Please join the Museum Archives Section Standards and Best Practices Working Group for a symposium focusing on museum archives, advocacy, and collaboration. The symposium will consider the role of museum archivists at their institutions, how they can advocate for their repositories, and how they can contribute to current discussions on the convergence of libraries, museums, and archives.
Schedule
8:00-8:15 Introduction
Rachel Chatalbash, Senior Archivist, Yale Center for British Art
8:15-9:15 An Archivist, a Registrar, and a Curator Walk into a Bar and...: Shared Challenges of Archivists and Other Museum Professionals
Heather Kajic, Collections Manager, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Jun Francisco, Director of Collections, Rock and Rock Hall of Fame
Jeanine Head Miller, Curator of Domestic Life, The Henry Ford
Margaret Burzynski Bays, Curator of Manuscripts, Western Reserve Historical Society
Sean Martin, Associate Curator for Jewish History, Western Reserve Historical Society
Erin Byrne, Cataloger, Andy Warhol Museum
Vic Fleischer, Head, Archival Services, University of Akron
Moderator: Brad Bauer, Chief Archivist, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
9:15-10:15 ALA/SAA/AAM Joint Committee on Archives, Libraries, and Museums (CALM) and Primary Sources and Digital Curation in Education
Introduction to CALM: Rachel Vagts, Head of Special Collections & Archives, Berea College
Presenter: Jennifer Gunter King, Director of the Library, Hampshire College
Presenter: Joyce Ray, Faculty and Program Coordinator, Digital Curation in Museum Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Moderator: Lorraine Stuart, Chief of Archives, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-10:45 Coalition to Advance Learning in Archives, Libraries, and Museums
Donna McCrea, Head of Archives and Special Collections, University of Montana-Missoula
Amanda Focke, Assistant Head of Special Collections, Woodson Research Center, Rice University
Moderator: Brian Wilson, Digital Access and Preservation Archivist, The Henry Ford
10:45-11:15 Reflections on Cross-Disciplinary Knowledge for Museum Archivists
Maygene Daniels, Chief of Gallery Archives, National Gallery of Art
Moderator: Christiana Dobrzynski, Archivist, Dedalus Foundation
11:15-11:45 We Are What We Share, or Making the Case for Museum Archives
Kathleen Williams, Executive Director, National Historical Publications and Records Commission
11:45-12:00 Conclusion
Susan Hernandez, Digital Archivist and Systems Librarian, Cleveland Museum of Art
Questions? Please email Museum Archives Section Standards and Best Practices Co-Chairs Rachel Chatalbash (rachel.chatalbash@yale.edu) or Susan Hernandez (shernandez@clevelandart.org)
