Living Archives on Facebook

I've started a Facebook Page for my burgeoning company, Living Archives. 

For now the Page is extremely informal, playful, and free-form as I test out Facebook's  capabilities. 

Click here  to visit Living Archives on Facebook. And once there, hit the LIKE button!

LIVING ARCHIVES - About

Susan Doran's multimedia archives consultancy. Brings static archives to life. Special emphasis: 20th century American social, cultural history, and musical history. Based in San Francisco.
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LIVING ARCHIVES is a multiplemedia archives and storytelling consultancy with 2 focal points:

(1) corporate and organizational archives & history—offering organizational archival asset audit and inventories, creating & implementing strategies to bring static archives to life through the design of compelling, interactive, multimedia digital experiences that transform company archives into "origin stories" for customers and constituents, and catalyze ongoing measurable brand engagement

(2) multimedia documentary, oral history, and digital storytelling—focusing on 20th century American social, cultural, and musical history


FEATURED PROJECTS
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University of California Santa Cruz – McHenry Library Special Collections Department - Grateful Dead Archive

Contributed to 2-pronged strategy of creating archival tools and systems meeting needs of a diverse user base, ranging from scholarly researchers to casual fans. Prepared archival arrangement and description of 300+ item literary archive; created finding aids with extensive arrangement notes and manuscript description metadata; researched complex issues of provenance and attribution. Prepared 200-piece artifact collection for accession (now on exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame), including cataloging, metadata confirmation and arrangement.

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Producer, Audio Documentary, "The Night Before Altamont" (in production)

Producer, Multimedia Documentary, "Altamont 360" (pre-production)

Production Assistant, "Captured Memories," film documentary of American civilians held in prisoner-of-war camps in the Philippines by the Japanese during World War II, 2011