First Fridays: Conversations from UMN's Archives and Special Collections
First Fridays: Sensory Experiences
Join us for the 2025-2026 season of First Fridays as we explore the things you can see, hear, touch, taste or smell in Archives and Special Collections. This first program in the First Fridays season features presentations from the University of Minnesota Archives and Archival Processing.
Light lunch at 11:30 a.m. Presentations begin at noon. A tour of the archival caverns will take place after the event concludes. ASL interpreters will be present for all First Fridays events.
Digitizing a Hot School Lunch
Presented by Erik Moore, Head, University of Minnesota Archives
What are the tastes, sights, sounds, and smells you remember from your school cafeteria? Relive these childhood experiences while learning about the origins of hot lunch programs in Minnesota and our current efforts to digitize these materials.
Life Cycles in Archives
Presented by Micah Janette, Head, Archival Processing
We often don’t think about the life cycle of the material we collect. This presentation will discuss how life cycles are archived, and how the material we have have life cycles of their own.
About
First Fridays is a series of intellectually stimulating conversations from the Archives and Special Collections at the University of Minnesota Libraries. First Fridays is made possible by a generous gift from Governor Elmer L. Andersen and Mrs. Eleanor Andersen in honor of former University Librarian Dr. Edward B. Stanford.
Event details
What: First Fridays: Digitizing a Hot School Lunch and Life Cycles in Archives
When: Friday, Oct. 3, 2025 | Lunch at 11:30 a.m. | Presentations begin at noon
Where: Elmer L. Andersen Library, room 120 and ONLINE | Parking and directions
