The article presents the processes of creation and organization of the Sueli Carneiro Collection as a symbolic case of the preservation of Black memory in Brazil. The Casa Sueli Carneiro, an institution dedicated to the legacy of the philosopher and activist, has developed an innovative archiving process that combines the training of Black professionals, digitization, and public access. The text highlights, in its first and second sections, the specific features of the collection, which brings together personal documents, records of the Black and feminist movements, as well as Sueli Carneiro's intellectual production. Later, in the third section, we discuss the importance of personal collections and community archives in building counter-hegemonic historical narratives, and the need for specific public policies for their maintenance and dissemination. Finally, we argue that Black memory should be understood as collective heritage, and that promoting support mechanisms for its preservation is a fundamental step in rebalancing historical narratives and strengthen democracy and Human Rights.

This article examines the role of community exhibitions as both a space and a medium for housing justice efforts. By reflecting on the re-activation of community archives, this article addresses two key gaps in existing scholarship: first, the limited consideration of how community archives might expand access beyond a narrow circle of archival users to fulfill their social and political objectives, and second, the need for deeper analysis of non-academic dissemination, audience reception, and engagement within such spaces. It asks: How can community exhibitions enable community archives to transcend the limitations of institutional repositories? What role can they play in framing, connecting, and spatializing housing resistance, both past and present, within the broader housing crisis? Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a self-organized, experimental housing resistance exhibition that drew from local community archives, I explore how community exhibitions can re-mediate and re-activate community archival materials by functioning as spaces of resonance for housing activists, platforms for personal narratives of housing struggles, and sites forging diachronic and synchronic connections across time and movements. In doing so, this article sheds light on the capacity for community exhibitions to serve as potential sites of resistance and mobilization in the context of larger movement efforts, vital to cultivating housing resistance.

This editorial frames housing justice as a question of spatial and temporal struggle, engaging the longue durée of dispossession, endurance, and collective transformation. From the weaponisation of space–time in conditions of settler colonial domination to the quieter bureaucratic violence of eviction, precarity, and financialisation in global cities, housing injustice emerges as a slow, iterative process rather than a sudden rupture. The contributions in this issue trace everyday infrastructures of endurance, community archives of resistance, and collective alternatives such as community land trusts and grassroots housing movements. Together, they highlight how struggles for housing justice are sustained through memory, improvisation, legal intervention, and coalition-building across generations. By foregrounding endurance, temporality, and spatial politics, this editorial positions housing justice as an unfinished, relational, and deeply political project.

What impact can parallel worlding have on the profound crises of our times? This question underpins the collaborations of The Parallel Effect, an expanding collective of artists and interdisciplinary thinkers committed to democratic practice across disciplinary, temporal, and geographical borders. Responding to contemporary crises, these creative interventions reimagine alternatives to the “present” we inhabit. Unlike other futuring projects that extrapolate forward from today, our parallel reality speculations emerge from identifying critical moments in diverse pasts—engaging in historical dialogue between institutional and community archives—to imagine how things might have been otherwise. In doing so, we develop a praxis of sustainable knowledge that cites, honours, and acts in solidarity with the intellectual, cultural, and organisational labour of communities past and present. This paper critically reflects on four projects that reclaim spaces for collaborative care and imaginative renewal: Vigil for the Smooth Handfish (2020), Message From Another You (2021), I’ve Been to a Parallel World (2023), and The Parallel Effect Podcast (2025/2026), each offering speculative frameworks for rethinking sustainability, grief, and collective possibility through creative world-making.

