{"id":4943,"date":"2021-03-14T21:26:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T01:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.qc.cuny.edu\/?p=4943"},"modified":"2021-03-14T21:26:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T01:26:46","slug":"our-pandemic-story-through-artifacts-annie-tummino-on-nprs-weekend-edition-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/library\/2021\/03\/14\/our-pandemic-story-through-artifacts-annie-tummino-on-nprs-weekend-edition-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOur Pandemic Story Through Artifacts:\u201d Annie Tummino on NPR\u2019s Weekend Edition Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On March 7, 2021, Annie Tummino, Head of Special Collections &amp; Archives at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/library.qc.cuny.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ Library<\/a>, was interviewed by LuLu Garcia-Navarro on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/03\/07\/974495280\/archivists-at-new-yorks-queens-college-tell-our-pandemic-story-through-artifacts\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u2019s Weekend Edition Sunday<\/a> to discuss the ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ COVID-19 Collection, which is a part of the Queens Memory COVID-19 Project.&nbsp; Tummino is a part of a collaborative effort in community archiving that includes ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ Library, Queens Memory, and Queens Public Library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/embed\/974495280\/974495281\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.s3.amazonaws.com\/accounts\/261906\/images\/10.2307_community.28816331-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"195\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/community.28816331?seq=6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a>The interview focused on the amazing work that archivists do to preserve our experiences and memories of this time.&nbsp; It goes into the work of Tummino\u2019s team in collecting the stories of COVID-19, documenting the digital artifacts (videos, oral histories, images, documents, etc.), and preserving them for the future so that there is a record of today\u2019s experience during the global pandemic. As Tummino puts it, \u201cthe role of archivists is not only to preserve old records but also to figure out what&#8217;s happening in the world today that researchers and community members will want to be able to study and understand in the future.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Take some time and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/03\/07\/974495280\/archivists-at-new-yorks-queens-college-tell-our-pandemic-story-through-artifacts\" target=\"_blank\">listen to the interview (3 minutes)<\/a>, explore the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/site\/queenscollegearchives\/QC-Covid19\/\" target=\"_blank\">ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ COVID-19 Collection<\/a>, and maybe <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/qplnyc.urbanarchive.me\/cities\/nyc\" target=\"_blank\">contribute your own story<\/a> to the historical record.&nbsp; Also, check out Tummino in the recent JSTOR Daily article, \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/daily.jstor.org\/preserving-the-history-of-coronavirus-in-queens\/\" target=\"_blank\">Preserving the History of Coronavirus in Queens<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 7, 2021, Annie Tummino, Head of Special Collections &amp; Archives at ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ Library, was interviewed by LuLu Garcia-Navarro on NPR\u2019s Weekend Edition Sunday to discuss the ºì¶¹ÊÓƵ COVID-19 Collection, which is a part of the Queens Memory COVID-19 Project.&nbsp; Tummino is a part of a collaborative effort in community archiving that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,155],"tags":[182],"class_list":["post-4943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover-to-cover","category-news","tag-special-collections-and-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}