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Plan now to attend SAA’s 72nd Annual Meeting

ARCHIVES / CHICAGO 2007

Schedule at a Glance

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Monday, August 27, 2007

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

8:00 AM-5:00 PM	Group	SAA Council Meeting
9:30 AM-5:00 PM	Tour	Repository Tours and Open Houses
10:00 AM-4:00 PM	Event	SAA 2007 Research Forum: Building Bridges Between Research and Practice
1:00 PM-5:00 PM	Group	Standards Committee

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

7:00 AM-8:00 PM	Event	Registration Open
8:00 AM-10:00 AM	Group	American Archivist Editorial Board
8:30 AM-12:30 PM	Event	Academy of Certified Archivists Certification Examination
9:00 AM-11:00 AM	Group	Diversity Committee
9:00 AM-1:00 PM	Group	ARMA/SAA Joint Committee
9:00 AM-1:00 PM	Group	Committee on Ethics and Professional Conduct
9:00 AM-1:00 PM	Group	Intellectual Property Working Group
9:00 AM-2:00 PM	Group	Committee on Education
9:00 AM-2:00 PM	Group	Standards Committee / Technical Subcommittee on Descriptive Standards
9:00 AM-4:00 PM	Tour	Repository Tours
9:00 AM-4:00 PM	Other	Academy of Certified Archivists Board Meeting
9:30 AM-7:15 PM	Event	Business Archives Colloquium
10:00 AM-12:00 PM	Group	Awards Committee
10:00 AM-1:00 PM	Group	ALA/SAA/AAM Joint Committee
10:00 AM-1:00 PM	Group	Publications Board
10:00 AM-4:00 PM	Group	Archival Facilities Guidelines Working Group
11:00 AM-12:00 PM	Group	2007 Program Committee
11:00 AM-1:00 PM	Group	Membership Committee
12:00 PM-1:30 PM	Group	2008 Program Committee
1:00 PM-4:00 PM	Group	Archivists for Congregations of Women Religious (ACWR) Annual Business Meeting
2:00 PM-3:30 PM	Event	Leadership Orientation and Forum for SAA Section, Roundtable, and Committee Officers
3:00 PM-8:00 PM	Event	SAA Bookstore Open
4:00 PM-6:00 PM	Group	Roundtable Meetings
6:00 PM-7:30 PM	Event	Archivists of Religious Collections Section Reception
6:00 PM-8:00 PM	Group	Roundtable Meetings
8:00 PM-9:00 PM	Event	SAA Student Mixer

