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20-minute papers on the topic, “Archival Theory and the Crisis”
Part of the Libraries and Archives in the Anthropocene:
A Colloquium, 2017
Presenter Info
Rick Prelinger
Rick Prelinger is an archivist, writer and filmmaker. His collection of 60,000 ephemeral films was acquired by Library of Congress in 2002. Beginning in 2000, he partnered with Internet Archive to make a subset of the Prelinger Collection (currently 6,900 films) available online for free viewing, downloading and reuse. Prelinger Archives currently holds some 15,000 home movies and actively promotes collecting, research and access in this emergent area. He is a board member of Internet Archive and frequently writes and speaks on the future of archives and issues relating to archival access and futures. With Megan Prelinger, he cofounded an experimental research library located in downtown San Francisco. He is currently Associate Professor of Film & Digital Media at University of California, Santa Cruz.
Jen Hoyer
Jen Hoyer helps make things go at Interference Archive and teaches about local history at the Brooklyn Public Library. She loves working through how archives can help people understand themselves and their place in the world around them.
Nora Almeida
Nora Almeida is a Brooklyn based writer, teacher, and librarian. She is a volunteer at Interference Archive and works at the New York City College of Technology.
Jill Kubit
Jill Kubit, co-founder of DearTomorrow. For over a decade, Jill has been working to develop new projects, strategies constituencies in the climate movement. Through DearTomorrow, Jill’s work has been recently recognized and featured by Vox.com, Public Radio International, the MIT Climate CoLab Contest, and TED.
Aruna Magier
Aruna P. Magier, Phd, MLS, is on NYU’s faculty as South Asia Librarian and International Relations Librarian at Bobst Library, previously serving on the teaching faculty at Rutgers, Columbia, and University of Pennsylvania. With her responsibility to shape NYU’s interdisciplinary print and digital research collections and primary sources from and about South Asia, and to create online research guides to support scholars working in this broad field, Dr. Magier has been focusing on the collection and preservation of South Asian documentation on issues of gender and sexuality, environmental studies, and labor.
Ben Goldman
Ben Goldman is the Kalin Librarian for Technological Innovations and Digital Records Archivist in the University Libraries at Penn State University. He is responsible for acquiring, preserving, and providing access to digital collections, and administers the Libraries’ web archiving program.