Register Now for PLASC & Web Archiving Sections Annual Meeting

WAS & PLASC Virtual Joint Annual Section Meeting – Web Archiving Section and Public Library Archives & Special Collections

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

1-2:30pm CT 

(11am-12:30pm PT / 12-1:30pm MT / 2-3:30pm ET)

Open and free to all - register now to receive the link!

We invite you to attend the joint annual section meeting of WAS and PLASC. Section chairs will open the meeting with an overview of the roles and activities of their sections. The main focus of the meeting will be a panel presentation on community web archiving efforts by public libraries to preserve underrepresented, at-risk voices. Anna Trammel of the Internet Archive’s Community Webs program will outline IA’s work to train and support public library staff in building local history web archives. Allyson Smally of Chicago Public Library will talk about the Korean American Archives project, which has recently expanded to preserve community organizations’ websites. Dylan Gaffney will share his experiences at the Forbes Library, a long-time Community Webs member having partnered on a NHPRC Archives Collaboratives grant and worked with University of Michigan students to implement web archiving best practices.

We look forward to this informative and inspirational panel! Following the presentations, there will be time reserved for questions and discussion.

Presenters

Anna Trammell is the Community Archiving Program Manager for the Internet Archive where she oversees Community Webs, an initiative designed to advance the capacity of public libraries to build archives of web-published primary sources documenting local history and underrepresented voices. Anna was most recently the Manager of Archives and Special Collections at Tacoma Public Library (Tacoma, WA) where she developed and launched the Community Archives Center, a project in collaboration with the University of Washington designed to identify and mitigate silences in Tacoma’s local history record. She has previously worked in both large and small university archives and has held SAA leadership roles with the Committee on Public Awareness, the Archives Management section, and the Archives in Context podcast. 

Allyson Smally has an MLS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MA in Public History from North Carolina State University. She has been an archivist since 2013. Since late 2019, she has been the Archival Specialist at the Chicago Public Library's Northside Neighborhood History Collection.

Dylan Gaffney works in Local history and Special Collections at Forbes Library in Northampton, Massachusetts. Dylan has been working in Northampton public libraries for over 25 years. He has been a participant in Community Webs since its launch in 2017 and was awarded the Massachusetts Library Association’s Paralibrarian of the Year award in 2018, in part as recognition of his web archiving work. He has presented at SAA, ALA, and Community Webs meetings as part of his work with the Community Webs cohort. Dylan served as secretary on the PLASC Steering Committee from 2020 to 2022.