Sessions Spotlight: Opening Up the Archives at History Is For Everyone
Publick Occurrences
April 10, 2024
This June, join us at the 2024 Massachusetts History Conference for sessions that give you the tools to engage students with your archives while making them more accessible online.
In “Youth Archivists for Social Change,” Penni Martorell of Wistariahurst Museum, Naomi Robles of Holyoke Public Schools, and UMass Amherst Ph.D. student Dana Altshuler will discuss their 2023 program that brought six young people from the Holyoke Public Schools to engage in hands-on archival work on the founding documents of the Holyoke Ethnic Studies Program. The presentation will provide a road map for creating a similar hands-on learning experience in your community.
In “Facilitating Access to Archives with MA-SHRAB,” Elizabeth O’Connell and Yolande Bennett of the Massachusetts State Historical Records Advisory Board (SHRAB) will help demystify digital collections. They will discuss selecting collections to be digitized, best practices for digitization, methods and use for metadata creation, and tools for curating digital collections and exhibitions. This introductory session for new and intermediate users of digital collections is ideal for institutions who are just embarking on their digital journey and those who wish to learn how to make the most out of the digitized files they already have.
Conference registration opens April 16th. We hope to see you there!
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The Mass History Conference is hosted by the Mass History Alliance and supported by the generous contributions of our sponsors, including:
Mass Humanities, Premier Conference Partner
Massachusetts State Historical Records Advisory Board, Conference Partner
Networking and Commons
University of Massachusetts Boston Graduate Studies in Public History
Scenes from the Revolution – A Quarter Millennial Musical
University Archives & Special Collections in the Joseph P. Healey Library, University of Massachusetts Boston
Named Session Sponsor
Mike Potaski
The William G. Pomeroy Foundation
Conference Supporter
Bridgewater State University
Freedom’s Way National Heritage Area
University of Massachusetts Amherst Public History Program
Conference Friend
Dorchester Historical Society
Essex National Heritage Commission
Five College Center for East Asian Studies
MuseumTastic
Northeast Document Conservation Center
Robert Forrant
The House of the Seven Gables
Conference Contributor
Belchertown State School Friends Association
Historic Boston Inc.
Historic Northampton
Lawrence History Center
Metropolitan Waterworks Museum, Inc.
Museum Insights
Museum Textile Services
Old Colony History Museum
Seed Education Consulting
See Through Books Press
Swift River Press Public History and Communications
The Shirley-Eustis House Association
Tsongas Industrial History Center
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