...Sarah Welland; Amanda Cossham Purpose This paper aims to explore definitions and notions of what a community archive is, and the tensions between different understandings of community archives. Design/methodology/approach The paper is a critical analysis of community archives definitions...

.... They also play a significant role in preserving part of the history and heritage which is relevant, not only for a specific community but also for the history and culture of a home country. Originality/value The methodology used in the research is based on data from community archives and can be used...

...Aiden M. Bettine; Lindsay Kistler Mattock Purpose This paper aims to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the concept of community archives, offering a critique of the community archives discourse through a historical case study focused on the origins of the Gerber/Hart LGBTQ library...

... there are a group of perhaps 25 community archives. These do not deal in archives as strictly defined, with some being devoted principally to collecting images, for example, the Totnes Image Bank has a database of some 60,000 images[ 2 ]. The Devon Rural Archive has been undertaking an extensive survey...

... management Archives collections Cultural organisations Community archives Small archives Manuscript collections Archives for the lay person: a guide to managing cultural collections provides is a “one stop shop” for anyone involved with smaller archival collections. It gives practical...