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Toward Engaged Scholarship: Knowledge Inclusivity and Collaborative Collection Development between Academic Libraries and Archives and Local Public Communities.
- Source :
- College & Research Libraries; Mar2022, Vol. 83 Issue 2, p246-277, 32p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- In Open and Equitable Scholarly Communications, ACRL calls for more diverse and inclusive collection development (CD) by academic libraries and archives. Meanwhile, higher education is increasingly committing to community-engaged scholarship. This study investigated the extent to which academic libraries and archives are collecting, curating, and/or preserving knowledge produced by their local public communities. Researchers administered an electronic survey to relevant listservs and conducted follow-up interviews to develop a case study of one library's efforts. Ninety of the initial 118 survey respondents (76%) indicated that their academic library intentionally collects, curates, and/or preserves materials created or owned by the local public community, with a majority working with minority or underrepresented populations in their communities. Respondents also reported working with unpublished archival material more than twice as often as nonarchival/circulating material, reflecting academia's movement toward greater inclusion of traditionally excluded voices in the scholarly record. Additional research is needed for a host of issues raised by this work, in particular the relationship between university-community collection development and student learning. Library leaders can promote university-community engagement and knowledge diversity by incorporating local community knowledge into their collection development commitments and practices and tying this work to the parent institution's strategic plan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00100870
- Volume :
- 83
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- College & Research Libraries
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 155617947
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.83.2.246