I’m a proud member of RAO, or the Reference, Access and Outreach group. Yesterday I participated in the second year of the “Marketplace of Ideas” where there are six stations and participants get 15 minutes at one of four stations during the meeting. I contributed to the recent survey about archivists’s use of primary sources […]
Session 205 Exploring UX
I started my Thursday afternoon with Exploring the User Experience with Digital Primary Source. Sherri Berger, Rachel Hi, Jody DeRidder, Donghee Sinn and Roger Schonfield spoke about their different user research projects. Across their presentations was the common theme that researchers want more- more digital content. While this may not surprise us, it seems that […]
Decisions are made by those who show up
I spent my lunch time on Thursday talking about SAA’s strategic plan with President elect Danna Russell and several members of council. Only a few other SAA members came and despite the low turn out we had a great discussion about key areas in the strategic plan. Most important to me is SAA’s objective: to […]
Session 106: Developing you BASKET
I kicked off Thursday with the session about succession planning, or how to plan for the time when key staff members with years of tenure retire or move on. Nancy Bartlett defined succession planning as, the recruiting, training, development of staff to fill key positions. She argued that within this kind of planning there is […]
SNAP
I ended the day on Wednesday with the SNAP roundtable. There were two panels, one related to the DAS program and the second about being a project archivist. My big takeaway from the DAS panel was that by taking classes you can better articulate to your IT folks what your needs are. I wonder though […]
Walk this way: Research Libraries Roundtable
I tend to try out roundtables and sections each year and while I have my favorites, I like to go to new ones too. Yesterday I explored the Research Libraries Roundtable. As a staff member at an ARL library, I was interested in hearing about projects going on at similar organizations. Ricky Erway from OCLC […]
What does the future hold?
Yesterday I attended the symposium: Women’s Archives/Women’s Collections: What does the future hold? We gathered at the Newcomb College Institute at Tulane University. The Director of the Center, Sally Kenney kicked off the symposium and shared some artifacts from her career as both an activist and a Political Scientist. Tanya Zanish- Belcher invited us to […]
An Evolution of an Archivist’s Service Model?
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the quality of service I offer researchers who come to use the materials in our Special Collections Department. As the Historical Manuscripts Librarian, most of the patrons I work with are from outside the university. However, more and more, undergraduates and graduate students are becoming involved in experiential […]