Preserving a culture of compassion, character, and commitment: an archival framework for the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute

The researchers and staff of the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG) have taken great care to document and celebrate its fifty-five-year history. Now, with the retirement of many of FPG’s unofficial history keepers, sustainable stewardship for the archive is needed. This project addresses the transition of FPG’s materials from a collection of documents and photographs into an archive. By creating a collection development policy and access plan, decisions such as acquisition, weeding, and usage of materials will now be guided by procedures and policies. This project’s goal was to remove the responsibility stewardship for the archive from individuals and transition to a sustainably practices within the communications and marketing department of FPG. The collection development policy and access plan were developed with context provided an analysis of the current archival collection and six semi-guided interviews with FPG researchers and staff.Master of Science in Library Scienc