Reflecting on Community Voices Using Digital Archives

Drs. Charlotte Nunes, director of digital scholarship services, and Abu Rizvi, professor of economics explore how building community-based digital archives can provide opportunities for educational institutions to align research and learning goals with the needs of the communities of which they are a part. Please join them by Zoom on Wednesday, November 10 at 12:00pm to delve further into how institutions like Lafayette can contribute to understanding and reflecting the diversity of some of our most valuable partners. Access the Zoom link by registering through the Our Campus below.

This event, sponsored by the Landis Center, CITLS, FYS, and Lafayette Libraries, will have brief presentations followed by discussion on how archives can further diversity, inclusion, and community-involvement goals. Cultural institutions, including academic libraries, seek to have collections representing the diversity of people living in the surrounding area. Community-based archives build such collections by assembling oral histories, video, cultural artifacts, and ephemera. Charlotte Nunes will discuss how Skillman Library continues to develop such an archive. Abu Rizvi will show how his FYS, "Making Change Democratically," engages students in working with the oral histories in one of these digital collections to develop policy briefs addressing issues relevant to the Black population in Bethlehem, PA.

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