Archives in Context

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Season 6, Episode 1: Jacqualine Price Osafo

Archives in Context ·

2021/10/27

Cohosts Nicole Milano and JoyEllen Williams conduct a special interview with the Society of American Archivist’s new executive director, Jacqualine Price Osafo. In this interview, Jackie shares her professional and personal roots, including her long-time passion for associations and the impact of an inspiring relative. Jackie also explains what drew her to SAA and why … Continue reading Season 6, Episode 1: Jacqualine Price Osafo

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Season 5, Episode 6: Archives, Community, and...

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2021/09/07

Cohosts Nicole Milano and JoyEllen Williams interview Educational Resource Specialist Danna Bell and Folklife Specialist Guha Shankar from the Library of Congress. During this conversation, Bell and Shankar discuss the intersection of archives, community, and education, specifically addressing how the country’s renewed focus on social justice impacts their work at the Library of Congress. Episode … Continue reading Season 5, Episode 6: Archives, Community, and Education at the Library of

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Season 5, Episode 5: Archives for Black Lives in...

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2021/07/13

Many archivists are reevaluating workflows and practices in order to create more equitable, anti-oppressive, and anti-racist metadata in their repositories. This important work is foregrounded by the Anti-Racist Description Resources, authored by the Archives for Black Lives in Philadelphia’s (A4BLiP) Anti-Racist Description Working Group. Archives in Context spoke with A4BLiP’s Anti-Racist Description Working Group members Alexis A. … Continue reading Season 5, Episode 5: Archives

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Season 5, Episode 4: Petrina Jackson and Verónica...

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2021/03/09

As American society reckons with racial injustice, many archivists wonder how they can combat systemic racism in the workplace and the profession. Archives in Context reached out for guidance from Petrina Jackson, director of the Special Collections Research Center, Bird Library, Syracuse University; and Verónica Reyes-Escudero, Katheryne B. Willock head of special collections, University of … Continue reading Season 5, Episode 4: Petrina Jackson and Verónica Reyes-Escudero

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Season 5, Episode 3: Archivists Call-In

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2021/02/09

As we leave 2020 behind us, Archives In Context begins 2021 on a hopeful note. In this special episode focused on archivists and archival work during COVID-19, we hear from you! Archivists called and wrote to us with their advice on navigating this challenging time and shared the ways they are finding joy, what they are … Continue reading Season 5, Episode 3: Archivists Call-In

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36:09

Season 5, Episode 2: Dorothy Berry

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2020/12/16

What is self-care, and why should archivists care? Listen to our conversation with Dorothy Berry, digital collections program manager at Harvard University’s Houghton Library, as she explores a more sophisticated understanding of self-care—one that goes beyond eating brownies and taking bubble baths. With wisdom and humor, Dorothy talks about how and why we should be kinder … Continue reading Season 5, Episode 2: Dorothy Berry

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27:35

Season 5, Episode 1: Archival Workers Emergency Fund

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2020/11/25

In this episode of a special Archives in Context season on how the events of 2020 have affected archivists, we meet two of the driving forces behind the Archival Workers Emergency Fund (AWEF): Anna Clutterbuck-Cook, reference librarian at the Massachusetts Historical Society, and Lydia Tang, special collections archivist-librarian at Michigan State University. Anna and Lydia … Continue reading Season 5, Episode 1: Archival Workers Emergency Fund

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Season 4, Episode 7: Courtney Dean and Grace Danico

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2020/08/11

What do sex, awards, and the occult have in common? They are all themes that the Los Angeles Archivists Collective explored in its online publication Acid Free. In this episode, Courtney Dean, head of the Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT) in UCLA Library Special Collections, and Grace Danico, an independent archivist and freelance designer, … Continue reading Season 4, Episode 7: Courtney Dean and Grace Danico

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Season 4, Episode 6: Jennifer Johnson

Archives in Context ·

2020/08/11

Finding ways to connect diverse audiences with archives is an art. It is also an important aspect of leadership. Jennifer Johnson, director of Corporate Archives at Cargill, Incorporated, discusses her essay “Cultivating Success: The Business of Archives” in volume one of SAA’s Archival Fundamentals Series III, Leading and Managing Archives and Manuscripts Programs. Jennifer describes … Continue reading Season 4, Episode 6: Jennifer Johnson

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Season 4, Episode 5: Liza Posas

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2020/08/11

“The stories in between” are what drive Liza Posas, head of Research Services and Archives at the Autry Museum of the American West, and her work on the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials. The Protocols were created by the First Archivist Circle in 2006 and endorsed by SAA in 2018. Liza discusses the workbook … Continue reading Season 4, Episode 5: Liza Posas

