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SUMMARY:To Keep or Not to Keep: The Value of the Retention Schedule
DESCRIPTION:Not all church records are historic. Church stewardship also encompasses the records your church is producing today. This might include vital records\, meeting minutes\, financial documents\, and legal records\, among others. Some need to be kept for a set period of time and can then be safely disposed of\, while others will have lasting historic value. \nIn this virtual workshop\, the CLA’s archivists\, Billy McCarthy and Zachary Bodnar\, discussed the retention schedule\, a policy document which lays out how records created today will be handled in the future. Creating such a document ensures that record keepers who come after you have a clear guide to what has been preserved and what should be preserved in the future. Billy and Zachary also presented a model retention schedule\, spoke to how federal and state regulations may affect the policy\, and explained how to implement such a policy at your church. \nThis workshop was part of the Congregational Library & Archives’ Church Stewardship Initiative\, a program devoted to empowering churches to steward and preserve their valuable records. \nSPEAKER BIOS \nZachary Bodnar graduated with a Masters of Library and Information Science from Simmons University\, with a concentration in archives management\, in 2018. Prior to his work at the CLA\, Zachary worked at the Bellamy-Ferriday House and Garden archive\, the Vassar College Special Collections\, the Harvard Law School Library\, and the Harvard Botany Libraries. Zachary joined the CLA as an Archives Assistant in 2017\, helping to prepare materials for digitization through the New England’s Hidden Histories program. In 2018\, he took on the title of Archivist. His professional interests include metadata collection and management\, digital archiving\, audio/visual preservation\, and archives management. \nBilly McCarthy graduated with a Masters of Library and Information Science from Simmons University with a concentration in Archival Management. Billy started working at CLA through a graduate internship and stayed on a part-time basis until he was hired full-time in 2018. Billy is the Head of Reader Services\, helping the CLA’s visitors with reference requests and facilitating in-person research. Billy also serves as the collection manager for the archives\, working with CLA’s offsite vendor to protect and maintain the organization’s archival records. Some of his professional interests include increasing access\, collection management\, processing of complex materials\, and facilitating research.
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SUMMARY:Stripped and Script: Loyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Female loyalists occupied a nearly impossible position during the American Revolution. Unlike their male counterparts\, loyalist women were effectively silenced—unable to officially align themselves with either side or avoid being persecuted for their family ties. \n\nIn this virtual book talk\, Dr. Kacy Dowd Tillman discussed how women’s letters and journals were the key to recovering these voices\, as these private writings were used as vehicles for public engagement. Through a literary analysis of extensive correspondence by statesmen’s wives\, Quakers\, merchants\, and spies\, Tillman’s recent book\, Stripped and Script\, offers a new definition of loyalism that accounts for disaffection\, pacifism\, neutralism\, and loyalism-by-association. Taking up the rhetoric of violation and rape\, the texts she examines repeatedly reference the real threats rebels posed to female bodies\, property\, friendships\, and families during this period. Through writing\, these women defended themselves against violation\, in part\, by writing about their personal experiences while knowing that the documents themselves may be confiscated\, used against them\, and circulated. \nThis program was part of Revolutionary Stories\, New England’s Hidden Histories’ ongoing series on the American Revolution and the Congregational experience. \nSPEAKER BIO \nDr. Kacy Dowd Tillman is Director of Honors and Professor of English and Writing at the University of Tampa. She writes about Revolutionary-era letters and diaries and 18th century sentimental fiction. Her manuscript\, Stripped and Script: Loyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution\, was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in August 2019. Her new work concerns Black loyalist rhetoric\, fake news and illness in early American sentimental fiction\, and the American Revolution in the popular imagination.
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SUMMARY:Exploring Family History at the Congregational Library & Archives
DESCRIPTION:This in-person workshop was led by New England’s Hidden Histories Project Director Dr. Tricia Peone and CLA Archivist Billy McCarthy. \nParticipants learned how to use the New England’s Hidden Histories’ digital archive and other resources at the Congregational Library & Archives to research family histories and fill in context for understanding the lives of people in the past. \nThe workshop included time to conduct for participants to conduct their own family history research at the Congregational Library & Archives. \nSPEAKER BIOS \nDr. Tricia Peone joined the CLA in 2022 as the Project Director for New England’s Hidden Histories. Prior to joining the CLA\, she was a research scholar at Historic New England for the Recovering New England’s Voices project. She has also previously worked as the public programs director at New Hampshire Humanities\, a university lecturer teaching classes on the Salem witch trials\, early New England\, and public history\, and as a researcher for cultural heritage organizations. She holds a PhD in history from the University of New Hampshire with a specialization in the early modern Atlantic world and history of science. \nBilly McCarthy graduated with a Masters of Library and Information Science from Simmons University with a concentration in Archival Management. Billy started working at CLA through a graduate internship and stayed on a part-time basis until he was hired full-time in 2018. Billy is the Head of Reader Services\, helping the CLA’s visitors with reference requests and facilitating in-person research. Billy also serves as the collection manager for the archives\, working with CLA’s offsite vendor to protect and maintain the organization’s archival records. Some of his professional interests include increasing access\, collection management\, processing of complex materials\, and facilitating research.
URL:https://congregationallibrary.org/events/exploring-family-history-at-the-congregational-library-archives
LOCATION:Congregational Library & Archives\, 14 Beacon Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02108\, United States
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