The Women's Collections Section wants to promote your work on our blog! For 2023 we are focusing the blog on projects members have been working on during or after the COVID-19 pandemic. Working in archives during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has required all of us to think on our feet and reassess our work priorities as many of us pivoted to hybrid or fully remote work. The Women's Collections Section wants to hear about your experiences as we approach the three year anniversary of the beginning of the pandemic.
Have you worked on a born-digital collection or curated an online exhibit? Collected stories or ephemera related to the pandemic? Or have you been processing physical collections during the past three years and handling supply chain and access issues? Do you have any advice you’d like to share about collections during hard times? How have you integrated pandemic-related workflows into your new “normal?”
Whatever your project is, we want to hear about your experiences, what you’ve learned, and your advice for integrating knowledge and workflows learned during the pandemic!
We are seeking to publish a series of short articles (300-500 words) on our blog to highlight your collections, projects, and events. Previously published articles may be submitted with credit given to the original place of publication. We especially encourage pieces that highlight diversity among women and women’s collections, as well as diverse gender and sexual identities.
Link to Submission Form: https://forms.gle/m7VQFhDepdgmXcaV6
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Thera Webb (she/her)
Women@MIT Project Archivist
Department of Distinctive Collections, MIT Libraries
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