Libraries, Archives and Collective Grief

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.

• Foreword by Kelly A. KolarIntroduction - Kaylee P. Alexander and Robert SpinelliPart I: Loss1. The Past(s) We Access Online: Ethical Challenges of Digital Archives - Amalia S. Levi and Virginia Dressler2. The Necrocene and Special Collections: Recording Extinction in Libraries and Archives - Octavia Cade3. Mysterious Marginalia: Past and Present Grief in The Mysteries of Udolpho - S. R. Trzinski4. Dead Women Do Tell Tales: The Archived Deaths of St. Bride’s Parish, London - Rebecca GibsonPart II: Grief5. Your Most Powerful Instrument Is Your Voice - McKenzie Lemhouse and Logan Cocklin6. Beyond Tree Funerals: Continuing Work to Make Grief a Transformative Project - Catherine Bowers7. Public Libraries as Spaces for Processing COVID-19 Grief - Leah Griffiths8. ‘Shades of Grey’; Or, a Guide to Navigating Grief in the Archive - Frances Cullen9. Ghosts in Grey Boxes: Trauma and Loss in the Archives - Amanda SheppPart III: Commemoration10. Record Keepers and Record Makers: The Artist in the Archive - Lyuba Basin11. Out of the Closet and into the Shelves: Archiving the Ordinary in Lesbian Cultural Memory - Sarah Rayner12. Making a Digital Memorial: What Arts, Culture and Heritage Can Learn from Remember Me (2020) - Eleanor O’Keeffe13. Forever or for Now: The Role of Information Professionals in Supporting Online Memorialization Practices - Chelsea Gunn and Aisling Quigley14. Grieving Toward Grace - Michele Jennings and Henry Handley15. Coda - Robert Spinelli and Kaylee P. Alexander

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