Upcoming
June 3, 2026 — ArchivesSpace Training: Basic Record Creation in ArchivesSpace. ArchivesSpace Trainers Corps. Speaker: Regina Carra and Jodi Allison-Bunnell (Montana State University). Type: Virtual.
June 5, 2026 – New York Archives Conference (NYAC) Watch Party, hosted by CUNY Office of Library Services. Type: In-person public event. Registration limited.
June 18, 2026, 11am-12:30pm ET – Annual Program of the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Literatures in English Section. Presenter: Natalie Milbrodt. Type: Online
July 30-31, 2026 – Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA. Survey Says: Story-telling and Advocacy with Collection Data at CUNY. Presenters: Regina Carra, Bridget Day, and Patrick McGee. Type: In-person. Poster.
September 15, 2026 – Leon Levy Foundation Archives Roundtable held at the New York Philharmonic. Presenter: Natalie Milbrodt, Richard Knipel, Marcos Sueiro. Type: In-person
Past
May 21, 2026 — Library Association of the City University of New York (LACUNY) Institute 2026:Myth vs Reality: Vulnerability to durability in the digital archive. Presenters: Riley Mang (City College of New York), Bridget Day (Digital Archivist, CUNY Office of Library Services), and William Casari (Hostos Community College). Type: In-person and virtual, registration required.
May 4, 2026, 6-8pm – Panel discussion, “We Know It Well: Red Scare at CUNY and The Archival Politics of Dissent,” with host Dr. Shana L. Redmond and speakers Mariame Kaba, Dr. Jeanne Theoharis, Marianne Labatto, and Ted Schmiedeler. Type: In-person. Registration: We Know It Well: Red Scare at CUNY and the Archival Politics of Dissent – Center for the Humanities
April 24, 2026 – Committee of Cultural and Archival Resources, Queensborough Community College Academic Senate. Speakers: Regina Carra, Bridget Day, and Queensborough faculty. Type: Zoom
April 20, 2026 – Dept of Education Professional Development Session for School Librarians. Speakers: Natalie Milbrodt, John Downes-angus, Jessica Webster. Type: In-person
April 17, 2026 – Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, “Everything I’d imagined college to be”: A half century of Stories from SEEK and the Legacy of Education, Activism, and Access,” Speakers: Natalie Milbrodt, Francine Almash (CCNY SEEK Program) and Sinead Sant-Barket (CCNY SEEK Program). Type: In-person (OAH | Session)
April 15, 2026, 11am-1pm – Southeast Queens Film festival (SEQFF) screening, “Archives of Clarence Irving” featuring excerpts of the audio/visual collections in the Black American Heritage Foundation’s Music History Archive, founded in 1984 by Clarence L. Irving, Sr. for the purpose of documenting, preserving, and disseminating information about the cultural heritage and accomplishments of African Americans. Speakers: Natalie Milbrodt, Emily Bovino, Catriona Schlosser. Type: In-person
April 13, 2026, noon-1:30pm – “Let’s Archive It!” Three CUNY Archivists on What it Means to Steward Collections. Events for April 2026 – Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center. Speakers: Natalie Milbrodt, Roxanne Shirazi, Jessica Webster. Type: Hybrid
April 8, 2026 — ArchivesSpace Edit-a-Thon for CUNY Archivists. Speaker: Regina Carra. Type: Online.
March 28, 2026 – Wikipedia Day at City Tech, CUNY. Libraries & Archives panel. Speakers: Wilhelmine Coste and Patrick McGee. Type: In-person. Event website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event:Wikipedia_Day_NYC_2026
March 23, 2026 — ArchivesSpace Edit-a-Thon for CUNY Archivists. Speaker: Regina Carra. Type: Online.
March 18, 2026 – Faculty Fellowship Info Session with special guests from the archives at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hostos and LaGuardia Community Colleges. Speakers: Natalie Milbrodt, Bridget Day, Regina Carra, Richard Knipel, Thomas Cleary, Marcos Sueiro, William Casari, Jorge Matos. Type: Online.
March 16, 2026 – Faculty Fellowship Info Session with special guests from the archives at Queens College, Hunter, and the Haitian Studies Institute. Speakers: Natalie Milbrodt, Bridget Day, Regina Carra, Richard Knipel, Caitlin Waldron, Annie Tummino, Philip Swan, Obden Mondesir, Susan Kline. Type: Online.
