Preserving Your Community's History **Now Offered Online**

Virtual /Online | This program is completed

481 S. Shiloh Drive Fayetteville, AR 72704 United States

Online Through Blackboard Collaborate (BbC)

Open to Members and Non-Members Through BbC

Monday, June 1, 2020-Monday, June 15, 2020

2:00 PM-4:00 PM on Mon

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$15.00

$10.00

With all that is going on in the world today with the global pandemic, how is it affecting your community and the way you are currently living? Don't you want future generations to know how your family handled this crisis situation along with other happenings in your community?
In this three-session workshop, participants will learn the skills necessary to become community archivists. The sessions will cover how best to document areas such as folklife and traditional arts, genealogy, local history, and community stories through the collection of oral histories and the preservation of print materials. After each session, participants will be asked to complete a “homework assignment”, for example, to record a brief oral history with a family member, or identify and bring in materials or stories they want to preserve.

  • **Note: This class will be offered online through Blackboard Collaborate Ultra, a live and interactive format. We will send instructions on how to join this class through Blackboard Collaborate.

"Kara Flynn is the Research and Educational Services Archivist at the University of Arkansas Special Collections, where she teaches classes in Special Collections, and helps with exhibits and public programming. She has an MLIS with a concentration in Archives from the University of Pittsburgh, and joined the University of Arkansas in 2019.

Virginia Siegel is the Coordinator of Arkansas Folk and Traditional Arts, Arkansas' statewide folk arts program housed in the University of Arkansas Libraries. As a trained folklorist, Siegel is dedicated to building cross-cultural understanding by documenting, presenting, and sustaining Arkansas' living traditional arts and cultural heritage. Siegel holds an MA in Folk Studies from Western Kentucky University.