Balancing Act in the Archives: Increasing Access to the Great Plains Black History Museum Collection
Document Type
Presentation
Publication Date
5-19-2023
Abstract
Our unit has been working for several years in various capacities with the Great Plains Black History Museum in North Omaha. Our latest collaboration involves arrangement, description, and selective digitization of their archives. This project is ongoing though paused at the moment.
In this talk, Wendy and I are going to summarize our current development of a research topic in the archival profession stemming from this Great Plains Black History Museum project–that of ensuring access to a community archive through a partnership. Along the way, we’ve been thinking through issues like resource allocation, sustainable access to community archival collections, hosting collections, and ethical issues, among others.
Our outline today is the partnership history, lessons from a lit review in progress, benefits and obstacles of community-institutional archives partnerships, and the future of this research. And now we’re going to hear from Wendy about the history of this partnership.
Recommended Citation
Schwartz, Lori and Guerra, Wendy, "Balancing Act in the Archives: Increasing Access to the Great Plains Black History Museum Collection" (2023). Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations. 150.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/crisslibfacproc/150
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This was presented at Nebraska Library Association C&U and TSRT Spring Meeting on May 19, 2023.
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