Shortly after I began working at the Student Life and Culture Archives, I was notified that I had been selected, along with four other graduate students from across the country, to work on an archiving project at Yellowstone National Park called “Archives Blitz.” This project was conceived by archivists at Yellowstone who wanted to experiment with the rapid processing of archival materials in order to develop a framework that archivists at other cultural heritage institutions could adapt to fit their own needs.
Archives Blitz Team One with archivists at Yellowstone National Park
Over the next several months, additional groups will visit Yellowstone to complete a similar task in order to give the archivists an idea about how this process can be adjusted to work across a wide variety of experience levels. I’m eager to see how the conclusions the archivists draw from these experiments can apply to other institutions, including the Student Life and Culture Archives at Illinois.
For more about my experience at Yellowstone, see my post on the blog for Yellowstone’s library, museum, and archives.
For updates on the project, follow the In the Shadow of the Arch blog and #ArchivesBlitz on Twitter.
