Documenting COVID-19 Experiences at UMBC

Mon, 27 Apr 2020 09:24:47 -0400
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The Special Collections department of the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery is documenting the experiences of UMBC students, staff, faculty, and other members of the campus community during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, and contributing them to the UMBC University Archives. We invite you to share your stories, photographs, videos, and other documentation about the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

We are interested in your stories about the shift to remote instruction and learning, studying and working from home, working at on-campus and off-campus jobs, the impact of closing residence halls and other campus services, the ways you and your friends and family are staying in touch during this period of social distancing and self-quarantine, the emotional impact of the pandemic, and so on.

How you record your thoughts and experiences is up to you. For instance, you can write in a journal, record voice memos, save your social media posts, take photographs and/or videos of life as you see it, or create multimedia works of digital storytelling.

Information about the project, including a link to the donation Google Form, is available at: https://library.umbc.edu/speccoll/covid19. Please reach out directly to Lindsey Loeper, Reference and Instruction Archivist in the UMBC Special Collections department, with any questions, comments, or other concerns (lindseyloeper@umbc.edu or 410-455-2353 for voicemail). For UMBC’s updates on the pandemic and available resources, visit https://covid19.umbc.edu/.