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S4.6: Shannon Devlin: Emotional Investments, Good Relationships & the Trouble With Graduation

My utmost apologies for the lengthy time between last podcast release and this one. Things have been a little busy and then just a little wonky around here. I’m sure that everyone can understand that, considering the Pandemic is pretty much making our lives which may not have been stable before…very much less so.

However, I am quite sorry to any listeners who like listening regularly if they missed having stable show “ness” and to the guests whose episodes I recorded before my brief few week break.

However, now I’m back in action and diving right in with my wonderful, talented and eloquent friend Shannon. I wish so much I could give her a hug right now. She’s so sweet and just has the best energy. I think you will hear it in our conversation. What a great asset to media archives and preservation and (for me personally) what a great pal to have!

As usual, here’s the podcast, and bio and cool links are below! Check out those links!

Shannon Devlin (she/they), is a film and media archivist, and recent graduate of the Master of Library Science program at Indiana University. While there she specialized in Archives and Records Management, and worked both for the Indiana University Moving Image Archive as well as for the Mass Digitization Preservation Initiative as an assistant to the Audiovisual Specialist. She was the 2019 Roselani Media Preservation Intern at the University of Hawaii at West Oahu’s ‘Ulu’ulu Moving Image Archive, and is currently working in the film lab at Memnon Archiving Services as well as continuing her role at the Indiana University Moving Image Archive.

Links:

IU Moving Image Archive

MDPI

Memnon @ IU

‘Ulu’ulu

S4.5: Miranda Barnewall: Advocacy, Career Examinations and Material Importance

I loved speaking to Miranda. She’s an absolute jem. And I believe that the route that she’s taking is one that will revolutionize the way the archives/information studies field interacts with its staff and employers.

Pairing social work concerns with preservation is the what we should be going for. For us to look towards care and compassion for those who are doing the work alongside WORKING is (in my mind) the dream.

I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I enjoyed recording it. Miranda is a really important woman with many critically important observations and experiences. As usual, the bio is right under the podcast!

Miranda Barnewall is a film archivist who has an equal passion for the films she preserves and the people who work alongside her. She received a BA in Film Studies from THE™ Ohio State University in 2016 and a certificate in Film Preservation from The L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation in 2017. Miranda’s interest lies in how to strengthen the film archiving field’s infrastructure, advocating for archivists, and how to make film archiving a more equitable, diverse, and inclusive field. While movies became her passion in high school, Miranda rediscovered her first love of reading once she had her first grown-up job. During her free time, she is most likely reading one of the twelve books piled next to her or scrolling through Goodreads adding another book to her to-read list.

S4.4: Claire Fox: Best Case Scenarios, Metadata Milieus & Graduating in a COVID-19 Landscape

Claire & I recorded this podcast in May before she officially graduated and before the COVID landscape went to The Really Extra Bad Place that it seems to be at now.
I delayed the ep due to the critical nature of the discussion of the Black Lives Matter issues that needed to be handled but I feel that what Claire and I spoke about is still incredibly relevant and her points on the internships she had and the possibilities of rehabilitation of our field post-COVID are solid and worth considering.
Claire is an amazing and valuable member of the archival world & I am so pleased to be able to have had her on the show twice now!

QUICK NOTE FROM THE PODCASTRESS:


Season 4 is clearly going to be a unique season. What I thought would be a series of conversations centered on mental health, physical health, archiving and preservation in terms of a pandemic will now be returning to some of the major themes that I have looked at and highlighted throughout my show: racism, systemic oppression, horrific violence in all kinds of ways.

But here is what is crucial: discussing COVID-19 and the way that BIPOC experience “America” and “Justice” are parallel and as such they should be talked about within the same context. What I would like to set out to do in the episodes that I record from this point forward, is attempt to connect these things and also work with how that effects the archives community.

That said, I want to state that I have some already recorded episodes that do not follow what I have stated in the above paragraph but are still incredibly valuable (much like Claire’s) and I believe that they truly deserve a good listen. These individuals from our community continue to provide us with the inspiration and hope we need to continue to do The Work however we are doing it in whatever way we choose to participate.

Keep on keepin’ on!

-Ariel

See below podcast as usual for Claire’s kickass bio, and thank you for your patience and continuing to listen.

Claire Fox (she/her/hers) is a recent graduate from the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) program at New York University. Her graduate research focused on topics in time-based media art conservation and community archiving, and she completed internships at the New Museum, IndieCollect, Yale University Library, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art