Wednesday, April 15, 2026
1 pm Eastern | 12 om Central | 11 am Mountain | 10 am Pacific
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Keeping up with the evolution from paper to digital has remade how archives preserve a record of the past. Retiring RAN archivist Doris Malkmus will lead an interactive workshop simplifying new theories and practices in preserving historical records using the Archiving Toolkit. Talk with our archivist and develop a framework for saving your digital records. Bring your questions and concerns and see the many resources LGBTQ-RAN has to support you in preserving your history.
Doris Malkmus (she/her, doris@lgbtqreligiousarchives.org) first joined LGBTQ-RAN in 2002 as a catalog collection archivist and oral historian, a position she held until 2005. She rejoined LGBTQ-RAN as its archivist after retiring as archivist at Penn State University, driven by a passion for helping LGBTQ+ individuals contribute their personal narratives to a broader social history. Doris also directs the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum in Duluth, Minnesota. She has a PhD in history at the University of Iowa and an MS in Archival Science from the University of Michigan. Doris also conducted oral history projects at the Iowa Women's Archives and the Sisters of Loretto in Kentucky.
Doris announced her retirement as LGBTQ-RAN's archivist in late 2025, and this workshop will be her final one with the organization. LGBTQ-RAN is in the process of selecting a new archivist and hopes to introduce that person at this event.
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Archives/Library/History Activism