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2020-06-04
Museums and Collecting COVID-19
On June 4, 2020 the Curators Committee of the American Alliance of Museums presented a session focused on Collecting COVID. The session called attention to the importance of documenting significant history while living in a pandemic and discussed the Who, What, Where, When, Why and How of collecting objects, ephemera and materiel in the time of crisis. The presenters (Stacey Swigart, Drexel Lenfest Center for Cultural Partnerships; Thomas Lonnberg and Tory Schendel Cox, Evansville Museum of Arts; Juilee Decker, Rochester Institute of Technology; and Redmond Barnett, Historian/Consultant) reviewed best practices, safety measures, look at museums who are collecting and how communities can/are involved and what communities can do to document your local/regional history. This item is a PDF of their entire presentation. -
2020-06-29
Call for Entries: Philippine Covid Archive
This call for entries poster was created to help the Filipinas Heritage Library collect contributions pertaining to the Philippine experience of the pandemic. -
2020-06-26
Philippine Covid-19 Archive [rationale]
The Filipinas Heritage Library created the Philippine Covid-19 Archive as a response to the pandemic, and developed a plan for collecting materials related to the Covid-19 crisis in the Philippines. This document outlines that collecting strategy, and is the basis for the Philippine Covid-19 Archive item set.