When: October 22, 2008,5:30 p.m. to 5:55 p.m.
Where: GSLIS Student Lounge (P212)
Attendees: SCoSAA officers; twenty other attendees
Recorded by: Abraham Miller
- Welcome
- Melissa Gonzales and Stephanie Call introduced the new officers
- Announcements
- ARMA Update
- Membership is $20 at the student rate
- Monthly meetings are $20 per meeting, with the first meeting for a student being free
- ARMA and Sedona holding workshops through out the fall at Simmons
- LIS442 (Establishing Archives) can replace LIS404 (Principles of Management) starting in Spring, 2009
- An additional section of LIS404 will be held on Saturdays in Spring, 2009
- ARMA Update
- Archives Career Panel
- Will be held Tuesday, October 28, 2008, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
- RSVP is required by October 24, 2008
- Panelists include:
- Nora Murphy, Reference Archivist at MIT
- Megan Sniffin-Marinoff, University Archivist at Harvard
- India Spartz, Senior Archivist at the Peabody Museum
- Brenda Lawson, Director of Collections Services at the Massachusetts Historical Society
- Donna Webber, Archivist for the Simmons Archives
- New England Archivists and Careers Resources will have tables with information available
- Time will be allotted to ask questions and students can submit questions beforehand to SCoSAA
- Will be posted as a podcast afterwards
- Volunteer Opportunities
- Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill
- Kate Boylan, who works in the Development Office of the Beaver Country Day School and who is also a GSLIS student, wants to make the school archives more accessible for faculty and staff
- Archival material was moved from a moldy basement to the library
- material in the collection includes photographs and ephemera
- dates back to when the school was founded in 1920
- Seeking two to three people to help update finding aids, conduct an inventory and other work
- Contact either SCoSAA or Kate Boylan at the school (bcdschool.org) for more information
- Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras
- Organization is celebrating its 50th Anniversary
- Need two volunteers to set up the archives, where material is totally unprocessed
- Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill
- SCoSAA Website and Presentation
- Goal for the new website is to increase accessibility to important resources for archives students
- Tim Gladson and the Web Committee presented two versions of the website, one vertically aligned and one horizontally aligned
- All members were invited to critique the website before going live
- Tim Gladson is working with Jeannette Bastian to post syllabi for archives courses
- Upcoming Events & Field Trips
- Boston Athenum
- Tim Gladson will work with his supervisor to setup a tour, including the conservation labs
- Date is uncertain, but will be in the afternoon, after 3:00 p.m.
- John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum tour will most likely be the week of November 17, 2008.
- Mount Auburn Cemetery tour on November 6, 2008
- Tour will be with Brian Sullivan
- Possible brown bag luncheon
- Possible ride to the cemetery for the first six people to contact SCoSAA regarding the trip
- Project Save on December 2, 2008
- Project Save is an archive devoted to promoting Armenian History through photographs
- Archivist will lead a discussion on how to read photographs
- Boston Athenum