Collaborating with Students in University Archives

1. Collaborating with Students in University Archives Records Management Donor Outreach Oral History

2. “You Want All This Junk?”Using RM Concepts to Collect the Records of Student Organizations Lawrence Giffin Records Services Archivist University Archives and Records Management Services University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill

3. “23 demands” • Collection 40022, Chancellor Joseph Carlyle Sitterson • Series 1. Office of the Chancellor, 1966–1972 • Black Student Movement: Statements, 1968–1969“Includes list of Black Student Movement demands” • Missing context • Missing process

4. Overarching issues • Comprehensive documentation of student organizations. • Doesn’t represent the vibrant history of student life at UNC.

5. obstacles • School year • Continutiy • “We don’t have records” • Good recordkeeping • Appraisal • Inactive records • Vital records • Institutional memory

6. Skills We Can Leverage • Good recordkeeping • Group Historian • Appraisal • Education • Inactive/vital records • Centralization • Records storage • Institutional Memory

7. Underrepresented Majority:Outreach to student organizations Morgan Jones Carolina Academic Library Associate University Archives and Records Management Services University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill

8. Students as Donors

9. FROM THE BOTTOM UP: contacting chapters • Sigma Alpha Iota, Women’s Music Fraternity • Phi Mu Sorority • Phi Alpha Mu Sinfonia • Complications: Alpha Chi Omega

10. FROM THE TOP DOWN: contacting administrators • Aaron Bachenheimer, Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life and Community Involvement • President’s Meeting Presentation • Alumni and Advisors

11. OPEN INVITATION: workshops, presentations, and exhibits • YMCA Workshop • Exhibits • “When I Was at UNC” • Generating interest

12. Going Forward • Focus Group with media producing student groups • Generate awareness of UARMS • Student perceptions of the record creating process • Importance of student history • Interest in donating materials • Perceptions of UARMS • Interest in collaborating with UARMS • Involvement in student organization transitions • Maintain and grow relationships • Build infrastructure with administrators, alumni, advisors, and student leaders

13. In their own voices:Students and Oral Histories Todd Kosmerick University Archivist Special Collections Research Center North Carolina State University