Today's lecture will focus on the first and second new deals and how the United States finally began to dig its way out of the Great Depression of the 1930s, focused primarily on President Franklin D. Roosevelt, his efforts to help resolve so many of the major economic, social and political problems caused by the Depression, but also set in motion a system that would prevent a depression from ever happening again. So what we're going to do in today's lecture is examine, first of all, what Roosevelt did and why he felt that he could solve the nation's problems. And we're going to look at the first of these new deals and how Roosevelt responded to the problems of the Depression and then look at the second of the new deals and how Roosevelt tried to set in place a social safety net to prevent a second depression from having such a horrible impact on the United States. Well, FDR's election in the fall of 1932 is certainly a very momentous event because of course, by the fall of 32, as we talked about in the last lecture, Herbert Hoover is just probably one of the most unpopular people in the United States, and certainly many Americans see him as being a failed president. His opponent in the election of 1932 is this young, very charismatic gentleman named Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was a longtime politician and been involved in politics since a very young man. And he is a fresh face, and he has this fresh vision of how he's going to fix the United States. And one of the more famous examples is that he's oftentimes depicted as the captain. He's the captain steering the United States back to prosperity. And this is sort of the attitude that he takes in that he's going to fix the problem. He tells American people that they vote for him. He's going to establish a new deal. In other words, he's going to help fix the problems that the depression has caused, joblessness, homelessness, people being just giving up hope, and he's going to fix these problems and give everybody a new opportunity and a new lease on life, essentially. And this is his whole campaign, is we need action. Roosevelt never quite says specifically during the campaign how he's going to fix the economy, how he's going to fix all these problems of the depression.  I will fix the problems. And here, as we can see in this map of the election in 1932, he's very successful. The blue states are the states that Hoover wins. Hoover just wins a handful of states in New England and Pennsylvania. Roosevelt wins a landslide. He sweeps pretty much the election and wins a significant majority of the electoral votes, 472 here compared to 59. So it's a landslide. People, again, are not so much voting for Roosevelt as they are both voting against Herbert Hoover and essentially voting for change. Well, FDR is elected in the fall of 1932. He becomes president. He in other words, takes the other office in March of 1933. And immediately, within days of his inauguration, he begins to set in motion a series of policies to help fix all the problems caused by great depression. Now, Roosevelt had been elected, as I said, it was a landslide, but he had been elected by a very broad coalition of farmers, industrial workers, middle-class performers, Northern African-Americans, and Southern white elites. So this very odd kind of mix of people who supported him, primarily because he said that he could make their lives better. He could solve their problems. They supported him because his idea, his approach to solving these problems, at least this is what he claimed, would be a middle-of-the-road approach. It wouldn't be extreme. It wouldn't be left wing. It wouldn't be right wing. It wouldn't be fascist, which would sort of be right wing. It wouldn't be communist, which might be considered left wing. He was going to do an American solution to an American problem. It was going to be a middle-of-the-road approach to fixing this horrible, horrible great depression. FDR and his advisers were very clear that this was going to be a problem that was going to be fixed by the federal government. The federal government was the only organization big enough to solve this problem. The federal government was going to be involved from the top-down, fixing the great depression, because he argued that the market was just too complicated. The economy in the United States was too complicated to be left to its own. It wouldn't fix itself. The federal government was the only entity that was strong enough and powerful enough to fix the American economy. And so this new deal really represented the first effort by the federal government in the United States to get involved at every level of the American economy to try to solve all of these issues that were plugging the economy because of the great depression. The first new deal, which lasts from 1933 through 1935 primarily, is essentially an effort to stop the bleeding. It's an effort to prevent the economy from getting any worse. And so for the most part, the first new deal is a series of plans that Roosevelt and his advisors come up with to try to essentially stop the drop. In other words, stop the economy from getting any worse. And they just came up with, they spitballed. They came up with all sorts of ideas, and they worked. That's great. They didn't work. They would come up with something else. And so what I'm going to do is just highlight a few of these first new deal programs that Roosevelt and his advisors did to try to, as I said, pledge quick action in the emergency to try to deal with the issues that were plugging the United States right away. One of the first things that Roosevelt does when he takes office is push to something through Congress called the Emergency Banking Act. And this is to deal with all these banks that were going out of business and creating panic among Americans because they were losing their savings. Here we have this cartoon of the victim of bank failure. And the squirrel, of course, who saves the nuts for winter says, well, why didn't you save money for the future? And the guy says, I did. I had all this money in the bank, and the bank went out of business. And I lost all my money. Well, this is a common complaint amongst Americans, that they had put money in the bank, but the banks had gone out of business and they lost all their money. So what Roosevelt does first of all in the Emergency Banking Act is he creates a bank holiday. He signs a law, signs an act that closes all of the banks in the United States, essentially stops all banking activities for about two weeks. So Americans will stop panicking because the banks are closed, so they won't be able to try to go get their money out. And what happens is during those two weeks, federal auditors go through and try to examine as many of these banks as they can to see which ones are, you know, able to recover and which ones should go out of business. And so Americans will have more confidence in their local banks. It also creates an organization called the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or the FDIC, which is insurance for bank deposits. In other words, Americans, when they put money in the bank, the government guarantees that money. What that means is that for Americans, if you put $1,000 in your local bank and that bank had gone out of business, the federal government will cut you a check for $1,000. We'll repay the money that you lost when your local bank went out of business. It's, again, a move that's intended to make Americans stop panicking, to restore their confidence in their local financial institutions, to make them more willing to take money that they maybe had under a mattress, and to put it back in the bank so that it could benefit the broader economy. A last of these emergency banking measures is something called the Glass Steakle Act. And this is very important, because what it does is it separates commercial banking from investment banking.  You can't do anything that would be considered a risky investment banking. And so in other words, you will not put the money that people deposit with your bank at risk. If you're an investment bank and you want to play in the stock market and do stuff like that, that's fine. You can't get your money from people just putting in an opening checking account or saving account. It helps stabilize the economy in a way because it separates out banking functions.  Well, the Emergency Banking Act occurs as a first step to restoring American confidence in the economy. But there were so many Americans out of work. There's 11 million Americans unemployed when Roosevelt takes office. He has to do something to put people back to work. And one of the ways he does that is by creating a number of government work programs to put Americans to work, just doing anything. One of these is the Civilian Conservation Corps. That is created to put young men, especially, to work in the nation's forests and parks, national forests and national parks, doing heavy labor-intensive jobs to fix up those parks. Building roads, and we have examples of CCC workers who have built roads through national forests. Building structures, visitor centers, interpretive centers, cabins, all sorts of things. And they were essentially projects that really didn't need to be done. But Roosevelt said, you know what? We have all these people out of work. Let's give them, let's cut them a check, or let's actually, let's give them cash for working hard out in the forest and doing things productive as opposed to, you know, being homeless on the street corner, begging for money. Other kinds of projects involve works for the federal government involving things such as the Tennessee Valley Authority, which is the TVA, building big dams along the Tennessee River to provide power for people living in rural areas, to provide flood control so that their farms wouldn't flood every spring. All these are programs that were designed to essentially take government money and put it into the economy. So people would regain their confidence. They'd have a steady paycheck, they'd be more willing to spend money, and that money would then kind of trickle down into the economy in ways that would ultimately benefit businesses and that would benefit everybody. Well, along with the Emergency Banking Act and jobs programs like the CCC, Roosevelt also felt that part of the problem of the depression was that there's too many businesses were making too much stuff and they were competing against each other and dropping prices. And prices were so low that remember prices dropped almost 40% that businesses couldn't make any money. And so the next big effort that Roosevelt and Congress pushed forward is the NRA, which stands for the National Industrial Recovery Act. And this was a plan that would allow businesses in various industries throughout the United States to work together to help stabilize the economy. It would actually legalize agreements about pricing, worker pay, the amount of goods being produced. So essentially things that have been outlawed because they tended to promote monopolies were encouraged because they would help promote industrial stability. And if businesses knew exactly how much their competitors were charging, they would be more willing to kind of work together to establish a reasonable price as opposed to a panic price. If they knew how much their rivals were paying their employees, they would pay their employees probably the same amount in order to encourage in more even an equal workforce. So the whole point of the NRA was to prevent ruin of competition to make businesses profitable again. After a few years of basically free fall where businesses were losing money again and again and