Session Coverage

This page is to coordinate coverage of blogging and recaps of SAA 2008 sessions and section/roundtable meetings. 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. The more editors the merrier (and often the more informative, just look at Wikipedia).

Not sure which sessions to attend? Head on over to the Possible Paths Through the Progam and follow, contribute to or add a path.

Add your name and a link to your wiki profile after the title of any session if you intend to 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.

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.

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 SAA2008. If you can't 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.

Monday, August 25


 SAA Council - 8:00 AM-5:00 PM

 Standards Committee - 9:00 AM-5:00 PM



1:00 PM-3:00 PM - Roundtable Meetings


 Architectural Records

 Archivists &amp; Archives of Color

 Congressional Papers</li>

 Labor Archives</li>

 Local Government Records</li>

 Performing Arts</li>

 Records Management</li>

 Recorded Sound</li>

 Women Archivists</li>

</ul>

3:15 PM-5:15 PM - Roundtable Meetings


 Archival History</li>

 Encoded Archival Description</li>

 International Archival Affairs</li>

 Issues &amp; Advocacy</li>

 Latin American &amp; Caribbean Cultural Heritage Archives</li>

 Lesbian &amp; Gay Archives</li>

 Metadata &amp; Digital Object</li>

 Native American Archives</li>

 Privacy &amp; Confidentiality</li>

<li> Recorded Sound</li>

</ul>

5:30 PM-7:30 PM - Roundtable Meetings
<ul>

<li> Archival Educators</li>

<li> Archives_Management</li>

<li> Lone Arrangers</li>

<li> Research Libraries Group</li>

<li> Science, Technology &amp; Health Care</li>

<li> Security</li>

<li> Visual Materials Cataloging &amp; Access</li>

<li> Womens Collections</li>

</ul>

8:30 - 10:00 AM
<ul> <li> Understanding the Balance: Repositories, Researchers, Public Domain, and the Law</li>

<li> “We’re Not the Destination, We’re the Journey”: Revealing Archival Collections at the Web’s Surface</li>

<li> Leveraging Outreach to Further Your Goals: Tips for Small Repositories</li>

<li> YourSpace, MySpace, DSpace? Finding a Place for Institutional E-Records</li>

<li> Surveys, Benchmarking, Best Practice: How Do You Measure Up?</li>

<li> What, Why, How? Archival Meaning in a R/Evolutionary Age</li>

<li> Archival Awareness Along the Pacific Rim

<li> We’re Ignoring That: Collection Development and What Not to Collect

<li> Toward a Best Practices Guide for Collecting Born-Digital Photographs

<li> The Future of the Present: Preserving Avant-Garde Art

</ul>

10:30 AM-12:00 PM
<ul>

<li> Finding Aids 2.0: Meeting Users Where They Are by Rethinking Finding Aid Presentation</li>

<li> Secrets Revealed on the Web</li>

<li> Getting Our Hands Dirty (and Liking It): Case Studies in Archiving Digital Manuscripts</li>

<li> I Walk the Line: Revolutionary Archivists Leading Special Collections Departments</li>

<li> Past Rites: Marketing for the Future</li>

<li> Remember When...? Using Local and International Anniversaries for Outreach Opportunities</li>

<li> Convergence: R(e)volutions in Archives and IT Collaboration</li>

<li> Modern Perspectives on the Relationship Between Archives and Records Management</li>

<li> Developing Culturally Sensitive Archival Education to Meet Diverse Community Needs</li>

<li> Old Vintage in New Bottles: The Catalogue Général des Manuscrits</li>

</ul>

2:00 PM-3:30 PM
<ul>

<li> Native American Archives Protocols: Looking from Different Perspectives</li>

<li> Evolving Finding Aids for Basic Processing</li>

<li> Three Federal Agencies Confront the Challenges of Digital Preservation</li>

<li> Visual R/Evolution in the Archive: Complicating the Picture</li>

<li> Digital Dilemmas: Dealing with Born-Digital Surrogate Audio and Audiovisual Collections</li>

<li> Want to Thrive? Listen to Your Users (Patrons, Researchers, Customers)</li>

<li> Moving Targets: Identifying Evolving Needs in Electronic Records Education</li>

<li> Graduate Student Paper Session</li>

<li> “You Say You Want a Revolution...”: Combining Archives, Museums, and Libraries</li>

