During my time as an intern at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, I was supervised by Archival Collection Assessment Coordinator Adrianne Lundy to collaborate and construct a survey for community-led organizations and independent filmmakers with audiovisual materials who are seeking homes for moving image collections. With the intent of developing improved modes of equitable and ethical stewardship of archival collections, Adrianne and I worked with the curation department at UCLA to construct the survey as well as create a list of potential donors to reach out to who might give valuable insight towards this survey.
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The other part of my internship mainly consisted of reviewing and processing archival agreements in UCLA's physical collection which consists of over 4,000 donor files. This process involved reformatting and preserving critical paper documentation via digital scanning by updating the provenance, copyright, and access permissions of each file. By the end of my internship, I had processed 494 donor code files, 360 of which contained active contracts. My experience at the UCLA Film and Television Archive gave me important context with the different types of agreements an archive might enter with its donors, and I'm forever grateful to everyone at the Packard Humanities Institute Stoa who made my time there all the more eye-opening.