again. Another aspect of the NRA was that it encouraged unionization. It actually promoted unionization of employees as a solution. Unfortunately for Roosevelt in 1935, the Supreme Court struck down the NRA. Argued that it was unconstitutional and the Supreme Court affirmed that. They said it was unconstitutional for the government to promote industry cooperation for the government to try to regulate the economy as it was doing through the NRA. And unfortunately for Roosevelt, this was something that happened on a number of different efforts that he had put into place. And here we have another cartoon, this idea of New Deal remedies, Congress and this thing. Of course, when we have to change remedies if we don't get results and hear all the different projects, New Deal projects that Roosevelt and Congress had tried to pass. Well, this was sort of his response. The NRA has struck down, he and Congress try to come up with something else to try that perhaps as constitutional. A final measure to mention that's part of the first New Deal is something that's called the AAA. In other words, the Agricultural Adjustment Act. And this is sort of like the NRA, the National Industrial Recovery Act for farmers. In other words, what happens if the federal government guaranteed farmers that they would make a steady income? Once again, farming prices that collapsed just like industrial goods prices collapsed at the beginning of the Depression. Farmers couldn't make any money. So the Agricultural Industrial, the Agricultural Adjustment Act offers federal oversight over agriculture production, established production quotas. Farmers couldn't grow more than a certain amount of food. And that would encourage the increase in prices. It actually gave farmers payments for not planting good. So farmers could still make money by actually not planting goods and essentially a farmer's holiday. Farmers getting paid not to work. And here we have an example of one of the first checks to be cut to farmers for not doing their work. So you have, once again, the federal government getting involved, trying to fix all the different things that were going wrong with the economy, like making people more confident in the future. And of course, while initially there's the economy, it kind of, it stops the bleeding, over time, many of these efforts that Roosevelt and Congress put in place gradually begin to help solve many of the problems like joblessness, homelessness, and so forth that were hurting the American economy in the early 1930s. Well, beginning at the end of 1935, Roosevelt and Congress began to shift the focus of the New Deal from kind of stopping the bleeding, from stopping the drop, as I said, to long-term projects that would make the American economy more stable, would make workers more confident that if there was another depression, they would be in better shape. And this was the focus of Roosevelt and Congress's second New Deal. As I said, second New Deal was developing a social safety net. The second New Deal lasts from 1935, really to the 1937, 1938 or so. But again, the focus was largely more on long-term projects and a little bit less on these kind of short-term make-works sorts of programs. A number of programs are developed as a part of the second New Deal. One of these is the WPA, the Works Progress Administration. Again, public works projects, but unlike the CCC, these were bigger public works projects that would involve both white-collar as well as blue-collar labor. And when I say white-collar, we're talking more about educated kind of managers, people with engineering degrees, kind of mid-level workers as opposed to blue-collar workers, who largely would be factory or farm workers. WPA promoted arts projects, promoted more kind of public improvement programs, paid writers who were out of work to develop travel guides for places throughout the United States. There were WPA writers guides to most of the American states during the 1930s. So again, long-term projects that would more benefit people throughout the United States. Creation of the Rural Electrification Administration to provide power to people living in rural areas who did not have access to electricity or to electrified equipment to create these co-ops, as we see here, to provide low-cost electrical equipment, refrigerators, washing machines, other sorts of things, to people living in rural areas of the United States who didn't have access to them before. So once again, trying to improve people's lives, give them more access to things like washing machines, light, in order to make their lives in the long run much better. Probably the biggest aspects of the second new deal, the hallmarks, if we will, of the new deal were, number one, the Social Security Act, which is the focus here. And the Social Security was intended to provide, once again, a safety net for Americans in the long run. The idea behind the Social Security Act was that it would provide old age and unemployment benefits for Americans. So if you were too old to work, the government would cut you a check every month and you would at least have a little bit of money to survive. You wouldn't be pouring on the streets, begging for money, as often happened to old people who couldn't work anymore. If you lost your job, you would have unemployment benefits that would once again help you survive until you could get a new job. The notion of Social Security was somewhat controversial, but the idea of how it worked was that you would contribute from your paycheck. Every month when you get a paycheck or every two weeks depending, you would contribute a certain amount to Social Security. And that money would then go in force to pay people who were currently on Social Security. The promise was that in the long term, when you were old enough to retire and join Social Security, you would indeed get the same kind of payments back that you had made when you were younger and working. So the notion was that it would be contributions from current workers going to retired workers. It wouldn't be in the form of a national tax or some other proposal as some people had suggested that was much more controversial. Initially, Social Security is pretty limited though. It's only really applies to industrial workers and it's only over time that agricultural workers, domestic workers, female workers in various industries gain Social Security protections and gain access to the Social Security system so that when they retire, they're able to use the Social Security system. Other areas, of course, that benefit from the second new deal, the next one would be the Wagner Act. This is an act that was intended to promote unionization in the United States and encourage workers to form labor unions, which have been really strongly resisted by most businesses prior to the 1930s. The Wagner Act made it legal to unionize, made it harder for companies to challenge efforts to unionize in the workplace and also gave unions greater rights within the workplace, which certainly benefited the people in those workers. A third aspect of the new deal that was very important was the Fair Labor Standards Act. Any American worker today benefits from fair labor standards, still very much the law of the land for modern workers, establishes a national minimum wage, establishes the 40 hour work week as the official standard in the United States, provides for overtime if you work more than 40 hours. Companies couldn't force you to work more than 40 hours without providing you with some form of overtime either through comp hours or through extra money. So it once again provides long-term stability of the workforce to encourage people to work, but at the same time to be paid better for that work. So these were some of the important features of the second new deal. Now by 1937, the new deal begins to lose momentum for a number of reasons. One of the things is that Europe was becoming less and less stable in the 1930s. And so Roosevelt began to worry more about the potential for a war breaking out of Europe. And so he became less focused on new deal projects and more focused on perhaps building up America's military in order to protect the nation in the event of a war in Europe. There was also growing resistance among members of the new deal coalition, this coalition of Northern African-Americans, Southern whites, industrial workers, agriculture workers. There were growing tensions, especially amongst white Southern Democrats to what was going on with the new deal. There were a lot of white Southern Democrats who feared the new deal was ultimately too beneficial for African-Americans and other minorities and perhaps might undermine some of the Jim Crow legal system that was in place in the South. So they started to kind of resist and push back against efforts to continue the new deal by providing, for instance, minority employment, by providing minority housing in areas like that. So ultimately the new deal doesn't go as far as it could've. Roosevelt certainly could've gone a lot further. But what it does do is it restores a sense of optimism in the United States, which is very important because Americans begin to have confidence in the economy. Now, if you look at the numbers, of course, the new deal doesn't actually solve anything immediately. It's only when the United States enters the Second World War in the early 1940s that employment problems go away. And suddenly, there is actually essentially a 0% unemployment. But the new deal, as I said, does promote confidence. It does help Americans feel more better about the economy, the feel that the economy was gonna be headed in the right direction. That America had good leadership, that Congress and the president knew what was going on, and that they were responding to the problem. So the new deal is as much a psychological boost as it is really an economic and a political boost for the economy. In the long term, of course, the United States is fundamentally transformed by the new deal. It really encourages the federal government to serve as essentially a mediator between industry and citizens through things such as the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Wagner Act. It does redistribute wealth, certainly does. Wealthy people are taxed more. A lot of that money trickles down to middle and lower class people because of the new deal. It creates massive government bureaucracies like the Social Security Administration, some of the labor organizations, to help administer economic and social programs. And ultimately, it leads to the creation of a very limited welfare state in the United States. In other words, a safety net that people who are poor, who lose their jobs or who just are too old and have to retire will be taken care of at least in a very limited way by the government, that nobody is gonna be out on the street once they retire from their work in the United States. And this is sort of the notion of this limited welfare state. The government's not gonna provide everything, but the government will at least provide you with a very basic amount of money to help make things easier if you lose your job or to make things easier if you are old and you can't work. And so this is really, again, the long-term consequence of the new deal, is your source confidence, but it also produces a very limited welfare state that make it easier for Americans to get by, but also to make them more confident in the long-term prospects of the economy. And believe that no matter, that there wouldn't be another depression. The government would never allow another great depression to happen that would cause so many problems as the depression of 1929 through 19 through the mid-30s did.


