Documenting Times of Difficulty and Crisis: University Case Study of Leveraging an App to Gather University Community Memories

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Conference paper examining the deployment of The Keeper App, developed at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries, to help students document their daily lives as members of the UNT campus community. Deployed one year before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world, the Keeper App soon became a means for students and other members of the UNT community to share their experiences from isolation during the time of crisis.

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Gieringer, Morgan Davis; Phillips, Mark Edward & Krahmer, Ana November 3, 2023.

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Conference paper examining the deployment of The Keeper App, developed at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries, to help students document their daily lives as members of the UNT campus community. Deployed one year before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world, the Keeper App soon became a means for students and other members of the UNT community to share their experiences from isolation during the time of crisis.

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Abstract: This paper examines deployment of The Keeper App, developed at the University of North Texas Libraries, to help students document their daily lives as members of the UNT campus community. Deployed one year before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world, the Keeper App soon became a means for students and other members of the UNT community to share their experiences from isolation during the time of crisis. The Keeper App is an open-source tool, deployable through a Django framework, with code available through GitHub, and it can be deployed locally by institutions interested in supporting their patrons in documenting their daily lives. This paper examines how and why UNT developed the Keeper App to support university members in preserving their memories; how Keeper boomed into a platform for students to find ways to connect and share their first-hand, live experiences despite–or because of–isolation; how these experiences represent first-hand, documentary evidence of the pandemic in an entirely unique format; and offers future directions for the Keeper App, both locally as well as for institutions interested in employing it in different situations to document times of crisis or conflict.

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Presentation examining the deployment of The Keeper App, developed at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries, to help students document their daily lives as members of the UNT campus community. Deployed one year before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world, the Keeper App soon became a means for students and other members of the UNT community to share their experiences from isolation during the time of crisis.

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Gieringer, Morgan Davis; Phillips, Mark Edward & Krahmer, Ana. Documenting Times of Difficulty and Crisis: University Case Study of Leveraging an App to Gather University Community Memories, paper, November 3, 2023; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2201579/: accessed June 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .

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