Information and Library Science associate professor, Christina Boyles, has been awarded $1 million from the Mellon Foundation to help communities better weather climate-related disasters such as hurricanes and floods. The new funds build upon earlier work supported by the Mellon Foundation and also led by Boyles called the Archivo de Respuestas Emergencias de Puerto Rico, or the Emergency Response Archive of Puerto Rico (AREPR).
AREPR is a collaborative digital humanities project that employs the decolonial practice of post-custodial archiving to record stories of mutual aid organizations in Puerto Rico. During the next phase of the project, the AREPR team will (1) complete the ingest, organization, and preservation of materials collected in previous phases of the project, (2) continue developing video tutorials and print materials to support community groups using the theme and software extensions AREPR has developed, and (3) share our bilingual guides, training materials, documentation, and theorization of the project across multiple publication genres and platforms to promote the widespread adoption and success of our innovative community archiving strategies. We hope these outcomes will promote new practices and establish more ethical standards for community archives moving forward.
Boyle’s research is highlighted in a new IU News story.
Read the full article, written by Kevin Fryling, for News at IU here!
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