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Session Coverage
From Saa2007
This page is to coordinate coverage of blogging and recaps of SAA 2007 panels and round tables. The hope is to have every session covered by at least one person, but don't let the knowledge that someone else is covering a session stop you from adding your name too. The more editors the merrier (and often the more informative, just look at Wikipedia).
Add your name and a link to your wiki profile after the title of any session if you intend to either blog or post a recap of the session in the wiki.
The two best options for providing notes and comments about a session are:
- Post to your blog, and then provide a link to your blog entry at the page in this wiki that is devoted to that particular session
- Add your text directly to the wiki page for that session.
For example, if you had comments about the Opening Plenary, the link and/or text would go in the Opening Plenary page.
We will add more instructions about how to do this when we get closer to the conference.
Confused? Afraid you will break something? Then email Jeanne at spellboundblog.com and let her know which session you plan to cover and what your wiki ID is - and she will add your name in the list below.
[edit] People Planning to Blog/Recap Sessions
This is meant to be a list of those who plan to blog or write recaps of sessions and roundtables at SAA2007. If you cannot commit to covering specific sessions below, please add your name/id/blog here so we can get a handle on how many people we have to cover as many of the sessions as possible.
Jeanne Kramer-Smyth blogging at Spellbound Blog - I will put my name down below for all the sessions I will be blogging. Many of the session summaries will not be posted until after the conference.
Brad Houston blogging at Not a Guybrarian. I will also cross-reference recaps to this wiki.
Sheila Ryan - I'm hoping both to write recaps (recollected in tranquility) of up to four of Thursday's sessions and post them here on the wiki for archival colleagues and to interpret SAA 2007 for followers of clusterflock, a "group blog devoted to all aspects of culture".
Andy Carter - I plan to write a couple of recaps for this wiki. I am not settled on which sessions to cover.
Rob Jenson blogging at | The Lone Arranger. My laptop is not portable so there may be a slight delay on Thursday's sessions.
[edit] Wednesday, August 29
Roundtable Meetings
[edit] 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
- Architectural Records
- Archival Issues and Advocacy
- Archivists and Archives of Color
- Congressional Papers
- Labor Archives
- Local Government Records
- Metadata and Digital Objects
- Native American Archives
- Performing Arts
- Privacy and Confidentiality
- Recorded Sound
- Security
- Women Archivists
[edit] 6:00 PM-8:00 PM
- Archival Educators
- Archival History
- Archives Management
- Encoded Archival Description
- International Archival Affairs
- Lesbian and Gay Archives
- Lone Arrangers Roundtable
- Records Management
- Research Libraries Group
- Science, Technology, and Health Care
- Visual Materials Cataloging and Access
- Women’s Collections
[edit] Thursday, August 30
[edit] 8:00 - 9:30 AM
[edit] 10:00 - 11:30 AM
- 101: Free Speech, Free Spirit: The Studs Terkel Center for Oral History
- 102: Leadership Skills for Archivists
- 103: A Special Brew: New Perspectives From the National Archives on Civil Rights, Race Riots, and Brown vs Board of Education
- 104: Open Source Software Solutions for Collection Management and Web Delivery
- 105: Using Archives: International Perspectives on the Role of the Archivist in the 21st Century
- 106: Constructing Sustainability: Real-World Implementations of Preservation Standards for Born-Digital Design Documentation Session Summary post at SpellboundBlog.com
- 107: Archival Extortion?
- 108: Reaching Beyond Our Grasp: Taking Outreach from the Center to the Edge
[edit] 12:45 PM-2:15 PM
- 201: Public Programming: The Gift That Keeps Giving
- 202: Lifetimes and Legacies: Caring Approaches to the Elderly, the Infirm, and Their Survivors
- 203: How Controlled Is Your Vocabulary? Experience from the Digital Field Jeanne Kramer-Smyth
- 204: Learning the Hard Way: National Disaster Preparedness Initiatives
- 205: Ships That Pass in the Night? Evaluating Archival Users Tools with a User-Centric Perspective
- 206: Desperately Seeking Solutions
- 207: “Labor Beat”: Chicago Film Archives and Labor Media
- 208: When Good Photo Collections Go Bad: Critical Concepts For Understanding and Managing Photo Collections { Rob }
[edit] 2:45 PM-4:15 PM
- 301: Outreach to Those Less Served
- 302: Signifying Nothing? Sound, Fury, and Mediated Access
- 303: “The Fabulous Fifties”: The Best Is Yet to Come?
