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    History in the making: how libraries are capturing the pandemic for posterity

    Institutions around Australia are opening up their archives to contributions from the public about life under Covid-19
    by Hollie Pich May 13, 2020 2 minutes
    The State Library of Victoria is one of a number of institutions around Australia collecting information about life during the coronavirus pandemic. Photograph: Speed Media/Rex/Shutterstock

    How do you preserve a pandemic? Libraries, museums and historical associations around the world are struggling to survive right now but they’re also asking themselves this critical question. They know future generations will inevitably study Covid-19 – so what are the moments and materials we should capture for people in the future, and how can we capture them?

    Collecting institutions around Australia have launched a series of projects aimed

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