International & National Conferences

Benoit, Edward, III, Jill Trepanier, Jennifer Vanos, & Krista M. Hollis. “Preparing, Identifying, and Responding to the Archival Impacts of Climate Change.” Society of American Archivists, Anaheim, CA, August 2025.

Vanos, Jennifer, Jill Trepanier, & Edward Benoit, III. “Preparing, Identifying, and Responding to the Archival Impacts of Climate Change.” American Meteorological Society, New Orleans, LA, January 2025.

Benoit, Edward, III, Jill Trepanier, Emily Fisher, & Katie Bailey. “PROTECCT-GLAM: Providing Risk of the Environment’s Changing Climate Threats for Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums.” International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Environment, Virtual, October 2024.

Benoit, Edward, III, Jill Trepanier, & Krista Hollis. “Preparing, Identifying, and Responding to the Archival Impacts of Climate Change.” Association of Moving Image Archivists, Milwaukee, WI, December 2024.

Benoit, Edward, III, Jill Trepanier, Jennifer Vanos, Emily Fisher, & Katie Bailey. “PROTECCT-GLAM: Providing Risk of the Environment’s Changing Climate Threats for Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums.” Public Knowledge Convening: Archives in a Time of Climate Change. Mellon Foundation, New York City, NY, October 2024.

Benoit, Edward, III, Jill Trepanier, Emily Fisher, & Annie Waddell. “PROTECCT-GLAM: Providing Risk of the Environment’s Changing Climate Threats for Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums.” Society of American Archivists Research Forum, Virtual, July 2024.

Benoit, Edward, III, Jill Trepanier, Jennifer Vanos, Emily Fisher & Annie Waddell.” Resilience & Adaptation: PROTECCT-GLAM.” American Association of Geographers, Hawaii, April 2024.

Benoit, Edward, III. “PROTECCT-GLAM: Providing Risk of the Environment’s Changing Climate Threats for Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums.” International Council on Archives Congress, Abu Dhabi, October 2023.

Moore, Haley, Kaitlyn Bailey, Edward Benoit III, Jill Trepanier, Jennifer Vanos, Mandy Hatman, Mary Sidwell, Symonne Russell, Virginia Seger, Paige Boutte, Amanda Latta, Zoe Mohammad, Kyriel Felton, Erin Deliman, Breanna Benson-Pearce, Wendy Johnson, Allyson Russell, Baillie Pretzer, Christopher Reeder, Melissa McConnell, Lisa Dahlke, Kaitlynn Melear, Lillian Bodi, Savannah T. Lyle, Zach Lannes, Gwen L. Wells, Benjamin A. Teincuff, Jason M. Straight, Tiffany Rockwell, Shane T. Manthei, Jennifer L. Benner, Jane Fiegel, Amanda Lima, Elizabeth Rininger, Caroline Melinger, Deborah Metz-Andrews, Meryl Roepke, Karen Isaac, Mallory Collins. “PROTECCT GLAM: Development of a Comprehensive Dataset of All U.S. GLAMs.” 2023 Archival Education & Research Institute, Baton Rouge, June 2023.

Benoit, Edward, III, & Jill Trepanier. “PROTECCT-GLAM: Providing Risk of The Environment’s Changing Climate Threats for Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums.” Plenary address for the 2023 Archival Education & Research Institute, Baton Rouge, June 2023.

Benoit, Edward, III & Allan Martell. “Serving Those who Served Us: Developing & Implementing a Preservation Curriculum for Veterans.” 2023 Archival Education & Research Institute, Baton Rouge, June 2023.

Benoit, Edward, III. “Personal Archiving and the Virtual Footlocker Project Curriculum.” Digital Library Federation 2022 Forum, Baltimore, October 2022.

Benoit, Edward, III and Allan Martell. “Supporting Preservation of Veteran Personal Archives: Development & Use of the Virtual Footlocker Project Curricula.” The 18th International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPres 2022), Glasgow, Scotland, September 2022.

Benoit, Edward, III and Allan Martell. “Utilizing Focus Group Research Data to Create Preservation Curricula for Veterans.” Society of American Archivists, online, August 2022.

Benoit, Edward, III and Ana Roeschley. “Using Backward Design Model to Create Effective Online Courses.” Archival Education & Research Institute, online, July 2022.

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.” 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.” Association of Moving Image Archivists, New Orleans, LA, November 2017.

Benoit, Edward, III. “Moving Image Social Tagging: Professional vs. Amateur Production Comparison.” 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.” Archival Education and Research Institute, Toronto, Canada July 2017.

