A living, breathing revolution: how libraries can use “living archives” to support, engage, and document social movements
dc.audience | Audience::Social Science Libraries Section | |
dc.conference.sessionType | Social Science Libraries | |
dc.contributor.author | Rhodes, Tamara | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2025-09-24T07:51:28Z | |
dc.date.available | 2025-09-24T07:51:28Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.description.abstract | Where does and should the future of libraries lie? What were once concrete, brick, and glass structures have since become a third place where community, art, and culture reside. What is next? The #searchunderoccupy exhibit in the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center in New York City is a “living archive” that visually displays the creative and critical responses of the New School’s student community to the Occupy Wall Street movement. It is composed not only of elements such as video, photographs, audio and performance projects, but also text-based works such as live feed tag clouds, posters, and blogs. By their very nature, libraries are poised to become forces for social change and using this exhibit as an example, libraries themselves can show the life of their communities by putting their responses on display to support their involvement in social movements, engage others, and document for the future. There are many iterations of the living archive in libraries such as the digitization of audio-visual materials or allowing people to share their memories, knowledge, photos and opinions through a virtual space. The closest to the #searchunderoccupy exhibit example is capturing the activities and conversations of designer William McDonough for the Stanford University libraries. Unlike these projects, the New School’s method allows for a greater range of self-expression through visual mediums and accounts for the technology of today. Social media is what has helped spread the social movements of the current generation and with its ever changing nature, this version of a living archive presents a future library full of infinite possibilities. | en |
dc.description.abstract | ¿Cuál es y cuál debería ser el futuro de las bibliotecas? Lo que alguna vez fueron estructuras de concreto, ladrillo y vidrio se han convertido en un tercer espacio en el que conviven la comunidad, el arte y la cultura. ¿Qué vendrá ahora? La exhibición #searchunderoccupy en el Centro de Diseño de Sheila C. Johnson en la ciudad de Nueva York es un “archivo viviente” que ofrece una muestra visual de las respuestas creativas y críticas de la comunidad de estudiantes de la New School (Nueva Escuela) al movimiento Occupy Wall Street (OWS) (Ocupen Wall Street). Está formada no solo por elementos como videos, fotografías, grabaciones de audio y proyectos de representación, sino también por trabajos basados en textos, como nubes de etiquetas con actualización en vivo (live feed tag clouds), afiches y blogs. Por su misma naturaleza, las bibliotecas están preparadas para impulsar el cambio social y, utilizando esta exhibición como ejemplo, pueden mostrar la vida de sus comunidades a través de sus respuestas para apoyar su participación en movimientos sociales, sumar adeptos y documentar para el futuro. Existen muchas iteraciones del archivo viviente en las bibliotecas, como la digitalización de los materiales audiovisuales o permitir a las personas que compartan sus recuerdos, conocimientos, fotografías y opiniones en un espacio virtual. Lo más cercano al ejemplo de la exhibición #searchunderoccupy es capturar las actividades y conversaciones del diseñador William McDonough para las bibliotecas de la Universidad de Stanford. A diferencia de estos proyectos, el método de la New School ofrece una variedad más amplia de auto-expresión a través de medios visuales y representa la tecnología moderna. Las redes sociales son las que han contribuido a difundir los movimientos sociales de la generación actual y con su naturaleza siempre cambiante, esta versión de un archivo viviente presenta una biblioteca del futuro con infinitas posibilidades. | es |
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dc.language.iso | es | |
dc.rights | Attribution 3.0 Unported | |
dc.rights.accessRights | open access | |
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dc.subject.jita | Information use and sociology of information::Information in society | |
dc.subject.jita | Information sources, supports, channels::None of these, but in this section | |
dc.subject.keyword | Libraries | |
dc.subject.keyword | Living archive | |
dc.subject.keyword | Occupy Wall Street | |
dc.subject.keyword | Social movements | |
dc.title | A living, breathing revolution: how libraries can use “living archives” to support, engage, and document social movements | en |
dc.title | Una Revolución que Vive y Respira: El Uso de "Archivos Vivientes” por parte de las Bibliotecas para Apoyar, Promover y Documentar los Movimientos Sociales | es |
dc.type | Article | |
ifla.Unit | Section:Social Science Libraries Section | |
ifla.oPubId | https://library.ifla.org/id/eprint/52/ |