Chicano/a Research Collection, Arizona State University Library

Join us September 10 for an evening of Archives and Scanning 101 Workshops at Central Park Rec Center in collaboration with Chicanos Por La Causa - CPLC and ARIZONA BARRIO STORIES ! ✨

• Our Archives 101 workshop will focus on how to organize and store your photographs and documents. Participants will receive an Archive Starter Kit!
• Scanning 101 shows how to scan and digitize photographs and documents, so bring your special photos and we can help you scan!

Free parking and free refreshments will be provided!

🎟 RSVP via the Archiving & Scanning 101 Workshop form here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScj4_ufr36X31j4XsSYm5yJ4MFVkyfzhDkd8BOYtmvCOrG3bw/viewform

ASU Library is recruiting a Collections Services Archivist as part of a cohort within the ASU Library Community Driven Archives (CDA) Initiative. Early career professionals are encouraged to apply. Application deadline is July 26, 2024.

To learn more about ASU Library employment and find the link to the ASU Archivist Recruitment Webinar on July 9, 2024 at Noon PDT (3 pm EDT), visit lib.asu.edu/employment 🌟

ASU Library is recruiting a Community Access Archivist as part of a cohort within the Community-Driven Archives (CDA) Initiative. Early career professionals are encouraged to apply. Application deadline is July 26, 2024.

To learn more about ASU Library employment and find the link to the ASU Archivist Recruitment Webinar on July 9, 2024 at Noon PDT (3 pm EDT), visit lib.asu.edu/employment 🌟

ASU Library is recruiting three Archivists as part of a cohort within the Community-Driven Archives (CDA) Initiative. Early career professionals are encouraged to apply. Application deadline is July 26, 2024.

Community Access Archivist:
Processes manuscript and archival collections, collaborates on digitization and outreach projects and creates and maintains metadata to make ASU’s unique holdings available and accessible to the public.

Collections Services Archivist:
Develops and enhances open access to ASU’s distinctive collections in order to engage ASU’s multicultural and transnational communities of learners and scholars. Leads collections services for ASU’s Tempe reading rooms and contributes to expanding collections services.

Arizona Political Collections Archivist:
Provides curatorial leadership, vision and strategic direction for the political papers. Manages and develops associated collections, services, and programs.

On July 9, 2024 at Noon PDT (3 pm EDT), ASU Library will host a webinar to share more information about these academic professional positions, working at ASU Library and living in the Phoenix area. Attendance is not required to apply for any open positions.

To learn more about ASU Library employment and find the link to the webinar, visit lib.asu.edu/employment

We are looking for our 2nd cohort of fellows! The fellowship program seeks to inspire community and tribal college students to obtain a Masters in Library and Information Studies (MLIS) in order to become a professionally trained archivist. Applications are due May 31.

The next cohort will continue to work closely with archivists and staff from ASU Library Community Driven Archives and the ASU Library Labriola Center from August 2024 to May 2025. Fellows who complete the program will receive a $10,000 scholarship to continue their education.

Apply here:
https://docs.google.com/.../139jnfiBsgnC.../viewform...

We are happy to share that Episode 4 of season 2 of Archives Glow is out now! Listen on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/episode/5CnjpvLJSDaHCUmiEgVMtD and Acast https://shows.acast.com/archives-glow/episodes/arizona-barrio-stories-storytelling-and-preserving-memories !

Episode 4 features guest Irma Payán, a community archivist and active member of ARIZONA BARRIO STORIES, an organization dedicated to recording and collecting data and stories from Chicano/Mexican communities and families in vanishing barrios in Arizona. Irma Payan was born and raised in central Phoenix, and shares her thoughts on food and culture in these communities, and preservation of family recipes and food memories.

Irma is an educator who taught in the Roosevelt School District #66 in South Phoenix for 33 years. Upon retirement she returned to aid the district in several programs for an additional 5 years. Irma conducts interviews and hosts a program on Facebook, YouTube, COX Glendale channel 11, Roku, and the Irma Payan Show on Latino USA TV on https://latinousa.live/ too!

