Fordham University (Fordham University Libraries)

Library staff at Fordham University will collect, preserve, and share the record of the Covid-19 pandemic at Fordham University in the Bronx. "In Real Time: Fordham University's Covid-19 Digital Archive" is a freely available and completely searchable collection of scanned documents, protocols emails, videos, social media postings, oral histories, and other items which illustrate how a university in the epicenter of the crisis navigated the present, and planned for the future, during the pandemic. Library began collecting for the archive in spring 2020 and IMLS funding will support the team's capacity to scan and upload hard copy items that pertain to the pandemic as well as to greatly expand the use of video for personal narratives and oral histories. The archive will serve as a guide for educators to examine, a comprehensive record for historians to study, and a chronicle of individual responses and narratives for all to consider.