International & National Conferences

Buchanan, Sarah A., Erin Barsan, Edward Benoit III, Anthony Cocciolo, Aisha M. Johnson, Amanda Lima, Krystyna K. Matusiak, Alex Poole, Colin Post and Jane Zhang. “Inventing and Implementing Future-Ready Archival Education.” Association for Library and Information Science Education, Online, September 2021.

Martell, Allan, Edward Benoit, III, and Gillian Brownlee. “Love Me Binders: Personal Information Collections for the Modern Soldier.” Society of American Archivists Research Forum, Online, July 2021.

Benoit, Edward, III, Allan Martell, and Gillian Brownlee. “The Virtual Footlocker Project: 2021 MARS Update.” Society of American Archivists, Online, July 2021.

Soyka, Heather, Karen F. Gracy, Edward Benoit, III, Sarah A. Buchanan, and Donald C. Force, “Advancing an Agenda for Online Archival Pedagogy,” Archival Education and Research Institute, Online, July 2021.

Benoit, Edward, III and Gillian Brownlee. “Foiled Again: Adapting Focus Groups Thwarted by Coronavirus.” Society of American Archivists, Online, August 2020.

Benoit, Edward, III and Gillian Brownlee. “Virtual Footlocker Project in the Time of COVID-19.” Society of American Archivists, Online, August 2020.

Benoit, Edward, III and Roxanne Guidry. “Dispatches from the Front: Findings from the Virtual Footlocker Project Phase 1.” Society of American Archivists, Austin, TX, August 2019.

Benoit, Edward, III and Trudi Wright. “Developing Digital Learning Environments.” Presented at the Archival Education and Research Institute, Tuscaloosa, AL, July 2018.

Benoit, Edward, III and A. Mackenzie Roberts. “Louisiana, The State We’re In: Challenges, Collaboration, & Opportunities.” Presented at the Association of Moving Image Archivists, New Orleans, LA, November, 2017.

Benoit, Edward, III. “Moving Image Social Tagging: Professional vs. Amateur Production Comparison.” Presented at the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, July, 2017.

Gracy, Karen and Edward Benoit, III. “Introduction to Online Teaching: Essentials for the First-timer.” Presented at the Archival Education and Research Institute, Toronto, Canada July 2017.

Benoit, Edward, III. “Pro/Am Moving Image Social Tagging: A Production Comparison,” Presented at the Archival Education and Research Institute, Toronto, Canada July 2017.

Benoit, Edward, III. “Moving Image Social Tagging: Professional vs. Amateur Production Comparison.” Presented at the Association of Moving Image Archivists, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2016.

Benoit, Edward, III. “Temporal and Format Influences on Social Tagging of Moving Images.” Presented at the Society of American Archivists, Atlanta, GA, August 2016.

Force, Donald, and Edward Benoit III. “Got Faculty? Archival Curriculum Development for Small Archival Programs.” Presented at the Archival Education and Research Institute, Kent, OH, July 2016.

Edward Benoit III. “Digital V-Mail & the 21st Century Soldier: Preliminary Findings from the Virtual Footlocker Project.” Presented at the Archival Education and Research Institute, Kent, OH, July 2016.

Benoit, Edward, III, and Jennifer Ann Stevenson. “@Archivist_Community: UCINET Social Network Analysis and Archivists on Twitter.” Presented at the iConference, Philadelphia, PA, 2016.

Benoit, Edward, III. “Understanding What Users Need to Understand Us (and Our Data): Time-based Analysis of Moving Image Social Tagging.” Paper presented at the Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference, Portland, OR, November 2015.

Benoit, Edward, III. “Competency-Based Frameworks for Moving Image Archiving Education: Analysis of Audiovisual Archivist Job Advertisements in Traditional Archives.” Paper presented at the Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference, Portland, OR, November 2015.

Benoit, Edward, III, and Jennifer Stevenson. “@Archivist_Community: Social Network Analysis and Archivists on Twitter.” Paper presented at the Archival Education and Research Institute, College Park, MD, July 2015.

Benoit, Edward, III. “#MPLP: Social Tagging in a Minimally Processed Digital Archives.” Paper presented at the Archival Education and Research Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, July 2014.

Benoit, Edward, III. “Tagging MPLP: A Comparison of Novice and Expert Domain User Generated Tags in a Minimally Processed Digital Photographic Archive.” Paper presented at the Visual Resource Association Conference, Milwaukee, WI, March 2014.

Benoit, Edward, III. “Scrolls to Scrolling: The Shared Heritage of Digital Collections.” Paper presented at the Sixth International Conference on the History of Records and Archives, Austin, TX, August 2012.

Benoit, Edward, III. “Archival Preservation and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA): The Need for Relief Action.” Paper presented at the Archival Education and Research Institute, Boston, MA, July 2011.

Benoit, Edward, III. “Publishing with Chains: A Comparison of Publishing Agreements in LIS.” Poster presented at the 7th International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science, London, England, June 2010.

Invited Speaker & Media Interviews

Benoit, Edward, III. “Preserving our History: A New Project from Ascension Parish Library.” Presentation at the Ascension Parish Library, Gonzales, LA, 2021.

Benoit, Edward, III. “Love Me Binders & Digital V-Mail: Military Veterans’ Personal Archives in the 21st Century.” Presentation for the Information Matters University of Arizona iSchool Colloquium Series, April 2021.

Benoit, Edward, III, Lauren A Coates, Paul J Frick, Brian Irving, and Julie Perkins. “How Did I Get Started?” Presentation for the ORED Summer Institute, May 2020.

Benoit, Edward, III. “Introduction to the Virtual Footlocker Project.” Presentation for the Port Allen Rotary Club, November 2019.

Benoit, Edward, III. “Missing Tapes and Deleted Tweets: The Presidential Records Act & Democracy.” Presentation for the Presidential Symposium Behind the Ballot: Examining the Influences and Trends Driving Modern Elections at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 2018.

Benoit, Edward, III. “Wikipedia in the Classroom.” Session presented at the Faculty Technology Center at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 2017.

Benoit, Edward, III. “Preserving and Restoring Family Treasures.” Workshop presented at the Ascension Parish Library, Gonzales, LA, 2017.

Benoit, Edward, III. “Crowdsourcing the Archives: Challenges & Benefits of the Participatory Archives.” Presentation at the School of Library & Information Science, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, March 2016.

Media Interviews

Benoit, Edward, III. “Virtually Vital.” Cornerstone, Winter 2019/Spring 2020.

Benoit, Edward, III. “Digital Reminders.” The Advocate, August 19, 2019.

Benoit, Edward, III. “Virtual Footlocker Aims to Digitally Preserve Photos, Videos, and Electronic Records of Time at War.” Louisiana Radio Network, July 2019.

Benoit, Edward, III. “Restoring Photos Damaged in the Flood Interview.” WAFB News This Morning, Thursday, August 18, 2016, 7:30 am.

Benoit, Edward, III. “Salvaging Photographs Damaged in the Flood Interview.” WBRP Talk 107.3 FM, Saturday, August 20, 2016, 11:30 an -12:30 pm.