Session 5. Education and Outreach: Tools to Encourage and Highlight Diversity in Collections

Abstract

Archivists in this session will discuss how using outreach activities and techniques can be a function of advocacy, leading to greater community engagement and bolstering diversity and representation in the archives. A leader of the Piscataway Conoy in Maryland will discuss the challenges of doing archival research on a resurging Tribal community to document and present their community history. Archivists from the Maryland State Archives will focus on their long-term outreach efforts working with the Governor's Office of Community Initiatives to establish relationships with communities throughout the state. A historian from George Mason University will add to the conversation, highlighting the importance and challenges of documenting indigenous communities’ histories.