Event: PGR SAM PGR Methods Programme 2024: Archives online and in person – getting the most out of your engagement – Jeffers McDonald Thursday 15 February 2024 4 pm
To support the PGR Research Culture programme, we have a fantastic lineup of new Research Methods talks from January to May 2024. All the talks will be taking place live on MS Teams, lasting 20 to 30 minutes.
Our SAM PGR Methods Programme 2024 will continue on Thursday 15th February 2024 at 4pm on Teams ‘Group-School of Art & Media PGR Students’.
I am delighted to announce this session from our Dean of School, Prof Tamar Jeffers McDonald who will provide a rare and unique opportunity to gain new insights, knowledge, and experience of her research methods, please do make every effort to attend.
Archives online and in person – getting the most out of your engagement
Prof Tamar Jeffers McDonald Thursday 15th February 2024, 4.00pm
Teams ‘Group-School of Art & Media PGR Students’ Team Code: umsgg23
In this session I will discuss how my research is informed by two major archives, one online and the other physically situated in a library 5485 miles away. Despite the obvious difficulties inherent in consulting material in the latter, I hope to show why both are essential to my work.
As a Hollywood film historian, I frequently use the Media History Digital Library (https://mediahistoryproject.org/), which provides online access to an extensive collection of digitised movie magazines. When in Los Angeles, however, I spend my time looking at hard copy holdings at the Margaret Herrick Library, the archive collection of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (https://oscars.org/library). In order to use both resources successfully, I need to search appropriately, and in this presentation I will provide practical advice that can be transferred to other archives.
Tamar Jeffers McDonald
SAM PGR Methods Programme 2024 to be found here:SAM PGR Methods Programme 2024
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