ARCHIVES 2015: Full Schedule

11:00am EDT

SESSION 102 - Archives and Storytelling

Storytelling is an increasingly popular marketing trend that helps to build both commercial and nonprofit brands, encouraged by the growth of social media and the need to stand out from the crowd. Archives and archivists are key to telling the story of an organization, brand, or their own archival repositories. In this lightning talk session, representatives of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations discuss their experiences leading, supporting, or influencing storytelling efforts.

Speakers

Melanie Bazil

Head of Collections Access, The Henry Ford

Melanie Bazil is the Head of Collections Access at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan. Her interest is in the use of museum archives and collections as an educational resource and in community outreach. She is also an independent scholar of American ceramics, architectural history... Read More →

Bill Jackson

Manager - Archives and Heritage Services, Harley-Davidson

Bill Jackson received his MLIS degree from UW-Milwaukee in 1995. After graduating, Bill spent two years as archivist with Circus World Museum. Bill has been with Harley-Davidson Motor Company since 1998. His present title is Manager of Archives and Heritage Services.

Shane Meeker

Company Historian, Procter & Gamble Company

Ted Ryan

Director, Heritage Communications, The Coca-Cola Company

Amy Stevenson

Archives Manager, Microsoft

Manages the Microsoft Archives, overseeing collection development and management, historical research for all areas of the company and providing heritage consultation for external and internal storytelling in traditional and new media formats.

Winnie Titchener

Associate Archivist & Oral History Coordinator, The Biltmore Company

Thursday August 20, 2015 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
Room 26AB Cleveland Convention Center, 300 Lakeside Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114

Education Session, Lightning Talks, Partially Recorded

11:00am EDT

SESSION 103 - Big Web, Small Staff: Web Archiving with Limited Resources

Come hear about the wild world of web archiving as experienced by those working as lone arrangers or with small teams. This panel brings together web archivists from a diverse set of institutions with a common thread of resource limitations or a small staff. Panelists discuss workflow strategies and tips for instituting a successful web archiving program. Come armed with questions for these experienced web archivists!

Speakers

Kelli Bogan

College Archivist, Colby-Sawyer College

Kelli Bogan became the College Archivist at Colby-Sawyer College in 2008 where she works as a lone-arranger. Kelli holds an MA in English Literature and an Masters in Library Science with a concentration in Archives Management from Simmons College. She is particularly interested... Read More →

Rebecca Petersen

Public Services Archivist, Wake Forest University

Rebecca oversees reference, access, outreach, student management, and instruction.She received her BA from George Washington University and her MLIS from UNC-Greensboro.She has chaired SAA's Reference, Access, and Outreach Steering Committee.

Sylvie Rollason-Cass

Web Archivist, Internet Archive

Sylvie works with libraries, archives, and other organizations to build web archives using the Archive-It service.

Rachel Taketa

Library Specialist, UCSF

Rachel Taketa is the Library Specialist for the Industry Documents Digital Library (IDL) at the University of California, San Francisco, Library and Center for Knowledge Management. The IDL contains more than 14 million documents created by major pharmaceutical, tobacco and chemical... Read More →

Kristen Yarmey

Associate Professor and Digital Services Librarian, University of Scranton

MLS with a concentration in Archives and Records Management from the University of Maryland and an MA in History from the University of Scranton. Responsible for digital collections at the University of Scranton since 2008. Having accessioned a collection of over 86,000 born-digital... Read More →

Thursday August 20, 2015 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
Room 25AB Cleveland Convention Center, 300 Lakeside Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114

Education Session, Partially Recorded

1:45pm EDT

SESSION 203 - Marriage, Separation, Divorce: Managing Collections During Organizational Change

Archivists in institutions in the U.S. and Canada share best practices in managing complex entity relationships and collections governance during significant organizational changes. Models to be discussed include growing or combining archives (due to mergers, acquisitions, or transfers between bodies) and splitting archives due to entity separations. Case studies include an international corporate acquisition, an independent arts institution merging with a museum, and an archives shared with a divested entity.

