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 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.
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 bringing a new archivist on board and hopes to introduce that person at this event.
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Archives/Library/History Activism