Manuscript Repositories Section Meeting

Friday, August 29, 2008 - 9:00 AM-11:00 AM

Agenda

Panel Speakers Kate Theimer, creator of the ArchivesNext blog, will moderate the panel, and will provide an overview of the most common web 2.0 tools and how archives are using them, as well as a brief discussion of her own experiences blogging about the archival profession.

The North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received the archive of photographer Hugh Morton, estimated to hold 500,000 photographs and 60,000 linear feet of motion picture film. It will take years to process the collection, and Morton's photographs are widely known and are in high demand now. To bridge that gap, the photographic archives staff launched a processing blog, A View to Hugh. Stephen J. Fletcher, Photographic Archivist, will share insights about the experience.

Paul Hedges, Information Technology Director, Wisconsin Historical Society, will briefly discuss the Wisconsin Historical Society's use of Flickr for images in its collection and as an ad hoc web development tool, and will provide a preview of the Society's new web site and faceted search solution.

Discussion Questions Following the panel’s presentations, we will have plenty of time for questions and discussion. Advance questions and discussion topics, whether in response to our speakers’ web sites, or concerning your own experiences with 2.0 tools, are very welcome. Please send them to Manuscript Repositories Section Chair [mailto:karen.spicher@yale.edu Karen Spicher] or log in and add your questions below:  What were the challenges, if any, in convincing supervisors or other archivists that using a tool like a blog or a wiki was a good idea for your department? Have any of the panelists (or anyone in the audience) been to an unconference? Are there possibilities for using this meeting model to get at archival issues? [Add next question here] [Add next question here] [Add next question here] [Add next question here] [Add next question here] [Add next question here] [Add next question here] [Add next question here] 

Related Resources:
Manuscript Repositories Section Web Site

"Web 2.0 for Archivists" presentation on Slideshare--referenced by Kate in her talk

RBMS Blog Boot Camp Seminar blog

Everybody's Doing It: What Blogs Mean to Archivists in the 21st Century (2006 SAA Session Notes)

Archival and Special Collections Blog Directory (wiki)