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Share your COVID-19 experience with SU Archives

Shippensburg University Archives and Special Collections needs your help documenting how COVID-19 has impacted the lives of our community members!

We've created a site where SU students, faculty, staff, administrators, alums, family and friends can upload photos, stories, and videos. Visit https://shippensburgcovid19.omeka.net/ to participate.

We are looking for materials that document your day-to-day experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. This will help us preserve and share what life was like in our community during this unique time. If we don't capture it now; it'll be a lot harder in the future! You can submit Word documents, PDFs, digital photos, video files, or audio files. Example submissions are listed below.

General

• Journal or diary entries
• Photographs showing neighbors standing 6-feet apart or bare shelves at the grocery store
• A description of your schedule or routine during quarantine/shelter-in place
• Descriptions or samples of hobbies to pass the time (puzzles and games with family, trivia with friends over Google Hangout, learning to knit or paint, gardening, etc.)
• What it's like to work at an essential business or organization (grocery store, hospital, pharmacy)
• The impact of losing a job
• Taking care of family, friends, or neighbors
• Changes made in hygiene or cleaning practices
• Was anyone you know, or yourself, affected by the virus?

Students

• Description of how you felt, photos or videos, from moving off-campus
• What it's like to be one of the few remaining students on-campus
• Reactions to campus events being canceled or delayed (ex: graduation, spring sports season, theater or musical performances, trips)
• Adjusting to virtual courses

Faculty

• Redesigning courses for remote delivery
• Communicating with students
• Reactions to campus events being canceled or delayed
• Working from home - Did you have a home office set up already or take over the dining room table, technology set up issues, homeschooling children while trying to work, etc.

Staff

• Working on-campus after most employees and students were gone
• Working from home - Did you have a home office set up already or take over the dining room table, technology set up issues, homeschooling children while trying to work, etc.
• Reactions to campus events being canceled or delayed
• Did elements of your job change because you couldn't work on campus?

Administrators

• What was it like to make decisions that impacted the entire campus?
• Communications with faculty, staff, students, parents, and alumni

Contact Archives & Special Collections with questions via email: specialcollections@ship.edu

(original post 2020.04.07 @ 11:51, repost 2020.05.18 @ 11:14)