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Season 4, Episode 4: Trevor Owens

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2020/08/11

Dr. Trevor Owens, head of digital content management at the Library of Congress, thinks about the intersection of history and digital media—a lot. He discusses his award-winning book, The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation, providing encouragement to under-resourced archivists who need to add digital preservation to their very full professional plates. Trevor also muses … Continue reading Season 4, Episode 4: Trevor Owens

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Season 4, Episode 3: Ashley Farmer

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2020/08/11

What does “Archiving While Black” feel like? Dr. Ashley Farmer, assistant professor in the Departments of History and African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, follows up with us on her Chronicle of Higher Education article and her talk at the 2019 SAA Annual Meeting. She also discusses the role … Continue reading Season 4, Episode 3: Ashley Farmer

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Season 4, Episode 2: Lydia Tang

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2020/08/11

Dr. Lydia Tang is working to make archives more accessible and break down access barriers for people with disabilities. Lydia, who is the special collections archivist at Michigan State University, talks about her work on the SAA Task Force to Revise Best Practices on Accessibility and the SAA-ACRL/RBMS Task Force to Revise the Joint Statement … Continue reading Season 4, Episode 2: Lydia Tang

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Season 4, Episode 1: Lae’l Hughes-Watkins and Tamar...

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2020/08/11

How do you document a student movement? Student activists organize and mobilize within ephemeral spaces that need to be documented ethically and with care. Lae’l Hughes-Watkins, university archivist at the University of Maryland, and Tamar Chute, university archivist and head of Archives at the Ohio State University, discuss the impetus behind Project STAND (Student Activism … Continue reading Season 4, Episode 1: Lae’l Hughes-Watkins and Tamar Chute

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31:06

Season 3, Episode 4: Finding Aid to My Soul, Part 3

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2020/03/24

Listen to compelling stories about archives from A Finding Aid to My Soul, a storytelling event at ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2019, sponsored by SAA’s Committee on Public Awareness (COPA). The event was hosted by Micaela Blei, two-time Moth Grand Slam Story Champion and former director of the Moth’s Education Program, who coached the ten storytellers in advance of … Continue reading Season 3, Episode 4: Finding Aid to My Soul, Part 3

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Season 3, Episode 3: Finding Aid to My Soul, Part 2

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2020/03/17

Listen to compelling stories about archives from A Finding Aid to My Soul, a storytelling event at ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2019, sponsored by SAA’s Committee on Public Awareness (COPA). The event was hosted by Micaela Blei, two-time Moth Grand Slam Story Champion and former director of the Moth’s Education Program, who coached the ten storytellers in advance of … Continue reading Season 3, Episode 3: Finding Aid to My Soul, Part 2

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Season 3, Episode 2: Finding Aid to My Soul, Part 1

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2020/03/10

Listen to compelling stories about archives from A Finding Aid to My Soul, a storytelling event at ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2019, sponsored by SAA’s Committee on Public Awareness (COPA). The event was hosted by Micaela Blei (pictured), two-time Moth Grand Slam Story Champion and former director of the Moth’s Education Program, who coached the ten storytellers in advance … Continue reading Season 3, Episode 2: Finding Aid to My Soul, Part 1

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Season 3, Episode 1: Elevator Going Up!

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2020/03/03

“What’s an archivist? Who uses archives? Isn’t everything online?” As archivists, we sometimes find ourselves answering questions about what exactly we do and why we do it. During ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2019 in Austin, Texas, hosts Chris Burns, Colleen McFarland Rademaker, Nicole Milano, and Anna Trammell “took to the streets” to ask attendees to respond—on the spot … Continue reading Season 3, Episode 1: Elevator Going Up!

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Season 2, Episode 7: Margot Note

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2019/09/24

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be an archival consultant? Margot Note, founder and principal of Margot Note Consulting, shares with us her journey into consulting work and her experiences working in nontraditional archival settings. In her new book with SAA, Creating Family Archives: A Step-by-Step Guide to Saving Your Memories for Future Generations, … Continue reading Season 2, Episode 7: Margot Note

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Season 2, Episode 6: Kathleen D. Roe

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2019/09/24

As president of the Society of American Archivists from 2014 to 2015, Kathleen D. Roe called upon archivists to expand their advocacy efforts by demonstrating how “archives change lives.” In this episode, Kathleen, who recently retired from the New York State Archives as director of Archives and Records Management, reflects on writing her new book for … Continue reading Season 2, Episode 6: Kathleen D. Roe

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