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James Rayroux's JOTPY Portfolio

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James Rayroux's JOTPY Portfolio

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--Reflections on the Pandemic Archive--

Looking back over my experience with the “Journal of the Plague Year” COVID-19 archive, my prevailing emotion is gratitude. This opportunity granted me experience that few historians earn, and the remote, asynchronous work schedule allowed me to collaborate with my colleagues in ways that maximized our respective contributions. The breadth and depth of our individual experiences and perspectives tremendously improved our collective process and products.

I spent enough time in the Arizona State Archives last year to recognize such collections as historical treasure chests, but I have now participated in processing an archive’s content and navigating the ethical dilemmas those submissions sometimes create. Archivists and curators are the history profession’s truly unsung heroes, and their work facilitates society’s perception of itself.

My background in police work and public safety drew me to the archive’s existing Law Enforcement collection. In taking on that subset, I succeeded in reshaping the collection’s parameters to now include stories about police and law enforcement. I wanted to diversify the collection to encompass perspective of both the police and the public with whom they interact and serve. While some overlap exists between the Law Enforcement and Social Justice collections, each remains distinct. Through my contacts and writing, I promoted a Call for Submissions to an international audience of law enforcement professionals to reduce their relative silence within the archive.

Within the archive’s content, I recognized that one’s location might shape their pandemic experience, and I created and designed an Arizona-based exhibit to explore that. Further research and discussion with my mentors and colleagues ensured the exhibit illustrated these differences without excluding visitors whose diverse experiences could further enrich the archived and exhibited content. I am proud of my “Arizona’s COVID-19 Pandemics” exhibit, particularly because of its compressed, one-month incubation period. Beyond displaying images, data, and stories representative of the diverse pandemic experiences within the state, the ACP exhibit offers visitors numerous levels of interaction and engagement to became active participants and create their own exhibit experience. Visitors can complete opinion surveys, add a story to the archive, explore additional content related to the displayed pieces, view ever-changing results from pre-defined archival content searches, conduct their own archival search, view collective visitor survey results, and apply to join the staff. The exhibit’s searches will include the archive’s future submissions, which reshapes both the exhibit and the experience visitors may have with it.

A more detailed explanation of my ACP exhibit may be reviewed here: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive/item/43037

Because of Dr. Kathleen Kole de Peralta and Dr. Mark Tebeau, I stand prepared to join research, curation, and exhibition teams and immediately contribute to their work products.

Despite my gratitude for this experience and the opportunities it presented, I look forward to the day COVID-19 is no longer part of humanity’s daily vernacular.

James Rayroux
22 April 2021

Date (Dublin Core)

April 21, 2021

Creator (Dublin Core)

James Rayroux

Contributor (Dublin Core)

James Rayroux

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

Portfolio Collection

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

https://www.police1.com/coronavirus-covid-19/articles/no-one-else-can-tell-your-story-7LsGkxpVTGXnv2Di/
Online Article: ‘Burned out’: Portland cops leave scathing exit interviews
Militarization of Police
The disregarded
Policing the Plague
Social anti-mask: Police break up anti-mask dance gathering at Quebec shopping mall, issue fines
Don't Defund the Police
Cop Car Vandalized
Jewish Melbourne: 'Police raid ultra-Orthodox prayer group above store in Ripponlea'
Southern NM County Mandates COVID-19 Vaccine for First Responders Including Sheriff's Deputies
Coping Strategies for LEOs and First Responders
Covid-19 has killed more police officers in the line of duty in 2020 than all other causes combined
Masks and Violence: Ontario man dies in police shooting after mask dispute in grocery store
Wayback Machine: No One Else Can Tell Your Story
Archive Version of Arizona's COVID-19 Pandemics

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Education--Universities
English Rural
English Social Distance
English News coverage
English Cities & Suburbs
English Government State
English Government Local
English Emotion
English Health & Wellness
English Healthcare
English Home & Family Life
English Online Learning
English Public Health & Hospitals
English Race & Ethnicity
English Technology
English Social Issues
English Politics

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

law enforcement
police
cop
student
college
university
graduate
exemplar

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

James Rayroux
LEO
Rural Arizona
Arizona
United States
rural
reflection
JOTPY
internship
intern
work
HST580
Arizona State University
portfolio
collection

Collection (Dublin Core)

Law Enforcement
Rural Voices
Visual Arts

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

04/21/2021

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

05/05/2021
08/02/2022
09/07/2024

Item sets

Covid 19
Indigenous Stories
Children
Southwest Stories
Arizona Collection

This item was submitted on April 22, 2021 by James Rayroux using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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