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Well hello everybody and welcome to Little Garden on the Prairies. So just over about a week ago I took all my little snapdragon and pansy seedlings that I started from seeds I collected from flowers from my garden last fall, got them going under the grow lights and started transplanting individual seedlings into these 72 cells and they are really starting to take off and I'm very excited to have such a great crop of flowers that I grew pretty much for free ready to go into my garden in another month or so. So keep watching and I'll show you how I planted these up. And in this video we're also going to do some up potting of all these cuttings of coleases that I took. These things have some major roots going on them now. I should be able to get at least a dozen or so coleus plants going here in these three inch pots. So check out these little petunia seedlings that I have going here. These are Easy Wave Blue. So if you watched my previous video I collected these seeds from some petunia plants that I had just taken at the end of the season, cut off some branches, threw them into a paper bag and left them to dry over the winter. So we have some nice sized seedlings here now that are getting you know some true leaves so it's a good time to pull them out, thin them out and put them into some bigger cells. So I have this 72 cell tray that I'm going to use because I have four colors of petunias and I got two different colors of snapdragons and I want to try and get these 72 cells filled up with all of those seedlings. So you need some kind of little tool like this that you can use to make some holes into your cells here so you can easily put the little transplant in there. So I just even a pencil works. Just stick it in the hole and kind of make it as opening as wide as you can. And I've moistened this soil before I put them into the cells. So I'm just going to look for the biggest ones here and see which ones I can easily pull away from the soil without damaging the roots. So as you can see here I still got some nice set of roots there. There is almost five leaves on this right now. Then you just have to try to gently work it into the hole with your tool. Just press down the soil around it. Be careful not to damage the roots but get it in there good enough so it can take hold and keep growing. It's always hard to not save every thing that's brouts but you know being that I'm growing all sorts of different vegetables and a variety of flowers indoors I can only keep so much space for these flowers. So I will likely hang on to this tray of seedlings here for another week or two because I do have room for them still under the grow lights and keep an eye on these ones if any of them die or don't take off then I can still have a chance to fill the spaces here. So I've got blue wave written on there. I'll stick it at this end and just keep track of each of my rows here as I go along. So the other wave petunia that I got going here as you can see the seedlings are not near as big as that other tray of seedlings but there is a lot of very tiny ones still peeking through the dirt. It may be that I just buried these just a little deeper than the other ones so I'm just going to leave these under the grow lights like this. So we probably won't wait another week or so till I get some good-sized ones here before potting these up. So here are the white snap dragons and as you can see we've got really good germination from them as well. We just pull ever so gently it usually comes out root and all. So these have about four leaves and they're getting quite long and gangly so I thought maybe I need to get them into some better soil here. So I got these four rows planted up last night and I'm just back here tonight again. I had to mix up another batch of starting mix here. I like to sterilize it with boiling water before I use it. You want to make sure that you press this down really good so there's no air pockets and your roots have a good stronghold in there. So I'm just getting some more dirt here ready to do the coral snap dragons. As you can see here these guys that I planted up last night are still looking really good. They're all looking fairly perky. I have them under the grow lights and I will be using this tray underneath to bottom water them. So tonight I'm hoping to get a couple more rows going here. So these are the coral snap dragons. It looks like I have a lot of good healthy seedlings here that I can take from and pot them up. So I'm going to be using these three inch pots that I purchased from the Dalarama store last year. So these are pretty cheap little pots that I'm going to get at least two years use out of buck fifty at Dalarama. So I've only filled about a third of this container with some potting soil. Just going to press it down, set this in here. Then I'm just going to hold the coleus in here and throw some dirt in around it. Make sure you've got well moist and soil because these roots have been sitting in water now for a good month and they really want to get some moisture right away. We don't want to shock them. So there's not much to that. So I'm hoping that I'm going to be able to keep this coleus plant going in this container until it gets planted outdoors. I'm going to be doing some major cleaning in the garage. I have two big sunny windows in my garage. We have a heated garage. So that's going to make a great area to be able to take a lot of my seedlings once they get going. Take them from under the lights downstairs here. Put them in a sunny window and hopefully that's where they will stay until it's time to harden them off and get them ready to to grow outdoors. Okay so here is all my coleuses all planted up. I have got about a dozen or so going here now. If you haven't grown coleus before I really recommend just buying a couple plants even from the greenhouse or if you have seeds try to start them from seed and add them to your pots with your flowers. They are they really fill a pot nicely. They add a whole new kind of dimension of color. These leaves and everything really grow and fill the pots. So I'm a big fan of coleus so I hope you give it a try. So I did end up with quite a few extra petunia seedlings that didn't make it into my larger seed trays. I may have to plant up a few more.  So what I don't use will end up in the compost pile and these flowers will still help make my garden beautiful but just in a different way. So if you haven't already done so please click on that goat to subscribe and hit that notification bell so you don't miss out on any more videos on the channel. Thanks for watching.


