Join New England Archivists to explore critical archival practice while discussing Deborah Gurt’s article “Community Oral History to widen the path: The Jewish Mobile Oral History Project” in The Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies.
Abstract: This article presents the case study of the Jewish Mobile Oral History Project of the McCall Library at the University of South Alabama as an example of a participatory archival practice. With goals to build a collection centered on a minority experience, to engage with community members, and to foster inter-communal dialogue, the project highlights affect as one vital consideration for archival record keepers, users, and subjects.
Attendees are invited to join in an open discussion of this article, where they can hear more from Gurt, pose questions to the group, and collaborate on how this discussion reflects or informs their own work.
The article can be downloaded for free at this link: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol10/iss1/2
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