Event Description
Join Drexel University Online and Alex Poole, Assistant Professor at Drexel University’s College of Computing & Informatics (CCI), for an informative webinar on archives and digital curation. Join us for an in-depth discussion of:
- The ins and outs of archives and records management, digital curation, digital humanities, and diversity and inclusivity
- Research in related domains
- Teaching in the archival and digital curation space
- Drexel University’s Department of Information Science and how Poole’s work fits within the Department’s mission
Presented by:
Assistant Professor at Drexel University’s College of Computing and Informatics, Alex H. Poole received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Poole’s research interests center on archives and records management, digital curation, digital humanities, pedagogy, and diversity and inclusivity. His work has been published in The Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Digital Humanities Quarterly, The American Archivist, Archival Science, and The Journal of Documentation and is forthcoming in Information & Culture: A Journal of History. He received the Theodore Calvin Pease Award from the Society of American Archivists for “The Strange Career of Jim Crow Archives: Race, Space, and History in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South.” He earned a B.A. from Williams College (Highest Honors, History), an M.A. from Brown University (History), and an MLIS (Beta Phi Mu) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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