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Technology use in designing curriculum for archivists: Utilizing andragogical approaches in designing digital learning environments for archives professional development

Inventing and implementing future-ready archival education

The genre of love-me binders: US military veterans documenting their service

An opportunity to stay connected: documenting personal communication records of military personnel

Mapping GLAMs: creating a national dataset of GLAMs to develop a categorical climate-change risk assessment scale

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Edward Benoit, III is the Interim Director and Associate Professor in the School of Information Studies at Louisiana State University. He coordinates the archival studies and cultural heritage resource management programs. He received an MA in History, MLIS and PhD in Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His research focuses on participatory and community archives, non-traditional archival materials, climate change, and archival education. He is the founder and director of the Virtual Footlocker Project, which examines the personal archiving habits of the 21st century soldier in an effort to develop new digital capture and preservation technologies to support their needs. He also directs PROTECCT-GLAM, an IMLS-funded project focused on identify climate-change-related risks for GLAMs.

Dr. Benoit is also an affiliated faculty member in the LSU College of Art & Design's Doctor of Design in Cultural Preservation program.

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Dr. Ed Benoit, New Interim Director at the LSU School of Information Studies

How LSU researchers could help protect Louisiana, nation’s cultural heritage from climate change

How and what you can salvage from flood damage

LSU professor developing 'virtual footlocker' to store soldiers' memories

The Virtual Footlocker Project: 2021 MARS Update

Love Me Binders: Personal Information Collections for the Modern Soldier

Inventing and Implementing Future-Ready Archival Education

Social Tagging of Amateur and Professionally Produced Moving Images

Virtual Footlocker Project: Developing a User-Centered Framework for Digital Preservation of Active Duty and Veteran Personal Records

PROTECCT-GLAM: Risk of The Environment’s Changing Climate Threats for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums

Interim Director & Associate Professor

Climate change increases the risk of natural disasters, but LSU professors Edward Benoit III and Jill Trepanier are working on compiling valuable data for GLAMS: galleries, libraries, archives, and museums.

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LSU professors create plan to protect cultural heritage institutions from natural disaster

"So You Want to Attend Grad School?" with Dr. Ed Benoit (Masters in Archival Studies)

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