Word comes from Valerie Love, U Conn’s Curator of Human Rights Collections, that the petition to create a Human Rights Roundtable of the Society of American Archivists has been approved; Valerie made the case here last October. A huge thanks to Valerie and T-Kay Sangwand of U Texas for making this happen; they [...]
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October 8, 2008
October is American Archives Month…
10 things to read/do/think about:
1. Read Archives and Justice: A South African Perspective by Verne Harris.
2. Check out this upcoming NY Archivists Roundtable workshop: Digital Asset Management and Institutional Repositories: Case Studies Addressing the Development and Implementation of Systems. November 10, 2008. One of the presenters is David Rice, Channel 13’s Digital Archivist. Dave is [...]
September 4, 2008
SAA2008: A few final notes
Back from SF, to the office, first day of school, general fall craziness. I want to post just a couple of other notes re SAA before I move on to other topics.
The session “Returning Displaced Archives: Legal and Ethical Perspectives” moderated by Trudy Peterson. The panelists, to whom scenarios (hypothetical and [...]
August 30, 2008
SAA2008: Random notes
I did the Internet Archive “tour” Weds morning – nothing to tour really, as befits a digital archive; a colleague said, “they have a building?” – but presentations and Q&A in the Presidio office about the Books program, NASA Images project, and Archive-it, a subscription service allowing customized website crawling/archiving for organizations. A few things [...]
August 29, 2008
SAA2008: Meaning, Justice and John Dean
I started the day with “What, Why, How? Archival Meaning in a R/Evolutionary Age” which featured three excellent papers exploring meaning, purpose and collective identity for archivists. I especially liked Scott Cline’s paper which explored what he called “archival being” the core values of which are faith, radical self-understanding, intention, and integrity; and illustrated [...]
August 22, 2008
SAA2008
I will be in San Francisco all of next week for the Society of American Archivists annual meeting. Of particular note: Global Issues Forum on “Archival Ethics and Social Justice: What is our Professional Responsibility?” Consisting of panelists and open discussion, the forum will begin by considering the “Key Propositions and Questions,” presented [...]
