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Sessions
From SAAWiki-2008
The definitive source of up-to-date information about session times and locations is the SAA Conference Schedule. See also: Possible Paths Through the Program (based on common themes). If you're a session speaker, you can submit session materials to the SAA Annual Meeting Site, so they will be persistently accessible there. Consider signing up to take notes and comment on a particular session on the Session Coverage page. If you're a session presenter, consider submitting a piece for publication in American Archivist based on your presentation.
Thursday, August 28
8:30 - 10:00 AM
- Understanding the Balance: Repositories, Researchers, Public Domain, and the Law - Heather Briston (Commentator), Aprille Cooke McKay, Simon Frankel
- “We’re Not the Destination, We’re the Journey”: Revealing Archival Collections at the Web’s Surface - Jennifer Schaffner (Commentator and Chair), Helena Zinkham, Lena Zentall
- Leveraging Outreach to Further Your Goals: Tips for Small Repositories - Susan Gunn Pevar (Commentator), Darlene Richardson, Melinda McMartin, Allaina Wallace
- YourSpace, MySpace, DSpace? Finding a Place for Institutional E-Records - Tamar Chute (Chair), Timothy Pyatt, Erin O'Meara, Nancy Deromedi
- Surveys, Benchmarking, Best Practice: How Do You Measure Up? - Becky Haglund Tousey (Chair), Gregory S. Hunter, Ted Ryan, Francesca Pino
- What, Why, How? Archival Meaning in a R/Evolutionary Age - John Fleckner (Chair), Francis X. Blouin, Jr., Randall C. Jimerson, Scott Cline
- Archival Awareness Along the Pacific Rim - Leslie Waggener (Chair and Commentator), Yuko Matsuzaki, Anne Lyons, Sangmin Lee, Simon F. K. Chu
- We’re Ignoring That: Collection Development and What Not to Collect - Elizabeth Slomba (Chair), Pam Hackbart-Dean, Nanci Young, Kristin Eshelman
- Toward a Best Practices Guide for Collecting Born-Digital Photographs - Stephen J. Fletcher (Leader), Tim Hawkins, Jessica Bushey
- The Future of the Present: Preserving Avant-Garde Art - Leilani Dawson (Commentator), Alice Goff, Adriana Cuervo, Michael Katchen, Richard Reinhart
10:30 AM-12:00 PM
- Finding Aids 2.0: Meeting Users Where They Are by Rethinking Finding Aid Presentation - Gordon Daines (Chair), Cory Nimer, Tiah Edmunson-Morton, Jill Katte
- Secrets Revealed on the Web - Sara S “Sue” Hodson (Chair), Kate Colligan, Lucinda Glenn, Chris Burns
- Getting Our Hands Dirty (and Liking It): Case Studies in Archiving Digital Manuscripts - Catherine Stollar Peters (Chair), Melissa Watterworth, Gabriela Redwine, Michael Forstrom
- I Walk the Line: Revolutionary Archivists Leading Special Collections Departments - Aaron D Purcell (Chair and Commentator), Susan McElrath, Clark E Center, Jr
- Past Rites: Marketing for the Future - John Treanor (Chair), Jean Elliott, Edward Rider, Jane Nokes
- Remember When...? Using Local and International Anniversaries for Outreach Opportunities - Kathryn M Neal (Chair), Daniel Barbiero, Susan Goldstein, Rose Roberto
- Convergence: R(e)volutions in Archives and IT Collaboration - Philip Bantin (Chair), Rachel Vagts, Daniel Noonan, Paul Hedges, Jennifer Gunter King
- Modern Perspectives on the Relationship Between Archives and Records Management - Alison Langmead (Chair and Commentator), Matthew Eidson, Julia Hendry, Tony Jahn
- Developing Culturally Sensitive Archival Education to Meet Diverse Community Needs - Sue McKemmish (Chair), Kelvin White, Andrew Lau, Shilpa Rele, Yang Lu, Kirsten Thorpe, Anne Wright
- Old Vintage in New Bottles: The Catalogue Général des Manuscrits - Jackie Dean (Chair), Florent Palluault, Fabienne Queyroux, Aurélien Charot, Kris Kiesling (Commentator)