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

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

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

Force, Donald, and Edward Benoit III. “Got Faculty? Archival Curriculum Development for Small Archival Programs.” 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.” 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.” 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.” 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.” 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.” Archival Education and Research Institute, College Park, MD, July 2015.

Benoit, Edward, III. “#MPLP: Social Tagging in a Minimally Processed Digital Archives.” 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.” Visual Resource Association Conference, Milwaukee, WI, March 2014.

Benoit, Edward, III, and Angela Murillo. “Building a Collaborative Archival Research Community.” Archival Education and Research Institute, Austin, TX, June 2013.

Benoit, Edward, III. “Getting through Graduate School.” Curate Thyself: Defining and Cultivating an Academic Trajectory in Digital Curation, Chapel Hill, NC, March 2013.

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

Benoit, Edward, III, and Sarah Ramdeen. “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me Where I Put That!: Research Management Software Demonstration and Discussion.” Archival Education and Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, July 2012.

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

Xie, Iris, Edward Benoit III, and Huan Zhang. “How do Users Evaluate Individual Documents? An Analysis of Dimensions of Evaluation Activities. 7th International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science, London, England, June 2010.

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

Benoit, Edward, III. “Tagging to Access: Increasing Access and Reducing Costs through Integration of Social Tags and Metadata in Digital Collections.” 7th International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science, London, England, June 2010.

Regional Conferences

Benoit, Edward, III, Jill Trepanier, Jenni Vanos, Emily Fisher, & Katie Bailey. “PROTECCT-GLAM: Visualizing the Climate Change Risk for GLAMs.” Society of Southwest Archivists, Lafayette, LA, May 2025.

Benoit, Edward, III. “PROTECCT-GLAM: Providing Risk of the Environment’s Changing Climate Threats for Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums.” New Mexico Library Association, Carlsbad, NM, October 2024.

Benoit, Edward, III & Jill Trepanier. “PROTECCT-GLAM: Providing Risk of the Environment’s Changing Climate Threats for Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums.” Louisiana Association of Museums Conference (LAMcon), Baton Rouge, LA, October 2024.

Benoit, Edward, III, Jill Trepanier, Emily Fisher, Annie Waddell, Krista Hollis, & Daena Carrillo. “Preparing and Responding to the Archival Impacts of Climate Change.” Society of Southwest Archivists, Virtual, May 2024.

Benoit, Edward, III. “Personal Military Records and the Virtual Footlocker Project Curriculum.” Society of Southwest Archivists 2023 Meeting, Albuquerque, April 2023.

Martell, Allan, Edward Benoit, III, and Gillian Brownlee. “Documenting the Personal Records of the Modern Soldier in the Times of COVID-19.” Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Gettysburg, PA, October 2021.

Benoit, Edward, III, Allan Martell, and Gillian Brownlee. “Documenting the Personal Records of the Modern Soldier in the Times of COVID-19,” Society of Southwest Archivists Annual Meeting, Virtual, May 2021.

Benoit, Edward, III, Allan Martell, and Gillian Brownlee. “Documenting the Personal Records of the Modern Soldier in the Times of COVID-19,” Midwest Archives Conference Annual Meeting, Virtual, May 2021.

Benoit, Edward, III, Allan Martell, and Gillian Brownlee. “Documenting the Personal Records of the Modern Soldier in the Times of COVID-19,” Northwest Archivists Annual Meeting, Virtual, May 2021.

Benoit, Edward, III, Jamie A. Lee, Sarah A. Buchanan, and Ana Roeschley, “What’s Next for Archival Education?” Society of Southwest Archivists, Tucson, AZ, May 2019.

Benoit, Edward, III. “Tagging Moving Images: Does Time Matter?” Midwest Archives Conference, Milwaukee, WI, April 2016.

Benoit, Edward, III. “#MPLP: Novice & Expert Domain User Tags in a MPLP Digital Archive.” Midwest Archives Conference, Kansas City, MO, April 2014.

Benoit, Edward, III. “Archival Survival Kit.” Convening Great Lakes Culture Keepers Regional Institute, Mt. Pleasant, MI, April 2014.

Benoit, Edward, III. “Mind the Gaps: Leveraging Networks to Learn—Digital Collections.” Midwest Archives Conference, Grand Rapids, MI, April 2012.

Benoit, Edward, III. “Social Tagging on the Commons on Flickr: Comparing the Library of Congress with the Remaining Institutions.” School of Information Studies Student Research Symposium, Milwaukee, WI, November 2011.

Benoit, Edward, III. “Sub-field Visualization: A Multidimensional Analysis of Web 2.0 Authors.” Great Lakes Connections Conference, Milwaukee, WI, May 2011.