Grimwood: When the Parent Moves In: Managing Two Different but Connected Collections
Lill: When the Establishment Absorbs the Upstart: The Merger of the Museum of Modern Art and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
Murphy: Here We Grow Again: Integration After an International Acquisition
Topp: After the Divorce: Making Joint Custody Work
Watson: Dividing a Corporate Archives: Managing Through the Split

Speakers

Scott Grimwood

System Manager - Archives, SSM Health Archives

Jonathan Lill

Head of Metadata and Systems, The Museum of Modern Art

Jonathan Lill is the Head of Metadata and Systems for the the MoMA Archives, Library, and Research Collections (ALRC)

Donna Murphy

Manager, Corporate Archives, Manulife / John Hancock

Sue Topp

Manager, Heritage Communications & Archives, Motorola Solutions, Inc.

Susan Ginter Watson

Manager, Archives & Information Resources, Kraft Foods Group, Inc.

Thursday August 20, 2015 1:45pm - 2:45pm EDT
Room 25AB Cleveland Convention Center, 300 Lakeside Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114

Education Session, Lightning Talks, Partially Recorded

1:45pm EDT

SESSION 207 - Collaborations with Impact: Working Together on Archives-based Instruction

Archivists and faculty/instructors discuss collaborations that have used primary sources to guide their curriculum development. Examples of collaborative projects include an interdisciplinary writing course, a pre-college course for high school students, and creation of TeachArchives.org. Working together to co-create assignments, syllabi, and new initiatives offers archivists and instructors the opportunity to provide students with a much richer experience and to raise awareness and appreciation for special collections.

Speakers

Lori Birrell

Director of Special Collections and Museums, University of Delaware

Kristina Bross

Associate Professor; Director of CLA Honors, Purdue University

I have been team-teaching with archivists for almost twenty years, teaching students ranging from first-year undergrads to Ph.D.s in literature, history, American Studies and theory. Classes out of archives and special collections are some of the best experiences I've had--students... Read More →

Susan Curtis

Purdue University

Abigail Glogower

Doctoral Student, University of Rochester

Robin M. Katz

Archivist and librarian, University of California-Riverside

Robin M. Katz is an archivist, librarian, and educator who connects people to primary sources in meaningful ways. She holds a BA from Brandeis University and an MLIS from Kent State University and is a full, career-status librarian at the University of California, Riverside. She served... Read More →

Elizabeth Wilkinson

Curator of Manuscripts, Georgetown University Library

Elizabeth Wilkinson is currently Curator of Manuscripts at the Booth Family Center for Special Collections at Georgetown University. Previously she was Processing and Public Services Archivist at Purdue University, and head of the Manuscript Section at the Indiana State Library. She... Read More →

Thursday August 20, 2015 1:45pm - 2:45pm EDT
Room 22 Cleveland Convention Center, 300 Lakeside Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114

Education Session, Partially Recorded

10:00am EDT

SESSION 301 - Intellectual Property Legislation and Litigation Update

Archives and archivists in many sectors face a rapidly evolving intellectual property landscape, both in proposed legislation and current litigation. The pace of change can make it a challenge to remain current. The panelists – all acknowledged experts in IP – report on the current status of evolving issues, including recent cases about fair use, legislative action on copyright, and international perspectives on archives and copyright.

Speakers

Heather Briston

University Archivist, University of California Los Angeles

Heather Briston is the University Archivist for UCLA. Previously, she was the Head of Public Services for UCLA Library Special Collections, the Corrigan Solari University Historian and Archivist at the University of Oregon from 2001-2011, and also an archivist at the University of... Read More →

Peter Hirtle

Alumni Fellow, Harvard University, Berkman Klein Center

Hirtle is a past president of SAA and a member its Working Group on Intellectual Property. The author of a book and numerous articles on intellectual property and archives, he also created the "Copyright Term and the Public Domain" website

William Maher

University Archivist, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

William Maher is a past president of SAA, a member of its Intellectual Property Working Group and a regular representative of SAA at WIPO. He is the instructor for SAA's course Copyright: The Archivist and the Law.

David Sutton

Director of Research Projects, University of Reading Library

Dr David Sutton has been Director of Research Projects in Reading University Library since 1982. He is editor of the Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters and UK editor of the WATCH copyright project (Writers Artists & Their Copyright Holders). He has been... Read More →

Friday August 21, 2015 10:00am - 11:15am EDT
Room 25AB Cleveland Convention Center, 300 Lakeside Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114

Education Session, Partially Recorded

10:00am EDT

SESSION 302 - Dancing to a New Tune: Managing Your Career in the Archives Profession

In today's rapidly changing job market, it's more essential than ever that archivists take control of their careers. Recent graduates pursue their first job, mid-career professionals seek new challenges, and some find themselves unexpectedly adrift after a job loss. Others face the challenge of hiring from a sea of qualified professionals. Drawing on their own recent experiences, a diverse panel of archivists and archival managers discuss lessons learned and practical tips suitable for any archivist facing or considering a career change.

