Monthly Archives: May 2018
Augmentation and Enhancement of Crowdsourced Metadata for the Our Marathon Digital Archive
Written on May 11, 2018 at 7:19 pm, by David Heilbrun
When I first entered my MLIS program at Simmons College, I never imagined that I would become a cataloger. I envisioned myself working at a reference desk, not sitting alone in a back room consulting volumes of arcane rules and standards. But after taking one cataloging course my entire perspective shifted. I realized that the Continue Reading »
“Storytelling, Archives, and Resilience”: reflecting on the role of community archives in the Boston Marathon bombing
Written on May 1, 2018 at 10:33 am, by Caroline Klibanoff
On Monday, April 23 – five years and a week after tragedy struck Boston in the form of the Boston Marathon bombing – faculty, staff, students and members of the community gathered in Alumni Center to share reflections on remembering traumatic events and processing grief through collections and digital archives. The event commemorated five years Continue Reading »
