Organizing the Eno River Association Archives

2026 Society of North Carolina Archivists and South Carolina Archival Association Joint Annual Meeting presentation. This session describes a practicum project undertaken by UNC-CH students in their final year of the Archives and Record Management Track. With their professor, they partnered with Durham NC's Eno River Association, a non-profit organization that, since 1966, has conserved and protected the ecological wellbeing and cultural history of the Eno River Basin. Over the decades, they informally collected a huge archive of legal records, A/V materials, brochures, flyers, posters, literary journals, and much more. We will talk about the way our practicum aided this important advocacy group in organizing and preserving the records of their work, across complicated format types and resource limitations. All presenters from UNC-Chapel Hill: Elliott Kuecker, Assistant Professor, MLS program; Nate Allen, MLS student and Carolina BLU Delivery & Weekend Supervisor; Kelley Slebos, MLS student; Haley Wilkerson, MLS student, and NC State University, Special Collections Public Services Assistant