About
Mission
Foster collaboration to collect, preserve, and provide access to materials related to Maine community members' experiences of current events.
Vision
- Engage community members in documenting history; encourage and enable people to share their own stories and express their experiences.
- Grow a reliable network of professionals and community members who will work together to collect current materials, make these accessible, and preserve them for future use.
- Share tools and expertise, learning together to better document history as we live it.
- Continue our collaboration into future topics and events; sustain community-based archives into the future.
Members
MCA is managed by members of the Maine Contemporary Archives Collaborative. We represent organizations across the state, including:
- Bangor Public Library
- Belfast Free Library
- College of the Atlantic Archives & Special Collection
- McArthur Public Library
- Portland Public Library
- University of Maine Special Collections & Archives
- University of Southern Maine Special Collections
- University of Southern Maine Franco-American Collection
- West Paris Public Library