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- Title
- Beth Marhanka Interview, October 18, 2021
- Date
- October 18, 2021
- Creator
- Beth Marhanka; India Pasiuk
- Description
- This interview is with Beth Marhanka, director of the Gelardin New Media Center at the Georgetown University Library, conducted via TheirStory on October 18, 2021. It covers her experience working during the COVID-19 pandemic, her own brush with COVID, her feelings about her profession, and Georgetown University Library's position in its greater campus community. Also discussed are changes to the library during the pandemic. Interviewer is India Pasiuk.
- Subject
- librarianship; Covid-19; shutdown; Georgetown University; librarian; building operations; children; collaboration; Covid-19 prevention measures; faculty; fears; federal libraires; Georgetown University Library; graduate school; higher education; hiking; illness; library services; Maker Hub; national parks; personal computers; reopening; 9/11; remote work; stress; students; work relationships
- Country
- United States
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3629
- Rights statement
- American University may copy, use, and distribute to the public the Collection including but not limited to this interview (and other items above) for educational purposes, including, but not limited to, formats such as audio and/or video documentaries, pamphlets, print publications, public programming and/or performances, exhibits, online archives and/or publications, mobile platforms, and other new media resources. I also understand the Humanities Truck and American University may use the Collection for promotional purposes. Both the Interviewee and Interviewer will retain licenses to use these materials for any future purpose.
- Title
- Maren Orchard Interview, April 20, 2020
- Date
- April 20, 2020
- Creator
- Maren Orchard
- Description
- Humanities Truck Graduate Fellow Maren Orchard explores how the pandemic has impacted her life, especially as a final year graduate student. She shares how she has been struggling with the uncertainty of her next steps amid a pandemic, yet reflects upon the privilege she has to make certain decisions. Maren talks about her work as a student worker, and the often unnaccounted emotional weight of sustaining those close to her. She shares her struggles of feeling guilt and shame over her emotions, when she recognizes others are in worse positions. However, she has found calls with family and friends, being with her roommates, and talking with others in similar positions to be sustaining. Maren hopes that people will recognize their privilege as a result of this crisis and that we will act to put systems in place to provide for our most vulnerable citizens. She hopes that everyone will act to "better ourselves individually and in our communities, and structurally at national levels." This video is part of the Humanities Truck's From Me To You: A Covid-19 Oral History Project. https://humanitiestruck.com/frommetoyou/
- Subject
- American University; Humanities Truck; Washington, DC; COVID-19; COVID; coronavirus; pandemic; work; graduate school; student; family; friends; privilege; emotions; fear; inequality; social justice; structural change
- Country
- United States
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2115
- Rights statement
- Copyright for this object is held by American University and does not preclude any use the co-interviewee(s) may want to make of the information in the recordings themselves. This object is made available through the American University Digital Research Archive for research and educational purposes. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the object beyond the bounds of Fair Use must be obtained from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.