an evolution of job duties resulting from COVID-19, the SWC’s oral historians now not only facilitate collection acquisition through extensive relationship building but also engage donors during arrangement and description. Such reconceptions have led to new processes and workflows, wherein oral history has become an endeavour of collaborative knowledge creation and an enabler of a more democratic archives.en_US
dc.identifier.citationWeaver, Robert G. and Zachary R. Hernández. “Oral History, Donor Engagement, and the Cocreation of Knowledge in an Academic Archives”. Archivaria 93 (Spring 2022): 72-97. https://archivaria.ca/index.php/archivaria/article/view/13837en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://archivaria.ca/index.php/archivaria/article/view/13837
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2346/89337
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.subjectOral Historyen_US
dc.subjectCollection Developmenten_US
dc.subjectArchivesen_US
dc.titleOral History, Donor Engagement, and the Co-creation of Knowledge in an Academic Archivesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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