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Sessions
From Saa2007
See also: Possible Paths Through the Program (based on common themes)
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Thursday, August 30
8:00 - 9:30 AM
- Opening Plenary Session - Elizabeth Adkins and "a very special guest"
10:00 - 11:30 AM
- Free Speech, Free Spirit: The Studs Terkel Center for Oral History (Session 101) - Russell Lewis (Chair), Michael Gorman, Studs Terkel, Sydney Lewis
- Leadership Skills for Archivists (Session 102) - George Mariz (Chair), Donna McCrea, Tony Kurtz, Larry Hackman, Randall C. Jimerson
- A Special Brew: New Perspectives From the National Archives on Civil Rights, Race Riots, and Brown vs Board of Education (Session 103) - Walter B. HillHill, Jr. (Chair), Lisha Penn, Cynara Robinson, Trichita Chestnut
- Open Source Software Solutions for Collection Management and Web Delivery (Session 104) - Paula Jabloner (Chair), Susan Hamburger, Lisa Miller, Jennifer Harp
- Using Archives: International Perspectives on the Role of the Archivist in the 21st Century (Session 105) - Megan Sniffin-Marinoff (Chair), Caroline Brown, Diane Macaskill, Patricia Whatley, Marion Beyea
- Constructing Sustainability: Real-World Implementations of Preservation Standards for Born-Digital Design Documentation (Session 106) - David Read (Chair), DiMella Shaffer, Carissa Kowalski Dougherty, Diana C. Helander, Annemarie van Roessel, Phil Bernstein
- Archival Extortion? (Session 107) - Mark Greene (Chair), Susan Maxwell Bielstein, Cathy Henderson, Robert Spoo
- Reaching Beyond Our Grasp: Taking Outreach from the Center to the Edge (Session 108) - Jill Severn, Beth Bensman, Pam Hackbart-Dean
12:45 PM-2:15 PM
- Public Programming: The Gift That Keeps Giving (Session 201) - Kathleen Williams (Chair), Laura Drake Davis, Scott Schwartz, Philip Mooney, Thomas Summers
- Lifetimes and Legacies: Caring Approaches to the Elderly, the Infirm, and Their Survivors (Session 202) - Geoffrey Wexler (Chair), Linda Long, Robin Rider, Stever Mandeville-Gamble
- How Controlled Is Your Vocabulary? Experience from the Digital Field (Session 203) - Mary Taylor (Chair), Janet V. Addison, Sheila McAlister
- Learning the Hard Way: National Disaster Preparedness Initiatives (Session 204) - Jane Long, Victoria Irons Walch, Eric Pourchot, Aimée Primeaux
- Ships That Pass in the Night? Evaluating Archival Users Tools with a User-Centric Perspective (Session 205) - Jodi Allison-Bunnell (Chair), Annaliese Bateman, David Clark, Su Kim Chung
- Desperately Seeking Solutions (Session 206) - Mark Conrad (Chair), Mark Myers, Marcia Frank Peri
- “Labor Beat”: Chicago Film Archives and Labor Media (Session 207) - Alan Stein (Chair), Nancy Waltrous, Mirko Popadic, Larry Duncan, Jerry Mead-Lucero
- When Good Photo Collections Go Bad: Critical Concepts For Understanding and Managing Photo Collections (Session 208) - Marcy Flynn (Chair), Nicolette Bromberg, Gina Rappaport, Cari Kreshak
2:45 PM-4:15 PM
- Outreach to Those Less Served (Session 301) - James F. Cartwright (Chair), Helen Wong Smith, Alex Lorch, Kären M. Mason, C. Raymond LaFever (Commentator)
- Signifying Nothing? Sound, Fury, and Mediated Access (Session 302) - Craig Breaden (Chair), Renee Basick, Matthew Howard, Carissa DiCindio, David Carr
- “The Fabulous Fifties”: The Best Is Yet to Come? (Session 303) - Peggy Sullivan (Chair), Carolyn Hoover Sung, Duane Swanson, Sheryl Williams
- Setting an Action Agenda for Local Government Archives (Session 304) - Kay Lanning Minchew, Chair, Paul Bergeron, Geof Huth
