Radical Collections: Re-examining the roots of collections, practices and information professions
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Radical Collections: Re-examining the roots of collections, practices and information professions

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Radical Collections: Re-examining the roots of collections, practices and information professions

About this book

Do archivists 'curate' history? And to what extent are our librarians the gatekeepers of knowledge?

Libraries and archives have a long and rich history of compiling 'radical collections'- from Klanwatch Project in the States to the R. D. Laing Archive in Glasgow, but a re-examination of the information professions and all aspects of managing those collections is long overdue. This new book shines a light on pressing topical issues within library and information services (LIS)- to encompass selection, appraisal and accession, through to organisation and classification, and including promotion and use. Will libraries survive as victims of neoliberal marketization? Do we have a responsibility to collect and document 'white hate' in the era of Trump? And how can a predominantly white (96.7%) LIS workforce effectively collect and tell POC histories?

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Notes on contributors
  6. Introduction: Radical collections and radical voices Jordan Landes
  7. 1. Radical or reactionary? James Wilkinson, Cork Public Library and identity in the Irish Free State Mairéad Mooney
  8. 2. Beyond the Left: documenting American racism in print periodicals at the Wisconsin Historical Society, and theorising (radical) collections today Alycia Sellie
  9. 3. ‘Mind meddling’: exploring drugs and radical psychiatry in archives Lucas Richert
  10. 4. Cataloguing the radical material: an experience requiring a flexible approach Julio Cazzasa
  11. 5. Decentring qualification: a radical examination of archival employment possibilities Hannah Henthorn and Kirsty Fife
  12. 6. Enabling or envisioning politics of possibility? Examining the radical potential of academic libraries Katherine Quinn
  13. Index
  14. Back Cover