Defining Community Archives within Rural South Carolina
Document Type
Book Chapter
Subject Area(s)
library and information science
Abstract
This chapter deploys qualitative interviews with employees of rural South Carolina cultural institutions to assess the state of their rural community archives in order to understand both the practices and needs of the institutions within their relationship to larger, traditional archives with the aim to better understand national trends around community archives. The research uses open-ended qualitative interviews based on snowball sampling focused on cultural institutions in populations de ned as “rural” by the state of South Carolina. Using snowball sampling allowed for communities to self-identify other cultural institutions previously overlooked in surveys of rural South Carolina archival holdings.
Publication Info
Published in Advances in Librarianship, ed. Brian Real, Volume 43, 2017, pages 155-180.
© Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017
Wagner, T. L., & Bischoff, B. (2017). Defining Community Archives within Rural South Carolina. In B. Real (Ed.), Rural and Small Public Libraries: Challenges and Opportunities (Vol. 43, pp. 155–180). Emerald Publishing Limited. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0065-283020170000043007
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© Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017
Wagner, T. L., & Bischoff, B. (2017). Defining Community Archives within Rural South Carolina. In B. Real (Ed.), Rural and Small Public Libraries: Challenges and Opportunities (Vol. 43, pp. 155–180). Emerald Publishing Limited. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0065-283020170000043007