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 […]
Society of American Archivists
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 […]
Saa11: Session 605
Acquiring Organizational Records in a Social Media World: Documenting Strategies in the Facebook Era For my last session at SAA yesterday I heard three presenters sharing their experiences using social media to connect with undergraduates. Tim Pyatt’s “Not for the Uninitiated Documenting Secret Societies” conveyed how he has captured these organization’s records through Google searches, […]
Saa11: Session 410
Session 410: The Archivists’ Toolkit: Innovative Collaboration This session included 8 lightening talk presentations of 5-8 minutes long. Kate Bowers from Harvard University shared her experiences with a drop down plug-in for the “extent” field in Archivists’ Toolkit, which enabled her and the other 7 repositories at Harvard to shift their accession records into AT. […]
Saa11: Session 301
Archives on the Go: Using Mobile Technologies for Your Collections This session was chock-full of the suggestions for implementing mobile technologies. The first presenter Laura Botts shared her experiences with QR codes. Botts explained that QR codes can be useful to archivists who launch exhibits, to share further information with viewers. QR codes can be […]
Saa11: Plenary II: David Ferrerio and Helen Tibbo
This morning I attended the second Plenary session which featured United States Archivst, David Ferrerio. Ferrerio highlighted the challenges that we as practitioners in a digital era face and how the staff at NARA are working through those issues. Challenges: – Quantity of digital files – Numerous file formats – New technologies competing against old […]
Saa11: Session 205
Session 205: EAD and the Global Information Environment: An Exploration of Opportunities Yesterday afternoon I attended a session on EAD. As someone who works at a repository that does not yet take advantage of all that EAD can offer, I’m interested to know how practitioners are using EAD. This session included a panel of 4 […]
Saa11: Social Media Forum
This afternoon I enjoyed the exciting opportunity to participate in an open forum sponsored and led by the Communications Technology Working Group. Over the next year, as SAA examines a wide variety of practices as an organization, one of the areas I’m most interested in is the organization’s response to the abundance of social media […]