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Okay, hello everybody, welcome. Thank you for joining us. Hi, I'm Peter. I'm going to be hosting this weekend. Welcome to our online retreat, Purposes Everything. And we have a beautiful weekend ahead of us. We have quite a variety of different sessions, and so Spirit's going to reach you in many different ways, whatever way you can hear, just what you need to hear. And we have people joining us from all across the world and quite a few new participants this weekend too, so welcome. For those who are just watching the preview here on YouTube, you can also sign up. There's still time to sign up, so please do. So for today, we are going to be joined by Francis and David. I will just quickly mention, we will also have a community session later on this evening with some beautiful sharing. We have a movie workshop tomorrow and a very full weekend. So to start with, I'm going to pass it over to you, David and Francis. Thank you. Thank you, Pete. Hi, Francis. Hi, everyone. Hi, David. Hi, everyone. So welcome. Wow. I know I'm going to have a lot of fun this weekend with a retreat titled Purpose Is Everything. How can you not have fun? It's going to be deep. Yeah, Francis and I were talking this morning about Purpose, and you were getting all lit up and fired up too with the topic. Some beautiful passages flowing into you from, of course, some interesting miracles about purpose. And yeah, it's like we have, we all have grown up with, with this word purpose. And we've associated with different things in form with our personality. What's our purpose specifically in this world, you know, what are we supposed to do? We've associated with the doings, but yeah, Francis, I'm reading some quotes today from Jesus that kind of lifted up from the horizontal and the everyday mundane definitions of purpose to a higher purpose. That's really what Jesus could call a true purpose, a more accurate purpose, experience of purpose. I actually just, I just want to read this one sentence, because it felt so meaningful and relaxing when I read it, and I trust it will bring you immediate peace. So this is just a one sentence from the course that Jesus talked about purpose. He said, you have been called together with your brother to the most holy function this world contains. It is the only one that has no limits and reaches out to every broken fragment of the sunship with healing and uniting comfort. So yeah, when I read it yesterday, actually, I felt particularly meaningful because, because, you know, at the beginning of this journey, I felt it was quite, I was quite clueless about what I was called into except there was a recognition of a joy and attraction when I pick up the course, when I go toward, you know, letting up all my darkness and joining with my brothers in a very authentic way. There was a, there was a bubbling joy that started to happen in my heart, which was very, very foreign to me. And I thought if I can feel this way, there is no reason I have to, you know, go back to this depressing state of trying to make it out in this world. If heaven is feeling this way to me in those little glints, and that's all I want. That's all I would give my life over to. So that was really the only conscious choice I think I made. I want this. That's, that's the conscious decision. I want happiness. I want this bubbly joy. And I want it to be forever for me. That's all that there is. Then just looking back, I feel like just with this desire and this purpose held in my mind, then suddenly this pathway showed up. And every single step has been given to this point when I see again, reading again in the course that Jesus said, he's been called together with your brother to the most holy function this world has. I feel like this is the truth that we can all relax into. This is something that we can now celebrate together and relax into. Because we have found our purpose, which is in the Holy Spirit, which is the Spirit's purpose. So we're going to, I think this is a very, very deep topic because it is really the one decision that sets, that solves everything. That's why David and I feel so excited because we have come to the core of the only choice there is. And we're going to really go deep into this topic. And my wish and my prayer is, may we come out of this retreat being reminded of our heavenly function, and may we be inspired to just give it all to Jesus so that we can be happy with him. Yeah. Yeah, I join you friends in that prayer. We want to be happy. We really deep, deep down inside want to be happy. And I can just see Jesus smiling and go, yeah, that's great. That's your, that's your birthright. That's your inheritance. That's sure everything. And purpose is, is the key. I remember Jesus has written a lot of books through this David character over the years and there's some big books that are like three books and one, you know, unwind your mind back to God. And, but the, the tiniest book that I ever had come through from Jesus, it's so tiny that Jesus says it's not really a book, it's just a little pamphlet.  If you had jeans on, you could take this little booklet is called purpose is the only choice. And I remember when I took that down. It was basically such a beautiful teaching, but it was very brief. But it was about how all the purposes that you've tried to follow in this world aren't really your purpose.  And Jesus is like, basically in the course he says, one question you can ask safely with any situation is what is it for. There's one place in the course where he tells us that there's one question we could ask safely with any situation. What is it for what is the purpose. And from the purpose you will perceive the situation you will perceive your, yourself, your brothers your sisters, all from that one question, what is it for. So I thought to start off today, you know, how many of you deep in your heart know that there's something called truth, and you've been on your journey to find the truth you know real simply. I want the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me God. What about if I told you that when I opened my heart to truth. Be show me show me the truth, reveal to me the truth show me the truth. What I got was. It's simple. It's almost like the Beatles you know write all these songs and then they, they write. Okay, give it to me. It's easy. All you need is love. You know, we feel that when we hear that song. There's something inside us that leaps because we do identify with it's easy. All you need is love. So Jesus has done many teachings over the years but I'm going to take his two tiniest teachings, and both of the teachings. Help us get a get a grasp on this purpose because in a sermon on the mount there was many things spoken but the smallest little bit in the sermon on the mount was judge not. Okay, he said judge not and then for 2000 years people have been trying to practice that one with great difficulty. Like it's sticky flypaper you know, I'm trying to Jesus I'm trying to follow your follow your instructions there 2000 years ago judge not and it's like, Oh, it's so sticky that it seems to be more than a bad habit. It seems to be stuck.   He was telling us in just two words that were to pass this world by we're not to get caught up in its complexities, or not to get caught up in its nuances. Judge not be passers by you want it short and simple. There it is. Judge not be passers by. So, when we go for this topic today purpose purposes everything we are basically saying, we are praying to be shown a purpose that that is not of this world it's a purpose that's inspired from the Holy Spirit the great disorder, the great corrector, the representative of God, in terms of a sleeping mind the Holy Spirit's purpose is what we're going for. And I guess we could start off Francis by saying that that basically this purpose of the Holy Spirit is completely different from anything you've ever learned or heard about the word purpose. We think of the purpose of a car, the purpose of a house, the purpose of a glass, the purpose of a hand, you know, the purpose of a career, the purpose of a family, the purpose of you name it a job. We have been convinced of purposes that the ego made up and Jesus is just saying I want you to come in side to the Holy Spirit and realize that the purpose of forgiveness is completely unlike anything that you've ever associated ever in your life with this word purpose. So I think that's that's a good place to start. That's, that's, we have to really be open to having been wrong about everything we thought about purpose to be shown to be revealed what the Holy Spirit's purposes. I think that's that's why this journey feels so different because we are saying yes, because the purpose is in the mind. So when we say yes, we're saying yes to in our mind to join the Holy Spirit. That's really our willingness to say yes. I actually read just read this recently Jesus says, you know, the world is used to heal the Son of God. That's really the only purpose the Holy Spirit gives the world. And it's a collaborative effort, which means that I, Jesus, I will tell you what to do. But you have to trust that I know and you have to want to hear the guidance. So that's the collaboration he's talking about. So what he is saying is the whole purpose of this world is completely retranslated by the Holy Spirit to something you would never know. But you can play your part by wanting to hear the Holy Spirit guidance to guide you throughout this journey. And by trusting that I know by trusting that he knows is very, very important because the temptation I know for myself, starting with a very intellectual mind is trying to figure out big time. What the purpose is. If okay, if, if, if I'm not going to do this, if this doesn't make me happy, then how do I, you know, understand everything else along this awakening journey. How do I do? How do I forgive this situation? For, you know, joy in my relationships as if I can actually figure out and understand how to reach heaven. But the biggest learning for me along this journey is realizing that we actually have a divine helper with us. And it is his purpose to translate everything to us if we're willing to listen. So that means that we cannot understand anything unless we choose to join with the Holy Spirit first, unless we choose to have peace and forgiveness first. But it also makes the journey very, very simple. Very, very simple.  