Reminder: Free 'Em All Radio: Using ArchivesSpace in the community
Bailey-Grace Harrell
Dear ArchivesSpace users,
Don’t forget to join us tomorrow, July 8, at 12:00pm-1:00pm EST (find your local time) for a 60-minute webinar to learn how ArchivesSpace is being used to support the development of the Free 'Em All Radio Archive, a community oral history project housed at Dominican University. Free 'Em All Radio is a call-in podcast launched in 2016 by The Lady of Rage and Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. of the Black Panther Party Cubs. The show has become a living historical record, broadcasting the voices of incarcerated individuals and political activists who speak on current events, racial injustice, and prison abolition.
Founded in 2021, the Free 'Em All Radio Archive works to create an equitable and inclusive cultural record by preserving and providing access to this rich and ongoing dialogue. At the heart of this initiative is a classroom-based practicum in which students gain hands-on experience in community-based archiving. Through this practicum, students collaborate directly with community stakeholders while learning to describe, catalog, and provide access to born-digital content using ArchivesSpace.
In this session, presenter Kaitlyn Griffith will offer a live demonstration of the project’s ArchivesSpace repository and describe the podcast cataloging process. She will also reflect on how relationship-building among student catalogers and community partners supports both ethical archival practice and professional development.
This case study will offer ArchivesSpace users a model for building community archives using open-source tools and integrating archival education into real-world projects—supporting both community preservation efforts and the next generation of archival professionals.
Date: July 8, 2025
Time: 12:00pm-1:00pm EST (find your local time)
Where: Zoom
Registration: https://lyrasis.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Pc4BosBrTbSsu_OcgDr0hA
This webinar will be recorded and made available on the ArchivesSpace YouTube channel.
If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us at Archives...@lyrasis.org
