Listening in Place: Vermont Folklife Center’s COVID-19 Archival Outreach Project

FAIN: PB-274524-20

Vermont Folklife Center (Middlebury, VT 05753-1425)
Andrew Kolovos (Project Director: May 2020 to December 2022)

The retention of four employees, the creation of a new position, and the hiring of a contract worker to expand remote access to, and educational use of, digital ethnographic archives.

In March of 2020 the Vermont Folklife Center (VFC) launched the first phase of the Listening in Place project (http://vtfolklife.org/listening) as a response to the isolation, anxiety and fear brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. We now request support for phase two of Listening in Place, which focuses on creating remotely-accessible resources from the VFC Archive including making multiple archival collections accessible online, creating six episodes of our VT Untapped podcast (http://vtfolklife.org/untapped) drawn from our archival collections, and completing updates of two archivally-grounded VFC educational publications for Vermont Schools.