Abstract
Academic librarians and archivists may work toward transforming education, archives, and community history (TEACH) through implementing a CARE approach. This includes a commitment to critical, liberatory, and person-centered praxis in archives co-creation and partnership with community organizations at the frontlines of documenting and preserving marginalized histories. Caring, in the archival context, begins with an acknowledgement of the harm mainstream archival institutions have caused for minoritized groups and then moving towards implementation of non-extractive, flexible and ethical partnership and/or stewardship of historical and cultural heritage materials. Caring also demands critical, rigorous, ongoing commitments to activation of the archival records by centering the needs of the people those records represent.
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Vo Dang, Thuy
(2026)
"TEACH and CARE: How Community-Centered Archival Practice May Transform Education, Archives, and Community History,"
Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies: Vol. 13, Article 10.
Available at:
https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/10