Careless of everything except the purpose that you're given. And we're given this heavenly purpose in every single moment. And I, when I read that, I thought, wow, I've never heard Jesus say to me, be careless, be careless, be careless of everything. That really caught my attention and I like that. That, that is how different it is. We're not going to try to figure out the form of things and what this world means to us, what every situation. And every, you know, everything means for us, except we're going to be saying yes, and let the Spirit tell us in every single situation. Yeah. So when you look, even at a Course in Miracles and you think, wow, it's a course. Jesus says it's a required course, only the time you take it is voluntary. But even a Course, you, you tend to think of learning the Course and then the more you get deeper into it. You're like, oh, it looks like he wants me to unlearn everything. I thought for sure this was a Course in learning and now it looks like, oh, oh, it's, it's going in the other direction. It's more empty my mind unlearn everything that I've ever learned unlearn the purposes I gave to everything as an ego. Unlearn everything I ever learned in the past. And, and again, Francis and I were, we like to speak from our experiences, you know, Francis and I spent about 23 years combined in the university. I see Mariana from over in Spain, you're from university, we can relate Mariana can relate to us, you know, we were in that university game, you know, playing the roles with, you know, helping teachers having being in graduate assistance. I mean, you know, there's a lot of work with undergrad and grad and it just goes on and on it's like a game. And when you're part of it. It's, it's like how do I step out and live the course now. And that's what we're going to do we're going to talk about that because, because it does require the willingness to be shown the Holy Spirit's purpose of forgiveness that even in the metaphysics of a Course in miracles. Jesus tells us, you know, into eternity where all is one there crept a tiny mad idea, which the Son of God remembered not to laugh. And he's describing this little puff of nothingness ego it's a false belief of about identity and about everything.  Wow. There goes my biblical training from Genesis in the Genesis and the Bible that God created the heavens and the earth. But in workbook lesson 14 already just 14 out of 365. He says God did not create a meaningless world. And he's teaching us that the ego made time and space who. Oh my gosh that's that's a big one. And then I was reading through the course for years and going deeper deeper and then I remember the first time I came up on the place in the text where Jesus said, he referred to the maker of another world, and he capitalized maker. Oh, you got me spinning now. So God didn't create this world. The ego made this world. And now there's a capital M maker of another world. And he's like, he's referring to the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit answered the distorted, deceived fragmented world that the ego made up with a holistic, beautiful, shiny, forgiven world. And he calls it the happy dream. Oh my gosh, the Holy Spirit made the happy dream that's my gift from God, even while I'm perceiving a world there's a happy dream. Well that must be associated with this purpose that I'm supposed to follow, because if the Holy Spirit is the capital M maker of this other world. Jesus does refer to this even in lesson 129 of the workbook beyond this world is a world I want. There's a workbook lesson that that praise and ask to let me see your holy world. Ooh, he's putting holy world, two words together that that I thought I didn't think went together but he's talking about the happy dream. And then in the simplest way to say it, the happy dream is is a dream without judgment. It's like you have to behold the world in a new way. Then, then you ever saw it before you have to let go of all aspects of the past to behold the forgiven world. That's our gift. Forget the Christmas gifts. This is a gift that our mind needs. We don't need perfume and some ornaments we actually need. We need forgiveness. We need the true experience of forgiveness. I think what it's been for both Francis and I was it took it it's just taking a willingness to go in that direction because our past learning is saying you know, you've got to personally meet all your needs. And Jesus is saying no actually I will provide for you if you trust and listen to me. In the world, the world says you're responsible for lots of things. That's part of being a mature citizen of the world is to be a responsible mature citizen of the world and Jesus is like, Well, why don't you give me that responsibility word that's so heavy for you. And, and give it to me and I'll give it back to you in a new way I'll retranslate it. Ah, you're responsible for your state of mind. Oh, thank you. You're responsible for accepting the correction. Oh, good. I like that. You're not responsible for the world the ego made why would you be responsible for the egos errors. If the ego is not you. Why should you take on the egos errors if the ego is not you. So, this weekend, we're just going into this so deeply to start to realize that that we have to let go of trying to be in charge of our own awakening. Because you cannot wake.


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So welcome everyone, I'm James Shulman from the American Council of Learned Societies and I'm gonna get us started because we have great speakers and I want to get give them plenty of time a few thoughts on the Commission on fostering and sustaining diverse digital scholarship that Last spring if any of you are in Denver anyone Denver for okay We got a few people so we had a great session with three of the members of this Commission Mary Emma Graham Meredith Evans and Maria Cotata talking about their collection building efforts and In a lot of some of the people on the Commission have built over time, you know amazing collection digital collections and they talked about that path and the collection building and then as one aspect of What this Commission is looking at? I wanted to thank any H and Mellon who both helped support this commission and I want to also think if anyone in the room has participated in one of 23 focus groups that we conducted as part of this Commission, so 23 separate groups because when we heard about when we talked to the people who led an earlier commission in 2004-5 That ACLS the cyber infrastructure for the humanities Project they felt like they didn't have enough time with enough community So we had 23 groups so for publishers for groups of librarians and archivists department chairs in English department chairs in history Clear fellows so all different groups So we were really trying to get cover the landscape that those focus groups one of the advantages of zoom is we have transcripts for everything those focus groups will be the sort of the backbone of of the Upcoming report and it's wonderful to have all that recorded So the report itself the substance is there We've we have a draft that we've been reviewing and talking with each of the 21 commissioners about Substances there, but the rhetorical Framing is is the next job to take all this material covering Digital work in a range of fields in every aspect of digital work from from soup to nuts and Try to make sure that it's talking to the right audiences in the right way So that's that's sort of the update part of the update on the report and I'm now going to talk Just briefly on one slide before turning it over my colleagues So this is a little bit of the outline. This is the outline These are all links so if if we wanted to let you in under the hood and see all crazy draft You could follow these links, so I got fix that before we submit this to CNI But and just to give you a sense of the structure of their of the the report of the of the commission So they're really three major sections one is the top line for those who are far from the text Rebalancing the relationship between higher education and various community outside communities outside the gates So It's highlighted in green because to some degree that's what one of our presenters Gabby Ventura is going to talk about today The second category is the role of institutions in the challenge of institutional change self-explanatory, but not easy to do And then a section a large section on infrastructures of various kinds and Carol is going to talk about that And so you see under infrastructures there are Seven or eight different topics. I think eight different topics and one of them is human resources pipelines and labor and To some degree and whatever degree He is inclined Professor Ken Ramsey is going to touch on that so those the reason those two are highlighting green is because two of our commissioners are here today Let me just say a word about About our speakers so Carol Mandel many of you know Dean emerita the libraries at NYU and really Someone that I've worked with for a long time, but I can't think enough for how hard she works on this project Just unbelievable amount of so the energy that went into running a major research university library We're supposed to have like a quarter of her time or something like that and we have like 110 percent of that energy So I'm very grateful for that and then two of our 21 commissioners are here So one is Gabby Ventura from University of Houston who also has more energy than than any 27 people I know so she runs Arte Publico the the preeminent Spanish publishing and and bilingual publishing house And then she also runs the You know US Latina digital humane's project, which is not a project It's a cluster of projects based at the University of Houston and she's a full-time professor And she teaches and she writes and she does more than that And so we're just delighted that she could make time to come up here Kenton Ramsey professor camps Kenton Ramsey now at Howard University as of like three weeks ago Before that at the University of Texas in Antonio has written a book and on the geographies of African-American short fiction and I Hesitate to tell you about his book because it's sort of the most reductive Manifestation of an incredibly active mind and digital practice. He he did his PhD at University of Kansas working with Mary Emma Graham and working on the history of black writing and He lives and breathes Digital scholarship and and literary scholarship. He also teaches a course called the JZ course which Locates the the artists in the history of autobiography and semi-autobiographical work, and it's probably a lot more fun than the course I talk taught on autobiography which was like Russo and St. Augustine So so I'd rather take Kenton's class any day. Anyway thrilled to have these three speakers And I'm going to turn it over to Kenton to start us off. All right. Good morning I'm gonna share first off I'm really happy to be here today to kind of report on what's going on with the commission is very diverse And I have a few prepared notes that I want to talk about in all of this as even as James mentioned my interest in JZ I got a incredible reminder of how I started this journey around 2009 working in the actual spaces of libraries I visited the Brooklyn Museum to see the exhibit and once again. I was inspired Particularly seeing so many black faces in the Brooklyn library and how can these spaces? How is it more than just books going on? So I want to kind of report on a little bit of this as a member of a CLS is commissioned on fostering diverse scholarship I've gained valuable insight into the challenges and opportunities in digital scholarship today I'll share those some personal stories of mine to highlight our discussions and how some of these recommendations have been made I want to stress the critical role of libraries and librarians in digital