Speakers

Carrie Hintz

Head, Collection Services, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University

Carrie Hintz is the Head of Collection Services at Emory University's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library. Previously she served as the Head of Archives Processing at Columbia University's Rare Book & Manuscript Library. She is a past co-chair of SAA's Standards... Read More →

Jennifer Johnson

Director, Cargill, Incorporated

Jennifer Johnson is Director of the Corporate Archives at Cargill, Incorporated. A University of Maryland graduate, she worked at the U.S. Department of Energy and the Minnesota State Archives. She has held leadership positions with SAA, MAC, and TCART.

Jamie Martin

Corporate Archivist, IBM Corporation

Jamie Martin is the head of the IBM Corporate Archives. She has worked within business archives for the past 12 years. She received her MLIS from Dominican University/College of St. Catherine in 2006. Jamie is the Past Chair of the Business Archives Section and a member of the 2013... Read More →

Adam Paradis

Metadata Librarian, American Theological Library Association

New-ish metadata librarian, former professional archivist, new-ish MLIS, job hunt exhausted. Still volunteer archivist and co-founder of the Fr. Michael L. Pfleger Archives in Chicago. Talk to me about: Marxism, politics, racism, archives and the State, neo-liberalism and job... Read More →

Anne Thomason

Interim Library Director & Archivist, Lake Forest College

Rachel Vagts

Special Collections and Digital Archives Manager, Denver Public Library

Rachel Vagts is the Special Collections and Digital Archives Manager at the Denver Public Library.

Friday August 21, 2015 10:00am - 11:15am EDT
Grand Ballroom A Cleveland Convention Center, 300 Lakeside Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114

Education Session, Partially Recorded

10:00am EDT

SESSION 309 - The Community IS the Archives: Challenging the Role of the Repository in Community Archives

Archivists, librarians, and community historians know that local residents often distrust repositories. This creates hidden collections—and hidden histories—in the community, especially from groups that are more socially remote from institutions with archives. As professionals, we have a responsibility to challenge the notion of the "repository as archives" and serve the community better by decentralizing appraisal and custody, coordinating resource deployment, and collaborating in providing description and access.

Church: Identifying and Preserving Unknown African American Archival Collections
Marshall: Making the Community Archive Relevant
Olliff: Repositories Without Walls? The Collaborative Archives and Community Historical Sources

Speakers

Lila Teresa Church

Independent Scholar and Proprietor of LTC Consulting

Lila Teresa Church is an independent archival consultant and the sole proprietor of LTC Consulting, based in Durham, North Carolina. Her research interests include the documentation of local African American community history through primary source materials. She plans, designs, and... Read More →

Dean Debolt

University Archivist / University Librarian, University of West Florida Libraries

Dean DeBolt is archivist for the University Archives and West Florida History Center, University of West Florida, Pensacola. Dean holds an M.A. (History) and an M.L.S degree. He is in his 38th year as archivist.

Jennifer Marshall

Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina

Martin T. Olliff

Director, Wiregrass Archives, Troy University Dothan

Marty Olliff (PhD 1998, Auburn) is the director of the Wiregrass Archives and professor of history at Troy University. He is the past president of the Society of Alabama Archivists, sits on the editorial board of Provenance, and is chair of the SAA Graduate Archives Education Sub... Read More →

Friday August 21, 2015 10:00am - 11:15am EDT
Room 24 Cleveland Convention Center, 300 Lakeside Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114

Education Session, Partially Recorded

11:30am EDT

SESSION 401 - Arrangement, Description, and Access for Digital Archives

Archivists know we are preserving digital archives for the sake of access, but often when we discuss how we manage digital archives, what we’re really talking about is how we ingest and store them. In recent years, tools and recommendations for processing and ingest workflows have become fairly prevalent. This is not yet the case with arrangement, description, and access. The panelists discuss arrangement, description, and access challenges and solutions for digital archives.

