Community Archives & Memory: 8th Ave. Sunset Park, Brooklyn

Community Archives & Memory: 8th Ave. Sunset Park, Brooklyn

Community Archives & Memory: 8th Ave. Sunset Park, Brooklyn Searching the Brooklyn Historical Society’s Archives   While searching for oral history content for a class I searched the online archives of the Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS) and came upon an…

Reflection on visits to the Reanimation Library & Interference Library aka Radical Libraries!

The highlight on my visit to the Reanimation Library was actually being given the task to create an order to a pile of about thirty or so images/diagrams/text  on 8×10 sheets.  The group of five I was apart of pondered…

Week 8: Oct. 15: Idiosyncratic and Unorthodox Libraries

Week 8: Oct. 15: Idiosyncratic and Unorthodox Libraries

Week 8: Oct. 15: Idiosyncratic and Unorthodox Libraries Angela Sharp The Warburg Library created by Aby Warburg in Germany, but which now resides in London is often quoted by those who have created their own personal libraries as inspirational.  These…

Week 6 Post: Ordering Media's "Innumerable Species"

Week 6 Post: Ordering Media’s “Innumerable Species”

        This week’s readings reminded me of work I did in the past with photographs and the metadata that we needed to attach to each museum photo. Below is an example:   This information belongs to a…

Who’s In the Archive? Week 4

Who’s In the Archive? Reflections by Angela Sharp This week’s readings were of great interest to me, especially since I am interested in working with indigenous/ marginalized communities and media production.  In Terry Cook’s piece she spoke about the shift from…