More than Crossed Wires: How do we Create a Collaborative Power Grid?

Zachary Hottel, Archivist, Shenandoah County Library- Truban Archives

Proposal Type

Structured Conversation

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Archives
  • Museums/Exhibits
Abstract

Creating sustained collaboration in the historic community is often difficult. Museums, historic sites, archives, and other institutions often struggle to do this due traditional, vertical lines of power. Read More

Documenting Sorrow: Condolence Projects in the Wake of Violence

Melissa Barthelemy, Doctoral Candidate Public History, UC Santa Barbara

Proposal Type

Panel

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Related Topics
  • Archives
  • Material Culture
  • Memory
Abstract

This session aims to provide insight and guidance to librarians, archivists, and professors who must develop their own unique response to unanticipated and unthinkable tragedies, such as school shootings. Read More

Streamlining and Automating Metadata Creation for Digital Projects

Jane Davis, Vice President of Access and Digital Services, Linda Hall Library

Proposal Type

Workshop

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  • Seeking Specific Expertise
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Archives
  • Digital
  • Science and Tech
Abstract

This hands-on workshop will demonstrate free or under-utilized tools to automate or streamline metadata creation for digital projects.  Read More

Sanctuary Communities: Answering to a Higher Law

Anne Salsich, Associate Archivist, Oberlin College Archives

Proposal Type

Pecha Kucha

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Archives
  • Digital
  • Inclusion
Abstract

In 2017, local and state entities have declared themselves sanctuary communities for immigrants that are targets of the Trump administration’s inherently divisive policy to remove or bar non-citizens from the U.S. Read More

Public History and Public Radio

Julie Rogers, Historian, NPR Research, Archives, & Data Strategy

Proposal Type

Roundtable

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Oral History
  • Preservation
  • Archives
Abstract

Public radio is an important cultural institution, but the value of its archives and its role as a historic repository is often overlooked. Read More