In this issue:
Coming in the Fall -- New Columns, New Contributors!
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From the chair
Ellen Swain
Hello!
Please join us for the RAO Section meeting at SAA Boston, on Friday, August 6, from 8:30-10:30am. We have an informative business meeting and a great feature program planned!!!
The business meeting:
Steering committee members will report and lead discussion on the year’s activities and new proposals, including these items: an update concerning SAA’s response to the USA Patriot Act; a proposal to establish an RAO listserv; a report on establishing RAO session endorsement guidelines; a report on newsletter and web activities; a brief look at RAO’s history; and the election of new officers for 2004-2005.
The program:
Lynn Rhoads and Nancy Heywood, Massachusetts Historical Society:
K-12 teachers across the nation, from elementary through high school, are incorporating primary sources into their classroom activities. The Massachusetts Historical Society (a private research library) has, with foundation support, been developing a multifaceted educational initiative to make its historical collections available and useful to teachers and their students. Come hear Lynn Rhoads, Education Coordinator, and Nancy Heywood, Digital Projects Coordinator, give an overview of the MHS’s summer teacher fellowship program, its recent educational programs, its current web offerings, and its forthcoming, NEH-funded, web-based timeline of the coming of the American Revolution.
Also, 5 RAO endorsed sessions appear on the SAA Program. Be sure to check them out:
#7 "Information Literacy and the Archivist," Thurs, Aug 5
#11 "Tackling Copyright in Visual Materials," Thurs, Aug 5
#42 "From Digital Projects to Programs," Fri, Aug 6
#43 "Say What? Best Practices and Sample Projects for Digital Audio...," Fri, Aug 6
#60 "Scandal in the Exhibit Hall: Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual History Exhibits," Sat, Aug 7
I have enjoyed my year as RAO chair and thank you so much for this opportunity. I look forward to seeing you all in Boston!
Sincerely,
Ellen
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MEMBER NEWS
Ginny L. Kilander
Member News is your opportunity to share announcements with other Reference, Access and Outreach members. Submit your short press releases announcing new acquisitions, recently processed collections, special projects, exhibits, events and other news from archival repositories, in addition to notes regarding promotions and new appointments, retirements, awards, authorship announcements and similar news for inclusion in the next issue. Thanks for your contributions!
Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library
The Lennox Foundation has donated $75,000 of a $100,000 effort to renovate the Department's Reading Room with improvements and enhancements to its physical space and an upgrade of its technology*through added electrical wiring, wireless access, and laptop computer availability. The funding will also provide for new furniture, bookcases and museum-quality exhibit cases.
The University of Louisville Archives and Records Center
The University of Louisville Archives and Records Center has added subject guides as one of the many resources available for researchers on its webpage (http://library.louisville.edu/uarc/). Currently there are five guides available: "Documenting African American Life in Louisville," "Resources for Research on the U.S. Navy," "Women's Manuscript Collection Project," "Louisville and the Second World War," and "Jewish Life in Louisville." Future guides will cover "Arts and Culture in Louisville," "Political and Legal Collections," "The Business of doing Business," and "Louisville and World War I."
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CALENDAR
Jim Cross
July 12-15 Museums, Libraries and Archives: Summer Institute for Knowledge Sharing is hosted by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College in Boston, MA. See http://ksi.simmons.edu for more information. Among the workshops and presentations offered this year are Creating Digital Resources in Museums, Libraries, and Archives: Tools and Methods for How We Work TodayMetadata, Vocabularies, Users and Usability and Usability and Audience Metrics.
July 14-17 The National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators (NAGARA) Annual Meeting will be held in Phoenix, AZ. It will include a session on outreach. For more information see the website at http://www.nagara.org/; phone: 518-463-8644; or email at nagara@caphill.com.
Aug 2-8 The Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting is in Boston, MA at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel. Contact: Society of American Archivists, 600 S. Federal, Suite 504, Chicago IL 60605 ph: 312-922-0140, fax: 312-922-1452, info@archivists.org, http://www.archivists.org.
August 22-27 The World Library and Information Congress: 70th IFLA General Conference and Council will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Its theme is "Libraries: Tools for Education and Development." Among the sessions planned for the Conference are those on copyright and immigrant genealogy. More information can be found at http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla70/index.htm.
Aug 23-29 The 15th International Congress on Archives is being held in Vienna, Austria with the theme "Archives, Memory and Knowledge." A number of sessions on reference, access, and outreach are part of the conference program. See http://www.wien2004.ica.org/ for more details.
August 31-Sept 3 "Accountability, Citizenship and Ethics: the role of archives and records management in nurturing citizenship" is the title of the Society of Archivists 48th Annual Conference and Conservation Training Conference to be held in Glasgow, Scotland. Additional information on the conference can be found at http://www.archives.org.uk/.
Sept 1 Deadline to apply for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) scholarship to attend its fall meeting. See http://www.lib.umd.edu/MARAC/scholar.htm for more information.
Sept 15-18Australian Society of Archivists will hold its annual conference in Canberra, Australia with the theme: "Challenges in the Field." For more information please contact Helen Cross, helenc@naa.gov.au, or Paul Macpherson, paul@stuartfieldhouse.com or see http://www.archivists.org.au/events.html. It will include a preconference workshop on accessibility to remote users and sessions on accessibility.
Sept 30-Oct 2 MARAC fall meeting in Pittsburgh, PA. Check the MARAC website at http://www.lib.umd.edu/MARAC/ for more details.
Oct 1Society of Rocky Mountain Archivists is holding its Annual Fall Meeting and Conference at the American Alpine Club Library in Golden, Colorado with the theme: "Interpreting History at the Archives." Go to http://ahc.uwyo.edu/srma/default.htm for additional information.
Oct 28-30 Midwest Archives Conference fall meeting in Des Moines, Iowa. Check the MAC website at http://www.midwestarchives.org/ for more information.
Nov 1 Deadline to register for the winter Modern Archives Institute, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC. Contact: Modern Archives Institute, Professional Development and Training (PDT), National Archives and Records Administration, Room 3110, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park MD 20740-6001.
Nov 3-5 The 35th Annual Meeting of the Society of Georgia Archivists will take place in Morrow at the Georgia Archives and Clayton College and State University. Additional information can be found at http://www.soga.org/am/2004/am.html.
Nov 27 "Recasting the Past: Digital Histories" conference sponsored by the Institute for Historical Research will be held in London, England. For further information see http://www.gla.ac.uk/centres/hca/ahc/conf2004.htm.
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FROM THE EDITOR
Due mostly to poor planning on the part of the editor, this issue of the RAO newsletter may not reach you except by email.
Contributors and committee members are working with me to revamp the newsletter and include some new columns.
One of these, tentatively titled THE MINORITY REPORT will deal with archives that document under-represented populations, as well as, outreach to those populations by more conventional archives.
Again, I apologize for the lateness of this issue and will be working through the summer to have everything in place for our November issue.
Sincerely,
Sharon Pullen
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Newsletter Submission Requirements
Please submit items by October 15, 2004 for inclusion in the next issue. To make a submission contact either the editor or the feature writers. Please submit all materials in Times Roman font, size 11. Submit in a Microsoft Word file. Do not underline, italicize, or highlight text.
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