Join us on Tuesday, September 29 for a digital preservation training for community-based archivists.

This training is being organized by the Community Archives Collaborative (CAC). Formed in 2019 with a planning grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), the CAC creates a space for community-based archives practitioners across the country to collaborate, share skills, trainings, and best practices, leverage pooled resources, and provide peer-to-peer mentoring in order to support long-term sustainability and growth at our institutions. The CAC currently includes SAADA, Densho, TAVP, and Interference Archive and will be expanding further in 2021. Learn more.

This training will be led by Stacie Williams and Skyla Hearn, co-founders of the Blackivists Collective.

The Blackivists are a collective of trained Black archivists who prioritize Black cultural heritage preservation and memory work. They provide training, project management, best practices, and consultation on analog and digital archives upkeep. This includes recommendations for maintaining your own historical materials or how to work with institutions that want to acquire your collection. Learn more.

Stacie Williams is director of the Center for Digital Scholarship at the University of Chicago Libraries. Through her work, she focuses on ethical labor and cultural production, and long-term sustainability of digital infrastructure. She holds a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and an M.S. in Library Science with a concentration in Archives and Manuscripts Management from Simmons College. She serves on the advisory board for the international Digital Library Federation and the Library of Congress’ National Digital Strategy Roundtable. Stacie uses she/her/hers pronouns.

Skyla S. Hearn is the Manager of Archives for Cook County. As an activist archivist, she strives to highlight the unsung contributions of African Americans and those not of the hegemony by providing support to and encouraging those interested in preserving family, community and social justice oriented narratives. Skyla earned her Bachelor of Art in Mass Communications and Media Arts, Cinema and Photography specialization with a minor in Black American Studies from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale and a Master of Library and Information Science with a certificate in Special Collections from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Skyla uses she/her/hers pronouns.