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Step Right Up! Archives and Public Engagement:
Chair: Brian K. Robertson, Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
How can you increase public interest in your collections and attract underserved populations while still fulfilling the needs of your users? In this session, archivists from the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies and the UALR Center for Arkansas History and Culture – institutions in a unique partnership in the Arkansas Studies Institute – will share some of the successful and innovative ways they have increased public engagement with their collections. After brief presentations from the panelists, the session will open up to a group discussion.
How can you increase public interest in your collections and attract underserved populations while still fulfilling the needs of your users? In this session, archivists from the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies and the UALR Center for Arkansas History and Culture – institutions in a unique partnership in the Arkansas Studies Institute – will share some of the successful and innovative ways they have increased public engagement with their collections. After brief presentations from the panelists, the session will open up to a group discussion.
- Brian K. Robertson, Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
- Stephanie Bayless, Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
- Shannon Lausch, University of Arkansas Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture
- Monica Mylonas, University of Arkansas Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture
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