Ensuring that exhibits become part of a programmatic approach to outreach was the big take-away from this morning’s session. I proposed and coordinated this session because I was surprised after last year’s SAA how few sessions address the topic of exhibitions. Celia Walker of Vanderbilt University started the session by encouraging us to think about […]

My big take-aways from this session include: Ensure that project archivists can fully engage in the mission and activities of the archive and where possible the library or parent organization. Encourage project archivists to continue to develop professionally by attending conferences and publishing about their work and experiences. Work with your supervisor to ensure that […]

There is great interest in developing a survey of national and international collections that document the HIV/AIDS crisis. This idea is particularly relevant for me, because we hold the AIDS Education Posters Collection and we’re considering what other kinds of materials we may want to collect. Several interesting ideas and questions came from the panelists: […]

Thinking about how what we’re doing in archives connects with the larger institutional mission was my big take-away from this morning’s session. Benjamin Yousey-Hindes a Development Officer from Yale encouraged us to consider: Know why you matter and to whom Know what your money needs are and what possible opportunities are out there What are […]

RAO’s Marketplace of Ideas offered a great opportunity for members to engage in small group discussions. I heard about different tools archivists are using to capture reference statistics. These tools includes: Deskstracker Deskstats LibAnalytics Others talked about using Google Fusion and Knowledge Tracker. It seems like practitioners struggle to find a tool that captures numbers […]

Continuing my focus on leadership, I went to the Lean In session after lunch. My big take-away from this panel was the importance of being an advocate for yourself. I’m interested in understanding more about the leadership gap in our profession and found Lisa Haralampus’s comment really informative. She emphasized the importance of planning and […]

Developing strong leaders is vitally important for the future of our profession. Framing the concept of leadership within a change matrix served as the focus of this session. The first presenter was Ann Hodges, who reflected on her time at the University of Texas at Arlington. She offered us several tools and concepts to consider […]

I kicked off SAA2014 with the Women’s Collections Roundtable. We heard from Heather Slania, who is the Director of the Library and Research Center at the National Museum for Women in the Arts. Heather presented about her work with web archiving. She framed her presentation in terms of encouraging the audience to think about how […]