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2003 Annual Report
Student Members:
Hallie Jones, Co-Coordinator
Sophie Madej, Co-Coordinator
Amy Shaffer, Co-Coordinator
Amanda Pomicter, Webmaster
Kathryn Hensley
Kara Jackman
Andrew Newman
Dawn Schmitz
Activities:
February 13, 2003
Pittsburgh Records Managers Speak with SAA@Pitt members
On Thursday, February
13, two local records managers shared their experiences with the members
of SAA@Pitt. The first speaker, William Ainsworth, Jr. of Buchanan
Ingersoll, provided insight into records management in a legal environment.
He spoke of streamlining processes so as to better serve his clientele
in the fast-paced legal realm. The second speaker, Chris Nettrour of
Federated Investors, offered a glimpse of the more mundane side of
records management, detailing her work with arrangement and organization
of her company's records, space issues, and her continuing education.
April 4, 2003
Panel Session Featuring Pitt Alumni
On Friday, April 4, SAA@Pitt presented
a panel session of Pitt alumni, our peers who have entered the "real
world." The panel members reflected on their experiences in the job
market, their respective fields, and how their Pitt education has worked
for them. Panelists included Jim Gerencser, '95, Archivist and Special
Collections Librarian at Dickinson College; Dr. Bernadette Callery,
'02, Museum Librarian at Carnegie Museum of Natural History; and Holly
Mengel, '02, Project Assistant on the Dick Thornburgh Archives at the
University of Pittsburgh Archives Service Center.
May 30, 2003
Panel Session on Collecting and Its Impact on Archives: "Collecting,
Collectors, and Collections"
On Friday, May 30, SAA@Pitt presented a panel
session on the phenomenon of collecting and how it affects archival practices.
Panel members included Amy McCrory of the Cartoon Research Library at
Ohio State University, Randall Szott, M.F.A. and a collector, John Smith
of the Andy Warhol Museum, and Lee Stout of Penn State University. The
panelists discussed the psychology of collecting, how their collections
have been affected by collecting, and what they themselves collect.
November 14, 2003
SAASC joins Student Preservation Group 'Infinity' on tour of Iron Mountain
NUS Facility
Infinity planned a trip to visit Iron Mountain's underground
record storage facility and invited SAASC to join them. About a dozen
students drove to Boyer, PA and, after passing through the security check,
met with Tom Roth gave the students a brief presentation about the history
of the storage facility, including both the development of the coal mine
and its conversion into a records storage site. He then led them on a
tour of selected vaults at the facility, allowing students to see storage
rooms with different sizes, purposes, and environmental conditions.
November 21, 2003
Lecture and Social
On Friday, November 21, Dr. Richard Cox presented the
opening lecture of a new lecture series, "Archives & Recordkeeping in
the Digital Era: Lectures and Ruminations," which is co-sponsored by
SAASC. Dr. Cox’s lecture, “Searching for Archival Knowledge: The Revolution
in North American Archival Publishing in the 20th Century,” was adapted
from a plenary address given to the Association of Canadian Archivists
in June 2003, and surveyed and evaluated the changing patterns of archival
publication and the impact on archival knowledge – including the tensions
between scholars and practitioners – over the 20th century in North America.
Drawing on his own work as SAA Publications Editor and as the author
of many books (both manuals and monographs), Dr. Cox addressed the general
state of archival knowledge and its future prospects as a result of these
publishing changes. Afterwards, students joined Dr. Cox and fellow attendee & museum
librarian Bernadette Callery for a social gathering at the Church Brew
Works.
December 12, 2003
Lecture
On Friday, December 12, Bernadette Callery, Museum Librarian at
the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, presented the second lecture
in the “Archives & Recordkeeping in the Digital Era” series, entitled “Endangered
Data: Managing Sensitive Information in Virtual Museums.” Callery discussed
the cumulative and often sensitive nature of museum collection records,
and the increasing pressure to make those records available online to
an unknown audience, focusing on how natural history museums have dealt
with the problem of choosing which information to disclose and how to
indicate the existence of additional information.
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