Program Stream: Building, Maintaining and Sharing Regional and Community Archives
On Friday, November 30th, there will be a five-session stream of programming focused on the needs of regional and community archives.
No Islands In This Stream: Building, Maintaining and Sharing Regional and Community Archives
A wide variety of institutions, including university archives, public libraries, museums, historical societies, non-profits, and even corporate entities are the custodians of growing amounts of community and regional moving images. No Islands In This Stream: Building, Maintaining and Sharing Regional and Community Archives is a day of curated programming that focuses on the wide variety of topics relevant to building and maintaining regional and community moving image archives. This five panel stream was built to create an inclusive and welcoming space that will facilitate productive conversations between professionals with differing levels of experience and create lasting collaborations between geographically distant and diverse institutions. We hope that conversations occurring during these sessions will provide attendees with inspiration as well as practical tools and actional strategies for their own institutions. No Islands in this Stream is co-sponsored by the Regional Audiovisual Archives (RAVA) Committee, Community Archive Workshop (CAW), and the Local TV Task Force.
Regional Archives Roundtable Discussion
- Kelli Hix, Nashville Metro Archives
- Janel Quirante, Henry Ku’Ualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive of Hawaii
- Ben Truwe, Southern Oregon Historical Society
- Rene Ramos, Florida Moving Image Archives
- Candace Ming, South Side Home Movie Project
- Afsheen Nomai, Texas Archive of the Moving Image (Moderator)
This interactive session will kick off the Regional and Community Archives stream with a panel composed of representatives from regional and community archives from across the United States. Panelists and attendees will engage in discussions that address specific issues unique to creating and sustaining regional and community archives. The goal of this panel is to foster a welcoming and open environment where both panelists and attendees can share knowledge, resources, and tools.
Coming Soon to a Region Near You: Community Archiving Workshops around the US
- Sandra Yates (Moderator), Texas Medical Center Library
- Amy Sloper, Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research
- ATALM Representative (TBA)
- Kelli Hix, Nashville Metro Archives / Independent Consultant
- Moriah Ulinskas, Independent Consultant
The Community Archiving Workshop (CAW) originated when AMIA members– gathered together for their annual meeting– developed the one-day workshop to help regional community groups learn to identify and preserve their legacy recordings. The work of CAW means that diverse communities are developing the capacity to safeguard their audiovisual materials and make unique regional cultural recordings more available. This session will explore CAW activities outside of the AMIA annual conference for the past year. In 2018 there have been CAWs in Minnesota as part of the Association of Tribal Archives, LIbraries & Museums (ATALM) conference as well as Nashville. With a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services ( IMLS), there will be more CAWs, training workshops, and an online toolkit developed in the Midwest, Southeast, and West Coast regions over the next few years.
Think Nationally, Preserve Locally: Creating Sustainable Local Television Collections
- Becca Bender, Rhode Island Historical Society (Moderator)
- Emily Vinson, University of Houston
- Natasha Margulis, Arkansas State University
- Ruta Abolins, UGA Libraries Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection
- Matthew Cowan, The Oregon Historical Society
- Amy Moorman, Archives of Iowa Broadcasting, Wartburg College
- Joy Banks, CLIR (Program Officer, Recordings-at-Risk Program)
Whether seeking funding from institutional partners or external grant funding agencies, numerous obstacles exist for creating accessible and sustainable local television collections. Join us for a roundtable discussion of some of these issues including collaborative funding models, effective grant-writing and management, navigating rights agreements, justifying the value of local television collections, and much more. The goal of this panel is to generate discussion and promote actionable strategies for the preservation of local TV. Through a moderated discussion, panelists will discuss successes, failures, inspirations, and future goals. This panel is part of the “No Islands in this Stream” curated stream program and is sponsored by the Local Television Task Force.
Building Community Around Regional A/V Collections
- Tara Nelson, Visual Studies Workshop
- Felicia D. Render, Atlanta History Center
- Anne Richardson, Oregon Cartoon Institute
- Afsheen Nomai, Texas Archive of the Moving Image (Moderator)
This panel brings together regionally diverse institutions to discuss strategies for strengthening connections between regional archives and the communities they serve through curation, collection building, preservation, and education. Tara Nelson from the Visual Studies Workshop will discuss how their Community Curator program, which invites Rochester area community groups to curate film screenings using their collection, functions as a strategy for direct engagement between regional archives and the communities they serve. Anne Richardson from the Oregon Cartoon Institute will address the interplay between institutional archives and private collections and the value gained from nurturing a conversation between academic historians and self-taught regional story keepers. Felicia D. Render from the Atlanta History Center will discuss how the Atlanta Black Archives Alliance is developing community partnerships and programs to share the history of Black Atlanta and empower Black Atlantans to learn about, preserve, and tell their own histories.
What’s Use Got to Do, Got to Do With It?: Developing a Scholarly User Base for Regional AV Archives
- Laura Treat, University of North Texas (Moderator)
- Casey Davis Kaufman, American Archive of Public Broadcasting
- Johan Oomen, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
- Mary Miller, University of Georgia
To increase support for and use of regional moving image collections, archivists must develop programs that reflect the needs and behaviors of a multi-disciplinary scholarly community. Panelists will present proactive strategies for engaging this user group. Johan Oomen will discuss CLARIAH Media Suite, a research environment for digital humanities and social sciences that serves the needs of scholars using audiovisual media by providing access to collections and their contextual data, as well as the EUscreen network, which supports scholarly research in pan-European television history. Casey Davis Kaufman will discuss how the American Archive of Public Broadcasting is engaging scholars, including their Scholarly and Education Advisory committees, exhibit curation, student collaborations, and tailored access policies. Mary Miller will describe how the University of Georgia’s Brown Media Archives supports teaching learning, and scholarship centered on their media archives collections through their Special Collections Library Faculty Teaching Fellowship.