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2003-2004 Annual Report
Aimée Primeaux, President
Maggie McNeely, Vice-President (Fall 2003)
Benjamin Johnson, Vice-President (Spring 2004)
Deborah Sager, Secretary (Fall 2003)
Timothy Muldoon, Secretary (Spring 2004)
Joy McNally, NEA Liaison
Jeremy Schmidt, ARMA Liaison (Fall 2003)
Nicole DeAngelo, ARMA Liaison (Spring 2004)
Jeannette Bastian, Faculty Advisor
The Simmons College Student Chapter of the Society of American Archivists
(SCoSAA) spent much of the 2003-2004 academic year planning for the 2004
SAA conference, to be held in Boston. In preparation for this we have
organized the student poster session, recruited volunteers, and helped
plan the student events, such as the “mixer” and the “student
forum.” We will also be co-hosting a Simmons alumni/student mixer.
Gregor Trinkhaus-Randall, chair of the host committee, spoke at our April
meeting, and Aimée Primeaux served on the host committee.
In addition to planning for the conference we had our annual fall potluck
at faculty advisor Jeannette Bastian’s house where everyone showed
off their culinary expertise. An e-newsletter was sent out every month
after meetings so that members could keep up with events from a distance.
A WebCT discussion was also started for SCoSAA events or concerns. Our
fall panel “Who Is an Archivist Anyway?” was a success, answering
many questions that new students had about the profession. Our spring
panel was entitled “Convergence and Conflict: Digital Records in
the Real World.” This panel was hosted in conjunction with the
student chapter of ASIS&T, and both librarians and archivists participated.
In April SCoSAA also hosted a discussion on digital asset management
at the iForce center at WGBH.
Our ongoing project that was started in 2003 is the “Student Organization
Records Project” which is concerned with the retention of graduate
student organization records at Simmons. It is our opinion that if awareness
of the importance of these records is impressed on both library and archives
students, they will be more likely to give them to the Simmons College
archives. Nicole DeAngelo, ARMA liaison, drafted up a records retention
schedule, and met with various heads of organizations to actively look
through their documents. Jason Wood, records manager at Simmons, attended
our March meeting and will take the records at the end of each academic
year.
SCoSAA members are very involved in the Boston archival community; they
are working in repositories, interning and volunteering. Representatives
attended both the ARMA and NEA conferences, and will be well spoken for
at the upcoming SAA conference. There is always more we wish we could
do, but each event was a success, and the Simmons SCoSAA chapter is a
growing community of future archivists.
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