Brainstorm Session: Acknowledging Loss and Archiving Experience in the Wake of Catholic Church Closures July 23, 2021, 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. *new time!* Join historian Margo Shea in a […]

How is your Summer going? Conversations on the Commons was our response to the pandemic. Like everyone else, we worked on making hay out of our limitations.

Does it spark joy? Historical organizations’ priorities change, and storage is overflowing. How do we clean up without getting rid of that which the future will find necessary to know and see? Have you held a spring cleaning? Swept with new brooms? Created collecting policies and found ways to make them stick? Done a project to deaccession and donate or sell items that were previously in your collection? What about paying the fees on those endless gigabytes of digital storage? Join us for a conversation with Stacen Goldman, Curator at the Framingham History Center, and Elly Kalfus, oral historian and founder of Organizing with empathy, about the challenges and satisfactions of using the broom.