Community archives: the shaping of memory

'Table of Contents: Introduction : communities and archives, a symbiotic relationship / Jeannette A. Bastian and Ben Alexander -- A community archives model. \'It is noh mistri, wi mekin histri\' : telling our own story : independent and community archives in the UK, challenging and subverting the mainstream / Andrew Flinn and Mary Stevens ; Special, local and about us : the development of community archives in Britain / David Mander -- Communities and non-traditional record keeping. The Single Noongar Claim : native title, archival records and aboriginal community in western Australia / Glen Kelly ; Oral tradition in living cultures : the role of archives in the preservation of memory / Patricia Galloway ; We are our memories : community and records in Fiji / Setareki Tale and Opeta Alefaio -- Records loss, destruction and recovery. Archiving the queer and queering the archives : a case study of the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (CLGA) / Marcel Barriault ; A living archive, shared by communities of records / Eric Ketelaar ; Truth commissions and the construction of collective memory : the Chile experience / Joel A. Blanco-Rivera -- Online communities : how technology brings communities and their records together. From Yizkor Books to weblogs : genocide, grassroots documentation and new technologies / András Riedlmayer and Stephen Naron ; Co-creation of the Grateful Dead sound archive : control, access and curation communities / David A. Wallace -- Building a community archive. \'All the things we cannot articulate\' : colonial leprosy archives and community commemoration / Ricardo L. Punzalan ; Overcoming anonymity : Kittitians and their archives / Victoria Borg O\'Flaherty ; Always queer, always here : creating the Black Gay and Lesbian Archive in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture / Steven G. Fullwood -- Conclusion : the archivist and community / Richard J. Cox.'
'bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.'
'statement of responsibility: edited by Jeannette A. Bastian and Ben Alexander.'