Documenting COVID-19 at OU-Tulsa

The Schusterman Library is launching a project to document the experience of OU-Tulsa students, residents, faculty, and staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. All members of the campus community are invited to contribute their recollections of the pandemic through journals, photos, videos, and other documentation.

How to Participate

We are interested in stories from the OU-Tulsa community about how COVID-19 has affected your campus life - the shift to remote instruction and learning, studying and working from home, working at on-campus and off-campus jobs, the impact of closing or adapting campus services, the ways you and your friends and family are staying in touch during this period of social distancing and self-quarantine, and so on.

How you record your thoughts and experiences is up to you. For instance, you can write in a diary or journal, record voice memos, save your social media posts, take photos and/or videos of life as you see it, or create multimedia works of digital storytelling.

Please comply with any stay-at-home orders while self-documenting.

The Submission Process

Please use this Google form to submit your digital items. A Google login is required. You will be able to sign an agreement allowing the Schusterman Library to preserve your submission, and you will receive important information about the copyright and use of your content. If you need an alternative way to transfer materials, please email emrys-moreau@ouhsc.edu and we’ll work it out!

We can accept a wide variety of formats, including photos (jpg, png), videos (mp4, mov), audio (mp3), and text (txt, pdf, docx, doc). If you are unsure about something in particular, please email emrys-moreau@ouhsc.edu, and we will assist.

If you interview or photograph other people in the course of your documentation, we will also need their permission so that we can preserve and share the recordings in the future. Please have any friends, family members, or community members also fill out the Google form if you wish to record with them. If we do not receive releases from all participants we cannot preserve the materials. But only one person will need to attach the files to the form — co-creators can simply fill in their personal information along with a description of the materials.

Submissions will not be available to the public immediately and the archives may not include all submissions in this collection (for example, blurry images). All accepted material will be made available following review and processing by Schusterman Library staff.

Library Resources

For other library information and resources related to COVID-19, visit https://library.tulsa.ou.edu/coronavirus.

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