Professor Herbert “Tico” Braun at the UVA College of Arts & Sciences has invited his students to participate in a voluntary project to record their experiences and impressions of this tumultuous time in history (https://news.virginia.edu/content/write-it-down-historian-suggests-keeping-record-life-during-pandemic). Following his general framework, USC Upstate Archives and other University Libraries adapted the program to encourage their campus communities to participate in their own version of "Write It Down".
As Professor Braun mentions in the article above, “There is much that all of us and each of us have already experienced in the past few weeks that is shocking, unexpected, unpredictable, unknowable, new; much that we have not felt before or seen.” Your experiences, emotions, and interactions with this new reality are shaping your everyday life, and the lives of those around you. Social distancing, quarantines, and shortages of daily essentials present never-before-seen challenges for everyone, but these challenges are not felt or experienced equally across the social spectrum. Institutions around the globe including hospitals and healthcare offices, small businesses, industries, and even the global economic markets are being tested in ways never before imagined.