Abstract. A lightweight, custom-built drone backpack for air quality and atmospheric state variable measurements, mounted on top of consumer-grade drone, was used during the Pallas Cloud Experiment (PaCE) campaign's intensive operation period (IOP) between 12 September and 10 October 2022. The drone backpack measurements include 63 vertical profile flights from two close by locations at Pallasjärvi lake and 12 intercomparison flights against reference instrumentation at Sammaltunturi station. The observations include aerosol number concentrations and size distributions and meteorological parameters (temperature, relative humidity, pressure, and wind speed and direction) up to 500 m above ground level. The dataset has been uploaded to the common Zenodo PaCE 2022 community archive (https://zenodo.org/communities/pace2022/, last access: 5 June 2025). The datasets are available in two formats, NetCDF and CSV, from https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14780929 (Brus et al. 2025a) and https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14778421 (Brus et al. 2025b), respectively.

Pedagogical practices may be integral to disruption of inequality and violence. Our project develops this claim by engaging students, volunteers and library professionals from Ukraine into building a community archive, Ukrainian Libraries in Wartime. Pedagogical practices we employ draw from peace education and archival pedagogy. We explore possibilities of service learning and praxis-based education to develop in our students professional and personal skills of working at the time of crisis (Bajaj, 2015; Renner,2009; Reardon and Cabezudo 2002). We employ Omeka to create a community archive that functions as a repository of evidence of crimes against libraries, while documenting the history of the resistance of Ukrainian librarians. Our project commenced in 2024 and is still ongoing. Using reflection and discussion with students, we learn and document how supporting Ukrainian professionals helped some transform their attitudes toward the war from feeling anger and frustration to experiencing hope, and developing a sense of agency//ability to foster some change. We also learned that developing a sense of solidarity and connectedness with the Ukrainian professional community enriches both Ukrainian partners and our students. Consulting archiving pedagogy, we also emphasize participation, shared stewardship, multiplicity of voices/approaches and advocacy to development of a community archive (Cook, 2013; Kuecker, et al. 2024). We hope sharing our pedagogical insights with ALISE community will enlighten educators in their struggles to develop tools that inspire compassion and lead to professional and personal successes.

This series of four uniquely designed presentations, consisting of two scholarly papers, a panel, and an interactive teaching engagement, provide synergy to both the 2025 ALISE Conference theme and the Innovative Pedagogy Special Interest Groups’s focus. Presenters offer dynamic vantage points to topics such as: Critical Discourse Analysis of Latine Identity Representation; Compassion Fatigue related to Pedagogy of Care; Community Archival Partnerships as Cultural Heritage Social Justice; and a Critical Race Storytelling Approach to Decolonize Library History Courses. Collectively the session meets at the intersection of information, innovation, compassion, and decolonization. Presentation 1 (Panel): Using Big Data to Redefine Identity: Challenging Deficit-Based Language Models in LIS Research Presenters: Michelle Rosquillo, North Carolina Central University; Odelys Morales Sierra, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Ryan Smiley, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Dr. LaTesha Velez, University of North Carolina at Greensboro This panel presents how Latine identities are represented in LIS research using big data analytics, critical discourse analysis, and ontological mapping. By identifying deficit vs. asset-based narratives, this study highlights biases in LIS literature and proposes culturally sustaining approaches to integrating Latine perspectives into LIS education. Through an examination of how colonial knowledge structures have shaped LIS discourse, the project interrogates entrenched narratives and offers strategies to center Latine knowledge systems. This presentation will showcase bibliometric trends and discourse patterns with the goal of providing actionable strategies for LIS educators, researchers, and practitioners seeking to foster representative information environments. Presentation 2 (Paper): The Paradox of Pedagogy of Care for Group Work in Asynchronous Courses Presenters: J.M. Shalani Dilinika, University of Pittsburgh; Africa S. Hands, University at Buffalo; Marcia Rapchak, University of Pittsburgh This paper presentation will explore how a pedagogy of care framework can be a decolonizing approach to group work in asynchronous, online courses. Using recent experiences of instructing students through a semester-long group project, this presentation considers the squishiness of practicing pedagogies of care, for both students and faculty. Pedagogies of care intend to generate student-centered learning experiences that deconstruct some hierarchies in education and emphasize empathetic instruction. However, as will be shared during this presentation, the reality of this well-intentioned practice is not without concerns (such as compassion fatigue and redirected emotional labor) that must be examined. Presentation 3 (Interactive Engagement): FOCAS-ing on Community Archival Partnership Pedagogy Presenters: Kaitlyn Griffith, Dominican University; Vanessa Irvin, East Carolina University; Berlin Loa, University of Arizona; Edith Mendez, Dominican University; Vanessa Reyes, East Carolina University Faculty Organizing for Community Archives Support (FOCAS) is a three-year, nine-university Mellon (Public Knowledge) funded collaborative project focused on supporting and co-creating archives with community partners. The grant also supports curricular and pedagogical development rooted in fieldwork, with funded student interns directly liaising with community archives. This interactive session, led by three university grantees, highlights (Year-1) innovative pedagogical strategies that respond to shifting community needs and the urgency of memory work in politically volatile times. FOCAS reimagines archival education by emphasizing social justice, decoloniality, and adaptability—challenging traditional archival norms and centering community-led evolving approaches to preserve stories that may be forgotten, obscured, or overlooked." Presentation 4 (Paper): Counter-storytelling in Library History Course Development Presenter: Eric Ely, University of Central Missouri This proposal explores the use of counter storytelling as a pedagogical tool in Library and Information Science (LIS) education to decolonize traditional library history courses. Rooted in Critical Race Theory (CRT), counter storytelling amplifies marginalized voices and challenges dominant narratives. The replacement of traditional research papers with a creative assignment in which students conduct historical research and craft fictional stories reflecting historical social conditions is explained. Emphasizing cultural humility, the assignment aims to avoid harm and promote social justice. The proposal addresses decolonial contexts by decolonizing curriculum, research methods, information practices, and professional practice, fostering inclusive and equitable learning environments. Additional Acknowledgement: Dr. Paria Aria made significant contributions to the planning and organizing of the Innovative Pedagogy Special Interest Group’s 2025 presentations.

