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Community Leaders Negotiate A Framework For Their Archival Collection, Diane Duesterhoeft Apr 2014

Community Leaders Negotiate A Framework For Their Archival Collection, Diane Duesterhoeft

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This presentation describes the path an established community organization traveled toward getting their historicalmaterials into a local archive.


No Lo Tires! Don't Throw It Away! Texas Latino Archives Shaping Their Own Narrative: Community Leaders Negotiate A Framework For Their Archival Collection, Diane Duesterhoeft Apr 2014

No Lo Tires! Don't Throw It Away! Texas Latino Archives Shaping Their Own Narrative: Community Leaders Negotiate A Framework For Their Archival Collection, Diane Duesterhoeft

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Practical tips for organizations and individuals considering preserving their historical records with a local archive.


The Dangers Of Unlimited Access: Fiction, The Internet And The Social Construction Of Childhood., Suzanne Marie Stauffer Jan 2014

The Dangers Of Unlimited Access: Fiction, The Internet And The Social Construction Of Childhood., Suzanne Marie Stauffer

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At the beginning of the twentieth century, librarians, teachers, and parentswrote about the dangers to children of unlimited access towhatwas termed “sensational literature.” At the beginning of the next century, they struggled to deal with the dangers to children of unlimited access to the Internet. Although separated by a hundred years, they appear to be makingmuch the same argument about themuch the same issue, that of the public library providing unlimited access tominors towhat some viewas inappropriate or dangerousmaterials. However, a closer analysis of the discourse in the professional media regarding these two controversies, one that investigates the mechanisms underlying …