2020 UMDCC+ MDL Annual Meeting

During our state’s stay at home order, our institution closed to the public for over 3 months. Over the course of a few weeks, our archives, which is a department of our public library, needed to quickly pivot to provide virtual resources when the vast majority of our users come for onsite visits. Existing initiatives and resources such as the Archive-It Community Webs web archiving grant and our Flickr Pro subscription gave us a good starting point. We also used the remote work opportunity to build up and polish the work that graduate student volunteers had put into developing an Omeka digital exhibit site by repurposing existing physical exhibit research. We are now in a great place to use these virtual resources in conjunction with or in place of our in-person services. This session will highlight our digital initiatives and talk through trouble shooting and workflow.