Timed to coincide with the 2019 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference and Exhibition in Washington, D.C., Librarianship.ca is profiling members of the librarianship community from the United States. I was tickled to be asked to share a post on How I Work for their audience.
Check it out to read about everything from my office setup, weekly routine, and favorite apps and tools!
I recently spoke with Gretjen Clausing, host of the Pulling Focus radio show/podcast that zooms in on what's happening in film and digital media culture in Philadelphia and beyond.
We enjoying a sprawling conversation about the challenges of caring for family archives, the paradox of Marie Kondo tidying impulses versus the value of saving things, and how radical librarianship can be a immense power and responsibility.
Check out the interview on Soundcloud.
I was interviewed for two recent articles on responses to mass shootings:
Processing Grief: Archivists, Librarians, and Museum Professionals Help Communities Heal on the American Historical Association’s Perspectives on History magazine, and
an AP news article published in the Tampa Bay Times Garden provides place to mourn Las Vegas shooting victims.
The continued relevance of The Story of the Stuff and interview requests sadden me deeply, and the thoughts I expressed in the Perspectives piece are so true to my sentiment:
Maynor says she’s “curious to see if we’re at a turning point” when it comes to creating new condolence collections. With each mass shooting, she says, “people are responding with either apathy or activism” (as in the case of Parkland). “There seems to be much less expression of grief because we’ve been grieving. We’ve been grieving for a decade since Virginia Tech.” She hopes that the country is at a juncture: “My personal hope would be . . . that we’re able to prevent a lot of this from happening in the first place.”
I was honored to be interviewed by WBUR about the choices Boston has been making with all of the stuff received in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon Bombing five years ago.
You can check out the audio story, a video, and article here.
I had a lot of fun talking about my creative process, projects, and pursuits with the lovely hosts of Marginally Podcast. Also, they made some pretty rad snippets for their Instagram feed with show excerpts above! Take a listen.
It's hard to believe it's been 10 years since the shooting at Virginia Tech. I've been hesitant to speak to media about the anniversary because of all the ways that coverage can go wrong (e.g. exploiting victims, drawing attention to shooters, etc.), but I agreed to this front page story and was thankful that reporter Rachel Ohm focused on The Story of the Stuff, what it means to process grief, and violence prevention efforts.
Over the Labor Day weekend, NPR's All Things Considered aired a story where I was asked to comment on the practice of preserving temporary memorials. You can listen to the full story here.
I am a teacher, scholar, collaborator, technologist, project manager, grant writer, networker, community builder and convener —sometimes all in a day!
I recently did a short interview with Library Journal about the day-to-day work of a digital humanities librarian. Read the Q&A here.
I spoke with American Libraries, the magazine of the American Library Association, just before the third anniversary of the Sandy Hook School shooting.
In our interview, we discuss both the making of The Story of the Stuff and my latest endeavor, Cranes for Change.
I am honored to have been selected along with my collaborator Paul Harrill as one of Independent Magazine's "10 to Watch" in 2015.
The feature/interview is available here.
And the Sundance Institute's Anne Lai comments on our work in this Extra.
“But the truth is, no matter how many teddy bears are sent, it does not undo the violence.”
I was recently interviewed by the Newtown Bee, the local newspaper for Newtown, Connecticut, about the origin behind the THE STORY OF THE STUFF and the experience of filming following the Sandy Hook School tragedy.
Check out the full interview and article here.