- Where Are We “AT”? A Status Report on the Archivists’ Toolkit (Session 305) - Christine de Catanzaro (Chair), Lloyd Thompson, Kate Bowers, Bradley Westbrook, Katherine Stefko
- Preserving Electronic Records in the Sciences (Session 306) - Kevin Glick (Chair), Tracey Lauriault, Evelyn Peters McLellan
- Reference Service and Minimal Processing: Challenges and Opportunities (Session 307) - Susan McElrath (Chair), Dennis Meissner, Tiah Edmunson-Morton, Anne Foster, Shannon Bowen
- International Perspectives on Privacy Protection (Session 308) - Brad Bauer (Chair), Anatol Shmelev, Angelika Menne-Haritz, Trudy Huskamp Peterson, Patricia Grimsted
4:45 PM-5:45 PM
- Digital Imaging in the Smaller Shop: Case Studies from the Midwest (Session 401) - Sharon Carlson (Chair), Erik Nordberg
- Preserving Your Audio and Video Assets: A Simple Physical Examination to Evaluate the Condition of Tape Materials in a Collection (Session 402) - Peter Brothers
- Adopting Triage or Accession-Level Processing as a Standard for Certain Types of Corporate Records: A Look at Royal Bank of Canada’s Example (Session (403) - Gordon Rabchuk (Chair), Beth Kirkwood
- Exploring the Headwaters of the Revenue Stream (Session 404) - Diane Kaplan (Chair), Mark Shelstad, Kathryn Otto, Richard Black
- 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 (Session 405) - Jennie Diaz Guilbaud (Chair), Pedro Juan Hernandez, Prudence Backman
- MP-LP Comes Home to Roost: Applying the Greene-Meissner Recommendations Broadly Across an Institution (Session 406) - Tom Hyry (Chair), Cheri Thies, Monica Manny Ralston
- From Cockroaches to Cold Storage: Moving an Archives Into the 21st Century (Session 407) - Russell L. Gasero (Chair), Heather Crocetto, Christina Zamon
- Even Worst Sellers Have Value: What Amazon Means for Archival Reference Processes (Session 408) - Paul Lasewicz
2:30 PM-4:00PM
- The Web of Relationships (Session 501) - Daria D’Arienzo (Chair), Terry Latour, Sara “Sue” Hodson, Karen Trivette Cannell
- Administering the Martin Luther King, Jr. Collections (Session 502) - Deborra Richardson (Chair), Brenda S. Banks, Cynthia Patterson Lewis, Vita Paladino, Karen L. Jefferson
- Rethinking Access and Descriptive Practice (Session 503) - Mark Matienzo (Chair), Amelia Abreu, Meredith Ferguson, Merrilee Proffitt
- “i’d like to order …” The 21st Century Archival
ResearcherConsumer (Session 504) - Matthew T. Turi (Chair), Laura Clark Brown, Karen Jania, Nancy McCall - Ensuring Authentic Electronic Records: “Essential Characteristics” and Archival Preservation (Session 505) - Adam Jansen (Chair), Rick Rogers, David Miller, Manfred Thaller
- Archival Education for the Digital Age (Session 506) - William Wallach (Chair), Richard Pearce-Moses, Helen Tibbo, Cal Lee, Seamus Ross
- The Labor of Mergers and Acquisitions: How Labor and Business Archives Can Work Together and Learn From Each Other (Session 507) - Lauren Kata (Chair), James P. Quigel, Mike Smith, Linda Edgerly, Michael Nash
- Difficult Women: Successful Public Outreach for “Problematic” Women’s Collections (Session 508) - Jennie Benford (Chair), Kelly Wooten, Alex Warner
4:30PM-6:00PM
- Fundamental Change: Three Early SAA Feminist Leaders Reflect on the Profession’s Past and Present Challenges (Session 601) - Doris Malkmus (Chair), Ann Morgan Campbell, Elsie Freeman Finch, Anke Voss
- More Product, Less Privacy? Applying Minimal Processing with an Awareness of Sensitive, Confidential, or Restricted Collection Materials (Session 602) - Mary Kenney (Chair), Kate Colligan, Kenton Jaehnig, Nancy Kaiser, Aprille Cooke McKay, Brian Williams