Speakers

Brian Dietz

NC State University

Danielle Emerling

Associate Director, West Virginia & Regional History Center, West Virginia University

Ben Goldman

Archivist for Curatorial Services and Strategy, Penn State University Libraries

Gloria Gonzalez

Library Strategist, Zepheira

Gloria uses Linked Data principles and tools to provide solutions for archives and libraries to make their collections visible on the Web. As Library Strategist for Zepheira and the Libhub Initiative, Gloria works with public and academic libraries, archives, special collections... Read More →

Jason Evans Groth

Digital Media Librarian, North Carolina State University Libraries

Jason Evans Groth is a Digital Media Librarian at NCSU Libraries. As part of the Learning Spaces and Services department he helps to support the eleven audio and video production suites and several other high-tech creative multimedia spaces. He earned his MIS/MLS from the School of... Read More →

Dorothy Waugh

Digital Preservation Archivist, University of York

Dorothy Waugh is Digital Archivist at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University. She received her MLS from Indiana University and her MA in English Literature from the Ohio State University.

Friday August 21, 2015 11:30am - 12:30pm EDT
Grand Ballroom A Cleveland Convention Center, 300 Lakeside Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114

Education Session, Partially Recorded

11:30am EDT

SESSION 405 - You've Come a Long Way, Baby: Images of Women in Advertising

How have women been portrayed in advertising? Have these portrayals evolved? What are the challenges present in managing collections consisting of ephemera or oversized or special formats? What is the role of archives in preserving and presenting gendered images in a historical context? The panelists explore these and other questions.

Speakers

Rachael Dreyer

Head of Research Services for Special Collections, The Pennsylvania State University

Rachael Dreyer is Head of Research Services for Special Collections at the Pennsylvania State University. Previously a reference archivist at the University of Wyoming's American Heritage Center, Dreyer earned her MSI from the University of Michigan.

Diane Shaw

Director of Special Collections and College Archivist, Lafayette College

Diane Windham Shaw directs the department of Special Collections & College Archives at Lafayette. She received her BA and MLS degrees from Emory University, where she also spent the first years of her career as an archivist. Arriving at Lafayette College in 1985, she has just celebrated... Read More →

Cheryl Stadel-Bevans

Records Management Specialist, HUD OIG

I am the Records Management and FOIA Officer for the Office of Inspector General (OIG) at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). I have a background as an electronic records archivist, and I worked for the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration from... Read More →

Florence M. Turcotte

Literary Manuscripts Archivist, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

Florence M. Turcotte is Literary Manuscripts Archivist in the Department of Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries. She co-authored ARL’s SPEC Kit 296 “Public Services in Special Collections,” and wrote the chapter on outreach... Read More →

Jacqueline Wachholz

Director, Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History, Duke University

Jacqueline Reid Wachholz is the Director of Duke University’s Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History. Before becoming Director, she was the Reference Archivist for the Hartman Center. She was the Illustration Editor for the Advertising Age Encyclopedia of Advertising... Read More →

Turcotte Selling Wholesomeness pptx

Wachholz Documenting Peggy & Joan pptx

Shaw Dixie Cup Women pptx

Friday August 21, 2015 11:30am - 12:30pm EDT
Room 25C Cleveland Convention Center, 300 Lakeside Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114

Education Session, Partially Recorded, Has Attachment

11:30am EDT

SESSION 408 - No More Silence in the Library: Documenting Fandom and Fan Culture in Archives and Special Collections

Unique challenges and opportunities in acquisitions, processing, reference, and outreach may be encountered when working with collections of fan culture. This session addresses both the benefits and challenges of documenting popular culture fandom in the archives. Archivists actively engaged in documenting fan culture in science fiction, fantasy, music, comics, and other arenas describe how to build, develop, and promote archival collections created by or associated with fan communities.

Speakers

Lauren Algee

Senior Innovation Specialist, Library of Congress

Lauren is outgoing Chair of the SAA Public Libraries Archives and Special Collections Section. As a member of the Library of Congress Labs team she is a Community Manager for By the People, a crowdsourcing project which invites the public to explore and make LC digital collections... Read More →

Peter Balestrieri

Curator, Science Fiction and Popular Culture Collections, University of Iowa Special Collections

Please talk with me about: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, TV, Radio, Theatre Arts, Cinema, Fandom Studies, fanzines, fan art, fan fiction, cosplay, social media, ephemera, Romantic poetry and fiction, Frankenstein, digitization, de-acidification, and popular culture in general... Read More →

Jeremy Brett

Curator of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Research Collection, Texas A&M University

Jeremy Brett is an Associate Professor and the Processing Archivist, as well as Curator of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Research Collection, at Cushing Memorial Library & Archives, Texas A&M University.