2:00 PM-3:30 PM
- Native American Archives Protocols: Looking from Different Perspectives - Jennifer R O’Neal (Chair), Sheree Bonaparte, David George-Shongo, Jr, Richard Pearce-Moses
- Evolving Finding Aids for Basic Processing - Dan Santamaria (Chair), Mark Shelstad, Jennifer Meehan, D Claudia Thompson,
- Three Federal Agencies Confront the Challenges of Digital Preservation - James G Cassedy (Leader), Kenneth Thibodeau, William LeFurgy, Michael L Wash
- Visual R/Evolution in the Archive: Complicating the Picture - Nancy Bartlett (Chair and Commentator), Joan M Schwartz, Joanna Sassoon, Lynn Ann Davis
- Digital Dilemmas: Dealing with Born-Digital Surrogate Audio and Audiovisual Collections - George Blood (Chair), Angelo Sacerdote, Hannah Frost
- Want to Thrive? Listen to Your Users (Patrons, Researchers, Customers) - Richard L Pifer (Chair), Judit Olah, Alexis Braun Ma
- Moving Targets: Identifying Evolving Needs in Electronic Records Education - Lee Stout (Chair and Commentator), Ciaran B Trace, Cheryl L Stadel-Bevans, Jim Cundy
- Graduate Student Paper Session - Andrea Buchner (Chair), Eric Fritzler, Katie Blank, Jonathan Ponder
- “You Say You Want a Revolution...”: Combining Archives, Museums, and Libraries - Matthew Heiss, Michael J Fox, Steven L Olsen, Michelle Doucet, Ricky Erway (Commentator)
- Documenting a Revolution: Second Wave Feminism and Beyond! - Glenna Matthews (Chair), Danelle Moon, Kathryn Allamong Jacob, Kelly Wooten, Stephanie Gilmore
4:00 - 5:30 PM
- Opening Plenary - Mark Green & John Dean
Friday, August 29, 2008
2:30 PM-4:00 PM
- 21st Century Data Curation for Archives, Libraries, and Museums - Helen Tibbo (Chair and Commentator), Jana Bradley, P Bryan Heidorn, Chris Freeland
- Digitizing Entire Collections: Project Planning, Cost, and Collaborations - Lucy Barber (Leader), David Null, Mark E Harvey, Kaye L Minchew
- Digital Revolution, Archival Evolution: An Archival Web Capture Project - Dean Weber (Commentator), Reagan Moore, Richard Marciano, Judith Endelman
- Values in Design: Defining a Privacy-Aware Model for Web Access to Archives - Paul Theerman (Commentator), Michael T Zimmer, Nancy McCall, Phoebe Evans Letocha
- Returning Displaced Archives: Legal and Ethical Perspectives - Trudy H Peterson (Chair), Kirk Osborne Hanson, Timothy H Ingram, Elena S Danielson
- Getting to the Heart of Performance: Archivists as Creative Collaborators - Scott W Schwartz (Co-Chair), Andrew Wentink (Co-Chair), Richard Powers, Anthony Brown
- Archivists as Educators: Why Should We Teach? - Rick Ewig (Leader), Carol Bowers, Carol Bryant
- The Reluctant Administrator, or How I Learned to Love Management - Nancy Freeman (Chair), Alison Stankrauff, Courtney Yevich, Colleen McFarland
- Ethnic Archives: Collecting Within Cultural Contexts - Brad Bauer (Chair), Salvador Guereña, Diana Lachatenere, Christina Woo
- E-Records and E-Discovery: A Mini-Sedona Conference Seminar - Jason R Baron (Chair), Derek G Howard, Charles R Ragan
4:30 PM-6:00 PM
Saturday, August 30, 2008
8:00 AM-9:00 AM
- The Next R/Evolution: Issues and Lessons from Mass Digitization of Archival Collections - Dharma Akmon, James Roth, Kristy Pasquariello
- Pre-Custodial Intervention: Let Them Do the Damn Work! - Kevin Glick (Chair), Laura Tatum, Daniel Hartwig
- The Power of the Internet and Self-Mediated Reference - Danna Bell-Russel (Chair), Nancy J Melley, Michelle Cadoree Bradley
- New Methodologies for Prioritizing Preservation Needs of Audiovisual Materials - Joshua Ranger (Chair), Janet Gertz