- Legislative Drivers and Evolving Professional Practice: An International Perspective (Session 603) - Alan Bell (Chair), Frank Brady, Dianne Macaskill
- Beyond Evaluation: Measuring the Impact of Archives (Session 604) - Anne Van Camp (Chair), Wendy Duff, Helen Tibbo, Elizabeth Yakel
- Graduate Student Paper Session (Session 605) - Alexis Braun Marks (Chair), Andrea Buchner, Kelvin L. White, Sonia Yaco
- Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences: A Model for Collaboration (Session 606) - Amy Pienta (Chair), Darrell Donakowski, Jonathan Crabtree, Micah Altman, Michael Carlson, Marc Maynard
- The Dynamics in the Aggregate: Shareable Metadata and Next-Generation Access Systems (Session 607) - William Landis (Chair), Jenn Riley, Kelcy Shepherd, Sarah Shreeves
- A Great Brand Knows Its Soul (Session 608) - Mary Ide (Chair), Dianne Brown, Renee Braden, Bobby J. Calder
Saturday, September 1, 2007
10:00 AM-11:30AM
- Copyright Legislation and Litigation Update (Session 701) - Peter Hirtle (Chair), Heather Briston, Wiliam J. Maher
- Eastern Views of the Wild West (Session 702) - George Miles (Chair), D. Claudia Thompson, Martha Andrews, Steve Hussman
- Sexuality in the Archives (Session 703) - Rick Storer (Chair), Catherine Johnson-Roehr, Robert B. Bienvenu
- Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Women in Leadership (Session 704) - Nancy Zimmelman (Chair), Jelain Chubb, Laurie Banducci, Barbara Voss, Tanya Zanish-Belcher
- Measuring Digital Preservation Readiness: Digital Site Surveys and Certification of Trusted Digital Repositories (Session 705) - Tom Clareson (Chair), Bernard Reilly, Angela O'Neal
- If You Fund It, Will They Come? The Role of Federal Granting Agencies in the Advance of the Archival Profession (Session 706) - Elizabeth Joffrion (Chair), Joyce Ray, Max Evans, Christopher Greer
- 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 (Session 707) - Jessica Lacher-Feldman (Chair), Amy Rudersdorf, Jessica Williams, Kristy Dixon
- It’s More Than Just the Patent: Documenting Invention Records and the Makers and Players (Session 708) - Alison L. Oswald (Chair), Don Pelto, Pat Sluby, Lon Safko, Paul Israel
1:00 PM-2:30PM
- Where Have All the Binders Gone? Managing Archives with Databases (Session 801) - Gregory Colati (Chair), Jennifer King, Sylvia Augusteijn
- Activism in the Archives: Working with Human Rights Collections (Session 802) - Valerie Love (Chair), Grace Lile, Csaba Szilagyi, Patrick A. Stawski
- “Can You Hear Me Now?” Building Bridges to the Archival Curriculum for Distance Education Students (Session 803) - Elizabeth Dow (Chair), Jennifer Marshall, Chris Prom, Lori Lindberg, Adree Bourgeois
- Preserving Context and Original Order in a Digital World (Session 804) - Rebecca Johnson Melvin (Chair), Abigail Griner, Jeanne Kramer-Smyth, Jen-François Blanchette
- An Archival Voice in the Institutional Repository Choir: How Does it Sound Now and What Would We Like to Hear? (Session 805) - Cal Lee (Chair), Elisabeth Kaplan, Jihyun Kim, Joan D. Krizack
- Artifactually Speaking: Getting a Handle on Objects in Your Archives (Session 806) - Lisa Jacobson (Chair), Carol Smith, Wes Wilson
- Processing and Preserving Our National Pastime: The August “Garry” Herrmann Papers Project (Session 807) - Steve Dalton (Chair), Rich Lindberg, Andrew Newman, Clifford Hight, Carolyn Frisa
- Joint Interests: Presidents of ARMA and SAA Discuss Future Cooperative Efforts (Session 808) - James Cassedy (Chair), Susan McKinney, Elizabeth Adkins
3:00 PM-4:15 PM
- Closing Plenary - Mark Greene, Allen Weinstein


