This panel will focus on the work from Pratt MSLIS students over the last two semesters, coming together in conversation to discuss their developments, challenges, outcomes, and recommendations  in preserving, restoring, and providing access to digitized archives from the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Projects undertaken in the fall semester include the video restoration of a film strip, which was a popular media for educational content before the widespread use of video in schools. Other work include restoring radio programs from the 1970s, including programs from the Feminist Radio Network and Radio Free Women. The presentation will include a discussion of the media restoration, metadata creation, curatorial activities, and more. Before breaking for a Q&A, there will be a brief clip shown from the newly restored educational film strip Straight Talk About Lesbians, produced by Elizabeth Diamond, and digitized by Trale Trevis.

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Rachel Brenner

Rachel Brenner

Rachel Brenner is a Pratt Institute MSLIS Graduate candidate, and an officer in the Pratt chapter of Society of American Archivists.
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Sunni Wong

Sunni Wong

Sunni (SUN-ee) has an MS in Library and Information Science with an Advanced Certificate in Archives from Pratt Institute (2023). She is a volunteer librarian at Anobii. She specializes in digital asset management and metadata.
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Elly Leonard

Elly Leonard

Linked Open Data - MoMA Fellow MS Museum and Digital Cultures '23
Trale Tevis

Trale Tevis

June Bendich

June Bendich

June Bendich

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Dylan Granger

Dylan Granger

Dylan Granger is a second-semester LIS student with a focus on digital preservation and data management. He currently works as a graduate assistant at the Material Lab at the Pratt Undergrad campus designing circulation improvements.
Simone

Simone

MLIS student at Pratt. Avid philatelist and lover of all things collecting. Her heroes are Tammy Faye Bakker née Messner and Bill Ayers.

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