Category: Poster

The Haitian American Museum of Chicago (HAMOC) is a community-based cultural institution whose mission is to promote and preserve Haitian art, culture, history, and community in Chicago and beyond. As one of two Haitian American museums in the United States, founded in 2012 by Elsie Hector Hernandez to challenge negative…

This poster examines the limits of foundational LIS theory under conditions of genocide, colonial violence, and systematic archival destruction. Using S. R. Ranganathan’s Five Laws of Library Science as an analytical framework, it interrogates how assumptions about access, preservation, growth, and neutrality fracture in contexts of occupation and epistemicide in…

Community archives seeking to give voice to their community’s record may do so through digital displays like interactive maps, which can visualize both area histories and local identity – telling their community’s story and showcasing it across time and space through these interactive maps – which can serve as living…

Within archival scholarship ,transgender (trans+) identities are mentioned, but often not represented. There are only a handful of formal articles written by openly trans+ folks about trans+ recordkeeping. This proposal responds to calls by prominent archival scholars like Brilmyer (2022), Watson et al. (2023), Michelle Caswell (2023), and K.J. Rawson…

As community archives become more pervasive, they inspire a creative culture that reclaims archiving as a liberatory praxis. This shift has expanded beyond archival studies into disciplines such as dance and architecture. However, these interdisciplinary intersections remain under-theorized. While traditional archival theory privileges static records, it lacks a unified framework…

In 2025, the CACHE (Community Archive Collection and Heritage Exhibitions) research cluster at the University of British Columbia, which aims to bridge the gap between archival institutions and community archives in the Vancouver BC area, heard from partnering community organizations that their primary desire from professional and institutional archives is…

This poster outlines ongoing doctoral research examining how organizational and recordkeeping cultures shape recordkeeping practices and influence the creation, maintenance, and retention of institutional knowledge. As contemporary organizations increasingly rely on digital tools, records are often created across numerous platforms, from formal systems to informal communication channels, posing significant challenges…

This 15-minute poster will describe the juxtaposition of cultural heritage preservation, cultural identity, climate change, and archival resources and sustainability. The poster will draw on case study research on small Pacific island nations that include former and current territories of the United States as they try to preserve their heritage…

Our poster will summarize our collections work at the West Town Museum of Cultural History as Graduate student interns from Dominican University on the Faculty Organizing Community Archives Support project. The West Town Museum of Cultural History is located in Maywood, IL, a close suburb of Chicago. West Town is…

As a social science discipline, archival science has strong hands-on character. Therefore, in the professional talents training, China attaches great importance to the combination of theory and practice, and organically integrates decision-making support, knowledge learning, academic research, and practical applications,which is called the collaborative education model of government-industry-academia-research. This model…

Over the past two years, faculty and students at Dominican University have had the privilege of facilitating community-led archival work through Faculty Organizing for Community Archives Support (FOCAS) thanks to the Mellon Foundation’s Public Knowledge program. Through the FOCAS program, we have collaborated with five local organizations in the Chicagoland…

The rapid adoption of AI across governmental, organizational, and everyday contexts has produced a lot of AI-generated records whose trustworthiness challenges established archival concepts grounded in human authorship. This study investigates public perception of the trustworthiness of AI-generated records and examines how traditional notion of trustworthiness is being reconfigured in…