Interference Archive is an all-volunteer, collectively run space. Join us!
We operate through a number of working groups. For details about connecting with any of these groups, please email info[at]interferencearchive[dot]org or drop in to a meeting.
Audio Archive Working Group
This working group is responsible for the production of a biweekly podcast, Audio Interference, which features interviews with members of the Interference community, as well as people directly involved in both the social movements represented in our collection and those which grew out of this history. Like all Interference programming, this podcast seeks to make social movement history accessible and provide a context in which to understand the objects in our collection. In addition, this group presents occasional events and looks for ways to incorporate audio/radio into Interference programming. Many different levels of experience are represented in the group, and no experience is necessary to join. We organize occasional skills share or training events in which volunteers can gain new audio recording and editing skills.
Collections Management Working Group
The Collections Management Working Group is responsible for procedures related to the processing of new donations and the organization of existing materials, both in the physical space of the archive and in the online catalog that we have been building since 2012. In addition, this group considers issues of storage, collecting policies and accessing workflows. This includes archival collections and the library. This working group meets once a month to address collection needs and/or to do hands on cataloging work.
Education Working Group
The Education Working Group has two primary functions. First, it works to build seasonal blocks of educational programming at the archive, including talks, films, and workshops which touch on and reflect the materials and concerns within Interference. In addition, the group organizes and facilitates class visits to the archive from other educational institutions.
Staffing
Volunteers staff the archive during our open hours Thursday-Sunday. This entails orienting people to the collection and/or current exhibition, working on cleaning, sorting, organizing, and cataloging, and general physical space upkeep.
