{"id":4288,"date":"2023-09-01T10:02:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T09:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/?p=4288"},"modified":"2023-09-01T10:02:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T09:02:07","slug":"cartooning-covid-19-call-for-volunteer-participants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/2023\/09\/01\/cartooning-covid-19-call-for-volunteer-participants\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartooning Covid-19 – call for volunteer participants"},"content":{"rendered":"

About the project<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n
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Nicholas Newman, The Sunday Times, 01 Mar 2020. \u00a9
Nick Newman (ref: 109242)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2018Cartooning Covid-19\u2019 will be a 10-week volunteering project which aims to make available cartoons published in national papers during the Covid 19 pandemic between March and December 2020. Through cataloguing these cartoons, we ensure that this important period in recent history is captured in the cartoon catalogue of <\/span>the British Cartoon Archive for use in learning, teaching and research.<\/p>\n

The British Cartoon Archive collects the cartoons published each week in national newspapers (The Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, The Guardian and The Independent). This encapsulates work by artists such as Bob Moran, Nicholas Newman, Peter Schrank, Morten Morland, Peter Brookes and more.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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To participate in this project please email cartoons@kent.ac.uk.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Practicalities<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n

The project will be carried out using a hybrid model of in-person group sessions and remote virtual cataloguing. However, this opportunity is open to all, so if you do not live locally to Canterbury, you are welcome to join as a fully remote participant. Similarly, if you would prefer to participate in person only, that\u2019s ok too.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Volunteers will be provided with full training as part of the project, including sessions from the archive team about the BCA and the work they carry out to preserve it and make it available, and they will be given access to library resources where possible, such as newspaper archives and both physical and digital cartoon collections.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Volunteers will be given a set of cartoons published between March and December 2020, which they will be asked to catalogue by listing details about the cartoons into a spreadsheet with supervision from the Special Collections and Archives team. At the end of the project the resulting spreadsheets of data will be uploaded to the British Cartoon Archive catalogue alongside digital cartoon copies, making these resources available to the public.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Special Collections and Archives will provide refreshments at in-person events (lunch will not be provided).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Michael Heath, The Mail on sunday, 05 April 2020. \u00a9Associated Newspapers Ltd. (ref: 109333)<\/p><\/div>\n

Schedule<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n