Thursday, August 30, 2007

6:30 AM-7:00 PM	Event	Registration Open
7:00 AM-8:00 AM	Event	New Member / First Timer Breakfast and Orientation
8:00 AM-9:30 AM	Plenary	Opening Plenary Session
8:00 AM-5:00 PM	Event	Great Ideas! InfoExpo
8:00 AM-5:00 PM	Event	SAA Bookstore Open
9:00 AM-12:00 PM	Other	Academy of Certified Archivists Item-Writing Workshop *(CANCELLED)*
9:00 AM-5:00 PM	Event	Career Center Open
10:00 AM-11:30 AM	Session	101. Free Speech, Free Spirit: The Studs Terkel Center for Oral History
10:00 AM-11:30 AM	Session	107. Archival Extortion?
10:00 AM-11:30 PM	Session	102. Leadership Skills for Archivists
10:00 AM-11:30 PM	Session	103. A Special Brew: New Perspectives From the National Archives on Civil Rights, Race Riots, and Brown vs Board of Education
10:00 AM-11:30 PM	Session	104. Open Source Software Solutions for Collection Management and Web Delivery
10:00 AM-11:30 PM	Session	105. Using Archives: International Perspectives on the Role of the Archivist in the 21st Century
10:00 AM-11:30 PM	Session	106. Constructing Sustainability: Real-World Implementations of Preservation Standards for Born-Digital Design Documentation
10:00 AM-11:30 PM	Session	108. Reaching Beyond Our Grasp: Taking Outreach from the Center to the Edge
11:30 AM-12:30 PM	Other	Academy of Certified Archivists Open Forum on Certification
11:30 AM-12:30 PM	Group	Archival Leadership Brown Bag Lunch
11:30 AM-12:30 PM	Other	NHPRC Brown Bag Lunch
11:30 AM-12:30 PM	Other	State Historical Records Advisory Boards (SHRAB) Brown Bag Lunch
11:30 AM-12:30 PM	Event	Student Forum
12:45 PM-2:15 PM	Session	201. Public Programming: The Gift That Keeps Giving
12:45 PM-2:15 PM	Session	202. Lifetimes and Legacies: Caring Approaches to the Elderly, the Infirm, and Their Survivors
12:45 PM-2:15 PM	Session	203. How Controlled Is Your Vocabulary? Experience from the Digital Field
12:45 PM-2:15 PM	Session	204. Learning the Hard Way: National Disaster Preparedness Initiatives
12:45 PM-2:15 PM	Session	205. Ships That Pass in the Night? Evaluating Archival Users Tools with a User-Centric Perspective
12:45 PM-2:15 PM	Session	206. Desperately Seeking Solutions
12:45 PM-2:15 PM	Session	207. “Labor Beat”: Chicago Film Archives and Labor Media
12:45 PM-2:15 PM	Session	208. When Good Photo Collections Go Bad: Critical Concepts For Understanding and Managing Photo Collections
2:45 PM-4:15 PM	Session	301. Outreach to Those Less Served
2:45 PM-4:15 PM	Session	302. Signifying Nothing? Sound, Fury, and Mediated Access
2:45 PM-4:15 PM	Session	303. “The Fabulous Fifties”: The Best Is Yet to Come?
2:45 PM-4:15 PM	Session	304. Setting an Action Agenda for Local Government Archives
2:45 PM-4:15 PM	Session	305. Where Are We “AT”? A Status Report on the Archivists’ Toolkit
2:45 PM-4:15 PM	Session	306. Preserving Electronic Records in the Sciences
2:45 PM-4:15 PM	Session	307. Reference Service and Minimal Processing: Challenges and Opportunities
2:45 PM-4:15 PM	Session	308. International Perspectives on Privacy Protection
4:45 PM-5:45 PM	Session	401. Digital Imaging in the Smaller Shop: Case Studies from the Midwest
4:45 PM-5:45 PM	Session	402. Preserving Your Audio and Video Assets: A Simple Physical Examination to Evaluate the Condition of Tape Materials in a Collection
4:45 PM-5:45 PM	Session	403. Adopting Triage or Accession-Level Processing as a Standard for Certain Types of Corporate Records: A Look at Royal Bank of Canada’s Example
4:45 PM-5:45 PM	Session	404. Exploring the Headwaters of the Revenue Stream
4:45 PM-5:45 PM	Session	405. Creating an Online Research Collection on New York’s Latino/Hispanic History: A Project Model for Collecting and Providing Access to Documentation for Minority Communities
4:45 PM-5:45 PM	Session	406. MP-LP Comes Home to Roost: Applying the Greene-Meissner Recommendations Broadly Across an Institution
4:45 PM-5:45 PM	Session	407. From Cockroaches to Cold Storage: Moving an Archives Into the 21st Century
4:45 PM-5:45 PM	Session	408. Even Worst Sellers Have Value: What Amazon Means for Archival Reference Processes
5:45 PM-7:45 PM	Event	THINK BIG! Happy Hour in the Exhibit Hall
7:00 PM-9:00 PM	Other	Academy of Certified Archivists Annual Business Meeting and Member Reception
7:45 PM-9:45 PM	Event	Alumni Parties / Mixers
9:00 PM-10:30 PM	Event	Archives in the Movies

