Author: Benjamin Howell

As an sculptor turned information professional I love creating interaction platforms for rich user oriented content. Six years ago as a young library assistant, I was fortunate to collect and present video interviews with visual artists throughout Utah. I loved collaborating with library staff, institutional partners and artists in telling amazing stories. The AFS audiovisual project was a great opportunity to do a similar project with improved tools and techniques. Working on the AFS audiovisual project was a great opportunity to connect an amazing organization with the general public as well as strengthening the legacy of its own members.

Project Management for the American Field Service Oral History Project

The project for this semester’s Projects in Moving Image and Sound Archiving course was to create an audiovisual archive in partnership with the Archives of the American Field…