humanities research specifically in data work my Experiences enriched by libraries and interactions with spaces have shaped my development as a scholar So through a brief personal timeline I aim to illustrate the depth of our discussions and kind of talk about how networks infrastructure and labor are a part of all of this so from 2009 to 2010 in my undergraduate years delving into metadata catalogs at the Schumberg and Harlem and Arben Avenue Research Library in Atlanta highlighted the pivotal role of librarians and librarians Libraries and librarians in shaping my journey as an African-American lit scholar These experiences emphasize the importance of the actual space of brick-and-mortar library as a young black 20-year-old Didn't these early encounters showcased that libraries transcend more than just book repositories? So my key takeaway from this first part was how do we expand access to spaces for students? How can we ensure successful programs continue and serve as models for others most importantly? How do we foster inclusivity to make diverse groups feel comfortable in libraries? These questions guide our path forward emphasizing the integral role of librarians and libraries in shaping the future of digital humanities research and I should also point out Excuse me that I met my undergrad I mean my graduate advisor at the Schumberg as we were talking about digital scholarship again These were a networks that weren't necessarily formal, but how have I benefited from them is what I'd like to talk about Next I want to talk about My time in graduate school and my graduate studies at the University of Kansas library and rising Brian Rosenblum's mentor mentorship in DH was pivotal Sparking a profound exploration of leveraging data for the study of black novels Teaming up with Brian we identified the scarcity of quantitative studies on black novels leading to the creation of the 100 novels project This initiative surveyed a diverse body of African-American literature emphasizing tack data significance in literary databases and addressing gaps in accounting for variations in race class and gender Again with Professor Mary McGrown, we secured a grant evolving this into the black book project That's us sought to look at over a thousand novels in essence My graduate school experience underscored the importance of collaborating with colleagues of Brian as well as Brian I had sustained consistent and supervised DH training even before this world of DH actually began Now most recently during my tenure as an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Arlington I worked closely with data librarian piece awesome Williamson to curate data sets on black literary art our collaborations extended to transforming data and to interact the visualizations contributing to publications and creating a DH training materials all aimed at empowering Students with research methods at the intersection of data-driven research and black studies When I first met piece in 2015 We shit we bonded over our shared frustration of the lack of content on black subjects and this fueled a five-year journey for us We developed courses that bridge the gaps between metadata visualizations and black studies Introducing scholars to digital research methodologies and promoting digital research formats One solution centered around data storytelling or emphasizing effective communication through narratives and visualizations The key takeaway here is that the importance of meaningful Collaborations meeting with peace a month into joining as an assault assistant professor at UTA opened the doors to crucial Collaborations, how can we encourage and facilitate such interactions and collaborations for others in? Closing I want us to back up and think about this exposure to data-driven research consistent and supervised DH training and meaningful collaborations is being somewhat of an Unofficial a network a hidden or seemingly hidden network So reflecting on my academic journey Libraries as a physical space and librarians and collaborators stand out as pivotal to my development a key recommendation for me Is that I actively advocate for bringing diverse groups into the physical spaces to showcase the possibilities of scholarship Now at Howard University as I reimagined black studies in the 21st century Involving librarians is a critical solution my focus as a professor of black literature is on Encourage is encouraging new scholars to enter this realm. How do we encourage people to do that? So drawing parallels between current digital scholarship and the 1968 San Francisco University student strike where the black student union Emphasized preparing black students for community struggles. I consider how can digital technologies enhance black literary studies in the age of big data? However, the crucial question remains where do students and scholars get trained in digital scholarship in navigating the future of digital scholarship networks Mentorship and other advantages are essential in summary this overglue view glimpses into our meaningful discussions Synthesizing the salient points for future recommendations I take pride in this work on this commission underscoring the transformative role of libraries And I hope that at least a little bit through my own personal timeline It kind of it uncovers how we talked about at least really promoting libraries at the center of this discussion of sustaining digital research Thank you Buenos dias. Buenas tardes Um So The title of my talk is archives community and digital scholarship proof of existence. I think I Thank James Shulman and Carol Mandel for the invitation to speak on this panel today and of course for their invitation to be part of this prestigious a Group of scholars who have come together to really think about the future of Digital archives and in scholarship for our future generations. I Open this talk with a call to action from Chicana scholar and activist Sherry Moraga from with who in her latest novel reminds us of the precarity of memory if we do not actively work toward Documenting our history who will how can we move forward towards the future if we do not have a past to hold on to In this sense the work that we have been doing at the University of Houston through art the public oppressed the recovering the US Hispanic literary heritage program in the US Latino Digital Humanities Center has been fundamental in the creation of spaces at center Latina's voices and lives in the present with an eye to the future Art the public oppressed is a nonprofit publishing house It was funded and directed by dr. Nicolás cannellos in an effort to create a publishing venue for Latinos in the US The press has published and to date more than 750 titles with only 10% of them going out of out of print The titles are published for children youth and adults in English Spanish and bilingualy in the 1990s cannellos and a group of scholars and specialists in various disciplines language literature history political science Sociology in the US came together to work towards the creation of a program that would document preserve and make available the written legacy of Latinos from the colonial period until 1980 because as we were working on contemporary publications We were realizing that there was so many more materials that were in existence already in the US that were not being archived Anywhere in the US so under the careful guidance and leadership of librarians, especially the work of el betia martell From the Center for Puerto Rican Studies. They developed a very sturdy Infrastructure for digitization metadata curation and post custodial praxis Today the recovery program is an alternative digital archive Who is working who has worked very closely with our colleagues at the University of Houston libraries? Special collections to hold all the physical materials that we produce so in the past 40 40 years the recovery program has recovered in microfilm thousands of original books manuscripts and archival items In ephemera in English Spanish French and Latino digitized in microfilm 1500 historical newspapers digitized of escalation of photographs created an extensive authority list of approximately 5000 writers published the first comprehensive anthologies of Latino literature build databases in bibliography held by annual conference by annual conferences which by the way We will be hosting our next conference in April and you're all welcome to to to Houston Printed over 45 volumes of recovered materials Build partnerships with national and international archives institutions and organizations so that we can return cultural National patrimonies back to the original countries right to Dominican Republic Cuba Mexico Spain we've also created an interdisciplinary board of specialists and thus established the field of US Latino studies As we know it today all these activities include working with graduate and undergraduate students in their professionalization in humanities By learning how to build these networks right in and in learning through primary resources Archival practices digital humanities from an ethical and holistic way that Centres the communities that inform the investigation the communities that are represented in in all of our work Have a their first seat at the table and they As much as possible give us the opportunity and inform what we do with those with those The visualizations or publications that we derive from there What follows are some of the examples of the work that we have created over the past Seven years through the creation of the US Latino Digital Humanities Center, which was Funded in great part by the Mellon Foundation Don waters and Patricia Shway who are our like God parents Really have ushered us and moved and allowed us to extend and leverage the work that are the public when recovery had been doing for the past 40 years into the future This center is an extension of the recovery program. So we built digital exhibits maps We do text analysis Twitter bots. We publish open source digital editions Data sets with free low bandwidth software that can be accessed through a phone, right? We work with as much as possible with software that allows us to produce materials in Spanish And so as you can see as you will see these activities are allowing us to take the archive that used to live Would often live behind institutional walls into the hands of our community who are now seeing themselves Represented in the archives and special collections. So this first example that I have is of the Alonso Perales collection This is the archive of one of the founders of the League of United Latin American citizens One of the oldest Hispanic civil rights organizations founded in 1929 the family Gave the collection to to the recovery program because they wanted it to be processed immediately and to be put into the hands of users When the collection was transferred to special collections to the University of Houston One of the boxes was returned to us because it included several envelopes that did not have a letter attached to it So the archivist the art to our team members that is a main field who was a volunteer And Lorena Gautaro who is our digital