Friday, August 31, 2007

7:00 AM-8:00 AM	Event	Expo Hall Private Appointments
7:00 AM-8:00 AM	Event	Food for Thought
7:00 AM-8:00 AM	Event	Key Contacts Breakfast
7:00 AM-5:00 PM	Event	Registration Open
8:00 AM-10:00 AM	Group	SAA Section Meetings
8:00 AM-5:00 PM	Event	Great Ideas! InfoExpo
8:00 AM-5:00 PM	Event	SAA Bookstore Open
9:00 AM-5:00 PM	Event	Career Center Open
9:30 AM-4:30 PM	Event	THINK BIG! Exhibit Hall Open
10:00 AM-12:00 PM	Event	"Chicago Blues" Brunch in the Exhibit Hall
12:00 PM-2:00 PM	Group	SAA Section Meetings
2:30 PM-4:00 PM	Session	501. The Web of Relationships
2:30 PM-4:00 PM	Session	502. Administering the Martin Luther King, Jr. Collections
2:30 PM-4:00 PM	Session	503. Rethinking Access and Descriptive Practice
2:30 PM-4:00 PM	Session	504. “i’d like to order …” The 21st Century Archival ~~Researcher~~ Consumer
2:30 PM-4:00 PM	Session	505. Ensuring Authentic Electronic Records: “Essential Characteristics” and Archival Preservation
2:30 PM-4:00 PM	Session	506. Archival Education for the Digital Age
2:30 PM-4:00 PM	Session	507. The Labor of Mergers and Acquisitions: How Labor and Business Archives Can Work Together and Learn From Each Other
2:30 PM-4:00 PM	Session	508. Difficult Women: Successful Public Outreach for “Problematic” Women’s Collections
4:00 PM-4:30 PM	Event	“Last Chance” Exhibit Hall Break
4:30 PM-6:00 PM	Session	601. Fundamental Change: Three Early SAA Feminist Leaders Reflect on the Profession’s Past and Present Challenges
4:30 PM-6:00 PM	Session	602. More Product, Less Privacy? Applying Minimal Processing with an Awareness of Sensitive, Confidential, or Restricted Collection Materials
4:30 PM-6:00 PM	Session	603. Legislative Drivers and Evolving Professional Practice: An International Perspective
4:30 PM-6:00 PM	Session	604. Beyond Evaluation: Measuring the Impact of Archives
4:30 PM-6:00 PM	Session	605. Graduate Student Paper Session
4:30 PM-6:00 PM	Session	606. Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences: A Model for Collaboration
4:30 PM-6:00 PM	Session	607. The Dynamics in the Aggregate: Shareable Metadata and Next-Generation Access Systems
4:30 PM-6:30 PM	Session	608. A Great Brand Knows Its Soul
6:30 PM-7:30 PM	Event	SAA Awards Ceremony
7:30 PM-9:30 PM	Event	All-Attendee Reception

Saturday, September 1, 2007

7:30 AM-3:00 PM	Event	Registration Open
8:00 AM-9:30 AM	Event	SAA Annual Membership Meeting
8:00 AM-11:00 AM	Event	SAA Bookstore Open
8:00 AM-3:00 PM	Event	Great Ideas! InfoExpo
10:00 AM-11:30 AM	Session	701. Copyright Legislation and Litigation Update
10:00 AM-11:30 AM	Session	702. Eastern Views of the Wild West
10:00 AM-11:30 AM	Session	703. Sexuality in the Archives
10:00 AM-11:30 AM	Session	704. Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Women in Leadership
10:00 AM-11:30 AM	Session	705. Measuring Digital Preservation Readiness: Digital Site Surveys and Certification of Trusted Digital Repositories
10:00 AM-11:30 AM	Session	706. If You Fund It, Will They Come? The Role of Federal Granting Agencies in the Advance of the Archival Profession
10:00 AM-11:30 AM	Session	707. The Anatomy of a Collaborative Digital Project and Lessons Learned in the Realms of Access, Outreach, and Creative Success: A Multi-Disciplinary Look at Publishers’ Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The Art of Books
10:00 AM-11:30 AM	Session	708. It’s More Than Just the Patent: Documenting Invention Records and the Makers and Players
11:00 AM-1:00 PM	Event	Career Center Open
12:00 PM-1:00 PM	Group	Progressive Archivists Caucus Brown Bag Lunch
1:00 PM-2:30 PM	Session	801. Where Have All the Binders Gone? Managing Archives with Databases
1:00 PM-2:30 PM	Session	802. Activism in the Archives: Working with Human Rights Collections
1:00 PM-2:30 PM	Session	803. “Can You Hear Me Now?” Building Bridges to the Archival Curriculum for Distance Education Students
1:00 PM-2:30 PM	Session	804. Preserving Context and Original Order in a Digital World
1:00 PM-2:30 PM	Session	805. An Archival Voice in the Institutional Repository Choir: How Does it Sound Now and What Would We Like to Hear?
1:00 PM-2:30 PM	Session	806. Artifactually Speaking: Getting a Handle on Objects in Your Archives
1:00 PM-2:30 PM	Session	807. Processing and Preserving Our National Pastime: The August “Garry” Herrmann Papers Project
1:00 PM-2:30 PM	Session	808. Joint Interests: Presidents of ARMA and SAA Discuss Future Cooperative Efforts
3:00 PM-4:15 PM	Plenary	Closing Plenary Session
7:00 PM-9:30 PM	Event	Closing Party at Chicago’s JAZZ FEST

Sunday, September 2, 2007

9:00 AM-12:00 PM

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EAD Working Group

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