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Preservation as Subversion: Do grassroots archives have a future?


November 27, 2012


CONNEXIONS and Beit Zatoun are sponsoring a discussion on the future of grassroots archives.

Grassroots archives play an important role in what some call “the battle of memory”. They preserve and share books, documents, periodicals, and other materials bearing hidden histories and alternative visions. Their role is particularly vital in a time when mainstream ‘memory institutions’ like official archives and libraries are restricting acquisitions, limiting access, and discarding materials as funding is slashed.

CONNEXIONS, a project founded in 1975, known for its extensive online library of social justice documents at www.connexions.org, also maintains the CONNEXIONS ARCHIVE, a collection of books, periodicals, documents, and other materials from grassroots activist groups, materials gradually being digitized. The CONNEXIONS ARCHIVE is working to secure a permanent home, including space for the team of volunteers and interns who work on cataloguing and digitizing.

The problem of space is one that faces other “basement archives” and “backroom archives” collected by projects and individuals who have assumed responsibility for preserving the history of grassroots groups and movements. They face similar problems of surviving, and sharing the accumulated history in their collections.

CONNEXIONS is inviting people interested in the future of grassroots archive to participate in a discussion and brainstorming session with Ulli Diemer and other keepers of the radical past.

Time: 7:00 pm
Venue: Beit Zatoun
Location: 612 Markham Street Toronto, ON
Website: /CxLibrary/Docs/PreservationSubversion.htm
For information contact: Ulli Diemer
Phone: 416-964-1511
Categories: Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives

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