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Schlesinger Library #metoo Digital Media Collection

Information about the 2018-2022 project at Schlesinger Library

The project was initially funded by an S.T. Lee grant from Harvard University library.

News articles about the project:

Schlesinger Library Newsletter, Fall 2018 — #MeToo: A Glimpse into the Digital Vault

The New Yorker, March 11, 2019 — The Challenge of Preserving the Historical Record of #MeToo

CBC Radio Day 6, March 29, 2019 — Archivists are Cataloguing Every Tweet, Article and Spreadsheet the #MeToo Movement has Ever Produced

Perspectives on History, May 7, 2019 — Data Overload: Web Archives and the Challenges of Scale

 

Steering Committee:

  • Jane Kamensky, former Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences (Chair)

  • Francesca Dominici, Professor of Biostatistics and Co-Director of the Data Science Initiative, Harvard Chan School for Public Health

  • Jeannie Suk Gersen, John H. Watson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

  • Janet Halley, Isaac Royall Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

  • Gary King, Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor and Director, Institute for Qualitative Social Science

  • Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper ‘41 Professor of American History, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

  • Kathleen L. McGinn, Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

  • Jonathan L. Zittrain, George Bemis Professor of International Law, Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources, and Faculty Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, Professor, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

  • Laura Linard, Director, Baker Special Collections, Harvard Business School

  • Michelle Pearse, Senior Research Librarian, Harvard Law School

  • Hugh Truslow, Head, Social Sciences and Visualization, Harvard Library

Librarians who worked on the project:

  • Jennifer Weintraub, Head of Digital Collections and Services, Schlesinger Library

  • Zachary Maiorana, Librarian/Archivist for Digital Programs, Schlesinger Library

  • Marilyn Dunn, former Executive Director, Schlesinger Library

  • Amanda Strauss, Associate University Librarian for Special Collections, Brown University Library

  • Jane Kelly, Digital Archivist, Harvard Divinity School

  • Pablo Morales Henry,  former Senior Developer and Archivist for Born-Digital Materials, Schlesinger Library