We are excited to announce the SCAIG 2025 Annual Workshop, “Preserving the Past, Transforming the Future: Expanding Access and Representation in Archival Work.” This workshop will take place on Tuesday, May 20th from 2:00-4:00 pm EST on Zoom. A recording will be made available after the workshop for those who cannot attend live.
This two hour-long event will consist of three presentations. Each presentation will run about 20-25 minutes followed by a 15-minute Q&A session. The first presentation will focus on how the Abraham Pollen Archives of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear was able to uncover the voices of women and POC physicians and practitioners through a grant. Attendees will learn not only about the work of the grant, but also take away suggestions on how to approach this work with a smaller staff and even smaller budget. The second presentation will discuss how a digital project united records across geographic and institutional boundaries to uncover stories of local Black families and communities in the Delmarva peninsula and combat the whitewashing of history. The presenter will also describe how partnerships can result in new ideas and renewed energy for the project. Finally, the third presentation will discuss how the HBCU Radio Preservation Project works with the radio stations and institutional archives on HBCU campuses to safeguard and preserve their station legacies for future generations. The presenter will discuss the history and design of the project and share its mission to honor and preserve the vibrant history and cultural legacy of HBCU radio stations.
Joining us as presenters are:
Vanessa Formato, Archivist for the Abraham Pollen Archives of Massachusetts Eye and Ear in Boston
Ian Post, Local History Archivist at the Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture at Salisbury University
Jocelyn Robinson, Director of the Center for Radio Preservation and Archives at WYSO Public Radio in Yellow Springs, Ohio
For more information about our presenters and their talks, please visit our webpage.
Registration is free for ALAO members, $10 for non-members. Consider becoming an ALAO member if you’re interested in attending! An annual ALAO membership is free for students.
SCAig's annual meeting provides an opportunity to gather people with an interest in special collections and archives to learn from changing and continuing practices. With a virtual synchronous event, we hope to reach a wide and diverse audience, and to provide an event that shows how we can support each other in library and archival work and maintain connections and collections in a time of upheaval.
