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Arizona State University Libraries & Council on Library Information Resources’. Labor Rights are Civil Rights Los Derechos de Trabajo son Derechos Civiles. Presented by Xaviera Flores, Project Archivist. Tweet about this session! #saa12. TOPICS….
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Arizona State University Libraries & Council on Library Information Resources’ Labor Rights are Civil Rights Los Derechos de Trabajo son DerechosCiviles Presented by Xaviera Flores, Project Archivist Tweet about this session! #saa12
TOPICS… • CLIR Grant Project, “Labor Rights are Civil Rights/Los Derechos de Trabajo son Derechos Civiles” • The Chicano Research Collection (Implications and Impact on the community and University) • Being an Archivist in Arizona and the Southwest and challenges that come with being here and affects it has had on the project Tweet about this session! #saa12
CLIR GRANT • Processing six bilingual collections pertaining to the Chicano labor and civil rights movement in Arizona and the Southwest. • DACS and EAD archival standards to create English and Spanish finding aids • Upload to Arizona Archives Online • Outreach Tweet about this session! #saa12
The Six Collections • League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) • Alianza Hispano Americana (AHA) Records • United Steel Workers of America, Local 616: Clifton-Morenci (USWA) Records • SER (Service, Employment and Redevelopment, Inc.) Records • Arizona AFL-CIO Papers • MCOP (Maricopa County Organizing Project) Papers Tweet about this session! #saa12
Chicano Research Collection • Established in 1970 • Chicano Movement at ASU • Meet the academic needs of both Chicano students and faculty • Obtain works by and about Mexican Americans or Chicanos in Arizona, the Southwest, and the U.S. Tweet about this session! #saa12
Being an Archivist in Arizona… • Difference between being a Southwest Archivist and an Archivist in the Southwest • Archivist as Activist • Archivist as Educator Tweet about this session! #saa12
Challenges for the grant… • Arizona often overlooked • Materials are in Spanish • Processing • Bilingual or English and Spanish finding aids • Translating or Interpreting? • Spanish DACS anyone? • Outreach to community Tweet about this session! #saa12
Challenges to the collection… • Cultural apathy • Politics • SB1070 • HB2281 Tweet about this session! #saa12
Strategies… • Outreach • University • Professors, Student organizations, scholars • Collaborating with Chicano Research Collections’ curator • Workshops, Exhibits • Community • Processing Tweet about this session! #saa12
CHECK US OUT AT… • http://laborrightsarecivilrights.wordpress.com • http://www.twitter.com/#archiveninja • http://www.facebook.com/chicanocollection • http://libguides.asu.edu/chicana • http://www.azarchivesonline.org Tweet about this session! #saa12
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