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82T h e A m e r i c a n A r c h i v i s t , V o l . 7 3 ( S p r i n g / S u m m e r 2 0 1 0 ) : 8 2 -1 0 4 Documenting the Immigrant and Ethnic Experience in American Archives Dominique Daniel A b s t r a c tThis paper examines the development of ethnic and immigrant archives in the United States since the 1960s. It focuses on the dramatic evolution of "ethnic archiving"-the processes and objectives involved in documenting the immigrant and ethnic experience-and shows how cultural minorities evolved from an object or theme of archival collections to active participants in the creation, appraisal, description, and use of their own archives. A number of factors made this evolution possible: a new political context increasingly responsive to minority rights and cultural diversity, rising interest in social history, and the influence of postmodernist thought on archival theory. New digital technologies have also facilitated the expression and archiving of ethnic voices.

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the terms of the Creative Commons-Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License 2.5 Canada (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ca/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly attributed, not used for commercial purposes, and, if transformed, the resulting work is redistributed under the same or similar license to this one. AbstractObjective -To assess how the age, gender, and race characteristics of library users affect their perceptions of the approachability of reference librarians with similar or different demographic characteristics.Design -Image rating survey.Setting -Large, three-campus university system in the United States.