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Dear all,
below pls find info on the webinar we are organizing.
Talk Summary
Join Natalie Milbrodt, Director of the Queens Memory Project, a community archiving
program celebrating a decade of collecting oral histories and hosting public events and
exhibitions on local history topics in the borough of Queens in New York City. Milbrodt
will discuss the program’s origins and development through a variety of partnerships. She
will also delve into how a sprawling team of staff, students and volunteers across Queens
engage community in the work of historical research and documentation with the aim of
complicating the historical record with a diversity of lived experience that, together,
tell a fuller story of life in New York City.
Full Bio
Natalie Milbrodt is an information professional and content developer with 20 years of
experience working in small business, academic, cultural heritage and library settings.
She currently manages the Metadata Services Division within the Queens Public
Library's Technical Services Department in New York City. In this role, she oversees
archival digitization and the creation and management of metadata for the library's
physical and digital collections. This includes the preservation of local history on
behalf of the library's community archiving initiative, the Queens Memory Project.
Milbrodt founded Queens Memory in 2010, which was honored in 2012 by the Association for
Library Collections & Technical Services with an Outstanding Collaboration Citation,
in 2014 by the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York with an Educational Use of
Archives Award and in 2019 by the New York State Archives for Excellence in Documenting
New York’s History. Milbrodt holds a Masters degree in Library and Information Studies
with a concentration in Archives and Cultural Heritage from Queens College, CUNY. Milbrodt
graduated in 2000 from Michigan State University with a BA in Interdisciplinary Humanities
and a Specialization in Film Studies. Before joining the library profession, she worked
for film production, design and marketing firms in both creative and management roles.
Milbrodt is a founding member of Global Grand Central, a methods sharing platform for
measuring and extending the impact of funding granted to cultural practitioners working in
local contexts around the world. She is also a founding member of the Design Dream Lab,
developing socially engaged services and products like the Memory Kaleidoscope game.
Milbrodt serves on the Oral History Association’s Metadata Task Force and as an advisory
board member for the New York State Archives, Urban Archive and Wikitongues.
Short Bio
Natalie Milbrodt leads the Queens Public Library’s Metadata Services Division, responsible
for the library’s oral history and community archiving program, digitization, and
cataloging. She serves on the Oral History Association’s Metadata Task Force and as an
advisory board member for Global Grand Central, Urban Archive, the New York State Archives
and Wikitongues.
Zoom meeting
Time: Feb 26, 2021 02:30 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
Join Zoom Meeting: https://lnu-se.zoom.us/j/64735625753
Med vänliga hälsningar,
Kora
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Professor Koraljka Golub
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Digital Humanities co-leader
Linnaeus University
Sweden