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  • Comment: It seems you've given up citing the whole list. Don't force readers to take an another step! Also, have you ever considered merging this draft and adding the information to a relevant article instead? ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 11:16, 5 October 2024 (UTC)
  • Comment: The main citations giving reliable, independent coverage are #1, 6, 7 and 17. The academic works cited (with doi) are by staff at the archive, so not independent, although they provide useful information. A single cite #18 is now used to search the archive as source for the listed collections. Additional citations in that section mention the archive but mainly only briefly. Mike Turnbull (talk) 16:55, 20 October 2024 (UTC)


Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
Located in the Snell Library
Map
42°20′18″N 71°05′17″W / 42.338272829674786°N 71.08799620025587°W / 42.338272829674786; -71.08799620025587
Location360 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachusetts, 02115
Collection
Items collectedArchives and Manuscript collections
Parent organizationNortheastern University

The Archives and Special Collections department in the Northeastern University Libraries is an archival repository of manuscripts, photographs, and other primary sources that illuminate the history of under-represented communities in Boston, Massachusetts and the history of Northeastern University.[1]

History

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The Northeastern University Archives were established in the Northeastern University Library in 1994.[2] In 1998, the library added a special collecting focus, to "plan for the long-term, systematic preservation of records documenting the African American, Chinese, Latino, and gay and lesbian communities in Boston."[3][4]

The collecting focus grew in the subsequent years to include a "diverse and growing collection of historical records relating to Boston’s fight for social justice," as well as "Boston’s public infrastructure, neighborhoods, and natural environments.[5] Subject strengths include the History of African Americans in Boston, Chinese Americans in Boston, Hispanic and Latino Americans in Boston,[6], and LGBT culture in Boston.[7] Other subjects include urban planning[8] and Boston's Central Artery/Tunnel project (the "Big Dig"), the history of Boston's neighborhoods[9], and the civil rights movement in Boston. Archives staff contribute to literature about radical empathy in archival practice[10][11] and teaching with primary sources.[12]

Research

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In addition to the research, teaching, and collections care responsibilities, the University Archives and Special Collections supports Digital Humanities and data projects, such as the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive,[13][14] the Boston Phoenix, 1974! Zooniverse project[15] computational analysis using The Boston Globe's digitized photos,[16] "Our Marathon"[17] and the Boston Research Center.[1]

Collections

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The Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections houses over 500 archival and manuscript collections, including personal papers, organizational records, and the archives of Northeastern University. Collections include:[18]

Personal Papers

Organizational Records

Northeastern History collections

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Buell, Spencer (2018-05-16). "Northeastern Wants to Unlock the Secrets of Boston's Past with Big Data". Boston magazine. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
  2. ^ Krizack, Joan D. (2007). "Preserving the History of Diversity: One University's Efforts to Make Boston's History More Inclusive". RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage. 8 (2): 125–132. doi:10.5860/rbm.8.2.286.
  3. ^ Richard, Nancy; Krizack, Joan D (1999). "Preserving the History of Boston's Diversity". Provenance: Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists. 17 (1): 23–49.
  4. ^ Beecher, Missy (November 26, 2000). "Two archivists strive to chronicle Boston's Diversity". The Boston Globe.
  5. ^ "Northeastern University Library, "About the Special Collections"".
  6. ^ Vega, Omar (2022-09-15). "Rarely seen snapshots of Latino Boston". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
  7. ^ a b Schaffer, Noah (24 October 2023). "Gay Community News at 50: The queer outlet that went from Boston to the world". wbur.org. WBUR. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
  8. ^ Hibbert, Cynthia McCormick (2023-04-06). "New Ruggles Station exhibit features work of pioneering Black architects who helped shape Northeastern's footprint". Northeastern Global News. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
  9. ^ "The History of Protest in Boston Neighborhoods". GBH. 2023-03-09. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
  10. ^ Mecagni, Giordana (2021). "Tear Down This (Pay)Wall!". Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies. 3 (2). doi:10.24242/jclis.v3i2.126.
  11. ^ Cooke, Nicole A.; Warren, Kellee E.; Brown, Molly; Jackson, Athena N. (2020). "It Starts at Home". Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies. 3 (2). doi:10.24242/jclis.v3i2.123.
  12. ^ Brown, Molly and Regina Pagani "A Potluck of Expertise: Inviting Boston Public Schools’ Juniors to Use Northeastern’s Archives and Special Collection’s Pantry to Build Their Recipes" Porterfield, Julie M., editor. The Teaching with Primary Sources Cookbook. Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association, 2021.
  13. ^ Nobles, Melissa (2023). "Special Symposium, Collective Vigilantism in Global Comparative Perspective Building a New Digital Archive: Documenting Anti-Black Violence in the "Jim Crow" U. S. South, 1930–1954". Comparative Politics. 55 (2): 359–372. doi:10.5129/001041523X16648954606739.
  14. ^ Francis, Dania V., Grieve Chelwa, Darrick Hamilton, Thomas W. Mitchell, Nathan A. Rosenberg, and Bryce Wilson Stucki. “The Contemporary Relevance of Historic Black Land Loss.” Human Rights 48, no. 2 (2023): 4–5.
  15. ^ "Zooniverse". Zooniverse. 2024-10-16. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
  16. ^ Heckman, Meg; Taurino, Giulia (2023). "Shifting the Archival Gaze: A Case for Leveraging Computational Methods to Uncover Media History Narratives". American Journalism. 40 (2): 222–231. doi:10.1080/08821127.2023.2199254.
  17. ^ Howard, Jennifer (18 November 2013). "For Comfort and Posterity, Digital Archives Gather Crowds". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
  18. ^ "Search The Archives". northeastern.edu. Enter search terms.
  19. ^ "Black History Boston: Elma Lewis | Boston.gov". www.boston.gov. January 14, 2020.
  20. ^ Paiste, Rachel (February 5, 2024). "Who Was 'First Lady of Roxbury' Melnea Cass?,'". wbur.org. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
  21. ^ Farmer, Ashley (2011). "Working Toward Community is Our Full-time Focus: Muriel Snowden, Black Power, and the Freedom House, Roxbury, MA". The Black Scholar. 41 (3): 17–25. doi:10.5816/blackscholar.41.3.0017.
  22. ^ Sullivan, James (May 4, 2021). "Man-of-a-Thousand-Interviews Larry Katz is Sharing His Tapes with the World: The Boston Journalist's Conversations with Music and Entertainment Greats are Now Archived Online". The Boston Globe.
  23. ^ Sabo, Emily. "Massachusetts: Northeastern University Libraries Acquires ACT UP/Boston Historical Records" (PDF). The Academic Archivist, June 2008. Society of American Archivists. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  24. ^ Shanahan, Mark (November 22, 2015). "Phoenix Archives Donated to Northeastern". The Boston Globe.
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