- 304: Setting an Action Agenda for Local Government Archives
- 305: Where Are We “AT”? A Status Report on the Archivists’ Toolkit { Rob }
- 306: Preserving Electronic Records in the Sciences
- 307: Reference Service and Minimal Processing: Challenges and Opportunities
- 308: International Perspectives on Privacy Protection
Archival Musings blog post about this session: Session #307
[edit] 4:45 PM-5:45 PM
- 401: Digital Imaging in the Smaller Shop: Case Studies from the Midwest
- 402: Preserving Your Audio and Video Assets: A Simple Physical Examination to Evaluate the Condition of Tape Materials in a Collection { Rob }
- 403: Adopting Triage or Accession-Level Processing as a Standard for Certain Types of Corporate Records: A Look at Royal Bank of Canada’s Example
- 404: Exploring the Headwaters of the Revenue Stream
- 405: Creating an Online Research Collection on New York’s Latino/Hispanic History: A Project Model for Collecting and Providing Access to Documentation for Minority Communities
- 406: MP-LP Comes Home to Roost: Applying the Greene-Meissner Recommendations Broadly Across an Institution
- 407: From Cockroaches to Cold Storage: Moving an Archives Into the 21st Century
- 408: Even Worst Sellers Have Value: What Amazon Means for Archival Reference Processes
Session Summary post at SpellboundBlog.com
[edit] Friday, August 31
Section Meetings
[edit] 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
- Archivists of Religious Collections
- Business Archives
- College and University Archives
- Government Records
- Manuscript Repositories
- Museum Archives
[edit] 12:00 PM-2:00 PM
- Acquisition and Appraisal
- Description
- Electronic Records
- Oral History
- Preservation
- Reference, Access, and Outreach
- Visual Materials
Sessions
[edit] 2:30 PM-4:00PM
- 501: The Web of Relationships
- 502: Administering the Martin Luther King, Jr. Collections
- 503: Rethinking Access and Descriptive Practice Jeanne Kramer-Smyth
- 504: “i’d like to order …” The 21st Century Archival
ResearcherConsumer - 505: Ensuring Authentic Electronic Records: “Essential Characteristics” and Archival Preservation
- 506: Archival Education for the Digital Age
- 507: The Labor of Mergers and Acquisitions: How Labor and Business Archives Can Work Together and Learn From Each Other
- 508: Difficult Women: Successful Public Outreach for “Problematic” Women’s Collections
[edit] 4:30PM-6:00PM
- 601: Fundamental Change: Three Early SAA Feminist Leaders Reflect on the Profession’s Past and Present Challenges
- 602: More Product, Less Privacy? Applying Minimal Processing with an Awareness of Sensitive, Confidential, or Restricted Collection Materials
- 603: Legislative Drivers and Evolving Professional Practice: An International Perspective
- 604: Beyond Evaluation: Measuring the Impact of Archives
- 605: Graduate Student Paper Session
- 606: Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences: A Model for Collaboration
- 607: The Dynamics in the Aggregate: Shareable Metadata and Next-Generation Access Systems Session Summary post at SpellboundBlog.com
- 608: A Great Brand Knows Its Soul
[edit] Saturday, September 1, 2007
[edit] 8:00 AM-9:30 AM
[edit] 10:00 AM-11:30AM
- 701: Copyright Legislation and Litigation Update
- 702: Eastern Views of the Wild West
- 703: Sexuality in the Archives
- 704: Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Women in Leadership
- 705: Measuring Digital Preservation Readiness: Digital Site Surveys and Certification of Trusted Digital Repositories
- 706: If You Fund It, Will They Come? The Role of Federal Granting Agencies in the Advance of the Archival Profession
- 707: The Anatomy of a Collaborative Digital Project and Lessons Learned in the Realms of Access, Outreach, and Creative Success: A Multi-Disciplinary Look at Publishers’ Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The Art of Books
- 708: It’s More Than Just the Patent: Documenting Invention Records and the Makers and Players
Session Summary post at SpellboundBlog.com
[edit] 1:00 PM-2:30PM
- 801: Where Have All the Binders Gone? Managing Archives with Databases
- 802: Activism in the Archives: Working with Human Rights Collections
- 803: “Can You Hear Me Now?” Building Bridges to the Archival Curriculum for Distance Education Students
- 804: Preserving Context and Original Order in a Digital World
- 805: An Archival Voice in the Institutional Repository Choir: How Does it Sound Now and What Would We Like to Hear?
- 806: Artifactually Speaking: Getting a Handle on Objects in Your Archives
- 807: Processing and Preserving Our National Pastime: The August “Garry” Herrmann Papers Project
- 808: Joint Interests: Presidents of ARMA and SAA Discuss Future Cooperative Efforts


