Hello all,
Next Thursday, February 23 at 7:00 PM (EST) I am hosting an online guest lecture on film and media archives and disaster recovery. This is officially for my Archives and Manuscript Management grad course, but everyone is welcome to join – please feel free to share this note with anyone on campus who may be interested.
The talk will be with Caroline Rubens and Eric VanHoose who are, respectively, the archivist and the systems administrator for Appalshop. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Appalshop, the organization started as a filmmaking workshop and cooperative in Whitesburg, KY in 1969 and has been actively producing works about Appalachia ever since. Appalshop has grown far beyond that, though, engaging in various community arts, culture, and advocacy projects - more on the organization's history can be found at this link. Unfortunately, the archives were significantly damaged by the flooding in eastern Kentucky. As such, Caroline and Eric will not just discuss their work in media preservation, but they will also share valuable information about disaster planning and recovery.
The Zoom link and password follow my signature. Caroline and Eric’s bios are as follows:
Caroline Rubens joined Appalshop in 2007 as staff Archivist. In her current role as Director of the Appalshop Archive, she supervises the preservation, cataloging and dissemination of Appalshop’s archival holdings, manages public programming initiatives, and leads fundraising efforts. Rubens holds an MA in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and advocates in various forums for the preservation of independent and community media. She has participated in professional and scholarly conferences, presenting on topics ranging from the management of a non-profit regional repository to the creative re-use of archival materials. She believes that preserving the archival records of historically underrepresented groups encourages new scholarship and understanding and inspires members of a community to re-envision the future. Rubens is a native of northern New Jersey, was a longtime resident of New York City, and now happily calls Eastern Kentucky home. She remains, however, a Mets fan.
Eric VanHoose first joined Appalshop in 2018 and has been a Bloomberg Fellow and Systems Administrator since 2021. As Educator for Appalshop’s Appalachian Media Institute, Eric launched a 3D printing pilot program teaching six apprentices how to design and print 3D media. Eric received Ithaca College’s S’Park Mentor award in the fall of 2019 in recognition for his work with AMI. After successfully creating the second Collegiate Esports Program in the nation, VanHoose went on to become the Founding Chairman of the National Association of Collegiate Esports. As a born-and-raised Appalachian, Eric is happy to be working in media and technology in his home region.
Best,
Brian
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Brian Real, PhD (he, him, his)
Assistant Professor
School of Information Science
University of Kentucky
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, or mobile device: https://uky.zoom.us/j/85351070632?pwd=bG1KbzJlZjNCTEhXZ1l1RU5kb3FEUT09
Password: LIS643
