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2005 Annual Report
Kent State University
2004-2005 Student Members
Shannon Bohle – President
Mark Bloom - Treasurer
Helena Richardson – Secretary, Events Coordinator
Jodi Jameson – Public Relations Officer
Colin Mack – Historian
Megan Anderson
Caroline Bruno
Michael Collins
Nicole Laflamme
Pat Rainey
Anne Salsich
Nancy Tresch
Faculty Advisor: Roland M. Baumann
Contact: saa@kent.edu
CHAPTER MEETINGS AND EVENTS
February 15, 2005
The first meeting of the Kent State University Graduate Student
Chapter took place. Members and prospective members were introduced
to the archival profession by Roland Baumann, Archivist at Oberlin
College and archives faculty member at KSU, during his talk “Initiating
the Archival Experience.” The lecture was complimented by “Library
Careers’ Night,” an annual event hosted by the School
of Library and Information Science where information professionals
visited the campus to discuss careers in librarianship and archival
studies.
March 28, 2005
KSU students from the SAA and SOA student chapters spent the day
in Cleveland. In the morning, students participated in two free grant
writing workshops offered by The
Foundation Center called “Grant Seeking Basics” and “Proposal
Writing Basics.” The workshops were followed by an afternoon
tour of the Cleveland State University’s Archives and Special
Collections departments. Bill Barrow, Special Collections Librarian,
and William Becker, University Archivist, led members on a tour which
featured the Cleveland
Memory Project
as well as the Production Services Department, which plays a great
role in digitizing archival photographs and audio recordings.
April 26, 2005
Daniel Pitti, who teaches courses on Encoded Archival Description
(EAD) at the University of Virginia’s prestigious Rare
Book School,
gave a short talk and hosted a discussion on EAD via a telephone
conference call. Mr. Pitti offered excellent observations about the
future of digitized archival materials. Students in attendance ranged
in experience with and knowledge of EAD from those who had newly
entered the archives program without any exposure to EAD to those
who had already taken an EAD workshop offered through the SAA.
May 10, 2005
The SAA Council approved Kent State’s student chapter.
Megan Sniffin-Marinoff, University Archivist at Harvard University,
spoke to Kent State faculty, staff, chapter members, and student
guests via phone conference about the character of archival and manuscript
collections at Harvard. Ms. Sniffin-Marinoff was directly involved
with the Google Print digitization project and specifically addressed
the Google Print project and its potential effect on archives and
manuscript collections at Harvard. She also talked about a major
online archival digitization project focusing on the history of women
in the United States’ labor force called The
Hewlett Open Collections Program.
This program involved the joint efforts of archivists, manuscript
curators, and librarians. Her talk, “Digitizing Archives and
Manuscripts at Harvard: What’s New?” was followed by
an invigorating question and answer session.
June 8, 2005
A trip to the archives and preservation lab at Oberlin College is
scheduled to take place.
INDIVIDUAL MEMBER ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Anne Salsich, who holds a master’s degree
in Public History from the University of California, Santa Barbara,
was hired in October 2004 as the archivist at Ursuline College in
Pepper Pike. She is working on her MLIS at Kent State University. She
is also a subcommittee member of the Greater Cleveland History Digital
Library Consortium.
- Caroline Bruno , a musician and long-time fan
of the orchestra, worked as an intern at the Cleveland Orchestra
Archives. In this position Caroline organized General Manager
office records from the 1940’s as well as processed records
of the annual music appreciation contest and educational concerts.
She also transcribed an oral interview with the son of Mr. Landesmann,
former photographer of the Cleveland Orchestra.
- Shannon Bohle completed the SAA’s workshop
on Encoded Archival Description taught by Michael Fox and Kris Kiesling
in November 2004. In the spring of 2005, Shannon, along with two
other students at Kent State, Nathan Troup and Mark Bloom, began
work on a KSU-SAA cooperative effort to create the first online consortia
database of archival internships in the United States. Shannon was
selected to appraise, arrange and describe press kit materials covering
the span of the U.S. space shuttle program at NASA’s Glenn
Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio for her practicum experience during
the summer of 2005; she was the first student selected for an archival
practicum at NASA-Glenn.
CHAPTER ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- In just its first year, the Kent State chapter has become one of
the largest SAA student chapters in the nation.
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