Benoit, Edward, III. “Archival Preservation and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA): The Need for Relief Action.” Midwest Archives Conference, St. Paul, MN, April 2011.

Benoit, Edward, III. “Digital Librarians’ Perceptions of Social Tagging, its Potential Use, Benefits, and Limitations.” School of Information Studies Student Research Symposium, Milwaukee, WI, November 2010.

Invited Speaker & Media Interviews

Benoit, Edward, III. “Personal Archiving & the Virtual Footlocker Project Curriculum.” Workshop for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Virtual, August 2024.

Benoit, Edward, III. “Preserving Personal Military Records.” Workshop for the International District Public Library, Albuquerque, April 2023.

Benoit, Edward, III. “Archival Preservation: Family Photographs Workshop.” Presentations for the New Orleans Museum of Art, October & December 2022.

Benoit, Edward, III. “The Virtual Footlocker Project: A Look into Capturing and Preserving the Personal Records of the Modern Soldier.” Presentation for the Louisiana State Archives Lunch & Learn Series, October 2021.

Benoit, E., III. (2021). Preserving our history: A new project from Ascension Parish library. Ascension Parish Library, Gonzales, LA.

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

“LSU researcher wins grant to keep training veterans, archivists on Vietnam record preservation.” Reveille. November 20, 2025. https://lsureveille.com/270612/news/lsu-researcher-wins-grant-to-keep-training-veterans-archivists-on-vietnam-record-preservation/

“LSU project aims to preserve Vietnam veterans’ personal histories.” WBRZ. November 11, 2025. https://www.wbrz.com/videos/lsu-project-aims-to-preserve-vietnam-veterans-personal-histories/.

“Preparing family records for hurricane season with Dr. Edward Benoit.” Mornings with Brian Haldane. May 9, 2025. https://talk1073.com/2025/05/09/mornings-with-brian-haldane-dr-edward-benoit-05-09-2025/.

“Dr. Ed Benoit, new Interim Director at the LSU School of Information Studies.” Listen with LOUIS. February 28, 2025. https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/louis-libraries/episodes/Dr--Ed-Benoit--New-Interim-Director-at-the-LSU-School-of-Information-Studies-e2vg189/a-abq9lda

“Climate change, libraries, and PROTECCT-GLAM with Dr. Edward Benoit.” Listen with LOUIS. December 15, 2023. https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/louis-libraries/episodes/Climate-Change--Libraries--and-Protecct-GLAM-with-Dr--Edward-Benoit-e2d9p58

“Colleges need to protect valuable collections from climate change. A new project aims to help.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 26, 2023.

“LSU digital footlocker preserves memories, memorabilia of veterans in new computerized catalog.” Louisiana Considered. February 27, 2023. https://www.wrkf.org/show/louisiana-considered/2023-02-27/lsu-digital-footlocker-preserves-memories-memorabilia-of-veterans-in-new-computerized-catalog

“LSU researcher’s project preserves military keepsakes for future generations.” Greater Baton Rouge Business Report, February 14, 2023.

“How LSU researchers could help protect Louisiana, nation’s cultural heritage form climate change.” Reveille, January 21, 2023.

“LSU professors create plan to protect cultural heritage institutions for natural disaster.” TigerTV, January 19, 2023, https://www.tigertv.tv/news/lsu-professors-create-plan-to-protect-cultural-heritage-institutions-from-natural-disaster/article_7b676f90-97ff-11ed-afaa-27be813e38ef.html.

“LSU professors create new project to protect historic collections from climate change.” BR Proud, January 7, 2023, https://www.brproud.com/news/lsu-create-project-to-protect-historic-items-from-climate-change/.

“How to store and protect family treasures during hurricane season.” WAFB News This Morning, August 24, 2022, https://www.wafb.com/2022/08/24/how-store-protect-family-treasures-during-hurricane-season/.

“President Records Act of 1978.” Mornings with Brian Haldane, August 10, 2022. https://talk1073.com/2022/08/10/mornings-with-brian-haldane-dr-ed-benoit-08-10-2022/

“How to store and protect family treasures during hurricane season.” NBC Local 33 News Today, July 15, 2022.

“Archival expert explains how to protect photos before disaster strikes.” Jacquelyn Kisic, WVLA, July 14, 2022. https://www.brproud.com/news/local-news/archival-expert-explains-how-to-protect-family-photos-before-disaster-strikes/.

“How to store and protect family treasures during hurricane season.” Mornings with Brian Haldane, July 14, 2002, https://talk1073.com/2022/07/14/mornings-with-brian-haldane-dr-edward-benoit-07-14-2022/.

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

“Digital Reminders.” The Advocate, August 19, 2019.

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

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

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