Presentation
Documenting a Community, Building a Community: The Robert J. Sullivan Jr. Papers at James Madison University Special Collections
Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC)
(2018)
Abstract
Robert J. Sullivan Jr. served the Harrisonburg, VA community for more than two decades as its city planner and was beloved for his dedication as “unofficial historian” and community advocate. This panel discussion will draw on a project involving the Robert J. Sullivan Jr. Papers at James Madison University, tracing the progress of this multi-format collection from initial appraisal to programming and outreach. Panel members will reflect on the challenges and opportunities in undertaking a collaborative community project, managing the priorities and expectations of numerous stakeholders and their respective constituents, building community connections by documenting and performing outreach, outsourcing digitization and adding the content to an institutional repository, and how this case study in community collaboration successfully brought together different communities of researchers.
Keywords
- digitization,
- institutional repository,
- archival processing,
- special collections
Disciplines
Publication Date
April 14, 2018
Location
Hershey, PA
Citation Information
Barth, G., Eaton, L., & Morris, K. (2018, April 14). Documenting a Community, Building a Community: The Robert J. Sullivan Jr. Papers at James Madison University Special Collections. Presentation given at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) spring meeting, Hershey, PA.