For the Saturday morning session, I went to hear about planning for an archives move. Dan Dilandro, Theresa Altieri and Leslie Simons shared their tips for planning and executing a successful move: 1. Develop a reverse timeline to ensure deadlines are met. 2. Incorporate staff engagement and buy-in into the moving process. 3. Develop a […]

I went to Leaning in to the Archives: Women in the Archival Profession and heard Cheryl Stadel-Bevans, L. Rebecca Johnson Melvin, Ashley Taylor and Danna Bell discuss their reactions to Sherly Sandberg’s book Lean In. My biggest take aways were the comments the panelists made about mentorship. Danna described the positive relationships she formed early […]

this afternoon I heard from Katy Rawdon, Courtney Smerz and Melanie Wisner about their experiences with metrics and assessment. Katy underscored the importance of understanding the differences between metrics and assessment. Metrics measure inputs, processes and outputs. Assessment looks at the how of what we’re doing and begins to provide meaning. One of the big […]

For my first session this morning, I went to Donated Records Partnerships Projects: Collection Matching. Dawn Sherman- Fells and Meghan Ryan Guthorn co-chaired the session about the possibility of developing a shared resource to redirect donors to more appropriate repository. We must consider how we grow collections that fit with our mission focus. We must […]

We kicked off MARAC with a great plenary talk by Kathleen Roe. Kathleen shared with us five challenges she has observed within the archival profession. 1. The way we do the things we do- this focus on process may not move our profession forward. 2. Records with which we work- we must ask just what […]

During the second day of the DAS workshop with Kari Smith we focused on the differences and similarities among digital libraries, archives and repositories, as they relate to issues of digital preservation. The big take-aways from the session were: When doing digital project planning, consider how a series of experiences can be leveraged into a […]

Today I attended the first foundational course as part of the Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) Curriculum and Certificate Program offered through SAA and ARL at Syracuse University. Kari Smith, the Digital Archivist, at MIT led the workshop and there were several big take-aways: You can use MPLP when archiving born digital records. You don’t have […]

I ended the day with the session on graphics in the archive. my biggest take away was that the role of a digital collections (fill in the blank) is a composite role of archivist, researcher, curator and cataloger. As Cathleen Lu and Hillary Kativa emphasized, the role of archivist includes the act of accessing digital […]