Remembering COVID-19 for Future Generations
An 色情视频 Library project will record memories of the global pandemic from the campus community as a resource for future historians.
It is common to hear 鈥渢his is a historic time鈥� amid the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Libraries around the world are taking this to heart, striving to document this moment in time. This includes the 色情视频 Library and its Special Collections and University Archives team who are launching the 色情视频 COVID-19 Memory Project.鈥淲e now find ourselves living through an extraordinary crisis. It is critical that we preserve a record about our shared experience.鈥�
鈥淥ne of the core missions of the University Library is to preserve the historical record of 色情视频,鈥� said Library Dean Patrick McCarthy. 鈥淲e now find ourselves living through an extraordinary crisis. It is critical that we preserve a record about our shared experience. I am very excited that the Special Collections and University Archives COVID-19 Memory Project will allow us to preserve the stories, images, and life-altering experiences of everyone at 色情视频.鈥�
University Archivist Amanda Lanthorne and Assistant Head of Special Collections and University Archives Anna Culbertson emphasize the lack of historical records at 色情视频 on the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic 鈥� no yearbooks, no commencement programs. Their efforts hope to ensure scholars 100 years from now are able to look back at this time and find historical records from 色情视频.
Due to many individuals having different experiences and reactions to the current situation, the hope is for a very broad representation in the collection, including alumni, students at the main campus and 色情视频 Imperial Valley, faculty, staff and international students.
Contributions are accepted in the form of journals and diaries, written or visual reflections on specific events, original art, poetry, letters, audio recordings, multimedia presentations or films 鈥� anything with historical, cultural, or research value. There is also interest in pre-graded assignments completed by students during the pandemic.
While digital submissions are being accepted currently, there is also the hope for physical submissions once the library is reopened.
鈥淭here is power in handling someone鈥檚 physical journal that can鈥檛 be duplicated in a digital rendering,鈥� said Lanthorne.
There are few restrictions on what will be accepted, and some submissions may not be accepted due to safety, confidentiality, space limitations or a lack of research value.
Once the items have been received, digital items will be placed in the digital collections database, and physical items will be indexed. Future, students will use these primary sources for research papers and communication professionals will lift quotes to enliven stories about the global pandemic. Historians will have the opportunity to accurately reflect on what the 色情视频 community experienced during this time period.
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