Jesse Hocking

Acquisitions Coordinator, American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress

[Jesse Hocking @jessejhocking]

Two exciting digital archivist jobs @librarycongress American Folklife Center to work on Community Collections Grants preserving self-documentation projects by historically underrepresented communities. $64,957 - $84,441 per year. Apply by 12/12/2023. https://t.co/CJurJstvkL

[Jesse Hocking @jessejhocking]

@av_morgan Congrats! So glad to have you at LoC! Come visit AFC if you’re ever on Capitol Hill.

[Jesse Hocking @jessejhocking]

Big event! Join us to celebrate the @kitchensisters archive of sound and research material coming to the @librarycongress American Folklife Center

[The Kitchen Sisters @kitchensisters]

TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE!
Join The Kitchen Sisters Live in DC @librarycongress w/ Frances McDormand & @LibnOfCongress Carla Hayden to celebrate the Library's acquisition of The Kitchen Sisters entire archive. 9/15/22. This is a FREE event. See you there! https://t.co/EXIt8yqX7R

[Jesse Hocking @jessejhocking]

@dwhockstein @librarycongress Awesome, congrats!! Glad to have you at the LOC

[Jesse Hocking @jessejhocking]

@ablwr excited for this!

[BitCurator Consortium @bitconsortium]

📣Calling all digital-curation-curious students and new professionals!

Register to attend the BCC Students & New Professionals Coffee Hour on April 13, 2022 at 2pm ET: https://t.co/7lGWSh3yGc

[Jesse Hocking @jessejhocking]

Digital curation educators and students, please join us for these introductory events over the next few months!

[BitCurator Consortium @bitconsortium]

📣#BitCuratorEdu and @bitconsortium are holding a series of FREE events for students and educators interested in digital curation.

Learn more and register: https://t.co/RIasThze6g

[Jesse Hocking @jessejhocking]

Great piece about our partnership with the @kitchensisters Thanks @LizReidPGH! https://t.co/7bxTGnkhlY via @currentpubmedia

[Jesse Hocking @jessejhocking]

Beyond excited to be working with the @kitchensisters to bring their exceptional work to the @librarycongress!

[Library of Congress @librarycongress]

NEWS: The Library is acquiring the @kitchensisters full body of work, including more than 7,000 hours of audio, photos, handwritten journals, podcasts and storybooks. More: https://t.co/tih0aK9mC1

[Jesse Hocking @jessejhocking]

One week left to apply: Digital Projects Coordinator at the American Folklife Center, LOC. Starts at $72,750-$94,581 with promotion potential. Come work with me on digital acquisitions and guide other significant projects! https://t.co/EDc4ckEvP7

[Jesse Hocking @jessejhocking]

Very happy to share via NPR's @MorningEdition about these incredible oral histories coming to the American Folklife Center https://t.co/ONpp7oVozF

[Carla Hayden @LibnOfCongress]

By inviting communities of color and other underrepresented groups to partner on a wider, more inclusive path for connection to the @librarycongress, we invest in an enduring legacy of the multifaceted American story that truly is ‘Of the People.

[Jesse Hocking @jessejhocking]

The American Folklife Center @librarycongress is hiring an archivist! Come work with incredible cultural documentation, and help us expand access to digital and multi-format collections in a primarily audiovisual archives. Open until Aug. 3: https://t.co/LU7PGgeQxc

[Jesse Hocking @jessejhocking]

We're hiring two paid summer interns! $7,500 for ten weeks, working with folklife and cultural documentation. No requirement to be in or out of school. https://t.co/4xQbMoNtHj

[Jesse Hocking @jessejhocking]

AFC has launched a multimedia #StoryMap about the Black Freedom Struggle in the Southeast, by my colleague Guha Shankar: https://t.co/gPVVgTFaDI

[Library of Congress @librarycongress]

NEWS: This morning, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the American Folklife Center will house the National AIDS Memorial Quilt Archive, containing 200,000+ photos, bios, letters & other artifacts of the lives memorialized on Quilt panels. https://t.co/YOuMCygC3v #TheAIDSQuilt

[Jesse Hocking @jessejhocking]

@clairefox This was so so good! Thank you!

[Jesse Hocking @jessejhocking]

What a poster! @aeschweik talking about optical media preservation at #AMIA19