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Do archivists ‘curate’ history? And to what extent are our librarians the gatekeepers of knowledge?
Libraries and archives have a long and rich history of compiling ‘radical collections’- from Klanwatch Project in the States to the R. D. Laing Archive in Glasgow, but a re-examination of the information professions and all aspects of managing those collections is long overdue. This new book shines a light on pressing topical issues within library and information services (LIS)- to encompass selection, appraisal and accession, through to organisation and classification, and including promotion and use. Will libraries survive as victims of neoliberal marketization? Do we have a responsibility to collect and document ‘white hate’ in the era of Trump? And how can a predominantly white (96.7%) LIS workforce effectively collect and tell POC histories?
Introduction: Radical collections and radical voices
Jordan Landes 1. Radical or reactionary? James Wilkinson, Cork Public Library and identity in the Irish Free State
Mairéad Mooney 2. Beyond the Left: documenting American racism in print periodicals at the Wisconsin Historical Society, and theorising (radical) collections today
Alycia Sellie 3. ‘Mind meddling’: exploring drugs and radical psychiatry in archives
Lucas Richert 4. Cataloguing the radical material: an experience requiring a flexible approach
Julio Cazzasa 5. Decentring qualification: a radical examination of archival employment possibilities
Hannah Henthorn and Kirsty Fife 6. Enabling or envisioning politics of possibility? Examining the radical potential of academic libraries
Katherine Quinn