A zine, pronounced ‘zeen’, is a small-circulation, self-published, often free, inexpensive, or traded print booklet (Bindery, n.d.). Through this creative track, art media project, the artist, zinester, LIS educator and scholar, Dr. Abigail Phillips, provides space for exploring themes of identity, representation, advocacy, and epistemological justice. Zines and zine-making – the unconventional openness, joyful self-expression, and revolutionary spirit – will encourage attendees to scrutinize how LIS pedagogy ignores the voices of marginalized communities (Zine Librarians Interest Group, n.d.). Zine collections are common to find in school libraries, academic libraries, public libraries, community archives, and digital libraries (Queer Zine Archive Project, n.d.). This creative track project, Decoding the Catalog, invites attendees to interrogate how traditional cataloging schemes, classification, and related practices often reinforce structures of power, privilege, and exclusion (Wrekk, 2020). The collection itself will be composed of 7 to 10 zines, forming an interactive print media art exhibit during which attendees can handle, read, pass around, photograph, and generally engage with the zines. Copies of each zines within the collection will be available for attendees to freely take and share. In combination with the collection itself, an area will be set up for those at the session to create a zine(s) to further explore the focus of the presented zine collection, the conference theme, or whatever they are inspired to create. The DIY, activism driven, and introspective nature of zines, zine making, and zine culture help motivate action, critique, discussion, and brainstorming as part of LIS courses, scholarship, and our field broadly. The beginnings of this movement librarianship, library work, and education, including zine making and sharing, are already underway (LIS Mental Health, 2023). Emerging LIS scholarship, teaching, and advocacy demonstrates ongoing discussions around support and change—a momentum reflected in the 2025 ALISE conference theme. Viewing zines as tools for critical reflection, deconstruction, unlearning, and creative expression contributes to evolving LIS pedagogy into more equitable, accessible, and empathetic practices.

