Lia Warner (APH 2022), Lyric Hunter (APH 2023), and Allegra Favila (a current APH student) recently appeared on an episode of the Archives In Context podcast to discuss how they came to the field, what they find exciting and daunting about being an archivist, and the importance of archival practice and labor. Lia is a Reference and Instruction Associate at NYU’s Bobst Library and is interested in archival labor practices. Lyric is the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Archivist at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and is currently working on a history of the Center through its collections. Allegra is the Exhibitions and Publications Manager at the Grey Art Gallery, NYU’s fine arts museum, and has worked on exhibitions such as last year’s Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s.
Archives for October 2023
Recent Publication: Article (Nicole Font)
Nicole Font (APH 2021) is a Processing Archivist at the Brooklyn Public Library. She recently wrote an article for Archival Outlook titled, “A Bob Dylan Fan Mail Collection Raises Questions of Privacy.” In the article, Nicole discusses the Bob Dylan Archive’s fan mail collection, which she worked with as part of her graduate capstone project, and considers the ethical obligations and dilemmas of balancing privacy and access in archival collections that contain personal documents.