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This week's term: archival diaspora
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archival diaspora 

n.  ~  ACCESS · DESCRIPTION · 1. a set of archival materials that is geographically dispersed and held within multiple repositories, or sets of archival materials so dispersed  2. the geographic dispersion of archival fonds    

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virtual reunification    

Cited in  
Review of Bound Upon a Wheel of Fire, by John V.H. Dippel, Kirkus Reviews 3 (February 1, 1996).  

Another Bit of History I'll Never Get to See!History Hoydens (weblog) (October 9, 2010).

Krebs, Allison, “Archival Creative Friction: Mapping Decision Points in the Archive,” paper given as part of the session “Indigenous and Postcolonial Archives,” Archival Education Research Institute (2012).  

Punzalan, Ricardo L. “Archival Diasporas: A Framework for Understanding the Complexities and Challenges of Dispersed Photographic Collections,” The American Archivist 77:2 (Fall/Winter 2014): 346.
 
Rappaport, Gina, “The Archival Legacy of Edward S. Curtis,” Smithsonian Institution Archives, 2011 Archives Fair Webcast Live Now (October 14, 2011).
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