For Darlene Peralta’s in-person experience, she has been working with the Chicano/a Research Collection and processing the Lopez Collection along with her fellow cohort member Esme. Darlene has chosen to have both archiving experience and to create a presentation on archiving for a local non profit organization that supports undocumented communities. Stay turned to see how Darlene will present the importance of archiving for undocumented communities.

Darlene shares how mentoring has impacted her: “The experiences I've had with in-person mentorship have been both educational and transformative. Through the fellowship, I began to realize that archiving is all around me. It was present when I would carefully place a photograph in an album or write down my grandmother's recipes. In my life, I have always archived and preserved things. I'm happy that I can now learn how to preserve family memories and photos, both digital and analog, for upcoming generations.”

ASU Library Community Driven Archives is happy to share that Episode 3 of season 2 of Archives Glow is out now!
Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2y6mEZWMRc53qiOCD4UP7v
Listen on Acast: https://shows.acast.com/archives-glow/episodes/the-power-of-storytelling-querencia-voices-from-chandlers-la

Episode 3 features guest Dr. Rafael A. Martínez, an Assistant Professor in Southwest Borderlands at Arizona State University teaching history courses at the Polytechnic Campus in the East Valley. As a first-generation immigrant to the U.S., Dr. Martinez has learned first-hand the power of storytelling in forming connections to place and community. As an advocate of community-based history projects, he is engaged in public projects that seek to connect academic work with community development.

Now accepting applications for the final cohort! Learn to become a Memory Keeper through exploring the field of archiving. Through archiving, students can learn different methods of how to preserve the history of their own community! This fellowship is geared for Maricopa Community College and TOCC students.

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Apply here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/139jnfiBsgnC_S0WexqMtIZYfpnkxwHOBdTYwDqS5fto/viewform?edit_requested=true

Dr. Chrstine Marin was recently featured on Arizona Horizon on Arizona PBS. Dr Marin, creator of the Chicano/a Research Collection at ASU talks about her mining roots, work with ASU Library as an archivist and as ASU professor emeritus, and founding the Chicano/a Research Collection and Archives. The interview highlights her career and her dedication to preservation of the history of the Latino community in Arizona and how she paved the way for the Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies program.

Watch the interview with Dr. Marin here:

Archive at ASU preserves Latino history | Arizona Horizon Dr. Christine Marin, an archivist and professor at ASU, is making sure Latino history in Arizona and the Southwest is not forgotten.Marin founded the ‘Chican...

This week we’d like to highlight Memory Keeper Esme McHarg! Since the start of in person mentoring for her fellowship she has been working with the Chicano/a Research Collection and processing the Lopez archive collection. She has been working with Kenia Menchaca Lozano, Jasmine Torrez, and Yesenia Ramos.

Each fellow is required to complete a Service Learning Project or “SLP”. An SLP is a project that focuses on working with archives within the local community. Esme has chosen to process the Lopez Collection which was donated to CDA. The collection consists of archives from the Lopez family’s work with the local community such as political documents, local community organizations, and their work with Phoenix union school board of education.

Esme shares her thoughts on her hands-on experience: “In-person mentoring at ASU’s Hayden Library has been such an informative and fun experience for me. I’ve gotten to work with my amazing mentor Kenia who has been helping me out so much with getting the hang of archiving documents from the Lopez Papers. At moments it is overwhelming since the collection we are working on is a bit scattered and mostly miscellaneous, but Kenia has really helped me keep a calm and collected attitude toward it and helped me see how fun it is to organize and sort through all the interesting and informative material that is the Lopez Papers.”

Today marks the first month of In-person mentoring for the IMLS Memory Keeping Fellows! After a month of getting settled in and establishing the relationships between mentee and archivist mentors, our fellows have begun their hands on experience of digging into the archives. In the upcoming weeks we will highlight individual fellows and their journey through the archives!

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Check out this article by azcentral that features Dr Christine Marin, historian and founder of the Chicano/o Research Collection (CRC) in 1970 at Arizona State University Library!
A big thanks to Dr Marin for all she has done for CRC, ASU Library, and the Community-Driven Archives (CDA) Initiative throughout the years!