When confronted with forced migration, a generational divide emerges—while those who fled seek to start anew, their children grapple with the silences left behind, longing to preserve these histories to better understand their families, identities, and inherited legacies. One such history is that of the Ethiopian Red Terror (1976–1978) a period of violent political repression which led to the deaths of thousands and forced many to flee, dispersing Ethiopian and Eritrean communities worldwide. This paper details the process of Through My Eyes , an interdisciplinary arts project that documents emigration stories as a result of the Red Terror. Using storytelling, photography, family archives, and trauma-informed approaches, Through my Eyes demonstrates the creative ways in which community archives can manifest and thrive.

The article discusses the role of trust in the activities of community archives, using the example of the German Minority Research Center in Opole, a non-governmental organization involved in initiating research on and documenting the history of German minority in Poland, with particular emphasis on the history of the formation of organizations associating Germans in Poland. Through empirical research, in particular interviews conducted in August 2024 with people who co-created the archive, its collaborators, and donors, it was possible to observe the central role of being a member of the documented community in building trust in the community archive. The article also draws attention to the important role of delicacy and sensitivity in the contacts between community archivists and donors, and defines them as one of the possible reasons for restricting access to community archives. The study is part of a research project aimed at analyzing the social and affective impact of community archives in Poland.

ABSTRACT This paper explores the use of animation to examine the migration of the African and Caribbean communities in relation to social injustices that threaten connection, belonging, and citizenship. Theories by Paul Gilroy support the practice-based research methodology, positioning animation as a representational and archival tool for recording black British history. Made in Thamesmead (2024) illustrates how migration has shaped the progressive, cultural landscape of modern Britain. It illuminates the need to include stories on the black experience in locally based community archives, creating strategies that challenge the ways that racist social imaginaries continue to prevent social change.

Since 2009, Cine en Femenino has been the most important showcase of the work of women filmmakers in Colombia. The festival was created by Mujer es audiovisual, a production and distribution collective spearheaded by the filmmaker Jimena Prieto. This article is an account on how submission in optical media and other materials became an accidental archive that documents the participation of women, their setbacks and achievements in the audiovisual industry. In recent years, multiple collective efforts have supported the preservation of Cine en Femenino collections to ensure that this production is reinserted into debates on cinema studies, gender and women’s studies, feminism and fields related to the content of the films. Writing from our diverse experience and as organizers and participants in the archival project, we trace back the history of Cine en Femenino and discuss how local and international support, practices such as community archiving and participatory practices have advanced archival work. The challenges and questions raised during the process might encourage other communities of creators to consider non-traditional practices to safeguard materials, encouraging considerations of the archive as an organic component of individual or collective practices since the very moment of inception of artistic practices.

Abstract Digital community archives and many digital humanities projects serve as critical infrastructure for community-based cultural knowledge, but they struggle with sustainability. Prior work has illuminated numerous sustainability factors for digital cultural knowledge infrastructures that are developed and maintained by communities, but there is relatively little empirical work on the roles of communities themselves. Based on a comparative multi-case study of four projects, we offer a conceptual framework—the Oyster Model—for understanding community engagement as a sustainability factor in community-based, digital cultural knowledge infrastructures. Sustainable infrastructures identify and engage a range of stakeholder groups—teams, partners, contributors, users, and allies—in different roles and adapt to dynamism and change among these groups. This model characterizes reciprocity as a facet of community-centered approaches to sustainability, to refine understanding of the mutually beneficial relationship between digital knowledge infrastructures and the groups that create and maintain them. This work aims to bridge a gap between the community archives literature and relevant work on the sustainability of digital humanities scholarship.

ABSTRACT This PhD research-in-progress explores the role of community archives in rural Aotearoa New Zealand as collaborative, stakeholder-oriented institutions rooted in local contexts. Using grounded theory within a symbolic interactionism framework, this study investigates how archives identify, engage with, and communicate across diverse stakeholder groups. Based on interviews, focus groups, and case studies, emerging insights suggest that dynamics around leadership, volunteer involvement, collaboration, and community engagement significantly influence archival sustainability. The research highlights ongoing challenges between tradition and inclusion, and between legacy and adaptability. As the study progresses, it aims to offer a deeper understanding of how community archives build relationships and maintain relevance within their changing communities over time.

