Past Events

Fall 2011

  • Thursday, August 18th, 2011
    5:30-7:30pm
    Location: Cornwall’s Pub at 654 Beacon Street
    SCoSAA Coffee Hour: SAA
    You are invited to join SCoSAA for a summer mixer at Cornwalls Pub. Celebrate the last days of summer, see old friends, meet new classmates, and talk with others who are attending SAA. All GSLIS students are welcome! Cornwalls is easily accessible from Kenmore Station on the green line (654 Beacon Street). We hope to see you there! Feel free to contact the SCoSAA co-chairs if you have any questions.
  • Plan for the 2011 SAA Annual Meeting!
    Attending the 2011 SAA Annual Meeting? Don’t know about it? Get your information here!

    Archives 360 – 75th Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists

      • WHEN:August 22-27, 2011
      • WHERE:Hyatt Regency Chicago on the Riverwalk
        151 East Wacker Drive
        Chicago, IL 60601
      • HOW MUCH:SeeSAA Archives 360 websitefor rundown on registration fees.
      • Also check out this

    Spontaneous Scholarship from ArchivesNext

      to help defray travel costs.

    • HOW WILL I GET THERE:Sign-up to offer a ride or accept a ride on the SCoSAA Wikitravel wiki.

    Want to get reimbursed?You can get reimbursed by LISSA for the registration fee, transportation costs, accommodations, and more. Register now, pay your fee, and submit your Form A and you can get that money back! More information about the process on LISSA’swiki.

  • Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
    5:00-6:00pm
    Location: GSLIS Student Lounge, 2nd Floor Palace Road Building
    First SCoSAA Meeting of the Year
    Kick off the fall semester with SCoSAA at our first meeting of the year! Join us for some food and to learn more about the events and activities that SCoSAA will be hosting during the fall semester. This is also a great opportunity to meet and mingle with the archives faculty, the SCoSAA officers, and your colleagues. We look forward to seeing you! Feel free to contact the SCoSAA co-chairs if you have any questions.
  • Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
    5:00-6:00pm
    Location: Java City in the Main Campus Building
    SCoSAA Coffee Hour
    This year SCoSAA is hosting some informal coffee hours for archives students. Join us at Java City for our first coffee hour of the year! This is a chance for archives students in all stages of the program to meet each other. (Although the coffee hour is from 5:00-6:00 please feel free to show up when you are able and stay as long as you want.) This coffee hour doesnt have a theme; however, you should feel free to bring any questions, comments, or concerns that you have about the start of the semester, classes, or the program. We hope to hear about your plans for the semester! Feel free to contact the SCoSAA co-chairs if you have any questions.
  • Monday, September 26th, 2011
    12:30-1:30pm
    Location: Java City in the Main Campus Building
    SCoSAA Coffee Hour: SAA
    Join us at Java City for our afternoon coffee hour. (Although the coffee hour is from 12:30 to 1:30, please feel free to show up when you are able and stay as long as you want.) One of the topics for this weeks coffee hour is SAA. Please come and share your experiences from the SAA annual meeting in Chicago. If you werent able to attend SAA, this is a great opportunity to hear about the sessions and what your colleagues learned. As always, the discussion is also open to any questions, and you are welcome to share the exciting plans that are on your horizon for the semester. Feel free to contact the SCoSAA co-chairs if you have any questions.

Fall 2010

  • SCoSAA Meeting
    Meet the new officers and the archives professors, and hear more about how SCoSAA can help enhance your archives studies.
  • Tour of Congregational Library
    Join SCoSAA on a tour of the Congregational Library in Beacon Hill in Boston. Formed in 1853 with the gift of 56 books from its owners’ personal collections, the Congregational Library now holds 225,000 items documenting the history of one of the nation’s oldest and most influential religious traditions.
  • Archivist Panel Discussion – “What Archivists Need to Know to Stay Relevant.”
    Come listen to a group of working archivists from the JFK Library, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Police Department, and more and hear about what skills and experience they think students should have as they enter the workforce and what they have experienced in the industry.
  • Open Access Week – Archives Tech Lab Seminar
    Open Access is a way to allow the greater public to gain access to knowledge creation with less barriers. Traditionally, the Open Access movement and archives intersected with relation to scholarly publications. This workshop will look at how the Open Access movement affects the desire by archives to provide greater access to archival materials.
  • Looking Inward/Looking Outward: Changing Roles and Expectations in Archival Settings
    Keynote address: Digital Natives in the Archives, by Richard Sweeney, University Librarian, New Jersey Institute of Technology. Workshops on identifying and caring for audiovisual materials, Archivists Toolkit, and advanced reference and access. Panel discussions include email archiving, born‑digital collections, digitizing and marketing images, managing volunteers, donor relations, and unconventional collections.

