Announcements

The Digital Commonwealth Conference Committee and Board
invite you to register for our 16th Annual Conference:

Users and Uses: Centering Communities
in Digital Collections

When: June 14, 2022, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM ET
Where: Zoom

Please join us for an amazing line-up of distinguished speakers at this year's conference, with discussions and presentations focused on the theme "Centering Communities in Digital Collections." #DCCon22

Conference Program

Keynote Address, live from Hawai'i
Tonia Sutherland, Professor, Department of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

Digital Commonwealth Repository Systems Update
Eben English, Digital Repository Services Manager, Boston Public Library

"Visualizing Change: Stories of Community Activism in Digital Commonwealth Collections"

·  Michelle LeBlanc, Director of Education, and Megan Nally, Public Engagement Coordinator, Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center

Panel A: "Local History at All Levels: Making Collections Relatable and Accessible"

·  Abby Battis, Associate Director of Collections, Historic Beverly

·  Kim DeWall, Technical Services Librarian, Falmouth Public Library

·  Megan MacGregor, Instruction and Outreach Library, University of
Southern Maine

·  Mahala Nyberg, Public Programs Coordinator, Historic Saranac Lake

Panel B: "Harnessing the Power of Academic Institutions for Change"

·  Kate McNally, Records Assistant & Manuscript Processor, Brandeis University

·  Giordana Mecagni, Head of Archives and Special Collections, Northeastern University

·  Emily Pfotenhauer, Digital Strategist and Grants Manager, WiLS

Panel C: "Responsible Metadata"

·  Sari Mauro, Digital Collections Project Manager, and Adrienne Pruitt, Collections Management Archivist, and Tufts University

·  Additional speakers TBA

Registration is $10 for individuals from Digital Commonwealth member organizations and $20 for non-members. 

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