Repairing Community Relationships

Leslie Leonard, Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum

Proposal Type

Roundtable

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Advocacy
  • Place
  • Public Engagement
  • Reflections on the Field
Abstract

How can you breathe new life into a museum/historic site/program that has become stagnant or stale? Read More

Breaking Barriers: Challenges and Opportunities of a Multi-Year Digital Documentary Editing Project

Carrie knight, Seward Family Digital Archive

Proposal Type

Panel

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  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Digital
  • Public Engagement
Abstract

How do we balance providing access to users and contributors while maintaining archival expectations and digitization standards? What are some of the unique challenges and opportunities of a multi-year, student-led, and volunteer-supported digital project? Read More

Peaks and Valley: Balancing Preservation and Access-Oriented Digitization through Public Partnerships

Owen rogers, library of congress

Proposal Type

Structured Conversation (session)

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  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Digital
  • Public Engagement
Abstract

Digitization initiatives reflect an opportunity to rehabilitate audiovisual holdings in the context of both access and preservation. Read More

Reinterpreting Tilden

allison horrocks, national park service

Proposal Type

Working Group

Seeking
  • Seeking Additional Presenters
  • Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
  • Labor and Economy
  • Public Engagement
  • Reflections on the Field
  • Teaching and Training
  • Theory
Abstract

For more than sixty years, Freeman Tilden’s Interpreting Our Heritage has been widely relied upon by many historical interpreters as a classic, benchmark text on how to work with the public. Read More