This interview is with Beth Marhanka, director of the Gelardin New Media Center at the Georgetown University Library, conducted via TheirStory on October 18, 2021. It covers her experience working during the COVID-19 pandemic, her own brush with COVID, her feelings about her profession, and Georgetown University Library's position in its greater campus community. Also discussed are changes to the library during the pandemic. Interviewer is India Pasiuk.
Eighth-grader Nicolás shares how COVID has impacted his life. He says that he hasn't been able to see his friends, and worries that because school has been cancelled, that high school will not start when it is supposed to for him. Nicolás talks about how his family and friends have kept him going, and hopes that we can all learn to set our differences aside to solve this problem as fast as we can. This video is part of the Humanities Truck's From Me To You: A Covid-19 Oral History Project. https://humanitiestruck.com/frommetoyou/