programs manager took the the items back and after carefully looking at the Envolos decided to extract the metadata from them They then proceeded to create a map that documented the important role that Alonso Perales played in the US Community from 1920 to 1960 So if you look at the map you see his the reach that this one person had before we had internet access and or anything else So you can see his his his his home was in San Antonio and his his reach is Broad and wide across the United United States Thus representing the the presence of a Latino community who was actively documented and and Documenting the cases of discrimination that were happening at all over the US in his records We find a whole set of approximately 1500 affidavits that document this the next example that I want to talk to you about really quickly is is the is our the our junior scholars program that we instituted Just recently through the digital archive in in in US leh So what we're doing is we're taking the digital archive and in digital training into the elementary schools as we know Our education in Texas is under attack There's a there's been a state takeover of the largest District in the Houston area and so with modest funding from a partnership with Lula council. We took All these materials into the archive we trained 75 students how to incorporate primary resources into Into a digital project into a digital timeline. So you see here students writing selecting researching Working together collaboratively to create a digital timeline that would allow them to showcase and see that they have a part in making history Students at the end felt that they were powerful because they now knew that history could be rewritten That history has is made up of many voices Ganadores y perdedores winners and losers that even little fourth graders with with with a minimal Knowledge of English or Spanish knew that their history and the in the input that they brought into history was very valuable And the very last example that I want to give you is we created an art community Archiving day so that we could bring in and bring The Houston community the Latino community together in a space to provide them with preservation kits Allow them to digitize their materials to talk to an archivist and it was a very productive activity As you can see the we had one of our state representatives Cristina Morales who is the the founder and director of Morales funeral home one of the first funeral homes set up to During the the Jim Crow area when there was a lot of segregation in Texas And so she brought in all of her records and she brought in her mother's Grandmothers that side Bible which included a lot of you know important documents that were saved within that within the Bible and so She she entrusted us with this with this Bible And so we're now consulting with scholars and digital humanists across the nation to see how best to you know To to to preserve this and also to make it available as a visual exhibit people documented places that no longer exist in Houston that were Latino based and The last thing that I know my time is up But I want to mention that one of the last things that we showcase is that there was brought to us it really is bringing our work really full circle Somebody brought in The their mother's apron so to me this really documents the the how our community is is seeing that their Artifacts that their personal materials belong in an archive that there's a space for them that we should safeguard them That we should when we look at that apron and we see the grease strength the grease stains We see an an active mother a woman who is not only mothering her immediate family But she's also mothering a community that is that is that is active and that has always been present in the US I'll read just the last two lines of my conclusion, which is I'm sorry for this So we know that these efforts continue all these efforts that we are putting forward throughout the public or recovery USLDH Continue to strengthen the pathways that will teach us to recover and celebrate the past now as Michelle Caswell Marica C4 Mario H. Ramirez are our colleague Librarians and archivist are reminding us that if we can preserve and document our history now we can firmly and In securely walk into our future understanding that there are generations That will not have to look back to see if they did have roots because they have always been here. Thank you So Thank You Gabby. Thank you Ken and So I am actually not going to talk about all those eight infrastructure layers. I think Gabby and Kent and I've given you a Good feel for these these kind of layers of community and layers of personal connection and networking and training Because this is C&I I'm gonna I want to I want help And I want help from all of you and and the folks in the competing Presentations, maybe they can come and help us when they see the recordings to talk about the the platforms and and technologies Aspects of of what we're doing and and So, you know this gang at C&I has for like 25 years been talking about You know the digital humanities and how to support and sustain it and how to preserve it and There's just been terrific work and And the challenges continue remain You know this I'm not gonna go all of go through This these are all Familiar to you and and I you know put the last one support support support I think you heard a lot about what support has meant To to work that's important and going on what I want to do Today is is put the lens of diverse digital scholarship the work in Digital work in racial and social justice. I want to put the that lens on these issues So we're all working on them, but I think when you put that lens on it It might change priorities or perspectives or urgencies or what we might do first. So that's what I Want to do today. So, okay, I wasn't sure how these actually worked Sorry, they didn't do that on my computer They're doing it the way I wanted it, but um, so as you heard Important work is happening outside as well as within institutions and as you can imagine And know that's really a challenge for what kind of technologies folks can have available to them What kind of platforms they can use and and even as great tools have been Developed with it still presents enormous challenges for sustainability and preservation So you you know communities have tools. They're doing things You heard from Maria Cotera and in the spring and when I asked her what keeps her up at night You know, this was her this was her answer, which won't surprise any of you, but it it really does say well Where we you know, how do we work on? We're not just here and institutions working working on this um, oh So does my next one slide into okay, so and as As you've heard important work is being done not just in our One institutions that have the resources to build repositories and create Technologies and support, but it's being done all across different kinds of Institutions by folks who have different pressures on them different kinds of support You heard I know I know you did because we shared a Platform a program platform at last this time last year with Allison leaving when she talked about the summer Institute of Brown for HBCU scholars that want to do digital work And they get great training in that three weeks at Brown and then they go back to real life and the the kinds of workloads that they have and Really they have to rely on support from other places and other institutions and other help desks If they're gonna get help because they're not getting it at home and that provide you know So we have to think about how do these infrastructures reach across? institutions Okay float And in when communities and when you're working with this kind of content the creators And I think Gabby really brought that home that communities need to have access to it and be empowered to Control and govern it and that all has implications, you know It's one thing to work within our walls are cultivated walls institutional gardens but when you open those up it creates all kinds of challenges and I think Mercutu is a you know a platform familiar to many of you and if not please look into it and him Christian one of our commissioners has Spoken a lot about why it was created and the way it enables communities to Describe things in the way they want to describe them and share them or not share them in the way they want to share them And it's a great model. It's got lots of uses And an R1 institution, you know Washington State helped create it, but it Promulgated widely, but it's a it's a it we need more of it. We need more people using it We need to make sure it thrives and survives. It has its own challenges. Also, it's a platform for Description and access. It's it's not a preservation And as we look at repository work Here's a quote from one of our 23 So we wait I was talking about how the humanities commons core is trying to look at what kinds of features are needed For community control, and it's a you know, it's a tricky concept preservation and holding it close versus letting people in say no, I want to take it out brings a whole other level of challenges to look at and And We as we talked in the focus groups It was clear that this kind of work needs very Wide audience. I mean that's always been true digital humanists. How do you create for any? Digital humanists in lots of fields. How do you create a trade book? For a digital humanities project. How do you make a bestseller out of it? and as And more and more of this kind of work needs to reach very different kinds of audiences Darcy Collin who's in charge of the Raven space project, which brings indigenous cultural content into actually a online kind of Rich publication University of British Columbia press talks about how they're discovering how wide their audience needs to be how different it is from the way They're used to doing outreach it brings all a whole variety of other kinds of outreach problems and Well outreach challenges and opportunities And I think that really overarching Issue is that because this work is reparative and And rediscovers and fills this deep gap of untold stories We can't fill that gap and then let it disappear once we've done you know So there's this just imperative for sustainability and preservation That I mean I think just listening to the folks here may make clear. I was very struck by the way John strupe at Princeton talked about it in one of our focus groups and so I'll read some of that The quote that Sustainability has to be a pillar of how we present any initiatives going forward and he was thinking about the Project they've done at Princeton and Princeton slavery. We're putting forward something that reflects not just scholarship But a different view on how I'm on values at our institution is shifting and we Risk saying well, this was important now and now we're done, you know, we can't treat this as a trend If we're going to move this front and center It's got to stay for a time that goes well past the span of any of our careers. So I think that just Really struck me and it's really hard So You know, I'm not gonna take these one at a time. I'm gonna