What a poster! Annie Schweikert talking about optical media preservation at #AMIA19

NEWS: This morning, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the American Folklife Center will house the National AIDS Memorial Quilt Archive, containing 200,000+ photos, bios, letters & other artifacts of the lives memorialized on Quilt panels. loc.gov/item/prn-19-11… #TheAIDSQuilt

AFC has launched a multimedia #StoryMap about the Black Freedom Struggle in the Southeast, by my colleague Guha Shankar: loc.gov/ghe/cascade/in…

We're hiring two paid summer interns! $7,500 for ten weeks, working with folklife and cultural documentation. No requirement to be in or out of school. usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDet…

The American Folklife Center Library of Congress is hiring an archivist! Come work with incredible cultural documentation, and help us expand access to digital and multi-format collections in a primarily audiovisual archives. Open until Aug. 3: usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDet…

By inviting communities of color and other underrepresented groups to partner on a wider, more inclusive path for connection to the Library of Congress, we invest in an enduring legacy of the multifaceted American story that truly is ‘Of the People.

Very happy to share via NPR's Morning Edition about these incredible oral histories coming to the American Folklife Center npr.org/2021/06/15/100…

One week left to apply: Digital Projects Coordinator at the American Folklife Center, LOC. Starts at $72,750-$94,581 with promotion potential. Come work with me on digital acquisitions and guide other significant projects! usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDet…

Beyond excited to be working with the The Kitchen Sisters to bring their exceptional work to the Library of Congress!

Great piece about our partnership with the The Kitchen Sisters Thanks Liz Reid! current.org/2022/02/librar… via Current

Digital curation educators and students, please join us for these introductory events over the next few months!

📣Calling all digital-curation-curious students and new professionals! Register to attend the BCC Students & New Professionals Coffee Hour on April 13, 2022 at 2pm ET: bitcuratorconsortium.org/bcc-students-n…

Big event! Join us to celebrate the The Kitchen Sisters archive of sound and research material coming to the Library of Congress American Folklife Center

Two exciting digital archivist jobs Library of Congress American Folklife Center to work on Community Collections Grants preserving self-documentation projects by historically underrepresented communities. $64,957 - $84,441 per year. Apply by 12/12/2023. usajobs.gov/job/762620500