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Conversations on the Commons: Archives’ Hour with the State Historical Records Advisory Board (SHRAB)
February 5, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Archives’ Hour with the State Historical Records Advisory Board
A conversation with Alejandra Dean, Digital Archivist at the Massachusetts Archives, and Evan Knight, Preservation Specialist for the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (MBLC).
February 5, 2021, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Join us for an informal conversation with members of the State Historical Records Advisory Board (SHRAB). Alejandra Dean, Digital Archivist at the Massachusetts Archives, will provide information about this year’s round of Veterans Heritage Grants (due April 9, 2021), and Evan Knight will lead a conversation about climate control in your archives. What are the challenges you face in creating a climate-controlled archives? Have a success story to tell? Plus, you can always ask any other questions about what SHRAB can do for you of course! The session will be moderated by Joan Ilacqua, Executive Director of The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston. Have your stories and questions ready!
Registration is free. REGISTER NOW.
This Conversation will be livestreamed. We will do our best to monitor your questions and comments during the livestream. A recording will be publicly available in the Conversations on the Commons Archive.
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- Alejandra Dean is the Digital Archivist at the Massachusetts Archives. She joined the Massachusetts Archives as the Assistant Digital Archivist in 2017. Alejandra holds an M.S. in Archives Management from the Simmons School of Library and Information Science and a B.A. in History of Art and Architecture from Harvard College. She is a member of the State Historical Records Advisory Board (SHRAB), co-chair of Coordinated Statewide Preparedness in Massachusetts (COSTEP MA), co-chair of the New England Archivists (NEA) Preservica Roundtable, and co-chair of the Council of State Archivists (CoSA) State Electronic Records Initiative (SERI) Steering Committee.
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- Joan Ilacqua is Executive Director of The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston. Previously, Ilacqua served as Co-Chair of The History Project’s board of directors and as Harvard Medical School’s Archivist for Diversity and Inclusion. She is a former member of the New England Archivists’ Inclusion and Diversity Committee, and has a background in advocacy and oral history. She is a graduate of UMass Boston’s Public History master’s program, holds a Nonprofit Management Certificate from Harvard University, and earned her Bachelor of Arts at the University of Puget Sound.
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- Evan Knight is Preservation Specialist for the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. Previous to this administrative position, Evan had ten years of conservation experience treating bound and unbound works on paper at the Boston Athenaeum, Northeast Document Conservation Center, the Library of Congress (as the 2010 Harper-Inglis Fellow), the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas, and the Municipal Archives of New York City. He received a Master’s of Science in Information Studies, with a Certificate of Advanced Study in Library and Archive Conservation, from the University of Texas at Austin, and Bachelor’s of Science from Washington University in St Louis.
Questions? Be in touch with Caroline Littlewood: commons@masshistoryalliance.org
Conversations on the Commons
Where people from Massachusetts history organizations get to vent, empathize, laugh, complain, think, collaborate, brainstorm, plan, and in general be up to no good.