<li> Documenting a Revolution: Second Wave Feminism and Beyond!</li>

</ul>

4:00 - 5:30 PM
<ul>

<li> Opening Plenary - Mark Green &amp; John Dean</li>

</ul>

9:00 AM-11:00 AM - Section Meetings
<ul>

<li> Archivists of Religious Collections

<li> Business Archives

<li> College &amp; University Archives

<li> Government Records

<li> Manuscript Repositories

<li> Museum Archives

</ul>

12:00 PM-2:00 PM - Section Meetings
<ul>

<li> Acquisition &amp; Appraisal</li>

<li> Description</li>

<li> Electronic Records</li>

<li> Oral History</li>

<li> Preservation</li>

<li> Reference, Access &amp; Outreach</li>

<li> Visual Materials</li>

</ul>

2:00 PM-4:00 PM
<ul> <li> 21st Century Data Curation for Archives, Libraries, and Museums</li>

<li> Digitizing Entire Collections: Project Planning, Cost, and Collaborations

<li> Digital Revolution, Archival Evolution: An Archival Web Capture Project

<li> Values in Design: Defining a Privacy-Aware Model for Web Access to Archives

<li> Returning Displaced Archives: Legal and Ethical Perspectives

<li> Getting to the Heart of Performance: Archivists as Creative Collaborators

<li> Archivists as Educators: Why Should We Teach?

<li> The Reluctant Administrator, or How I Learned to Love Management

<li> Ethnic Archives: Collecting Within Cultural Contexts

<li> E-Records and E-Discovery: A Mini-Sedona Conference Seminar

</ul>

4:30 PM-6:00 PM
<ul>

<li> Plenary Session 

</ul>

8:00 AM-9:00 AM
<ul>

<li> The Next R/Evolution: Issues and Lessons from Mass Digitization of Archival Collections</li>

<li> Pre-Custodial Intervention: Let Them Do the Damn Work!</li>

<li> The Power of the Internet and Self-Mediated Reference</li>

<li> New Methodologies for Prioritizing Preservation Needs of Audiovisual Materials</li>

<li> Evolution of a Prototype Archival System for Preserving and Reviewing Electronic Records</li>

<li> R/Evolution of Access: The Online Archive of California Interface Redesign</li>

<li> The Non-Record: Is It Evolving?</li>

<li> Family and Community Archives Project: Introducing High School Students to the Archives Profession</li>

<li> Electronic Publishing Town Meeting</li>

<li> Recent Advances in Photograph Preservation from the Image Permanence Institute</li>

</ul>

9:30 AM-11:00 AM
<ul>

<li> Capturing the E-Tiger: New Tools for Email Preservation

<li> After the Revolution: Unleashing the Power of EAD

<li> Trash or Treasure? Experiences with Deaccessioning and the Implications of Digitization <li> Archival Ethics with Changing Practices: The Impact of Technology

<li> Beyond Show and Tell: Engaging Undergraduates with Primary Sources

<li> Achieving Diversity in Institutional Archives: How Do We Get There?

<li> Learning from Experience: Discovering New Ways to Approach Disaster Preparedness

<li> Old Movies, New Audiences: Archival Films as Public Outreach Toolz

<li> Documenting and Displaying American Circuses and Carnivals

<li> Models for Collaboration: Providing Enhanced Access to Oral History

</ul>

1:30 PM-3:00 PM
<ul>

<li> Less Process, More Pixels: Alternate Approaches to Digitization and Metadata</li>

<li> A California Feast: Documenting the Wine and Food Revolution</li>

<li> Skills and Competencies: Changing Requirements in the 21st Century</li>

<li> Ensuring Our Digital Future: Audit and Certification of Digital Repositories</li>

<li> Digital Donors: Agreements, Rights, and Donor Relations in the Electronic Environment</li>

<li> The Ethics of Access: Does One Size Fit All?</li>

<li> A New Methodology for Surveying Photograph Collections</li>

<li> Creating Memory and Representing Identity: Archives in the Asian American Community</li>

<li> Power Figures: The Roles of Women in the Development of American Museums</li>

<li> Game On: Leading Your Championship Team</li>

</ul>

3:15 PM-4:30 PM
<ul>

<li> Closing Plenary</li>

</ul>