Mellon Foundation Releases: “Mapping the Landscape of Community-Based Archives” Report

Citing the Mellon Foundation, infoDOCKET reports that "Today, the Mellon Foundation released “Powerful but Precarious: Mapping the Landscape of Community-Based Archives,” the first national study of its kind. Produced in partnership with research firm Engage R+D, the study draws on a survey of 336 independent, community-led archives, and in-depth interviews with more than 20 practitioners across the country.

"Community-based archives are independent organizations that collect and preserve the records, photographs, oral histories, personal papers, and other artifacts of communities many of which have been historically excluded from mainstream institutions. Unlike institutional archives, community-based archives often hold materials that exist nowhere else – collections that, if lost, cannot be recovered. ..."

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