"Learning to Listen”: An Inclusive Approach to Community Archiving
Description
In this episode, we are joined by Alia Levar Wegner, a digital collections librarian at Miami University in Ohio, Brenda Foster, an archivist at the Columbus College of Art and Design, Nick Pavlik, a manuscripts and digital initiatives archivist at the Center for Archival Collections at BGSU, and Janet Rhodes, supervisor of digitization services with the Toledo Lucas County Public Library. Listen as they share their experience making a short educational film, Learning to Listen: Rethinking the Approach to Community Archiving, focused on community informed digitization practices that avoid an extractive approach. With this project, they invite us to listen to communities and to respect their views. As they explain, the team strives to rethink mainstream academic archival practices that do not take communities' needs and values into consideration. This project was supported by an Innovative Librarians Explore, Apply, and Discover (ILEAD) grant. You can watch Learning to Listen: Rethinking the Approach to Community Archiving on YouTube: https://youtu.be/5mvGAPId5AQ?si=HoITNfrkO4eteLaE.
A transcript for this episode can be found here:
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