Our Streets, Our Stories: Post-Custodial Collecting at the Center for Brooklyn History
[Elaine Clark, Robert Clark and Roseanne Clark outside Marcy Houses], 1952, Photographic print, OSOS_0610; Our Streets, Our Stories collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History. Donated for capture by Roseanne Clark White at Boys and Girls High School.
This presentation will touch on the experience of cataloging items from Our Streets Our, Stories by the Center For Brooklyn History’s Pratt Fellow. Now, more than ten years after the initial digitization of these items, Our Streets, Our Stories stands as a case study on the importance of collecting robust metadata at the time of donation.
Jake Gibson is a Master of Science in Library and Information Science student at Pratt Institute and current User Services fellow at the Center for Brooklyn History. His research interests include digital humanities, ethical approaches to documenting activism, data librarianship, critical media studies, and data justice.
As the project manager of Virulent Hate, a digital humanities team documenting anti-Asian racism and Asian American activism during the COVID-19 pandemic, Jake has experience supporting faculty and undergraduate research, data management, building research websites, and information visualization.
Jake's work is grounded in an ethics of care and a belief in the value of collaboration. He also has a background in the performing arts and is passionate about all things experimental.
