Collaborating with non-archivists can be a key part of our efforts to strengthen archival holdings and fill in gaps in the documentary record. Drexel University Archives is currently engaged in an interdepartmental project to compile and share information about traditionally underrepresented groups in Drexel’s history. In this session, the leaders will give a short presentation, then facilitate a discussion that draws on participants’ own experiences using collaboration with non-archivists to address some of the gaps and silences in the archival record. Collaborations of all kinds are of interest, including those with teachers and students at any grade level, librarians serving the same patrons, members of a local community or a particular demographic group, and writers in any genre and artists in any medium.
