Krista Ferrante, 9/11 and the Marathon Bombings: What Can Archivists Do?
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© 2016 The MITRE Corporation. All rights reserved. For Internal MITRE Use.
© 2016 The MITRE Corporation. All rights reserved.
Krista Ferrante
Corporate Archivist
The MITRE Corporation
Society of American Archivists
August 4, 2016
“I second that emotion” What is the archivists role after tragic events?
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What is the archivist’s role?
Should everything be saved?
Who decides what gets saved?
What opportunities exists to expand archival collection?
What archival collecting policies are in place? Should they
change?
What are the best practices?
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Why save?
“While the collective
memory endures and
draws strength from its
base in a coherent body of
people it is individuals as
group members who
remember”
-Maurice Halbwachs (1951)
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What is the impact?
Frederick Harris’s Framework for the Evolution of Collective Memory and Its Impact on Collective Action
Events
Collective
Memory
Collective
Action
Selection
Memory
Processes
Social
Appropriation
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Citations
Harris, Frederick C. It takes a tragedy to arouse them : collective
memory and collective action during the civil rights movement,
Social movement studies, volume 5, issue 1, 2006
Halbwachs, Maurice, 1980 (1951). The Collective Memory. New
York, Harper and Row
Krista Ferrante
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