March 12, 2026 – Faculty Fellowship Info Session with special guests from the archives at the CUNY Grad Center, CUNY’s Dominican Studies Institute, and City College. Speakers: Natalie Milbrodt, Bridget Day, Regina Carra, Richard Knipel, Roxanne Shirazi, Sarah Aponte, Jessy Perez-Camilo, Jhensen Ortiz, Renae S Rapp, Sydney Van Nort. Type: Online.
March 10, 2026 – Faculty Fellowship Info Session with special guests from the archives at Brooklyn College, Baruch and College of Staten Island. Speakers: Natalie Milbrodt, Bridget Day, Regina Carra, Richard Knipel, Colleen Bradley-Sanders, Marianne Labatto, James Kaser and Jessica Webster. Type: Online.
February 25, 2026, 5pm – Class visit with Professor Zach Rothman-Hicks’ Secondary Education and Youth Services course at Queens College to discuss archival and oral history practices at CUNY. Speaker: Natalie Milbrodt. Type: Online
February 9, 2026 – Disaster Planning Workshop for CUNY Archivists. Speaker: Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts (CCAHA). Type: In-person, 42nd Street Office.
January 27, 2026 — ArchivesSpace Edit-a-Thon for CUNY Archivists. Speaker: Regina Carra. Type: Online.
January 8, 2026 – The Maintainers. Lightening Talks. Speakers: Regina Carra, Deborah Streahle (Lecturer, Yale University), Miriam Devlin (General Contractor and Arts Educator), Betty Rexrode (Architect). Type: Virtual
December 12, 2025 – Archives Advisory Winter Meeting. CUNY Central 42nd Street. Speakers: Natalie Milbrodt, Bridget Day, Regina Carra. Type: In-person
December 9th, 2025 – Archives Premiere: Robert Maguire Papers, Haitian Studies Institute at Brooklyn College. Speakers: Allison Hamilton, Obden Mondesir. Type: In-person
November 17, 2025 — CUNY Archives Premiere, featuring Brooklyn College Health Clinic Collection. Speakers: Natalie Milbrodt and Wilhelmine Coste. Type: In-person public event.
November 7, 2025 – History of Education Society Conference. “Everything I’d imagined college to be”: A half century of Stories from SEEK and the Legacy of Education, Activism, and Access,” Speakers: Francine Almash (CCNY SEEK Program) and Sinead Sant-Barket (CCNY SEEK Program). Type: in-person
October 22, 2025 – The Queens College History Club, History Department, Rosenthal Library, and CUNY Cultivating Archives and Institutional Memory Project. “CUNY Archives Q&A Panel.” Speakers: Annie Tummino, Erin A’Hearn, Gianna Fraccalvieri, and Kevin O’Leary. Type: In-person. Slides.
October 22, 2025 – Dept of Education Professional Development Session for School Librarians. “CUNY Digital Archives: Connecting Learners to Primary Sources Using CUNY Digital Archives,” Speaker: Bridget Day. Type: In-person. Slides
October 18, 2025 – WikiConference North America. Speakers: Regina Carra, Richard Knipel, Patrick McGee, Gianna Fraccalvieri. Institutional History, Archival Technology Development, and Collections Discovery: The Contributions of the City University of New York to Wiki platforms. Type: in-person
October 18, 2025 – OHA Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA. Speakers: Natalie Milbrodt, Francine Almash (CCNY SEEK Program) and Sinead Sant-Barket (CCNY SEEK Program). Type: in-person
October 17, 2025 – New York Archives Week Symposium, Center for Brooklyn History. Speakers: Wanett Clyde, Carlos Semchechen. Endangered Archives: Student Newspapers, Censorship, and the Fight to Preserve Campus History. Type: In-person
October 9, 2025 – NDSA Digital Preservation 2025. Speaker: Bridget Day. Succession of Memory: Preparing for What Comes Next. Type: Virtual. Slides
September 2025–CUNY Archives Premiere, featuring Hostos Community College Archives. Speakers: Bridget Day, William Casari, and Jorge Matos. Type: In-person public event. Event one-page
September 16-19, 2025 – IOHA Conference at Kraków, Poland, The University That Belongs to Everyone: Building an oral history project to challenge and celebrate CUNY’s role as a Public Good. Speaker: Natalie Milbrodt. Type: In-person.