How a kid from an Arizona mining town went on to create a historic Latino archive ASU The founder of the Chicano/a Research Collection and Archives began her journey with ASU ever since she was a freshman on campus.

Here’s to the end of the first semester of our first cohort IMLS fellowship! ✨For the first semester of the IMLS cohort, the fellows were introduced to the fundamentals of archiving through virtual sessions. Towards the end of the semester they had their first in person virtual session which was a scanning workshop.

The cohort is full of students from different backgrounds and cultures and this diverse group of memory keepers brought their personal photos and documents for the workshop. CDA had the opportunity to see amazing archives such as family photos, a 1st grade report card from the 70’s, and even a marriage certificate issued from a Navajo Nation chapter house dated back to the 1940’s. The stories behind the archives our fellows shared made this workshop a memorable experience for the cohort and the CDA team. It truly was an amazing experience to see time capsules from different cultures in one setting. ✨Stay tuned for next semester as our fellows will be exercising their newly gained archive skills in their independent projects, aka service learning projects!

Welcome Mateo! ✨ Mateo attends Scottsdale Community College and is majoring in Theater and Visual Communication. “What memory keeping me is being able to share and past experiences and events from one generation to the other while keeping most of your information and initial feelings intact. I hope the game of business knowledge of how to work in either archives at the librarian to help bring a different aspect and knowledge to their collections.”

Mateo TreeTop is Hunkpapa Lakota and a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe from Ft. Yates, North Dakota who has lived in Mesa, Arizona for 21 years. Mateo honors his Lakota and Hidatsa ancestors as a Grass Dancer and his cultural teachings and practices have been the foundation of his accomplishments, which include graduating from Westwood High School in 2015 on the Principal’s Honor Roll with 10 years of Perfect Attendance, Standing Rock Scholars Award (2020), and Scottsdale Community College Visions & Voices Poetry Contest-First Place (Spring 2020 and Spring 2022). Mateo navigates daily life with a Traumatic Brain Injury and is dedicated to assisting and supporting other Native youth who are transitioning into adulthood with a disability. He is employed by Diverse Ability Incorporated and serves as the Key Native Peer Navigator for multiple week-long sessions of the Arizona Youth Leadership Forum each summer. Mateo graduated from Scottsdale Community College in 2022 with an Associate of Applied Science-Visual Communication and an Associate in Fine Arts-Theatre. He is also employed by the University of Arizona-Sonoran Center for Excellence in Disabilities as a Graphic Designer. Mateo was awarded the Marcus Harrison Jr.-Leadership Award in 2017 and the Diverse Ability Incorporated-Cross-Cultural Advocacy Award in 2022 for his disability leadership and advocacy work. He also currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the Arizona Developmental Disabilities Planning Council. ✨ ASU Library Labriola Center

Welcome Shelly! ✨ Shelly attends Mesa Community College and is majoring in American Indian Studies. “To me, memory keeping means being able to carry on my culture and traditions through my parents, grandparents, and many before them. We memory keep by sharing histories, documents, photos, experiences, and stories from the past. I am interested in the ways that this fellowship opportunity can help me grow both professionally and personally. I also hope to be able to learn new leadership skills and to also further develop my interpersonal knowledge.”

Shelly Talas is a member of the Bear Clan of the Hopi Tribe and is from the village of Mishongnovi located in Second Mesa, Arizona. She is also half-Black American, her father is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is 33 years old, has four children, and in 2018 continued her post-high school education. She has recently obtained her associate's degree in American Indian Studies at Mesa Community College and is currently continuing at MCC to obtain her associate's degree in Information Studies and eSociety. In the fall of 2024, she plans on transferring to NAU to obtain her Bachelor's Degree in Anthropology.

Talas is passionate about historical cultural restoration and through the years, volunteered in various outreach programs to support the Hopi tribe and other tribes seeking repatriation and/or methods to preserve their cultures. She is an active member of the Association on American Indian Affairs who strive to protect sovereignty, preserve culture, and educate youth. Shelly is also an Area-leader for the Culture pillar in her employer's Employee Resource Group, Indigenous Circles. In this group, the culture committee onboards new hires and develops retention strategies for Indigenous employees. She also advocates for cultural representation within her organization.

