Archivist-director Marisol Chen and a rotating council of neighbourhood custodians.
A public reading room, mobile digitization team, volunteer oral-history circles, and a restricted conservation lab.
Preserve provenance, return records to the communities that created them, and document absences as carefully as surviving documents.
Founded by archivists and community historians after the Bellweather fire records were sold in fragments at a private estate auction.
Archivist-director Marisol Chen and a rotating council of neighbourhood custodians.
A public reading room, mobile digitization team, volunteer oral-history circles, and a restricted conservation lab.
AlliesMeridian University librarians, market associations, retired surveyors.
OppositionPrivate collectors, fraudulent genealogists, and officials who mistake a missing file for a clean history.
Photographs, deeds, oral histories, repair skills, and a public catalogue with a carefully documented gap index.
Conservation kits, flatbed scanners, audio recorders, acid-free boxes, and tamper-evident evidence sleeves.
A converted Bellweather bank branch, with a public reading room behind the former teller line.
VehiclesA book van, two cargo bicycles, and a borrowed university box truck for emergency collection moves.
UniformNo uniform; field staff wear canvas aprons with stitched accession pockets.
SymbolAn open square with one side left uninked.
Archivists, oral historians, conservation tables, document cases, and portable archive carts.