Labor Rights are Civil Rights Los Derechos de Trabajo son Derechos Civiles

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Labor Rights are Civil Rights Los Derechos de
Trabajo son Derechos Civiles

• Arizona State University Libraries Council on
  Library Information Resources

Presented by Xaviera Flores, Project Archivist
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TOPICS

• CLIR Grant Project, Labor Rights are Civil
  Rights/Los Derechos de Trabajo son Derechos
  Civiles
• The Chicano Research Collection (Implications and
  Impact on the community and University)
• Being an Archivist in Arizona and the Southwest
  and challenges that come with being here and
  affects it has had on the project

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CLIR GRANT

• Processing six bilingual collections pertaining
  to the Chicano labor and civil rights movement in
  Arizona and the Southwest.
• DACS and EAD archival standards to create English
  and Spanish finding aids
• Upload to Arizona Archives Online
• Outreach

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Arizona Archives Online
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The Six Collections

• League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
• Alianza Hispano Americana (AHA) Records
• United Steel Workers of America, Local 616
  Clifton-Morenci (USWA) Records
• SER (Service, Employment and Redevelopment, Inc.)
  Records
• Arizona AFL-CIO Papers
• MCOP (Maricopa County Organizing Project) Papers

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Chicano Research Collection

• Established in 1970
• Chicano Movement at ASU
• Meet the academic needs of both Chicano students
  and faculty
• Obtain works by and about Mexican Americans or
  Chicanos in Arizona, the Southwest, and the U.S.

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Being an Archivist in Arizona

• Difference between being a Southwest Archivist
  and an Archivist in the Southwest
• Archivist as Activist
• Archivist as Educator

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Challenges for the grant

• Arizona often overlooked
• Materials are in Spanish
• Processing
• Bilingual or English and Spanish finding aids
• Translating or Interpreting?
• Spanish DACS anyone?
• Outreach to community

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Challenges to the collection

• Cultural apathy
• Politics
• SB1070
• HB2281

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Strategies

• Outreach
• University
• Professors, Student organizations, scholars
• Collaborating with Chicano Research Collections
  curator
• Workshops, Exhibits
• Community
• Processing

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CHECK US OUT AT

• http//laborrightsarecivilrights.wordpress.com
• http//www.twitter.com/archiveninja
• http//www.facebook.com/chicanocollection
• http//libguides.asu.edu/chicana
• http//www.azarchivesonline.org

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