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Featuring profiles of outreach & advocacy in cultural heritage

Category: Academic Libraries

Posted on March 5, 2020

Neighborhood Matters: An Outreach and Advocacy Project by Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections

by Angela Lee

ā€œNeighborhood Mattersā€ is an outreach and advocacy project hosted by Northeastern University Libraries’ Archives and Special Collections (ASC). This lunch time series aims at promoting diversity and inclusion by organizing a free public event; its goalĀ  includes …

Posted on April 18, 2019April 18, 2019

Meet Kate Boylan, Director of Archives and Digital Initiatives at Wheaton College

Kate Boylan, the Director of Archives and Digital Initiatives at Wheaton College, describes her job as having ā€œall the irons in all of the fires.ā€Ā  Among her many duties she oversees digital preservation, manages the Wheaton College Digital Repository, teaches …

Posted on November 10, 2017November 13, 2017

Ed Summer, Unofficial Curator of Experiments

by Victoria Jackson

In a world full of constant content generation, how can library and information science professionals convince their communities, their institutions, and the world at large of their importance? It is a question of growing importance within the …

Posted on November 7, 2017

Emily Drabinski: Advocacy is in Every Part of the Job

by Gina Cullen

Meet Emily Drabinski, Coordinator of Library Instruction

Emily Drabinski, the Coordinator of Library Instruction at LIU Brooklyn, grapples with a lot of logistics every day. They may take the form of analyzing the metrics of library …

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Archives Unboxed is hosted by the fine folks at Simmons College School of Library and Information Science (SLIS), and features profiles of outreach and advocacy work in the broad field of cultural heritage. Blog content is contributed by students in the MLIS graduate program as part of coursework for LIS476: Archives and Cultural Heritage Outreach. This blog was started in Fall 2017 and is managed by students and faculty at Simmons SLIS.

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