August 25, 2025 – SAA Annual. Speakers: Natalie Milbrodt (chair), Regina Carra, Becca Morgan (American Museum of Natural History), Colleen Grant (NYPL)
August 24, 2025 – ArchivesSpace Member Forum. Speakers: Regina Carra, Natalie Milbrodt. Type: in-person. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jwlu_AXcV4
August 8, 2025 – Wikimania 2025, Nairobi, Kenya: Wikiverse meets CUNYverse: 25 Colleges Blooming Across NYC. Speakers: Richard Knipel and Natalie Milbrodt. Type: In-person
July – CCL meeting. Speaker: Bridget Day Update on Cultivating Archives & Institutional Memory Project: Digital Archives and Preservation update. Slides here
June 25, 2025 – Community Webs National Symposium. Workshop, “Decision Map for Archiving Projects with any Community.” Speaker: Natalie Milbrodt. Type: In-person.
June 13, 2025 – 2025 New York Archives Conference (NYAC): Collection Survey as Catalyst: Perspectives from New Archivists. Speakers: Erin A’Hearn, Gianna Fraccalvieri, Kevin O’Leary. Type: Virtual/Online. Recording: https://youtu.be/znHc0sxniDs?si=sUKVEKwQwgBwvWQ8
June 12, 2025 – ArchivesSpace Training: Using Assessment and Event Records. ArchivesSpace Trainers Corps. Speaker: Regina Carra and Brittany Newberry (Georgia State University). Type: Virtual.
June 12, 2025 –CUNY Archives Premiere, LaGuardia Community College’s Division of Cooperative Education Collection. CUNY Graduate Center. Speakers: Natalie Milbrodt, Gianna Fraccalvieri, and Thomas Cleary. Type: In-person public event.
June 11,2025 – Best Practices Exhange: Reciprocal Archiving at CUNY. Speaker: Allison Hamilton. Type: In-person. Slides.
May 21, 2025 – LACUNY Institute 2025: “Endangered Archives: Student Newspapers, Censorship, and the Fight to Preserve Campus History.” Presentation Slides here.
May 21, 2025 – LACUNY Institute 2025: The Persistent Record: Preserving Knowledge in an Uncertain World. Keynote address: Natalie Milbrodt. Type: In-Person.
May 19, 2025 – Disaster Planning Workshop for Archives at Brooklyn College. CCAHA. In-person workshop.
May 15, 2025 — CUNY Archives Premiere, Student Newspapers Collection: New York City College of Technology—City Tech, CUNY Graduate Center. Speakers: Natalie Milbrodt, Carlos Semchechen, and Wanett Clyde. Type: In-person public event.
May 14, 2025 – Disaster Planning Workshop for Archives at Queens College. Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA). In-person workshop.
May 13, 2025 – AAC Spring 2025 meeting. 6-month project update to Archives Advisory Committee. Natalie Milbrodt, Regina Carra, Bridget Day. Virtual In-person meeting. Slides here.
May 4, 2025 – Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference 2025: “Identity and Unity at a Crossroads: Enhancing Archival Practice Across CUNY” Speakers: Annie Tummino, Thomas Cleary, and Wilhelmine Coste. Presentation slides here.
April 17, 2025 – CUNY Archives Premiere, The Margaret M. Groce Collection. CUNY Graduate Center. Speakers: Natalie Milbrodt, James Kaiser, Susan Abdulezer, and Margaret “Peggy” Groce. Type: In-person public event.
March 27, 2025–ArchivesSpace Virtual Member Forum, All for One, and One for All: CUNY’s Move to Shared ArchivesSpace. Speaker: Regina Carra. Type: Online. Slides. YouTube Video
March 27, 2025 – National Council on Public History in Montreal, Introducing a City to Itself: A University’s Archives Reflect on New York City. Poster presenters: Natalie Milbrodt and Patrick McGee. Type: In-person. Poster.
March 20, 2025 – CUNY Archives Premiere, Documenting the Disability Rights Movement in NYC. CUNY Graduate Center. Speakers: Bridget Day, Kevin O’Leary, Allison Hamilton, Patrick McGee, James Kaiser, and Jessica Murray. Type: In-person public event.
March 3, 3035 – Emily Bovino’s classes (FA106 and FA288). Natalie Milbrodt, Bridget Day, and Regina Carra discussed their work as CUNY archivists to York College arts students.
