Working Group Presentations

Records Management Roundtable

RMRT/AMRT Joint Working Group on Diversity in Archives and Records Management SAA Presentation
Austin, TX Friday, August 14, 2009

Working Group Charge
Working Group Members

SESSION 307 - "Strategies for Accommodating People with
Physical Impairments and Disabilities in Archives"

Session Chair:

Daria D'Arienzo, CA

Archival Consultant

"Archives for All: Setting the Context"

Speakers:

Dr. Frank H. Serene, CA

Archivist
National Archives and Records Administration
"Why and How Should an Archive Accommodate People with Disabilities?"

Avery Olmstead, MLIS Project Specialist, Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies
University of Maine Archives and Accessibility for All

Casey E. Greene, CA Head of Special Collections
Rosenberg Library
"Would You Please Repeat That? Heading the Archives as an Individual with Hearing Impairment"

Debra Kimok

Special Collections Librarian
State University of New York College at Plattsburgh

"Overview of the Joint RMRT/AMRT Working Group on Diversity in Archives and Records Management Physical Disabilities Project and Survey"

This RMRT page updated by Lorette Weldon on December 26 , 2009