Collection 5009 - Counter-Archiving UC and Back Campus' Black Walnut Trees Collection

Identity area

Reference code

UTA 5009

Title

Counter-Archiving UC and Back Campus' Black Walnut Trees Collection

Date(s)

  • 2024-2025 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent and medium

166 digital files (563 MB)

Context area

Name of creator

Zhi, Vivian

Biographical history

Undergraduate student in the Faculty of Arts & Science, St. Michael's College

Repository

University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services (UTARMS)

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Due to difficulty in crawling the website, a copy of the site was exported from the Notion platform by Zhi and shared with UTARMS via OneDrive. Audio, video, and photo files stored in Google Drive were downloaded by UTARMS using Rclone.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Digital files from the website https://fierce-waste-3ea.notion.site/Archiving-UC-and-Back-Campus-Black-Walnut-Trees-13c2f815687080869bbce70e33357307 - Counter-Archiving UC and Back Campus' Black Walnut Trees. The project sought to document the stories of the black walnut trees south of Back Campus and north of University College. It includes sound recordings, photographs, videos, interviews, essays, and research notes.

The project was for the course ENG482H1: Advanced Studies Seminar – Ecocriticism and the Environmental Humanities and was a winner of the U of T Libraries Patricia and Peter Shannon Wilson Undergraduate Research Prize in 2025.

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Accruals

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Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Open

Conditions governing reproduction

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      Finding aids

      • A spreadsheet inventory of all digital files is available by email, upon request.

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      Existence and location of copies

      Related units of description

      Zhi's Reflective Statement for the project can be found in TSpace.

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      Alternative identifier(s)

      Accession

      B2025-0030

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      Dates of creation revision deletion

      Described by E. Sommers, 2026-03-18

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