She is also the co-founder of a small non-profit organization called Standing Rain. In its current efforts to help urban Native youth in Mesa, AZ by collecting school supplies, she wishes for the organization to move onto her reservation where she feels that the fulfillment of its mission will be completed there in her homeland. ✨ ASU Library Labriola Center

Welcome Janine! ✨ Janine attends Mesa Community College and is majoring in arts with an emphasis in Information Studies and eSociety.✨“To me, memory keeping means to document or record memories, stories, teachings, or pictures for you and future generations to see. In that way, what had been won’t be lost to what will be. It is precious and can be enjoyed by many people that can also share in that history.”

“Yá'át'ééh, shí éí Janine Nelson yinishyé. Kinłíchii'nii nishłį. Tł'ízí łání báshishchíín. Tódich'íi’nii dashicheii. Táchii'nii dashinálí. Ákot'éego Diné asdzáán nishłí. Hello, my name is Janine Nelson and I'm originally from an area on the Navajo nation called Shonto. Currently I'm living in Casa Grande with my big family. In my free time, I like to spend time with the people who matter most to me, travel to new places with my family, read, watch movies, cook or play the piano whenever I get the chance. My biggest comforts are listening to or playing music and reading various books that many creative people today have made possible. I especially enjoy listening to my parents recount stories, memories, and teachings from their childhood. I've grown up being taught to work hard, make the most of my education, and help my community in return. I look forward to gaining all that I learn and turning it into a passion which could carry on the traditions of my people to the next generation. Ahéhee’, Thank you.”✨ ASU Library Labriola Center

Welcome Myacedes! ✨ Myacedes attends Mesa Community College and is majoring in business.

“Yá'át'ééh my name is Myacedes Miller my clans are Red House born for the Bitter Water people, my maternal grandfather is Salt clan and my paternal grandfather is Mexican clan. I am Navajo from Lechee, Arizona and I am 19 years old. Currently, I attend Mesa Community College where I major in business and aspire to transfer to ASU. My leadership experience includes being an Executive Officer as the Student Senate Representative for the Inter-Tribal Student Organization (ISO). This organization is a student club at MCC that focuses on Indigenous student engagement and activities. I am also proudly employed at Mesa Community College's American Indian Institute, where I am able to help my fellow peers in navigating college resources and lend my leadership skills to inspire college success. My professional goals are to have my own non-profit organization that will benefit indigenous youth and communities. A few fun facts about myself, my hobbies include playing the violin and ukulele. I also enjoy reading, my favorite book is currently Fire Keeper's Daughter by Angeline Boullie. I also enjoy planning and volunteering at community events and doing karaoke with friends.”

“Memory keeping to me means preserving life experiences and personal objects. I believe memory keeping also preserves emotions, it can bring us inspiration and strength during hard times. Personally, I feel it helps us connect with one another and helps us feel closer to each other even if loved ones are apart.” ✨ ASU Library Labriola Center

Welcome Marcilla! ✨ Marcilla attends Tohono O'odham Community College and is majoring in business administration. “Memory keeping holds significant meaning to me as an Apache woman because it is deeply rooted in cultural traditions and practices. It serves as a way to preserve and honor the history, ancestral knowledge, cultural heritage and language of my people.”

Marcilla is an enrolled member of the White Mountain Apache Tribe. She is Iyaa’aiye (Eagle Clan) born for Bizaha (Roadrunner Clan). She is a Navy veteran who has received an associate degree in Social work and a certificate in Substance Abuse and Addiction Studies from Tohono O’odham Community College where she is continuing her studies in Business. Marcilla has always had a love of learning and is looking forward to starting this journey with the Community-Driven Archives Initiative. She hopes that she will gain new knowledge to help with cultural and linguistic preservation for her community. ✨ ASU Library Labriola Center

Welcome Esme! ✨ Esme attends Paradise Valley Community College and is majoring in animation.

