COVID-19 Documentation Project (Born-Digital Records) | University of Illinois Archives

Born Digital Records from the COVID-19 Documentation Project (2020- ) includes email correspondence, photographs, videos, signage, memoranda, announcements, reports, files, publications, websites, and oral history interviews and transcripts relating to the response to the COVID-19 pandemic from administration, faculty, staff, and students from multiple regional and departmental offices at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Illinois at Springfield, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Illinois System; the COVID-19 pandemic in public and private campus spaces; University of Illinois-led research around the SARS-CoV-2 virus, its transmission, and its scientific and social impacts; University of Illinois-led innovations regarding the COVID-19 pandemic; the creation, organization, and management of SHIELD Illinois; and the COVID-19 pandemic centered relationships, relating to public health, between the University of Illinois universities and national, state, and local communities.

Oral histories recorded as part of this project may be accessed via the Voices of Illinois Oral History Portal: https://www.library.illinois.edu/voices/collections/covid-19-documentation-project/

Archived webpages may be accessed via the Archive-It: https://archive-it.org/collections/13880

An access copy of nearline material may be available upon request.

Administrative access to preservation, nearline, and access files are available to archives staff at: https://medusa.library.illinois.edu/collections/1907