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Featuring profiles of outreach & advocacy in cultural heritage

Month: March 2018

Posted on March 19, 2018March 19, 2018

Meet Caitlin Birch, Digital Collections and Oral History Archivist at Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College

by Elena Hoffenberg

Caitlin Birch combines her academic training as a historian and professional archival expertise in digital forms as the Digital Collections and Oral History Archivist at Rauner Special Collections Library at Dartmouth College. Birch completed her MLIS and …

Posted on March 17, 2018

Meet Michelle Chiles, Robinson Center Research Manager

by Bree Comeau

Having begun her professional career as a middle school teacher in Washington state, Michelle Chiles, always had a passion for outreach and supporting her community. In 2009, she moved halfway around the world when her partner was …

Posted on March 16, 2018March 16, 2018

Meet Christina Shutt, Director of the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center

 

by Sacha Mankins

The Mosaic Templars Cultural Center of Little Rock, Arkansas, celebrates the history and culture of Black Arkansans, with special emphasis on African-American fraternal organizations and black businesses. I recently spoke over the phone with the Cultural …

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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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