Abstract
Building on a growing body of work that reflects on writing center history and archives, this article explores the process of constructing writing center archives and reflects on their utility. In particular, it illustrates the usefulness of collecting oral histories from writing center consultants. It analyzes sample interviews from previous writing center consultants of two different university writing centers and considers how they might be useful for strategic planning and creating institutional memory. The results show the importance of centering staff experiences within writing center histories and institutional archives. Overall, this article contributes to theorizing what a writing center archive can look like and provides practical insight into how writing center administrators might collect and use oral histories, as well as other archival materials.
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- The Peer Review
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- 2025-09
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- writing centers, archives, oral histories, institutional memory
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