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2003-2004 Annual Report
University of South Carolina
Members
Laura Koser
Anna Kuntz
Georgette Mayo
Benjamin Petersen, Coordinator
Jennifer Rainman
Lori Schwartz, Information Manager
Stephanie Stewart
Julie Vaught, Assistant Coordinator
Constance Schulz, Faculty Advisor
Chapter Formation
We had our first organizing meeting on June 18, 2003, where we discussed our
rough draft of a constitution. The following week, we made appropriate changes
to the draft and ratified it with six charter members. We then collected the
necessary signatures to seek recognition from the University of South Carolina
(USC), submitted our organization for their approval, and asked Dr. Schulz
to be our advisor. USC approved our organization on July 8. We then sought
recognition as a student chapter from the Society of American Archivists (SAA),
which we received on February 19, 2004.
Miscellaneous Records Online Indexing Project
Our main activity has been a volunteer project at the South Carolina Department
of Archives and History (SCDAH), where we enter 18th century records from
the Secretary of State’s Miscellaneous Records into the Department’s
online index. Under the guidance of Dr. Charles Lesser, Accessions Archivist
at the Department, six ASG volunteers began working two hours a week in July
2003. In January 2004 we added two more volunteers, and to date we have entered
over 1600 individual records.
To promote the project, we developed a poster
to present at several different events. Work on the poster began on February
23, 2004 and was completed shortly
before its first showing at the South Carolina Archival Association’s
Spring 2004 meeting on March 24th. We then presented it at USC’s School
of Library and Information Science annual event, I-Comm Week, on April 3rd
and at USC’s Graduate Student Day on April 7th. We wrapped up the showing
of our poster at SAA’s annual meeting at Boston in August 2004.
Miscellaneous Activities
- Organized a social gathering at a local bowling alley, which was
attended by current members and alumni along with their spouses, significant
others,
and children. February 21, 2004
- Organized a behind the scenes tour of
the SCDAH, USC’s South Caroliniana
Library, Conservation Lab, and Annex Facility along with a lunch meeting
for Barbara Heck and Cliff Stratton. Barbara, a graduate student of
N.C. State’s public history program, was interning at the Modern Political
Collections Division of the South Caroliniana Library. Cliff, a graduate
student of Auburn University’s history program, was interning
at the SCDAH. June 17, 2004.
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