ARCHIVES 2017

The conversation about the preservation of the country's immigration history as a specific subject of archival work has largely been left to specialists rather than integrated within discussions in the archival profession. Session participants address the issues of international cooperation, provenance and custodial responsibility, balanced ethnic and cultural representation, working with immigrant communities on collection development, and innovative collaborative processing projects while accommodating and negotiating foreign-language materials and different cultural traditions.

Huntsha: International Initiatives: Preserving and Promoting Swedish Immigrant Collections at Home and Abroad
Necas: Archival Materials Move Across the Borders with Their Creators, Too: Let Them Be Processed Quickly
Scott Taylor: A Century of Conflict: Émigré and Refugee Collections at the Hoover Archives