Heather Fox

Archivist for Manuscript Collections/Director, Oral History Center, University of Louisville

Heather Fox serves as Archivist for Manuscript Collections and Co-director of the Oral History Center in the Archives and Special Collection Library at the University of Louisville. She is one of three faculty members spearheading the Louisville Underground Music Archive Project... Read More →

Jennifer Hecker

Jennifer is an archivist, librarian, and independent consultant. She's been preserving and providing access to personal, literary, corporate, & organizational histories for over 20 years, is the founding director of Town Talk Library, and a co-founder of the Austin Archives Bazaar... Read More →

Erin Lawrimore

University Archivist, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

University Archivist, but probably best known for my corgis Franny and Jasper. I'm most interested in outreach/public awareness, oral history, and instruction.

Mary Richardson

Adult Services Librarian, Cragin Memorial Library

Until recently, I worked as a Project Archivist at Yale Divinity Library. Currently, I'm the Adult Services Librarian at Cragin Memorial Library where I do a little bit of everything including local history. My research interests include feminism in pop culture, punk rock, and being... Read More →

Heather Stecklein

Director, UW-Stout Archives and Area Research Center, UW-Stout

Heather J. Stecklein has served as the Director of the UW-Stout Archives and Area Research Center for ten years. Previously, she administered audiovisual collections at Rush University Medical Center and Erie Neighborhood House in Chicago, Illinois and Presbyterian Homes in Evanston... Read More →

Punk Archive SAA pptx

Friday August 21, 2015 11:30am - 12:30pm EDT
Room 23 Cleveland Convention Center, 300 Lakeside Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114

Education Session, Lightning Talks, Partially Recorded, Has Attachment

3:15pm EDT

SESSION 502 - Narrowing the Focus of Digital and Social Media Outreach

This session brings together archivists from diverse institutions that have created narrowly focused digital outreach projects that utilize a small number of collections for targeting a specific audience across various social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. Presentations focus on practical suggestions for successfully implementing or improving digital outreach projects. The author of the 2014 Theodore Calvin Pease Award-winning paper, which discusses narrowly focused social media outreach, moderates the session.

Speakers

Marta Crilly

Archivist for Reference and Outreach, Boston City Archives

Marta Crilly is the Archivist for Reference and Outreach for the Boston City Archives. She manages the Archives? research services, outreach program, and digital preservation and access program.

Dominique Daniel

Coordinator of Archives and Special Collections, Oakland University

Dominique Daniel currently works as Coordinator of Archives and Special Collections and Humanities Librarian for History and Modern Languages at Oakland University. As such she is responsible for donor relations, processing, digitization projects, reference and outreach. She holds... Read More →

Josh Hager

Reference Archivist, State Archives of North Carolina

Josh Hager is a Reference Archivist at the State Archives of North Carolina. He previously worked as a student assistant at North Carolina State University's Special Collections Research Center and Duke University's Rubenstein Library. He is the author of the 2014 Theodore Calvin... Read More →

Katie Nash

College Archivist, Williams College

Katie Nash is the College Archivist and Special Collections Librarian at Williams College. Her work interests include project management, arranging and describing collections according to standards, digital projects, donor and employee relations, and using social media to highlight... Read More →

Samantha Norling

Data Architect and Newfields Lab Manager, Newfields

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Friday August 21, 2015 3:15pm - 4:15pm EDT
Room 26AB Cleveland Convention Center, 300 Lakeside Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114

Education Session, Partially Recorded, Has Attachment

3:15pm EDT

SESSION 504 - Doing More by Doing Less: Stopping Programs Without Regret

As repositories struggle to maintain services with reduced resources or add to services without increased resources, doing more with less becomes unsustainable. Panelists discuss their experiences with doing more by doing less, discontinuing activities at their institutions to improve existing functions or add new ones. From processing freezes and ceasing microfilming services to dissolving a library AV department, and even relocating an entire repository, the panelists address a wide variety of organizational changes with practical advice.

Speakers

Sarah Dorpinghaus

Director of Digital Strategies and Technology, University of Kentucky

Mary Jo Fairchild

Manager of Research Services, Special Collections, College of Charleston

Mary Jo Fairchild is the Manager of Research Services in the Special Collections Department at the College of Charleston's Addlestone Library. Fairchild holds master's degrees in History and Library Science and is a Certified Archivist.

