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2003-2004 Annual Report
2003-2004 Student Members:
Lewis Dorman, President
Jessica Zellers, Vice President
Kris Horzvath, Treasurer
Alison Foley, Secretary
Dr. Helen Tibbo: Faculty Liaison
Activities
S.C.O.S.A.A. started the 2003-2004 academic year with a general interest
meeting, which focused on organizational recruitment and the plotting
of a schedule for the coming semesters. During the fall semester of 2003,
the chapter sponsored several special events for its members. Our first
event was a presentation by Karen Glynn, the Visual Materials Archivist
at Duke University, which focused on aspects of film conservation and
preservation. Her presentation included screenings of depression era
mule racing in Mississippi. Jeff Place, the archivist for Smithsonian
Folkways Recordings, gave a talk to our chapter concerning archival practices
for sound recordings, for our second fall event. For the chapter’s
third event, Kathy Wisser, then president for the Society of North Carolina
Archivists, conducted a daylong workshop, focusing on Electronic Archival
Description (E.A.D.). In November, a new group of officers was elected
to serve for 2003, and Jessica Zellers redesigned our chapter’s
website: http://ils.unc.edu/saa/.
With new leaders helming S.C.O.S.A.A., we began the spring semester of
2004 with a healthy does of optimism. Lewis Dorman created a listserv,
effectively opening a new channel of communication for the chapter’s
members. The chapter also hosted a coffee talk session with Stephen Fletcher,
the University of North Carolina’s Photograph Archivist, which
consisted of an informal discussion of archival practices and standards
for photographs and an inside tour of UNC’s facilities for archiving
photographs. In addition, S.C.O.S.A.A. participated in the Society of
North Carolina Archivists’ spring conference in Chapel Hill, NC.
Chapter members led tours of UNC’s special collections, assisted
with hospitality, and sundry other helpful activities. Members of our
chapter also participated in the annual fundraiser organized by the student
groups of the School of Information and Library Science. The book sale
was particularly successful this year and will provide an important contribution
to an ambitious program presently being planned for the fall semester.
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