bring them all up in the interests of time some of the things that we're Looking at as kind of objectives for recommendations or directions for recommendations It's become pretty clear to us And this was true of digital humanities in general But because there's been a lot of grant support for this kind of work that institutions really need to realize that Humanists actually work together. They don't just work alone that they actually You know need administrative support for grants and funding that they hire people and and they certainly have you know Data sets and lots of Technology and that requires a kind of rethink within their departments women their schools within the institution When we look I mean, I know that Everybody at CNI is working all the time to fill in the puzzle pieces of infrastructure that will manage data bring it forward preserve things but when we I think we just need to be bolder and Faster because this work is so important and we need to take More new approaches and give it higher priority and especially some of the repository parts of that work We need to funding we need to look at funding approaches that Don't just say oh, that's a great new project go out and do it But also help us find work on infrastructure and sustainability and on maintenance If we have to redo something and that's a change I think in funding priorities and it's been very clear talking in our focus groups that folks need help across institution and That we need third-party kinds of organizations to that can help so where are these help desks coming from and I'm just kind of describing there some of the kinds of support that we need to be giving so Our recommendations are gonna focus on how we can create more environments more programs Organizations and kind of purposeful convenings. I'm gonna look to cliff. I haven't had a chance to you know of we need a I don't know a CNI take off or ways to convene around some of these questions so that we can keep working in focused ways across all kinds of Disciplines where we can put all these different Expertises and perspective together so So we're gonna need your help is all I can say something We definitely have a few minutes for for questions or comments or suggestions So he's helpful to have a joining rooms because you hear the clapping and Carol knew it was time to stop so Welcome thoughts questions concerns of any kind Jen Stringer from Getty I'm wondering how when you were talking about you know technical support and infrastructure So my my mind is sort of spinning on there are lots of open-source platforms But many smaller cultural heritage groups don't have the technical wherewithal to actually you know get he has something called arches Welcome to use it. Good luck. You know what I mean and so I'm wondering if If you had more specific recommendations around You know ways to create collaborations or you know fund shared Infrastructure and resources, you know how anyway, I'm just interested in your thoughts on how that that that might work I should make James So I'll answer by saying that the recommendations are still in process So so that's a great feedback. It's certainly something that we all have experienced it in the in the commission We've talked a lot about how what those reciprocal relationships are with communities and including what? What a community should put in its MOU when it gets involved with the university like here's what we need from you Rather than just you know, okay. Thanks for your help and where are you now? So so I think I think Scalable and supportable Platforms and tools and usable tools. I mean Maria who spoke last year uses Clouder because she finds you know And obviously there's not gonna be one answer one platform But for for the communities that she works with they she finds for describing Objects and data. It's been very helpful and very a little training goes a long way so so I think that's that that would be the the gist of Realistic relationships so that provide the kind of support that actually help projects both go forward and also be taken care of Stewarded in the right ways ethically over the longer term But that's another example as Maria gets help from Illinois to use Clouder And so it's a cross institutional support Even though she said an R1 and and so We're not gonna have a list of and we need but but I think if we can really Articulate some of the kinds of things that we need and then create You know start knocking on doors or create convenings where people can talk about that You know so it's it's the beginning of the moving in directions So thank you for what you just said because it was perfect and I asked one more question I'm also thinking about connecting disparate archives to your point of how do you follow? Things in sort of you know that are connected. I'm thinking of that idea of link data and and And good and using vocabularies in the right way and yet not putting this tremendous burden on these smaller Institutions and organizations that are just trying to collect the stuff and preserve it You know and so I'm just anyway. It's another thought to put out there in terms of you know Encouraging whatever the right practices are that allow these things to not only live on but be discoverable Beyond just you know that small subset of scholarship and I I think that's you know, you'll see the PID suggestion there and and also You know, I think coherent digital for example if you've looked at its products It's a way is such a lightweight way of being able to pull up and link and find information. So that's the kind of Overlays and lightweight, you know, what is what are the few most important things because how much can you expect from? communities to do Can I add something? Oh, please do? Community small communities are using some of these material I mean there they are you know, they they are knowledgeable of some of these, you know The uses of metadata and in these protocols They may not have enough trained people to do it But it is happening because a lot of these community organizations do want their materials to be discoverable So I think it's also a shift from a lot of these organizations to begin to think about like James said How can we serve these communities and incorporate them because they they're existing and they're working with those but those Parameters have not thought of them, right? They're not they're not created for them And so we do a lot of a rewriting Subject headings, you know working with Library of Congress to correct and to better Describe the materials that we have because we want you know, we're part of the system, but we're not included in the I hope my question is less than a minute for response. It's for the scholars Hello, I'm Athena and I have the pleasure and honor to work with Gabby at the University of Houston And I hope we are doing the best we can for her organization because it's really important to the libraries I hope you know that So my question is to both of you You spoke in your original in your first Talk about space and the place and we're in it at an event centered on digitization and Network, but I also am from Latinx background and I do see the value of our Reclaiming space the physical space and I was curious what if you had any pondering ponderings on how we can connect space and this Work for our students and for our communities and our institutions if you have any recommendations or ideas That'd be really helpful. And if you want to connect you to see and I I know went off script But I thought this would be a good opportunity to ask that Yeah, I might start on thinking about that as one thing I should say I'm a Mellon fellow as well So every connection to the library was facilitated word of mouth wise word of mouth Oh, you should go here and check this out and while just happening to be there I would happen upon other people who would say things so even as we're thinking about even the structural things with this particularly I'm thinking about how do we even get people in a space to even have Conversations to begin with and then one of the things that I am seeing is just like again going back to my example of Visiting the Brooklyn public library having different types of exhibits that might speak to different types of audiences Is at least I think one of the first steps in inviting people into these spaces again I think so much can happen from conversations even when thinking about Infrastructure for the future, but how do we even get different voices in a single room to even start expressing those concerns freely? So again, this is just my idea about this but a lot of different types of exhibits that actually invite you into the space Gotcha I think I would just add echoing what Kenton said also I know the the physical space and as as an amazing Dean has said many times to our Constituents the library is the heart of the university we write it it pulses for the university and it shares, you know all the lifelines But even saying this are now our current library now has you know a check-in ID Where you in order for you to access the space, you know You have to you know be a student or you have to be a member or you or you have to have an ID so Maybe taking the library that opening that space to other places outside within the university campus, right? Going maybe to the dorms or having like public events events at a community center where the University of Houston libraries or any other library goes into these spaces to really Show that there is a commitment right of outreach into the into their communities because you know Our communities are now aware that they belong but there's still barriers that are there You know the infrastructure continues to put on because you know whether we like it or not They continue to tell us that we don't belong there, right? So so I think that that presence physical presence outside of those spaces goes a very long way Thank you for getting Gabby and Kent to keep helping us with recommendations That was our unofficial ending Now I'm gonna provide our official ending which is that thank you all I mean we would love to hear from you as as thoughts circulated in your echo in your ear You know again the timetable for this is in the first quarter of the year We're actually now we we have something like 80 quotes from Commissioners and or focus group participants that we're vetting with them. We're also working on Illustrations, you know strategic illustrations to sort of liven up the report and we're looking at Platforms to publish it on so that it can be both a linear report, but also can have access for different people you know if you're a vice provost for research or if you're You know a department chair in the humane's department. You might be interested in more, you know entering in non-linear ways So those are the things where we can now and and spinning out soon But I just I just want to say you know what a great honor and treat It is to work with the 21 people on these on this commission because as you've seen You know we could spend all day with each of them And so so thank you both for for joining us today and thank you all for for joining us for this discussion