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 |