Name: 3B - Showing Up: Community Engagement Events Toward a Better Cultural Record
Start: 2020-08-06T14:30:00-0500
End: 2020-08-06T15:30:00-0500

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3B - Showing Up: Community Engagement Events Toward a Better Cultural Record

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Increasingly, archives venture outside their walls to engage with community partners to create and amplify records of groups whose stories hadn't been previously collected. While building these collaborative relationships is time-consuming and demanding, it is imperative and rewarding too. This panel will explore the centrality of community partnerships in the diversification of the archival record, featuring programs that have hosted grant-funded community engagement activities to create and collect documentation of historically underrepresented groups.

Pavlik: Showing Up: Community Engagement Events Toward a Better Cultural Record
Burton: Telling Our Story
Lane: Everyday Experience: African Americans in Indianapolis
Miller: The American Indian Center of Chicago and Urban Native American Histories
Sweetser: Preserving and Contextualizing the Islamic Culture and Heritage of Northwest Ohio
Wisecup: The American Indian Center of Chicago and Urban Native American Histories

Chair

Nick Pavlik

Curator of Manuscripts/Coordinator of Strategic Digital Partnerships, Bowling Green State University Libraries

Nick Pavlik is Curator of Manuscripts and Digital Projects at the Center for Archival Collections at the Bowling Green State University Libraries. Since August 2017, he has served as the editor of COPA's ArchivesAWARE blog.

Speakers

Michelle Sweetser

Head Librarian, Bowling Green State University

Michelle Sweetser is currently Head Librarian in the Center for Archival Collections at Bowling Green State University and previously served as university archivist at Marquette University. She is a 2012 ALI alum and earned her MSI at the University of Michigan.