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This open document on Community and Personal Archiving Resources is a compilation of guides, toolkits, existing projects, research, funding campaigns and other resources for people engaged in community archiving work. These resources have been assembled by individuals participating in the monthly social meetup, Community Archiving Happy Hour, which is open to all.

Guides and Toolkits

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Digital Readiness Toolkit

Accessing the Digital Readiness Toolkit - Recollection Wisconsin

Guidelines for Collaboration

https://guidelinesforcollaboration.info/

Library of Congress resources for personal archiving

Personal Digital Archiving | Digital Preservation - Library of Congress

Melody Karle’s website

personalarchiving.digital - Personal Digital Archiving

Norfolk (UK) Community Archives Toolkit

https://www.archives.norfolk.gov.uk/community-archives

Oral History Association Metadata Toolkit

https://oralhistory.org/metadata-assessment-and-planning-tool/

Preserving Australia’s Documentary Heritage: A Starter Kit for Community Groups https://www.nla.gov.au/sites/default/files/starterkitcommunity.pdf

Project STAND Archiving Student Activism Toolkit

https://standarchives.com/archiving-student-activism-toolkit-3/

Protocols for Native American Archival Materials

Protocols for Native American Archival Materials (nau.edu)

Reconciliation Framework: The Response to the Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Taskforce

Reconciliation Framework: The Response to the Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Taskforce (wordpress.com)

ROPA: The Roadmap for Participatory Archiving https://ropa.umb.edu/roadmap

South Carolina Preservation Toolkit

Scpreservationtoolkit.com

Tacoma Public Library’s Community Archives Toolkit: https://community-archives.gitbook.io/toolkit

The Endings Project:

The Endings Project: The Endings Project | Le projet Endings

UCLA Community Archives Lab Toolkit

https://communityarchiveslab.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/InitialToolkit-compressed.pdf

WiLS resources

IMLS Community Memory Tools and Resources - WiLS

Projects & Programs

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Activating Archives in Remote Communities project lead by University of Iowa https://slis.uiowa.edu/news/2022/09/slis-faculty-receives-imls-grant

https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/aliseacp/article/view/1265/1127

Arizona State University Community-Driven Archives Initiative

https://lib.asu.edu/communityarchives/resources

Billie Holiday Center for Liberation Arts’ Digital Humanities Lab/ Mobile Digitization Lab

Digital Humanities Lab | Billie Holiday Center for Liberation Arts | Johns Hopkins University

Boston Public Library loans oral history kits

Tell Your Story: Borrow Oral History Backpacks at the BPL | Boston Public Library

California Revealed: Memory Lab Support, Training & Preservation

https://californiarevealed.org/memorylabs

Community Archiving Workshop

https://communityarchiving.org/

Community Archives Program at UC Santa Cruz

https://guides.library.ucsc.edu/speccoll-nav/community-archives

DC Public LIbrary’s Memory Lab

https://www.dclibrary.org/using-the-library/digital-preservation-memory-lab

Home Movie Day

https://www.centerforhomemovies.org/hmd/

  • Interest form: https://airtable.com/appsCrD27VEQowIvS/shrw2h2bzZZlxzSNu
  • Documents and resources for HMD hosts: https://www.centerforhomemovies.org/documents/

Invisible Histories

https://invisiblehistory.org/

The Listeners Project

HOME — TLP:Queremos Escucharte (tlpww.org)

Orange County & Southeast Asian Archive Center

https://ocseaa.lib.uci.edu/partnerships#ourhistory

In Poland, there’s a national office that supports community archives https://cas.org.pl/centre-of-community-archives/

Interference Archive Interference Archive – Exploring the relationship between cultural production and social movements.

Manilatown Heritage Foundation

https://www.manilatown.org/

Memories without Borders

https://californiarevealed.org/mwb

New Haven Community Archives Support - Beinecke Library at Yale University

https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/programs/new-haven-community-archives-support

People’s Media Record (Philadelphia, PA)

https://peoplesmediarecord.com/

Peoples of Utah Revisited

https://history.utah.gov/peoples-of-utah-revisited/

Peoples of Utah Revisited digital collection https://collections.lib.utah.edu/search?page=1&facet_setname_s=dha_pour

Raíces Cultural Center Digital Archive & Community History Program

https://archive.raicesculturalcenter.org/

https://www.raciesculturalcenter.org/community-history

Recollection Wisconsin

Sharing our Stories. Exploring our Past. - Recollection Wisconsin

The Queens Memory Project

www.queensmemory.org

Scanners Archive

The mission of SCANNNERS Archive is to actively build a shared history in DIY culture, self-publishing, and artistic collaboration.

https://www.babandfriends.com/scannners

Self Evident Oral History Story Archive — Self Evident: Asian America's Stories (selfevidentshow.com)

University of North Carolina’s Community Driven Archives Program https://blogs.lib.unc.edu/community-driven-archives/

Your Story, Our Story

The Tenement Museum

The Virtual Footlocker Project https://www.virtualfootlocker.com/about/what-we-do is led by Edward Benoit from Louisiana State University https://www.lsu.edu/chse/sis/about-us/bios/benoit.php

Voice of Witness

Oral History Resources — Voice of Witness

Warrior Women Project

www.warriorwomen.org and https://linktr.ee/WarriorWomenOrg

XFR Collective XFR (xfrcollective.org)

Campaigns for Support and Funding Resources

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Tools and Systems

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https://tainacan.org/en/

Storytelling platform: https://documental.xyz/

Reports & Research

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A Green New Deal for Archives

https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/a-green-new-deal-for-archives/

Decolonial Archival Futures

Decolonial Archival Futures

Held in Trust Report https://www.culturalheritage.org/about-us/foundation/programs/held-in-trust/held-in-trust-report

Philadelphia Audiovisual Collections Evaluation

https://peoplesmediarecord.com/pace/

Shift Design has published a number of white papers and reports about community-based archives:

Investing in America’s Diverse Culture & History Collections — Shift Collective

“Nothing About Us Without Us” Report from the Cultural Heritage and Social Change Summit Southern University at New Orleans November 5–6, 2016

Architecting Sustainable Futures: Designing Prosperity for Community-Based Archives. Shift Collective. Retrieved 2023

Check out the whole library from Shift https://www.shiftcollective.us/library

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