Northwest Archivists Annual Conference Preliminary
Program
Dynamic Archives: Preserving the Past
and Speaking to the Future
Thursday, May 17
Workshop:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard (SAA)
Practical DACS Implementations – provides an in-depth,
practical consideration of the key concepts and descriptive elements in
Describing Archives: A Content Standard, the new
Workshop:
Issues in Photograph and Film Collection Management (NWA)
This workshop is for anyone who works with photograph and
film collections, and will address basic film preservation issues and advanced
issues in the management of visual materials collections. Through lectures, group discussions, and
practical exercises, participants will gain insight into how to establish
processing priorities, plan preservation projects, and create more meaningful
access to their collections. Topics
include: photographs and film as artifacts, visual literacy, collection
development and appraisal, organization and description, and legal and ethical
issues. Instructor: Nicolette Bromberg,
University of
Opening
Reception at One World Café: http://www.one-world-cafe.biz/
Friday, May 18
Plenary
session with Thomas E. Mills
Mr. Mills is Assistant Archivist for Regional Records
Services at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA),
headquartered in
Leadership
Skills for Archivists
The increasing complexity of challenges facing archival
institutions and archivists in the 21st Century requires creative
and innovative responses. Archivists
need to become more effective leaders to ensure the efficacy and efficiency of
their institutions and to enable them to play a major role in defining changes
within society, based on accountability and knowledge resulting from
professional recordkeeping. Presenters
will discuss the latest principles, theories, and methods of organizational
leadership that archivists need to learn in order to effectively lead their
institutions into the future.
·
Sharon
Howe,
·
Rand
Jimerson,
·
Donna
McCrea,
·
Anthony
Kurtz,
Building a
National Archival Network: Roles of National and Regional Projects and
Organizations
In recent years, state and regional consortia have been the
mode of choice for archival projects of all types, including metadata and
digital content projects. As they search
for long-term sustainability, consortia confront issues of scale. What are the benefits and disadvantages of
national-level aggregation of data, content, and skills? Of maintaining smaller scales and regional
identities? Representatives from state
and regional consortia, national-level bibliographic services, and
national-level federal granting agencies will explore these questions.
·
Jodi
Allison-Bunnell, Northwest Digital Archives
·
Todd
Welch, Northern Arizona University
·
Ann
Lally,
·
Leigh
Grinstead,
·
Max
Evans, National Historical Publications and Records Commission,
Founders’
Lunch
Celebrate NWA history!
Join founding & early members Karyl Winn, Terry Abraham, Keith Richards,
Lisa Fagerlund, Jay Rea, and Jim Scott as they recall the organization and
early challenges of Northwest Archivists.
Taking Over: Managing an
Archives Created by Another
Stepping
into another archivist’s (or non-archivist’s) collection can be a challenge.
Most books and articles on “starting an archives” seem to assume that you are
starting completely from scratch, with no collection, or that you have
inherited a perfect system. As we know, that is rarely, if ever, the case. This
session will examine some common legacy situations and provide suggestions for
handling inherited collection management issues. Presenters will also address
the political and emotional aspects of “taking over” and how to approach this
with respect for your predecessor(s). In addition to traditional presentations
by panelists, where they will describe their experiences, the session chair
will offer comments drawn from her experiences consulting with a variety of
repositories. An extended question-and-answer period will invite discussion
among all those in attendance.
·
Jodi
Allison-Bunnell, Northwest Digital Archives
·
Anne
L. Foster,
·
Michael
J. Paulus, Jr.,
·
Deb
Kennedy, King County Archives
Regional
Film Preservation Projects
Very little is being done to actively preserve film across
the region. In an effort to address this
issue, this session will describe several film preservation projects recently
completed in Washington State as well as discuss a future collaborative film
preservation project that encompasses Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Oregon.
·
Gina
Rappaport,
·
Alex
Merrill,
·
Nicolette
Bromberg,
·
Anne
Frantilla,
Point of
Need Assistance: Incorporating Help Pages and Tutorials into Online Archival
Resources
Archival materials continue to populate the web; however,
access and navigation are often hampered by a lack of point of need
assistance. This session will focus on
creating user centered online tutorials and help pages to increase access and
use of online archival resources.
Presenters will discuss barriers to access, and design principles for
creating online instructional resources.
An overview of software options for creating tutorials will also be
presented.
·
Anthony
Kurtz,
·
Jane
Scales,
·
Steve
Borelli,
Disaster
Planning: An Overview
This session is designed to provide an overview of what you
should do and who should be involved before you are faced with a disaster, in
order to protect people, prevent damage, and provide the best possible
outcome. Disaster plans, communications
plans, public relations, salvage priorities, insurance, training, and supplies are
among the topics to be discussed.
·
Eileen
Brady,
Research
and Analysis in Archival Theory and Practice
This session will highlight some of the outstanding archival
research being conducted by graduate students in the
·
Trevor
Bond,
·
Erica
Olsen,
·
Josh
Zimmerman,
·
Using
Expressive Metadata Formats to Support Preservation in Digital Repositories
To support the preservation task, expressive metadata
formats must be used to describe digital resources in repositories. This presentation will describe how more
expressive metadata formats can be used in conjunction with the Open Archives
Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.
Additionally, information will be presented on the emerging Open
Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange initiative, which is designed to
enable cross-resource interoperability at the digital resource level.
·
Terry
Reese,
·
Alan
Cornish,
·
Greg
Matthews,
·
Jonathon
Scott,
Banquet at
University of Idaho Commons
Saturday, May 19
NWA
Business Meeting
Plenary
session with Augusta Rohrbach: The White
Glove Treatment: Using Special Collections in the Literature Classroom
Ms. Rohrbach is an Associate Professor of English at
The
Challenges of Collecting, Researching, Arranging and Describing Printed
Ephemera
This session will discuss how we can best make printed
ephemera accessible to users. Two
projects will be discussed in detail: the original development and current
management of the Bodleian Library’s John Johnson Collection, and the effort to
identify and make available all known Montana Native Press newspapers and
newsletters.
·
Nathan
Bender,
·
Trevor
Bond,
·
Cheryl
Gunselman,
The ABC’s
of MPLP: How to Apply the “More Product, Less Processing” Method in Your
Archives
Every archival facility has a backlog of wonderful collections
that sit unused and unprocessed in a back room or basement. Every archivist has
the intention of getting this material processed and into the hands of
researchers just as soon as time allows.
Every archivist can do this by applying the MPLP method of collection
processing. This session will introduce
the steps, issues, and philosophy of the MPLP method, and provide a hands-on
opportunity for attendees.
·
Janet
Hauck,
Archivists
in a Web 2.0 World: How Can We Make Social Software Tools Work for Us?
This session will focus on the emerging social software
tools, how they are being used in Archives, and how archivists can utilize
these tools to meet the changing wants and needs of users. Examples of these tools include blogs, wikis,
Flickr, RSS, and social bookmarking software.
·
John
Bolcer,
·
·
Ann
Lally,
·
Anne-Marie
Deitering,
·
Rachel
Bridgewater,