“Hello, my name is Esme McHarg, I'm Mexican-American, and my pronouns are she/her. I am very passionate about art, creativity and learning. I like to read and play with my kitten Spicy in my free time. I am very excited to join the CDA Fellowship program and learn about being an archivist. For me, memory keeping is a way to keep someone's culture, family, and heritage alive by passing on information and or stories relating to them. I believe that it is very important to preserve one's stories and have the ability to pass them on so others are able to better understand a certain culture.” ✨

Welcome Darlene! Darlene attends Pima Community College and studies Liberal Arts. Darlene writes on memory keeping, “What Memory keeping means to me is keeping the past present and honoring the recipes and stories of the women that came before me. It is preserving our ancestral culture and history from documenting oral stories, pictures, videos, and physical objects.”

She moved to Tucson, Arizona from Sonora, Mexico at age 7. As an Undocumented student, she struggled to find opportunities after graduating high school. However, Darlene became a student support fellow for ScholarshipsAZ, creating and leading presentations for other underrepresented students. She is currently pursuing an associate's degree in Liberal Arts at Pima Community College and serves as President of the Undocumented Youth Alliance Club. Darlene hopes to transfer to a university for a History BA and eventually a Master's in Textile Conservation. Where she hopes to continue her passion for preserving the past and promoting educational equity.

This fall we welcome seven students to the Community Archivist Fellowship Program, which seeks to inspire community and tribal college students to obtain a graduate degree in order to become professionally trained archivists or librarians. During the academic year, fellows will be introduced to community-driven archives and work closely with archivists and staff from the CDA Initiative and the ASU Library Labriola Center (Labriola National American Indian Data Center) at ASU Library. This grant-funded project is made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

Read more about this cohort of memory keepers:
https://lib.asu.edu/news/asu-library-welcomes-first-cohort-memory-keepers-new-fellowship

To celebrate Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month, we are featuring some images from our CDA Loteria card deck! ✨

✨Card 17 "La Activista" (The Activist) features Graciela Gil Olivarez. Graciela was an attorney, trailblazer, advocate for civil rights, and served as the chair of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund. She was the first woman to graduate from Notre Dame Law School and the first female disc jockey in Arizona, setting her to create her own production company to allow marginalized communities to tell their stories. ✨Art: Jasmine Torrez

Access the Graciela Gil Olivarez Photographs collection: https://prism.lib.asu.edu/collections/65799

In celebration of Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month and Dia de los Mu***os coming up, we are having a Papel Picado Workshop! Join us on October 12 from 2-5pm at Hayden Library, room C55!

Papel picado is perforated/cut paper and is traditional folk art in Mexico that is often used in banners and altars for Dia de los Mu***os.

All supplies will be provided for this crafting activity! No prior knowledge of making papel picado needed, so come and join us!

To celebrate Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month, we are featuring some images from our CDA Loteria card deck!
✨Card 32 "La Archivista Comunitaria" (The Community Archivist) features Irma Payan, a community archivist and a member of ARIZONA BARRIO STORIES. Irma preserves community memory in Arizona and conducts oral history interviews. In 2015, Irma attended an Archives 101 workshop which sparked her interest in preserving local history. ✨Art: Jasmine Torrez

To celebrate Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month, we are featuring some images from our CDA Loteria card deck we are working on!

✨Card 19 "La Chicana" features Dr Christine Marin (Professor Emeritus & Founder of the Chicano/a Research Collection). Circa 1972. The original photo was in an article from the State Press published Sept. 20, 1978. The Chicano Studies Collection began in 1970. ✨Art: Jasmine Torrez

To view more of the Chicano/a Research collection, visit ASU Library digital collections repository, PRISM at https://prism.lib.asu.edu/collections/74754?page=0

The Community Archivist Fellowship application deadline is coming up on July 7th! There are 8 spots available for this upcoming academic year.

Have questions about the fellowship or application? Contact the program coordinator Ah’sha Notah at [email protected].

Apply here: http://links.asu.edu/CDAMemoryKeepers

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