Matt Francis

Archivist for Collection Management, Penn State University

Matt Francis is the Archivist for Collection Management at Pennsylvania State University Special Collections Library, where he is responsible for overseeing processing, accessioning, and the physical management of collections and serves on the University Libraries Discovery and Access... Read More →

Rebecca Goldman

College Archivist, Wellesley College

Rebecca Goldman is the College Archivist at Wellesley College. She holds a MSLIS from Drexel University and a BA in linguistics from Swarthmore College. Rebecca serves on the steering committees for the College and University Archives Section and the Metadata and Digital Object R... Read More →

Merrilee Proffitt

Senior Manager, OCLC, Inc.

Manager for the OCLC Research Library Partnership.. I am an inclusive, creative, and fearless leader. I have deep experience in convening and creating communities and in utilizing technology to support connection and communication for and between people.Co-author of Reimagine Des... Read More →

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Friday August 21, 2015 3:15pm - 4:15pm EDT
Room 26C Cleveland Convention Center, 300 Lakeside Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114

Education Session, Partially Recorded, Has Attachment

3:15pm EDT

SESSION 505 - Regional Advocacy, National Impact

Recent advocacy campaigns to maintain the independence of New York City’s Department of Records and to prevent the closure of the Georgia Archives have proven that some of our nation’s most significant archives-related advocacy is led at the regional level. This session brings together representatives from multi-state, state, and local regional archival organizations to discuss how regionals have successfully implemented advocacy strategies, as well as ideas for inspiring advocacy activity.

Speakers

Janet Bunde

Assistant University Archivist, New York University

Janet M. Bunde currently serves as the assistant university archivist and archivist of the John Brademas Congressional Papers at New York University (NYU). She received her MA in history with a certificate in archival administration from NYU in 2007. Her areas of professional interest... Read More →

Rachel Chatalbash

Senior Archivist, Yale University

Tessa Cierny

Delta Air Lines, Contracts Team Lead, The Cadence Group, Inc.

Amanda Focke

Head of Special Collections, Rice University

Highlights of my current work include building a digital preservation program of archival materials using Archivematica software, and collaborating across the Rice University campus to develop a hands-on book arts program of printing and bookbinding techniques.

Sarah Quigley

Interim Head of Manuscript Processing, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University

Paul Scott

Records Management Officer, Harris County Texas

I was a field archivist for the Texas State Library and Archives Commission from 1973 to 1988 and was stationed at the Texas A&M University Archives. since then have been the records management officer for Harris County, TX. I have an MA in history with an emphasis on archival administration... Read More →

Julia Stringfellow

Archivist, Boise State University

Friday August 21, 2015 3:15pm - 4:15pm EDT
Room 25C Cleveland Convention Center, 300 Lakeside Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114

Education Session, Lightning Talks, Partially Recorded

8:30am EDT

SESSION 602 - Beer, Booths, and Budgets: Collaborative Models for Outreach and Advocacy

Reaching out to our communities is important, but in a time of increasingly tight budgets, how can we work together to advocate for archives without just preaching to the choir? This session features representatives from the Austin Archives Bazaar, the Los Angeles Archives Bazaar, the Oregon Archives Crawl, and the Sacramento Archives Crawl. Panel topics include practical tips for multi-institutional community events, lessons learned, and ideas for future outreach.

Speakers

Daniel Alonzo

Digital Archivist, Texas General Land Office

Diana Banning

City Archivist, City of Portland Archives and Records Management

Diana Banning manages the Archives and Records Management division for the City of Portland (Oregon).

Dylan McDonald

Deputy City Historian & Manuscripts Archivist, Center for Sacramento History

Since 2004, Dylan McDonald has served as the Deputy City Historian and Manuscripts Archivist at the Center for Sacramento History. He formerly worked at the Idaho State Archives while earning his MA in History at Boise State University. He teaches the Archives & Manuscripts course... Read More →

Liza Posas

Head, Research Services and Archives, Autry Museum of the American West

Liza Posas joined the Autry in 2005 and currently serves as their Head of Research Services and Archives. She is also the Coordinator for LA as Subject, a collaborative hosted by the USC Libraries that works to promote and preserve LA's history.

Kristy Sorensen

Assoc. Library Director, Archivist and Records Manager, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary - Stitt Library

Kristy has been an archivist and librarian in Austin since graduating with her MLIS from UT Austin in 2002. She is currently the associate director of the Stitt Library and head of archives and records management at Austin Seminary.