Building Representative Community Archives: Inclusive Strategies in Practice

Abstract This article addresses the gaps between ethnographic archives and community members who are often deprived of accessing their own materials. In reflecting on results from collaborative research with a Nepalese immigrant community in Alberta, Canada, where we created a Digital Community Archive (DCA), I draw attention to the benefits of combining strategies from applied ethnomusicology and Participatory Action Research (PAR). I propose a new model for archiving in ethnomusicology, the Community Collaborative Participatory Archive (CCPA). This model can improve ethnomusicological archival practice by focusing on collaborative, egalitarian, and grassroots participation, shared roles, and authority in the archival creation and development process.

Abstract This paper examines the impact of the “scan and return” practice on the sustainability of community archives, presenting a case study of a local community archive in rural Colorado, United States. The “scan and return” approach refers to a practice adopted in the post-custodial digital environment where original materials are returned to owners after digital surrogates are created. The model offers benefits for diversifying representation in archival collections and expanding collaboration with communities. However, the case study demonstrates the risks that the “scan and return” approach poses to the sustainability of community archives and emphasizes the importance of practicing responsible digital stewardship. The paper also discusses social factors of sustainability and points to the value of collaboration in sustaining community archives.

Algorithmic curation of collective memory has become a critical phenomenon in the digital age, reshaping the production, preservation, and erasure of historical narratives. Platforms like Google, Facebook, and TikTok act as hegemonic archivists, governing memory through market-driven logics, reinforcing inequalities, and naturalizing algorithmic biases. This study examines how automated systems—powered by machine learning and engagement metrics—prioritize viral content while marginalizing dissident voices (e.g., removal of Black activist profiles). Through a systematic review (PRISMA) and theoretical analysis, it explores three dimensions: (1) the replacement of traditional archives with opaque curation; (2) structural erasures of marginalized narratives; and (3) resistances like community archives and decentralized models (blockchain). Findings reveal that algorithms fragment and commodify memory, deepening epistemic injustices (Fricker). An integrated framework (Halbwachs, Noble, Latour) is proposed, advocating for ethical governance with transparency and collective participation to counter digital hegemonies.

The formation of LGTBIQ + community archives across Latin America has increased significantly recently, becoming vehicles for challenging cis-heteronormative narratives of the past and pushing the limits of democracy. This article asks how and since when did queer/trans archiving, curating, and displaying material become articulated as activism in Latin America? What are the cultural and political meanings of these practices, and how do these relate to a global community archival boom? To answer these questions, we mapped 55 LGTBIQ + community archives and developed a discourse analysis of their digital content. This analysis highlights references to memory as an active political process to critically engage with the past and disrupt the progress narratives of democratisation in the present. We argue that the Latin America case should be understood within the hybridisation of a global rise of archival activism and a shared grammar of using the past as a political tool.

ABSTRACT This study explores the impact of war in Ukraine on religious minority communities and their archives, shedding light on their vulnerability and newfound agency amidst Russia’s military aggression. The archives spotlighted by this research were either relocated, smuggled, destroyed, stolen, or, conversely, opened after several decades of being concealed from outsiders’ eyes. What unites them all is their shared history rooted in the Soviet past – a legacy of suppression, secrecy, and control that continues to shape these religious communities. The ongoing conflict has brought this legacy into sharper relief, exposing shadowy practices and structures, including those within religious life. Against the war’s backdrop of destruction and the “memory wars” fuelling the conflict, archival activism has assumed a new significance. Community archives emerge as contested sites of power, memory, and historical agency, serving both as custodians of silenced counter-memories and as vital tools for community activism. By rescuing their endangered historical legacy and revisiting and revising past narratives, religious communities reclaim agency over their histories and address the wounds of suppression and conflict. This process not only offers a framework for interpreting the present crisis but also serves as a means of healing and a source of resilience.