February 28, 2025 – LACUNY Dialogues 2025: Advocating for Libraries and Library Workers, New York City’s Disability Rights History: Showcasing New Archival Collections and their Creators. Speaker: Kevin O’Leary. Type: Online
February 21, 2025 – CUNY ArchivesSpace Edit-a-Thon, a day of instruction and editing for 20 CUNY archivists with existing ASpace instances. Hosted at CUNY’s Office of Library Services. Type: Hybrid. Slides.
February 19th, 2025 – Jane Guskin’s Labor Movements (LABST265/URBST265/72) Class. Scout Zabel and Caitlin Colban-Waldron lead presentation on CUNY/QC protest history. Type: Virtual guest speaker. Slides.
February 12, 2025 — Love for Lone Archivists: Accessioning Best Practices for One. National Best Practices for Archival Accessioning Working Group. Type: Virtual.
February 7, 2025 – SUNYLA Midwinter Online Conference, Increasing Discovery of CUNY Archival Collections Through Metadata with speakers: Kristen Fredricksen and Natalie Milbrodt. Type: Online. Slides Link to recorded presentation. https://academicworks.cuny.edu/oaa_pubs/34
January 31st, 2025 – Know Your Rights: Free Speech on Campus at Queens College hosted by the QC PSC Chapter in response to President Wu’s new guidelines for demonstrations on Queens College Campus. Scout Zabel and Caitlin Colban-Waldron lead presentation on CUNY/QC protest history. Type: Virtual. Slides.
December 11, 2024 – AAC Fall 2024 Meeting, 6-month project update to Archives Advisory Committee. Natalie Milbrodt and Regina Carra. Virtual and in-person. Slides here.
December 5/6, 2024 – CUNY IT Conference at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Normalizing: How CUNY Unified into a single ArchivesSpace Instance with speakers: Roxanne Shirazi, Renae Rapp, and Caitlin Waldron. Type: In-person. Slides.
December 5, 2024 – SAA Oral History Section event, Taking a Step Back: Guidance for Determining Oral History Project Goals and How to Reach Them with speakers: Natalie Milbrodt, Kristin Morris. Type: Online. Slides.
December 5, 2024 – GSLIS Conference, Introduction to CUNY’s Archives & Institutional Memory Project. Poster Session. Wilhelmine Coste, Gianna Fraccalvieri, Scout Zabel, and Patrick McGee. Type: In-person. Poster.
November 21, 2024 – Lehman College Faculty meeting, Cultivating CUNY’s Archives & Institutional Memory. Natalie Milbrodt. Type: Online. Slides.
October 25, 2024 – LACUNY McCrann Lecture Series, Cultivating CUNY’s Archives & Institutional Memory. Natalie Milbrodt, CUNY Central. Slides.
October 17, 2024 – New York Archives Week Symposium panel, “All for One, and One for All: CUNY’s move to ArchivesSpace with speakers: Regina Carra, Jessica Wagner, and Thomas Cleary. Type: In-person. Slides.
October 16, 2024 – New York Archives Week workshop, “Accessioning Best Practices for Us All: A Workshop and Reception.” National Best Practices for Archival Accessioning Working Group. Type: In-person.
October 10, 2024 – Regina Carra’s LBSCI 732 Class at QC GSLIS. Regina discussed her career journey, the CUNY Archives Project, and the Inactive Records Storage. Type: In-person lecture, with classroom activity. Slides.
October 7, 2024 – Council of Chief Librarians October meeting. Update on Cultivating Archives & Institutional Memory Project. Speaker: Natalie Milbrodt. Type: Virtual. Slides
September 24, 2024 – Johnathan Thayer’s LBSCI 732 Class at QC GSLIS. Regina Carra discussed her career journey, the CUNY Archives Project, and the Inactive Records Storage. Type: In-person guest speaker, with classroom activity. Slides.
July 22, 2024 – Technology Strategy for Archives Q3 Working Group Call with guest speakers: Natalie Milbrodt and Regina Carra discussing the Enhancing Archives & Institutional Memory Project at the City University of New York. Type: Virtual. Slides.
May 29, 2024 – AAC Fall 2024 meeting. 6-month project update to Archives Advisory Committee. Natalie Milbrodt. Virtual and in-person. Slides here.
