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Featuring profiles of outreach & advocacy in cultural heritage

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Posted on November 22, 2017November 23, 2017

Nixon Now: Divisions on Display

by Jessica Chapel

You can’t cut an American president out of history. How, then, do you represent a president driven from office in disgrace and his complicated legacy? During a recent California trip, I took a detour on my way …

Posted on November 11, 2017November 11, 2017

KJ Rawson, Founder of the Digital Transgender Archive

by Erica J Hill

K.J. Rawson is the director of the Digital Transgender Archive, an online platform providing digital versions of transgender historical records, born-digital records, and holdings of other repositories around the world. Despite not having professional training in …

Posted on October 25, 2017October 28, 2017

Jade Pichette, Volunteer & Community Outreach Coordinator

by S.S.

Meet Jade Pichette, Volunteer and Outreach Coordinator for the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (CLGA). Although Pichette’s background in social work might make them an outlier in the archival field, they see this atypical professional experience as …

Posted on October 17, 2017

Meet Jessica Lacher-Feldman!

by Natalia Gutierrez-Jones

I recently had the opportunity to speak with Jessica Lacher-Feldman, who is the Assistant Dean of Rochester University, as well as the Director of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation. Jessica discovered her affinity for archives …

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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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