Purpose This paper scrutinizes the scholarship on community archives' information work.
Community archives and archiving projects represent unprecedentedly democratic venues …

Living independently of mainstream institutions, digital community archives and digital
humanities collections confront systemic barriers to medium‐and long‐term viability. Their …

Libraries and archives serve so many different users who come to information institutions
with various perspectives, needs, experiences, and desires around accessing physical or …

This chapter assesses the state of rural South Africa on the availability of strategies,
infrastructure, programs, information sharing, and skills. The conditions of rural community …

Small and rural libraries are increasingly at the forefront of initiatives to bring communities
together to discuss and resolve important issues. This rising tide of libraries' community …

This chapter assessed the role of universities' libraries on their collection of marginalized
community records. The function of collecting marginalized archives was supposed to be …

Describing efforts to uncover the largely undocumented history of African Americans in
southern Illinois, this case study demonstrates how universities and activists can empower …