2005 Annual Report
Eva Gronowska (Co-President from Feb 2005-July 2005, President July
2005-present)
Andrew Fowler (Co-President from Feb 2005-July 2005)
Mark King (Vice President Feb 2005-Sept 2005)
Denise Oliansky (Secretary Feb 2005-August 2005)
Jan Durecki (Secretary briefly in Sept 2005)
Chela Weber (Secretary Sept 2005-present)
Jennifer Hassell (Treasurer Feb 2005-present)
Troy Eller (co-Webmaster August 2005-present)
Crystle Martin (co-Webmaster August 2005-present)
Summary of 2005
The SAA Student Chapter at Wayne State University has gone through a
complete overhaul this year. The organization was dormant until our
former secretary, Denise Oliansky, sent a message on the Library and
Information Science Program electronic mailing list calling for a meeting
of students interested in reviving the Society of American Archivists
at Wayne State. Officers were selected and the SAA Student Chapter
took off. It hosted a number of events and doubled in membership. There
was an obvious demand for this type of organization at Wayne State
University. The SAA Student Chapter at Wayne State has received incredible
support from the Library and Information Science Program and the Walter
P. Reuther Library.
Membership
It is unlikely that any of the twelve students at the initial meeting
were student members of SAA Student Chapter. However, since February
of 2005, the membership has grown to 13 student members listed here:
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Cynthia Bader
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Tanya Graettinger
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Jennifer Hassell
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Mark King
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Denise Oliansky
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Jan Durecki
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Troy Eller
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Chela Weber
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Diane Gardner
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Maia Mannone
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Shaunna Burmeister
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Crystle Martin
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Eva Gronowska
Further, the number of casual members pushes the membership to about
20 and the mailing list (before we moved to an electronic mailing list
of our own) included 47 interested students, plus two faculty members
and a staff member.
Meetings
Since February 2005, the SAA Student Chapter at Wayne State has had ten
meetings. The SAA Student Chapter at Wayne State webmasters are working
to create an online archive of all these minutes.
Activities
1. The students that participated in the SAA Student Chapter wasted no
time planning the group’s next steps; it is an active bunch, to
be sure. The SAA Student Chapter invited Dr. Philip Mason, renowned archivist,
author and Distinguished Professor of History at Wayne State University,
to give a talk on April 13, 2005. The event was open to anyone interested
and 25 people attended.
2. The Wayne State Library and Information Science Program provided
funds to the SAA Student Chapter to offer the Web Seminar “EAD
Tips and Tricks” on July 19, 2005. The turnout was not as large,
but seven people still attended the seminar, which was held at State
Hall on Wayne State University’s campus.
Website
The website (http://www.lisp.wayne.edu/saa/), much like the organization,
was in disarray when the group reorganized. Two Library and Information
Students offered to work on it together. Troy Eller and Crystle Martin
have collaborated to update the website, create a new design, set up
an official Wayne State email account (saawsu@wayne.edu) for the organization
and also set up a listserv especially for SAA members and other interested
parties.
Finances
The SAA has received financial support from both the Library and Information
Science Program, Wayne State Student Council and the Walter P. Reuther
Library of Labor and Urban Affairs. The Reuther Library provides $500
each fiscal year to support the organization. Now that a solid membership
has been established, the SAA Student Chapter at Wayne State is looking
into fundraising possibilities. Jennifer Hassell has done an outstanding
job at keeping all the finances the SAA Student Chapter deals with
in order. Also, both Mrs. Hassell and Eva Gronowska have attended a
budget
workshop and have worked with the Dean of Students Office at Wayne
State to arrange further funding. The first transaction with the DOSO
included
a successful budget proposal to Student Council for two members to
travel to an archival conference.
Travel
Multiple members traveled to professional archival conferences this
year. Maia Mannone and Cynthia Bader both went to the SAA Conference
in New
Orleans at the end of August. Mark King and Eva Gronowska went to the
Midwest Archives Conference in September. The four hope to get together
and share their experiences at a roundtable discussion.
Looking ahead
There are multiple exciting things happening with the SAA Student Chapter
at Wayne State. There were multiple tours in the works, including one
of the Piquette Ave. Ford Plant and also at archival institutions and
special collections in Ann Arbor and Lansing. The group will set up
social gatherings, study groups, roundtables and speakers, as well.
The next
major project the SAA Student Chapter at Wayne State is working on
is a workshop specifically tailored for archival graduate students.
Further, there has been some discussion of outreach, like collaborating
with the University of Michigan SAA chapter and volunteering as a group.
Those have been only discussions and not yet formed into actual plans,
however, contact between the two Universities’ SAA student groups
has been made.
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