Community Archives
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Mon - Sun - Phone:
Main - 540-981-0206
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- 2037 Memorial Ave SW Roanoke, VA 24015
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Community Archives of Southwest Virginia, LLC
Community Archives of Southwest Virginia
General Info
The mission of the Community Archives of Southwest Virginia, LLC, is to develop and put into practice a new strategy for teaching history, by creating a "co-op" for scholars and history buffs, a digital archive of letters, journals and scrapbooks, and a virtual museum. This educational venture will allow scholars to share their knowledge with others, invite students and interns to contribute papers and conduct research, and eventually create jobs for a small staff. As an added dimension, it will encourage interested adults to become "community historians," offering them training in the techniques of historic methodology, familiarity with the literature, and sufficient confidence to research and write narrative histories, assist others in learning the context of history, and to become advocates of the philosophy that...learning history can be meaningful, practical, and fun.