Libraries, Archives and Collective Grief

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-5292-5344-3
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Death and Culture

Libraries and archives are liminal spaces between what once was and what might be remembered.

This edited collection explores this dynamic through international case studies, theoretical discussions and practical guidance, considering how these spaces activate moments of grief through preservation and documentation. Drawing on cultural, personal and literary perspectives, this volume examines grief across temporalities and the ephemerality of digital and material memory spaces.

This is an essential study that deftly shows how archival practice, critical librarianship and the digital humanities can transform the ways communities preserve memory, process loss and find meaning in the aftermath of grief.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alexander, Kaylee P.

Spinelli, Robert

Weitere Mitwirkende

Basin, Lyuba

Bowers, Catherine

Cade, Olivia

Cocklin, Logan

Cullen, Frances

Dressler, Virginia

Gibson, Rebecca

Griffiths, Leah

Gunn, Chelsea

Handley, Henry

Jennings, Michele

Lemhouse, McKenzie

Levi, Amalia

O'Keeffe, Eleanor

Quigley, Aisling

Rayner, Sarah

Shepp, Amanda

Trzinski, Samantha

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Tod, Sterbehilfe: Soziale und Ethische Themen
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Archivierung, Konservierung & Digitalisierung
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften, Archivwesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Kelly A. Kolar

Introduction - Kaylee P. Alexander and Robert Spinelli

Part I: Loss

1. The Past(s) We Access Online: Ethical Challenges of Digital Archives - Amalia S. Levi and Virginia Dressler

2. The Necrocene and Special Collections: Recording Extinction in Libraries and Archives - Octavia Cade

3. Mysterious Marginalia: Past and Present Grief in The Mysteries of Udolpho - S. R. Trzinski

4. Dead Women Do Tell Tales: The Archived Deaths of St. Bride’s Parish, London - Rebecca Gibson

Part II: Grief

5. Your Most Powerful Instrument Is Your Voice - McKenzie Lemhouse and Logan Cocklin

6. Beyond Tree Funerals: Continuing Work to Make Grief a Transformative Project - Catherine Bowers

7. Public Libraries as Spaces for Processing COVID-19 Grief - Leah Griffiths

8. ‘Shades of Grey’; Or, a Guide to Navigating Grief in the Archive - Frances Cullen

9. Ghosts in Grey Boxes: Trauma and Loss in the Archives - Amanda Shepp

Part III: Commemoration

10. Record Keepers and Record Makers: The Artist in the Archive - Lyuba Basin

11. Out of the Closet and into the Shelves: Archiving the Ordinary in Lesbian Cultural Memory - Sarah Rayner

12. Making a Digital Memorial: What Arts, Culture and Heritage Can Learn from Remember Me (2020) - Eleanor O’Keeffe

13. Forever or for Now: The Role of Information Professionals in Supporting Online Memorialization Practices - Chelsea Gunn and Aisling Quigley

14. Grieving Toward Grace - Michele Jennings and Henry Handley

15. Coda - Robert Spinelli and Kaylee P. Alexander

Über Autor(innen)

Spinelli, Robert
Robert Spinelli is Archivist for Special Collections at Middle Tennessee State University and Adjunct Professor at American Baptist College.

Alexander, Kaylee P.
Kaylee P. Alexander is Research Data Librarian at the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library.

Kaylee P. Alexander is Research Data Librarian at the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library.

Robert Spinelli is Archivist for Special Collections at Middle Tennessee State University and Adjunct Professor at American Baptist College.