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Community Archiving is an Enduring Activity

  • Digitization
  • Webinar
  • 1 CE Hour
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Description

In this webinar, Dr. Harrison Apple (they/them) will describe how they used their background as a social-practice artist to bolster community archives preservation. You’ll learn how to make connections across multiple fields and then apply those relationships to solve problems that present themselves in your local information environment.

Drawing on oral history, documentary, archeology, and archival sciences, Apple outlines how their research turned to traditional community engagement and collection methods – quickly realizing they failed to deliver on the needs of their own community. This talk will guide you through a useful critique of some familiar methods for information professionals and strategies to meet our communities at their unique needs.

Attendees of this session will have the opportunity to…

  • Learn how to connect with communities that have not traditionally wanted to participate in common archival practice
  • Learn about non-custodial forms of community archiving
  • Examine biases inherent in archival practice

Presenters

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Harrison Apple, PhD Associate Director Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry Carnegie Mellon University

Harrison Apple (they/them) is the creator of the Pittsburgh Queer History Project, an oral history and media preservation initiative focused on working class LGBTQ after-hours nightlife community. Their current work is focused on their community archives event series "MS89" where media makers from the PQHP's archival collection are paid to co-host public screenings, kink demos, lectures, and performances alongside a screening of the original material. This work is currently in the process of transformation toward a public education platform for unaffiliated scholars and storytellers interested in queer history but need next steps to begin their research. Apple received their PhD from the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona, focusing on feminist social and cultural theory, urban history, and archival science. You can find their scholarship in Archivaria and Transgender Studies Quarterly. They are currently the Associate Director of Carnegie Mellon University's Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, where they manage creative research grants and interdisciplinary research event programming for the College of Fine Arts and the University as a whole. 

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