Document Type
Presentation
Publication Date
8-14-2014
Abstract
How can a university archives establish a successful ongoing relationship with a community organization? What are the benefits and challenges of such a collaboration? University of Massachusetts Boston’s Archives and Special Collections (UASC) explored these questions while working with The Irish Ancestral Research Association (TIARA) to preserve and provide access to 79,000 mortuary records from the Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters. Elements of the collaboration included shifting stewardship of the records from the Foresters to TIARA to UMass Boston, integrating TIARA’s efforts in processing and indexing the records into the Archives’ workflow, providing in-person and electronic access to the records, and hosting public events that celebrate the partnership and educate the public about the records. This poster illustrates the lessons learned during the records’ journey from an active business to a community organization to a university’s Archives and Special Collections.
Community Engaged/Serving
Part of the UMass Boston Community-Engaged Teaching, Research, and Service Series. http://scholarworks.umb.edu/engage
Recommended Citation
Holden, Jessica R.; Elder, Andrew; and Riley, Joanne, "University Archives and Community Organizations: Ensuring Access through Collaboration" (2014). Joseph P. Healey Library Publications. 19.
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/hlpubs/19
University Archives and Community Organizations: Ensuring Access through Collaboration (Presentation Handout)
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Comments
Poster presentation at ARCHIVES★RECORDS: Ensuring Access, the joint annual meeting of the Council of State Archivists, the National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators, and the Society of American Archivists (Washington D.C., August 10-16, 2014).