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Partners With Passion For The Archives, Nadia Nasr
Partners With Passion For The Archives, Nadia Nasr
Staff publications, research, and presentations
On November 7, 2019, the Sisters of the Holy Family religious congregation located in Fremont, California, celebrated the 148th anniversary of their founding at their community event "Celebrating Our Legacy: Past, Present, and Future," held at the conference center of the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, located in Fremont, California. This presentation provides an update to the Sisters of the Holy Family after completion of the SHF Archives transfer to SCU, articulating the reasons why this partnership is important not only to Santa Clara University but also to understanding the history of women in the Catholic Church, as well …
Shf (Sisters Of The Holy Family) Archive Homecoming, Nadia Nasr
Shf (Sisters Of The Holy Family) Archive Homecoming, Nadia Nasr
Staff publications, research, and presentations
On January 28, 2019, the SHF Archive began a nearly 3,000 mile journey from Fremont, California, to the archival processing facilities of History Associates located in Rockville, Maryland. Seven months later, on August 26, the SHF Archive arrived at its new home at Santa Clara University. This short presentation provides an overview of activities spanning three days during which History Associates and Archives & Special Collections staff unpacked and shelved the SHF collections in their new home.
Joined Hands, Joined Archives: Collaborating To Build A Future For Catholic Religious Archives, Nadia Nasr
Joined Hands, Joined Archives: Collaborating To Build A Future For Catholic Religious Archives, Nadia Nasr
Staff publications, research, and presentations
"What do you do when the records of a shrinking community - a community that historically has provided services to every level of society - are in jeopardy?" asked Malachy McCarthy in the November/December 2018 issue of Archival Outlook. "Such is the case for the records of many religious communities that are coming to completion, closure, or merging with other religious communities." Although many congregations have formed or are considering forming joint archives and heritage centers, congregations most at risk are outlier congregations, such as the Sisters of the Holy Family (SHF) in Fremont, California. Drawing momentum from the …
Frameworks For Collaboration: Articulating Information Literacy, And Rhetoric And Writing Goals In The Archives, Amy J. Lueck, Nadia Nasr
Frameworks For Collaboration: Articulating Information Literacy, And Rhetoric And Writing Goals In The Archives, Amy J. Lueck, Nadia Nasr
Staff publications, research, and presentations
Rhetoric and composition scholars have recently called our attention to the value of archival research in the undergraduate classroom, leading to rich collaborations with archivists and librarians at many institutions. As we engaged our own pedagogical collaboration as a university archivist and English faculty member, we realized that, though we might use slightly different language to articulate them or cite different sources in support of them, many of our learning goals overlapped. As we explored these goals together, we realized that they evidenced a correspondence in our disciplines that we had not explored—one that is reflected in our fields’ recent …