Category Archives: Colleges and Universities

CUNY Distance Learning Archive

This project documenting the transition to online instruction at CUNY during the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic welcomes submissions from the CUNY community of the following nature:

  • Personal narratives reflecting on distance learning, especially during the abrupt shift to online education midway through the Spring 2020 semester. (Here are some suggested questions if you’re having trouble.)
  • Official email communications from CUNY Senior Administrators describing the university’s move to online teaching.
  • Documentation of online learning experiences (photos, narratives, screenshots).
  • Learning resources developed during the transition.
  • Links to social media threads/hashtags/accounts that capture events in real time
  • Email related to the move to online teaching (with express and documented permission of the sender)

Send contributions via our online form below or email your contribution to us at cunyarchive@gmail.com

COVID-19: A Long Island Journal

Molloy College Special Collections is creating an Archive of materials to document this challenging time. They seek journal or diary entries, reflections, photographs, videos, voice memos, audio recordings, and other digital evidence relating to the impact of COVID-19. Handwritten journals and physical works can also be sent in. Examples of experiences may include working from home, the shift to online learning, social distancing, and self-quarantine.

Members of the Molloy family and the greater Long Island community can contribute their experiences using this Google Form (use this MS Form with your molloy.edu account) For questions, please contact Christine Yu, Associate Archivist, at cyu@molloy.edu.

The goal of this collection is to preserve the events and experiences important to individuals and communities in our area so that future generations may learn from our shared journey.

Work and COVID-19 Web Archiving

Cornell University Library’s Metadata Services, Catherwood Library, and Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives presents a collection of national and international web pages documenting the responses by unions, governments, nonprofits, employer consultants, and the textile industry to labor and employment challenges raised by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

Documenting COVID-19 Project (Amistad Research Center)

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Amistad Research Center is launching the Documenting COVID-19 Project to chronicle aspects of the pandemic’s effects around the world.

We invite community members to contribute original digital content, such as images, sound recordings and video related to public signage, contributor-generated and public art, and similar forms of expression.

Documenting COVID-19 Project Team
Phillip Cunningham, Head of Research Services
Brenda Flora, Curator of Moving Images and Recorded Sound
Hsiu-Ann Tom, Digital Archivist

Comeback: Das Corona-Archiv Der Universitåt Gratz

The ComeBack corona archive is a project of the Institute for Educational Science at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz. It is intended to be a platform on which thoughts, experiences, feelings, perceptions, encounters and changes of this time can be preserved. This can take the form of stories, photos, video contributions, chat histories, diary entries, newspaper articles, notices, drawings – there is space for everything that concerns people right now. 

  • Instagram: comeback_coronaarchiv
  • Twitter: @ArchivCorona

coronarchiv

coronarchiv is a joint public history project of the Universities of Hamburg, Bochum and Gießen in cooperation with the Medical History Museum Hamburg and the Museum for Hamburg History.

The aim of the coronarchiv is the continuous collection, archiving, contextualization and long-term provision of personal memories and found objects related to the corona crisis. In principle, this can be anything that is available digitally or can be digitized: from texts such as diaries, letters, e-mails, poems, articles in newspapers and magazines, shopping lists, job reports, notices, warnings, regulations on photos, drawings, pictures, Videos, notices, chats and social media posts up to voice messages, songs and readings. Submissions are being accepted through May 15, 2020.

Oral History of Disasters and Pandemics (Columbia University)

On April 16, 2020, Columbia University’s Oral History Master of Arts (OHMA) program held an online workshop on how to plan and conduct oral histories in communities affected by disasters and pandemics. Led by Mary Marshall Clark (Director of the September 11, 2001 Oral History Narrative and Memory Project) and Amy Starecheski (OHMA Director and an interviewer on the September 11 Oral History Narrative and Memory Project), the recording is available on YouTube and Soundcloud.

ENDURANCE: Collecting Letters from MIT in the Age of COVID-19

Created by MIT’s History of MIT course, the ENDURANCE project is intended to document the impact of the crisis on students in the classes of 2020 (which would have graduated this year) and the class of 1970 (scheduled to have its 50th reunion at commencement). Students and alumni can upload a photo of a handwritten letter, a typed letter, an audio recording of their voice reading their letter aloud, a photo of artwork, or anything else.  Suggested questions to answer include:

  • How did you spend that last insane week?
  • How are you organizing your life now? How do you deal with both the changes, and the way things are going now?
  • What is important about physical presence? What or who do you miss/need about or from an actual campus?
  • What is/was on your mind? What are the stories of your experiences that you want others to remember going forward?