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Some interesting backdrop to tomorrow's discussion. Early last month I
hopped on Twitter and responded to a call for resources/projects that Somay
Langley <https://www.criticalsenses.com/about.html> sent out for those who
were archiving the pandemic.

https://twitter.com/criticalsenses/status/1245687991030263809?s=20

I mentioned that I had started working on the side with a local historical
society (Saugatuck-Douglas) to research best practices for their policies
and approaches to doing community documentation. I shared a few links to
articles covering historical societies and museums who had fired up
campaigns. Ed Summers <https://twitter.com/edsu> from University of
Maryland and the DocNow Project jumped in and suggested piling into a
Google Doc to identify as many projects as we could scour from across the
web. That has become the Documenting Covid-19
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v5tso8spFq6SpW53h2OJULcdRoPEbyI6xpah31kW-H0/edit>
resource that some of you may have seen circulating on Twitter.

Deb just noticed yesterday that Mother Jones latched onto the resource
yesterday and spotlighted it in one of their articles - check it out here:
https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/05/how-are-we-going-to-look-back-on-this-time-oral-historians-record-daily-life-during-covid-19

Many thanks to Ed and Somaya for getting that doc fired up. It is quite a
list! We are really looking forward to tomorrow's discussion! Thanks to
Eric and Meral for giving us a snapshot of this important work.

On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 6:22 PM Deb Verhoff <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Our next meeting of the NDSA Content Interest Group will be this *Wednesday,
> May 6th at 11am ET* on Zoom. Call-in info is below.
>
> We will continue our *conversation on documenting and archiving the
> COVID-19 pandemic*. We will hear about two active collecting efforts from
> these guest speakers.
>
> Eric Gollannek, Director of the *Saugatuck-Douglas History Center* in
> Western Michigan, will talk about their project titled, *Tri-Community
> Shutdown: Documenting a Small Community's Response to a Global Pandemic*.
> Meral Agish, Community Coordinator, and Natalie Milbrodt, Founding
> Director of the *Queens Memory Project*, will talk about their community
> archiving in the epicenter of the pandemic.
>
> Please join us and share your own practices!
>
> Agenda:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CTacIgWFuBRlYUS7ZDxdtp174Vcd8g5f2RiRVR8hhVk/edit?usp=sharing
> Topic: NDSA Content Working Group
> Time: May 6, 2020 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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