Wednesday, April 15, 2026
1 pm Eastern | 12 om Central | 11 am Mountain | 10 am Pacific
Keeping up with the evolution from paper to digital has remade how archives preserve a record of the past. Retiring RAN archivist Doris Malkmus and new archivist Taylor McNeilly 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. The workshop addresses questions and concerns and offers an overview of 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 the archivist responsible for building a catalog of LGBTQ+ religious collection held in archives and conducting oral histories. At that time she had earned a PhD in history at the University of Iowa and had conducted oral history interviews while at the Rural Women's Archivist at the Iowa Women's Archives. While working with LGBTQ-RAN she completed an MSI in Archival Science from the University of Michigan (2005) and conducted oral history interviews with the SIsters of Loretto. She left LGBTQ-RAN in 2005 when she was hired as archivist at Penn State University Special Collections Library. She rejoined LGBTQ-RAN after retiring in 2015 and has continued to relish the work helping LGBTQ+ religious communities preserve a full and authentic record of its history.
Taylor McNeilly (they/them, taylor@lgbtqreligiousarchives.org) is an archivist and historian from Rhode Island. They hold an MA History and MS LIS from Simmons University, where they also teach, and have worked in digital and academic archives for over a decade with a special focus on archival collections of members of the LGBTQ+ and religious communities.
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Archives/Library/History Activism