Citizen Archiving Against Erasure

Updated: 2025.10.15 7D ago 1 sources
Volunteers and librarians are rapidly digitizing vulnerable public signage to preserve historical narratives before politics can rewrite or remove them. This creates a parallel, public record that can outlast administrative changes and provide evidence if content disappears. — It shows how civic networks can counter politicized control of public memory by building independent archives that constrain narrative manipulation.

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'Save Our Signs' Preservation Project Launches Archive of 10,000 National Park Signs
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The Save Our Signs project launched a public archive of 10,000+ national park and monument placards, coordinated by University of Minnesota librarian Jenny McBurney.
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