- This documentation project is open to students, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae of The UWI STA (i.e., specifically those who worked/studied at The UWI STA Campus during the period 2020–2022).
- You must be 18 years of age or older to submit material.
- Only digital submissions are accepted at this time.
- Only submit material created entirely by you. If you would like to refer or nominate material that you do not own, please email us at STA-Libraries-AJL-Corona-Stories@sta.uwi.edu.
- Submissions will be available for research, and, in some cases, made available online. Please do not include any information—including identifying details about yourself or your friends and family—that you do not want to share publicly.
- Do not submit any medical records about anyone—such as doctor’s notes, patient charts, or insurance records. You may choose to submit information about your own health experiences, but do not submit any personally identifiable health information about other people, including family members (e.g., disclosing health conditions, diagnoses, or treatments).
- You retain ownership of and copyright of the material you submit.
- The UWI STA Campus Libraries are not obligated to include your content in this project or to preserve it in perpetuity. We may decline, temporarily close, or redact submissions based on our collecting policy and legal and ethical concerns. (Redacting would mean permanently removing details, full sentences, or other content from a collection and making clear to researchers that we have done so.)
- Accepted submissions will be deposited in The UWI's institutional repository, UWISpace, and made available to The UWI community for teaching, learning, and research purposes. Notwithstanding, you may choose to allow your work to be:
- available to The UWI STA Campus only
- available to all The UWI Campuses only
- available to the public
- available without your name (anonymous)
- closed to researchers for a period of up to 5 years
HOW TO SUBMIT MATERIALS
THEMES
Possible themes include, but are not limited to the following:
- the shift to remote instruction and learning
- studying and working from home
- the impact of closing residence halls and other campus services
- how the connection and communication with friends and family have been adversely affected during this period of social distancing, self-quarantine/self-isolation
FILE FORMATS, FILE TYPES, AND SIZE LIMITATIONS
Some of the possible formats include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Audio: music, song (lyrics with/without music), spoken word, voice note
- Image: drawing, photograph, painting
- Text: article, commentary, play, poetry, short story
- Video: dance, play, monologue
- Text documents: PDF or PDF/A (.pdf), MS Word (.doc, .docx), text (.txt)
- Images: JPEG, TIFF (images shot on your smartphone should be fine)
- Images should not be larger than 7MB
- Video: MOV, MP4, AVI (videos shot on your iPhone or Android device should be fine)
- Audio: WAVE, AIFF, MP3
Each individual submission should be no more than 300MB (exceptions are possible for audio or video).
If you still have questions, please email us at STA-Libraries-AJL-Corona-Stories@sta.uwi.edu.
Note: This is a modification of the guidelines for Drexel University Library Pandemic Stories: Drexel’s COVID-19 Documentation Project’’: https://www.library.drexel.edu/archives/overview/COVID19_Stories/
