Cal State LA launches Pandemic Diaries digital history project

While navigating through the coronavirus pandemic since March 2020, the Cal State LA community has been adapting to a new normal of online learning, teleworking, social distancing and sheltering in place.

Each of the tens of thousands of students, faculty, staff and alumni who make up that community potentially has a unique or personal story about life under COVID-19.

With that in mind, Cal State LA is inviting every member of that vast, varied community to contribute digital diaries to a project that will collect and archive firsthand accounts of this historical moment.

“The Cal State LA community is very diverse, and what we try to do in Special Collections and Archives is collect stories of our diverse campus community,” said Azalea Camacho, an archivist and special collections librarian who is the lead on the project.

By Margie Low, Cal State LA News Service

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