- Evolution of a Prototype Archival System for Preserving and Reviewing Electronic Records - Debbie Carter (Chair), William Underwood, Brooke L Clement
- R/Evolution of Access: The Online Archive of California Interface Redesign - Mary W Elings (Chair), Rosalie Lack, Rachael Hu
- The Non-Record: Is It Evolving? - Michael L Miller (Chair), L Reynolds Cahoon
- Family and Community Archives Project: Introducing High School Students to the Archives Profession - Christine Weideman (Chair), Diane Kaplan, Thomas Hyry, Molly Wheeler
- Electronic Publishing Town Meeting - Cal Lee (Chair), Peter J. Wosh, Mary Jo Pugh, Teresa Brinati
- Recent Advances in Photograph Preservation from the Image Permanence Institute - Gawain Weaver (Chair), Ryan Boatright
9:30 AM-11:00 AM
- Capturing the E-Tiger: New Tools for Email Preservation - Mark Conrad (Chair), Kelly Eubank, Riccardo Ferrante, Glen McAninch
- After the Revolution: Unleashing the Power of EAD - Jodi Allison-Bunnell (Chair), Max Evans, Jeanne Kramer-Smyth, Elizabeth Yakel
- Trash or Treasure? Experiences with Deaccessioning and the Implications of Digitization - Todd Daniels-Howell (Chair), Margery N Sly, Karen M Benedict, Laura Uglean
- Archival Ethics with Changing Practices: The Impact of Technology - Shawn San Roman (Chair), Katie Shilton, Lisa Hooper, Erik Moore
- Beyond Show and Tell: Engaging Undergraduates with Primary Sources - Donna McCrea (Chair and Commentator), Bill Landis, Elizabeth Losh, Karen Munro
- Achieving Diversity in Institutional Archives: How Do We Get There? - Brenda S Banks (Chair), Maria R Estorino, Jamal Booker, Elizabeth W Adkins (Commentator)
- Learning from Experience: Discovering New Ways to Approach Disaster Preparedness - Aimée Primeaux (Chair), Barclay Ogden, David Carmicheal, Jane Long
- Old Movies, New Audiences: Archival Films as Public Outreach Tools - Jeff Lambert (Chair), Bill Moore, Cristine Paschild, Snowden Becker
- Documenting and Displaying American Circuses and Carnivals - John Polacsak (Chair), Marian Matyn, Erin Foley, Deborah Walk
- Models for Collaboration: Providing Enhanced Access to Oral History - Burt Altman, Chair, Chris Petter, Jennifer Eidson
1:30 PM-3:00 PM
- Less Process, More Pixels: Alternate Approaches to Digitization and Metadata - Dennis Meissner (Chair), Amanda Focke, Dreanna Belden, Joshua Ranger
- A California Feast: Documenting the Wine and Food Revolution - Daryl Morrison (Commentator), Victor Geraci, Cecilia Chiang, Darrell Corti
- Skills and Competencies: Changing Requirements in the 21st Century - Megan Sniffin-Marinoff (Commentator), Patricia Whatley, Caroline Brown, Magnús Guðmundsson
- Ensuring Our Digital Future: Audit and Certification of Digital Repositories - Robin Dale, Marie Waltz, Seamus Ross, Bruce Ambacher
- Digital Donors: Agreements, Rights, and Donor Relations in the Electronic Environment - Robert Spindler (Chair), Patricia Galloway, Menzi Behrnd-Klodt
- The Ethics of Access: Does One Size Fit All? - Susan Davis (Leader), Lynn Eaton, Sahr Conway-Lanz, Hal Keiner
- A New Methodology for Surveying Photograph Collections - Robert Burton (Chair), Melissa Banta, Paul Messier, Brenda Bernier
- Creating Memory and Representing Identity: Archives in the Asian American Community - Vivian Wong (Co-Chair), Florante Peter Ibanez (Co-Chair), Anne Gilliland, Tom Ikeda, Mitchell Yangson, William Gow
- Power Figures: The Roles of Women in the Development of American Museums - Susan K Anderson (Chair), Lorraine Stuart, Susana Tejada, Andrew Martinez
- Game On: Leading Your Championship Team - Rosemary Pleva Flynn
3:15 PM-4:30 PM
- Closing Plenary - Frank Boles & Allen Weinstein