Spring 2010

  • LIS 438/440 Internship Discussion
    Are you taking LIS 438 or 440 this semester? Have you taken those classes in the past? We want you to talk! We will be hosting an informal chat on for students to talk to others about internships.
  • Job and Career Panel
    Concerned about finding a job after you graduate? Or even while still in school? You’re not alone!
    Join us to hear local archivists talk about what they look for in potential employees, tips to make your resume look smarter, and other tricks of the trade. The panelists are:

  • SCoSAA/NEA 2nd Annual Job Shadowing Program!
    An opportunity for students to visit a repository for a half or full day and experience a day in the life of an archivist or records manager.
  • Ethics in the Archive Panel
    We will all face ethical issues at some point in our career, and this panel will help us address what problems we will see like privacy, the SAA Code of Ethics, donors, copyright, whistle-blowing, and appraisal ethics and how to address them.
  • Tour of the Harvard Depository
    The Harvard Depository is Harvard’s climate-controlled archival media facility that houses a great deal of the paper material as well as films, microforms, and magnetic tapes from it’s libraries, archives, and museums. It is an immense and technologically-advanced facility with room to expand to offer 200,000 feet of storage space. Tours are not offered frequently as the facility is incredibly busy so this is an amazing opportunity.

Fall 2009

  • SCoSAA Meeting
    Krista Ferranteof NEA will be speaking to us about the upcomingNEA conferenceand opportunities for students in NEA. We’ll have snacks.
  • An Evening with Dr. Saad Eskander, Director of Iraq’s National Library
    SCoSAA, SIR, and the Warburg Lecture Series presents An Evening with Dr. Saad Eskander, Director of Iraq’s National Library. Light refreshments to follow.
  • Disaster in the Stacks! Disaster Prevention and Awareness in Libraries and Archives
    Location: Faculty and Staff Dining room in the Fens in the Main College Building (across from Bookstore)
    Participants:

    • Gregor Trinkaus-Randall(Mass Library Board’s Disaster and Emergency Assistance director)
    • Susan Pyzynski(Simmons professor and Associate Librarian for Technical Services at Harvard’s Houghton Library)
    • Carie McGinnis(Houghton’s preservation librarian) confirmed.
    • Lori Foleyof Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC)
  • Archives Tour at JFK Library
    There are three spots left for the tour of theArchives at the JFK Library. If you are interested in attending, please contact Marta Crilly at[email protected].

Spring 2009

  • Archives Job Shadow Program
    NEA (New England Archivists) and SCoSAA teamed up for the first Archives Job Shadow Program. This program presented opportunities for students to visit a repository for a half or full day and experience a “day in the life” of an archivist or records manager. (more information)
  • An Evening with Mark Greene
    Former SAA president Mark Greene talked with SCoSAA via Skype on Wednesday, April 15, 2009. Mark specializes in acquisition, appraisal, and deaccesioning, and is the Director of the American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming. (more information)
  • WGBH Tour
    SCoSAA arranged for a tour of the new WGBH studios, music library, and archives.
  • Mount Auburn Cemetary Tour and Discussion
    SCoSAA arranged with Mount Auburn Cemetery’s archivist, Brian Sullivan, for a tour of the grounds and discussion ofArchives in the Landscape: Piecing Together the Stories Behind the Stones. (more information)
  • Housing Memory Graduate Student Conference
    SCoSAA members Margaret Peachy and Katherine Dunn were selected to present their papers at the Housing Memory Graduate Student Conference at the University of Toronto March 13-14, 2009. Their papers have now been published in theFaculty of Information Quaterly. View the papers in the theFaculty of Information Quaterly(2009, Volume 1, No. 3).

Fall 2008

  • Archives Career Panel
    SCoSAA arranged a career panel October 28th with experts from Massachusetts who discussed their experiences in the archives job market, expectations for new graduates in the profession, and advice on resumes and interviews. See thenews itemabout the event and the panelists.
  • The Boston Athenaeum Tour
    SCoSAA scheduled a tour of theThe Boston Athenaeumon Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008. The Athenaeum is located at 10 1/2 Beacon St., close to the Statehouse. The Boston Athenaeum is an exclusive private library and art gallery, in operation since 1807. Their collections are administered by a five-member curatori.
  • Mount Auburn Cemetary Tour and Discussion
    SCoSAA arranged with Mount Auburn Cemetery’s archivist, Brian Sullivan, for a tour of the grounds and discussion ofArchives in the Landscape: Piecing Together the Stories Behind the Stones. (more information)
  • Project SAVE Archives Talk
    SCoSAA arranged for Ruth Thomasian, the founder and executive director of Project Save, to present an interactive talk on reading photographs using examples from the Project SAVE Archives. (more information)