Faculty & Staff Publications
Publication Date
2013
Disciplines
Library and Information Science | Oral History | Speech and Rhetorical Studies
Abstract
This chapter discusses Launching through the Surf: The Dory Fleet of Pacific City, a project which documents the historical and contemporary role of dory fishers in the life of the coastal village of Pacific City, Oregon, U.S. Linfield College’s Department of Theatre and Communication Arts, its Jereld R. Nicholson Library, the Pacific City Arts Association, the Pacific City Dorymen's Association, and the Linfield Center for the Northwest joined forces to engage in a collaborative college and community venture to preserve this important facet of Oregon’s history. Using ethnography as a theoretical grounding and oral history as a method, the project utilized artifacts from the dory fleet to augment interview data, and faculty/student teams created a searchable digital archive available via open access. The chapter draws on the authors’ experiences to identify a philosophy of strategic collaboration. Topics include project development and management, assessment, and the role of serendipity. In an era of value-added services where libraries need to continue to prove their worth, partnering with internal and external entities to create content is one way for academic libraries to remain relevant to agencies that do not have direct connections to higher education. This project not only developed a positive “town and gown” relationship with a regional community, it also benefited partner organizations as they sought to fulfill their missions. The project also serves as a potential model for intra- and inter-agency collaboration for all types of libraries.
Document Type
Accepted Version
Rights
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Original Citation
Kathleen Spring and Brenda DeVore Marshall
Building bridges with boats: preserving community history through intra- and inter-institutional collaboration.
In Mergers and alliances: The operational view and cases, edited by Anne Woodsworth & W. David Penniman
2013, Advances in librarianship, volume 37, pages 3-29, Emerald Group: United Kingdom.
doi:10.1108/S0065-2830(2013)0000037004
DigitalCommons@Linfield Citation
Spring, Kathleen and Marshall, Brenda DeVore, "Building Bridges with Boats: Preserving Community History through Intra- and Inter-Institutional Collaboration" (2013). Faculty & Staff Publications. Accepted Version. Submission 9.
https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/librariesfac_pubs/9
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Comments
This article is the author-created version that incorporates referee comments. It is the accepted-for-publication version. The content of this version may be identical to the published version (the version of record) save for value-added elements provided by the publisher (e.g., copy editing, layout changes, or branding consistent with the rest of the publication).