1. Aisha M. Johnson PhD StudentCo-Director/Manager of Archival Services School of Library & Information StudiesBlack Archives, Research Center & Museum Florida State UniversityFlorida A&M University Amj04j@my.fsu.eduAisha.Johnson@famu.edu

2.  Collection Acquisition (traditional)  Types of Living Archives  Challenges and Benefits  Acquiring Living Archives  Review

3.  Collections were typically acquired after death  Typically archives protect sensitive information such as ◦ SSN and addresses  Changes in the type of collections being acquired ◦ Enter living collections  Collections are now being built while stored by at an archive

4.  Individual Collections ◦ Literary Figures and scholars (Maya Angelou)  Organizational Records ◦ Orphanages, churches  Political Records ◦ Civil Rights activists of the 1950s and 1960s ◦ Presidential papers and other political leaders  Community Archives  Digital Collections ◦ Social media (fb, tumblr, twitter, etc)

5.  Traditional challenges still exist ◦ Building trust for the archives ◦ Storage (how big will the collection become) ◦ Other necessary means of handling a collection  Donor input  Protecting those whom are living in the collection ◦ Example: orphanages, church records, etc  Processing for access ◦ Now or Later?

6.  Donor input ◦ No guessing games on sensitive information ◦ Provenance  Community Involvement! ◦ Archives can build trust with the community and acquire more collections.  Embracing change as an opportunity instead of a challenge

7.  Policies and procedures in place specifically for living collections  Recognize what could be considered sensitive information of individuals presently “living” in the collection, if not protected or indicated by the Deed of Gift.  Examples of sensitive information  Acquisition methods

8.  Collection acquisition is changing  New wave of living collections  There are challenges as well as benefits  Archivists must embrace and understand the rules of engagement when acquiring living collections.  With the necessary precautions in place, archives can build trust with the community and acquire more living collections.