Metadata Archivist @ UofL. Consulting Research Associate for Frederick Douglass Papers. Femme in the stacks. she/her #publichistory #archives
Mar 13, 2018 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
STOP REMOVING ARCHIVAL LABOR FROM THE STORY! Multiple #archivists helped hotel for over a year - images found on our digtl colls AND we helped the reporter w history. Yet, these photos were "lost to time and the archive" until the Omni "discovered" them whas11.com/article/news/l…
The hotel "discovered" the photos in our digital collections. But first they went through the photo archivists who processed them, the digital initiatives librarian who runs our digital collections, the student worker who scanned them, the metadata librarian who created metadata