Saturday August 22, 2015 8:30am - 9:45am EDT
Room 25AB Cleveland Convention Center, 300 Lakeside Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114

Education Session, Partially Recorded

8:30am EDT

SESSION 606 - Privacy v. Access: Legal and Ethical Challenges in High-Profile Collections

While abiding by the mission of providing access, should institutions make privacy exceptions in high-profile cases? Should creators of records be notified when access is either required or restricted by law? How do shifting interpretations and external pressures affect curators’ decisions? Panelists discuss records related to the Dr. Kevorkian-assisted suicides, the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Speakers

Roger Christman

Governors' Records Archivist, Library of Virginia

Roger Christman is the governors' records archivist at the Library of Virginia in Richmond.

Jessi Fishman

Archivist

Terry McDonald

Director, University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library

Jan Seidler Ramirez

Chief Curator and VP of Collections, National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center

Contemporaneous collecting in times of societal turmoil; crafting collecting strategies and policies around sensitive material culture

Olga Virakhovskaya

Lead Archivist for Collections Management, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan

Olga supervises archival processing and provides collection management oversight for a diverse range of collections. Her professional interests include archival description, privacy and ethics. Olga holds a MLIS from the Southern Connecticut State University and an MA from the University... Read More →

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Saturday August 22, 2015 8:30am - 9:45am EDT
Room 20 Cleveland Convention Center, 300 Lakeside Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114

Education Session, Has Attachment, Partially Recorded

10:00am EDT

SESSION 703 - Reading from the Crypt: Tales of Archives, Horror, and Dystopia

Archival themes and materials can be found in surprising places, including bestselling horror, dystopia, and post-apocalyptic novels that at first glance have nothing to do with archives. The speakers in this session show that even in a haunted hotel, a gray dystopia, or a Biblical catastrophe, one can find archives, archival material, and the historical record peeking through and influencing events in ways both obvious and subtle.

Combs: M-O-O-N, That Spells Archives! Archival Material in Stephen King’s "The Stand
Radick: You've Always Been the Caretaker: Archives as a Destructive Force in Stephen King's "The Shining"
Tansey: Back and Back and Back: Memories vs. Records in Lois Lowry’s "The Giver"

Speakers

Michele Combs

Lead Archivist, Syracuse University Special Collections Research Center

Veronica Denison

Archivist, University of Alaska Anchorage

Caryn Radick

Digital Archivist, Rutgers University

Caryn Radick has worked as an archivist for more then ten years after a brief career as an editor. As digital archivist at Rutgers, her responsibilities include overseeing EAD mark-up, digitization projects, and public services and reference. She is interested in intersections between... Read More →

Eira Tansey

Digital Archivist/Records Manager, University of Cincinnati

Eira Tansey is the digital archivist and records manager at the University of Cincinnati's Archives and Rare Books Library. She has previously written about Cincinnati's public libraries, the visibility and compensation of archivists' labor, and the effects of climate change on archival... Read More →

Saturday August 22, 2015 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
Room 26C Cleveland Convention Center, 300 Lakeside Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114

Education Session, Partially Recorded

10:00am EDT

SESSION 706 - Keeping the Televised Historic Record: An Archive of Public Media in the Making

Archivists face the urgent task of migrating audiovisual media before a significant piece of the 20th century's historical record is lost to posterity. Once these materials have been digitized, how do archivists preserve them for the long term? How can we innovatively provide access and encourage use, given the rights complexities often associated with audiovisual materials? This session focuses on these questions through the lens of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.

Speakers

Karen Cariani

Senior Director Media Library and Archives, WGBH Educational Foundation

I am passionate about making media archives accessible on-line. This goes hand in hand with digital preservation, metadata processes, and systems to manage both. I seek to use technology as much as possible to help archivists and librarians with their work.

Casey Davis

Associate Director, WGBH Educational Foundation

Casey E. Ovella Davis (she/they) is an archivist, oral historian and memory worker. Currently at GBH, America's preeminent public broadcasting producer and the source of fully one-third of PBS' primetime line-up, Davis is Associate Director of the GBH Archives and Project Manager... Read More →

Alan Gevinson

Special Assistant to the Chief, Library of Congress

Lauren Sorensen

Digital Conversion Specialist, The Library of Congress

Saturday August 22, 2015 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
Room 20 Cleveland Convention Center, 300 Lakeside Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114

Education Session, Partially Recorded