Rapid Response Collecting
Read
- Sheila Brennan and Mills Kelly, “Why Collecting History Online is Web 1.5,” Roy Rosenzweig Center, March 2009
- (a reflection on the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank)
- Jim McGrath, “Our Marathon, five years later: Reflections on the work of digital public humanities,” History@Work, 2018
- (a reflection on the Boston Marathon bombing)
- Elizabeth Pandolfi, “How Rapid-Response Exhibits Are Changing the Way Museums Engage Their Communities,” Next City, 2019
- Ashley Maynor, “Five ways we can do better to respond to crises in our communities,” History@Work, 2018
- Liza Dale-Hallett, “Making meaning from ashes—the development of the Victorian Bushfires Collection,” History@Work, 2018
- Tammi Kim, “Archiving the 1 October web,” History@Work, 2018
- Ashley Maynor, “Places of Refuge, Keepers of Memory,” History@Work, 2018
Think
What is Rapid Response Collecting (RRC)? What are some of the challenges with rapid response collecting? In what ways can archivists and museum personnel mitigate them? What are the ‘best practices’ of RRC? What can collecting teams learn from RRC examples that can be applied to other types of archival work? Who should be in charge of rapid response collecting during/after a major event in a community? Why? Who are the stakeholders, and how might their goals overlap or differ?
