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C&UA Section's May Webinar Announcement

  • 1.  C&UA Section's May Webinar Announcement

    Posted Apr 13, 2021 04:21 PM

    Hello all! Please join us for the third of four Spring webinars sponsored by the C&UA Section. Visit the section's blog to learn about our other, upcoming webinar opportunities and access the link to the recording of our first offering.

    Archiving Student Life on Campus

    Date: Wednesday, May 5, 1 pm ET/12 noon CT/10 am PT

    Description: An integral component of college and university histories is student experience. Archivists interested in documenting a more inclusive record of student experiences on their campus will look to student organizations, alumni accounts, social and cultural activities, political activism, and other key events. Creating meaningful relationships with students can lead to impactful archival collections and resources for future scholarly research and for students looking to understand their legacies. Join three archivists in a discussion about their approaches to collecting student life, including their goals, specific projects, and successes and challenges faced while doing this work.

    Zoom registration link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJItd-CupjopHtH5nsbpEARBLMkpPKqxbDWa

    Speaker Information:

    Jessica Ballard is the Archivist of Multicultural Collections and Services at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. She holds a joint Masters in History and Library Science from Indiana University Bloomington. Jessica's work focuses on collection development, policies, and research pertaining to underrepresented groups. She is an advisory board member for Project STAND, and served on STAND's student engagement committee.

    Lae'l Hughes-Watkins is the University Archivist for the University of Maryland. As the University Archivist, she is responsible for the University of Maryland collection area within Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) and oversees reference services, collection development, donor outreach, and stewardship and instruction activities. She is the founder of Project STAND, and research areas focus on outreach to marginalized communities, documenting student activism within disenfranchised populations, and utilizing narrative of oppressed voices within the curricula of post-secondary education spaces.

    Valencia L. Johnson is the Archivist for Student Life at Princeton University. In addition to being a certified archivist, she holds a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies and History from the University of Kansas and a Master of Arts in Museum Studies from Baylor University. She engages with student organizations on managing and preserving their records, in analog and born-digital formats. As the creator of Amp Up Your Archives program, she works to create records management and archival initiatives to inspire students to view their records and materials as important documentation that is an equal to the administrative record of the university.

    For questions, please email Angel Diaz - mangeldiaz@ucsb.edu

    Angel Diaz
    Curator, California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA)
    UCSB Library

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