Abstract
In Building Representative Community Archives, editor Hannah Leah Crummé sets out to provide a practical guide to building community archives through ten case studies. The volume covers three types of projects: oral history, collection and curation, and reassessment. With some exceptions, community-created and community-maintained archives are sidelined in this collection. The majority of case studies describe academic special collections units embracing community archival principles and practices to meet their own goals, and some chapters do not meaningfully engage with community archives at all. Though many chapters succeed on their own terms, the misleading framing produces a collection that is less than the sum of its parts.
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Bach, Shir
(2025)
"Review of Building Representative Community Archives: Inclusive Strategies in Practice,"
Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies: Vol. 12, Article 2.
Available at:
https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol12/iss1/2