Laura Jean Treat Liebhaber, curator and Santa Barbara Community Archives Project (SBCAP) co-founder, will present Screening Our Stories: Home Movies From Santa Barbara at the Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society, 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 15.
The program, which is free to attend, will be in the Sahyun Genealogy Research Library, 316 Castillo St., Santa Barbara.
Last year, the UCSB Library and Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society initiated the Santa Barbara Community Archives Project (SBCAP) to digitize and preserve local family histories.
Liebhaber will talk about the community’s response; explore themes found in the films; discuss the project’s challenges and successes; and present never-before-seen footage from local families.
Liebhaber is curator for Film & Television and Santa Barbara Local History Collections at UCSB’s Special Research Collections and subject librarian for Film & Media Studies.
She holds a master’s in information studies from the University of Texas at Austin. Her work centers on moving image collections — home movies, surf films, metadata, and preserving local TV news.
She serves on the Board of Directors of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) and its Local Television Task Force.
Doors open at 9:30 a.m. for refreshments and informal discussions with the society’s Special Interest Groups, covering a variety of topics from getting started in genealogy to writing family histories.
A short business meeting begins at 10:30 a.m., followed by Liebhaber’s presentation at 11 a.m.
Advance registration is required at SBGen.org to attend the program in-person or via Zoom. Due to limited on-site parking, in-person attendance is limited to 60 people.
The Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society helps people discover, document, share and preserve their family histories. An all-volunteer organization, the society operates a research library with 16,000+ books and a computer lab offering access subscription genealogy websites.
Annual memberships start at $40. Learn more and join at SBGen.org.