1. Person, Peer, Patron: Scholarly Interactions Among Local Communities, Archivists & Librarians Rhonda Jones, Ph.D. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill April 27, 2015

2. COMBINING RESEARCH & PEDAGOGY STUDENT PRACTICUMS COMMUNITY SERVICE & OUTREACH COMMUNITY ARCHIVES

3. PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND 2 ND yr. master’s student at UNC Chapel Hill’s School of Library & Information Science with a concentration in archives and records management Assistant Professor/Director of Public History Introduction to Public History Oral History Museum Studies Introduction to Archives Arrangement and Description Collections Management

4. WHAT IS PUBLIC HISTORY? Commonly referred to as “people’s history” or “applied history” the theory and methodology of public history is firmly rooted in the discipline of history and shared authority. At its core, the fundamentals of research and interpretation rests on sound scholarship and is useful in public practice. Offering a multi-disciplinary approach it emphasizes collaborative work with academic institutions, community members, stakeholders, and professional organizations As with all public scholarship, digital technologies play an increasingly important role in the work of public historians, creating new spaces where they can share their work and broaden access to varied audiences.

5. BEHIND THE VEIL ORAL HISTORY PROJECT BEHIND THE VEIL ORAL HISTORY PROJECT CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES DUKE UNIVERSITY Maintained electronic, subject-index database for 1,250 narratives on African Americans’ experiences in the Jim Crow South. Coordinated accessioned interviews Liaison for researchers’ requests Facilitated library transfers Provided content knowledge to have a small percentage of the collection digitized

6. Chowan Discovery Group Chowan Discovery Group Ahoskie, North Carolina

7. “ Kin and Community” Historic Stagville Planation and UNC’S Wilson Library Historic Stagville Planation Hands-on-experiences in archival fundamentals, museum curatorship, and collections management

8. Five week summer internship in archival theory and methodology Museum of Confederacy’s Eleanor S. Brockenbrough Library, 2009-2014Museum of Confederacy’s Eleanor S. Brockenbrough Library Arrangement, description, cataloging, preservation, and records management according to Society of American Archivists standards Research & cultural interpretation

9. Project RIGHT Now Carolinas ( R esearch, I nterpretation, G ather, H istoric, T reasures), a coalition of librarians, archivists, and historians who engage in collaborative research projects with churches, schools, institutions, and local organizations

10. ST. PAUL’S A.M.E CHURCH

11. PATICIPATORY ARCHIVES, PROGAMMING & PUBLIC OUTREACH

12. JACKSON CENTER FOR SAVING AND MAKING HISTORY  Working with UNC’s Southern Oral History Program (SOHP) the Marian Cheek Jackson Center for Saving and Making History recognizes the legacy of the multiplicity of voices within the Northside and Pine Knoll neighborhoods in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.Southern Oral History Program (SOHP)  The Center has preserved hundreds of recorded oral history interviews from local residents with a social justice orientation, and implemented communication technology to transform them into a physical and digital archive.

13. Published and unpublished materials: manuscripts, letters, photographs, moving images and sound materials, artwork, books, artifacts, and the digital equivalents of all of these things. Broadly speaking community archives are defined as a collection of “living archive” materials that serve to document and preserve the communities’ triumphs and struggles, while educating, inspiring, and empowering the users they serve. The process of creating the collection has to involve the community. Typically, this means that volunteers have played a key role, sometimes alongside scholars and professional archivists. What are community archives?

14. Youth radio audio recordings Photographs and other files Oral history recordings & transcripts Manuscripts Working with Omeka

15. Implications of archival custody and the future for wider use Digitization vs. digital preservation Is it an archive? Accessible & searchable… but are unprocessed Finding aid

16. FINAL THOUGHTS…

17. ANY QUESTIONS?