Keep an eye out for the Seattle Area Archivists steering committee election ballot. If you are a current member, you should be receiving your ballot in the next couple of days.
The deadline for receiving completed ballots is May 28th! Election results will be announced at the spring meeting to be held in early June. More details will be forthcoming regarding the membership meeting.
Thanks to all of the candidates for being a part of the process. Best of luck to all!
It’s that time of the year again! Two positions on the Seattle Area Archivists Steering Committee are opening up and we need your recommendations for nominees. Do you want to run or do you want to nominate someone else? Serving on the board is a great opportunity to network and meet others in our community. Also, it gives members the chance to help determine the direction of the organization and build programs of interest. Plus, it looks great on your resume!
Responsibilities of the Steering Committee include organizing 3 programs, attending board meetings, putting out our newsletter, and other organizational tasks. Board members serve for two years. You must be a member of Seattle Area Archivists to run. Elections will take place by mail and results will be announced at the final meeting of the year to be held in June.
Please send nominations to seattle.area.archivists@gmail.com by Friday, April 16th.
Please join us for one of three pre-conference workshop at the Western Round up in Seattle! Sign up today. Remember that the early bird deadline for conference registration ends on March 31st!
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
When Disaster Strikes: Emergency Preparedness & Response
The workshop will assist participants in understanding key steps in disaster preparedness and develop tools and techniques and provide opportunities to create a basic plan and to receive feedback. The workshop focuses on critical skills such as insurance, risk assessment / prevention, working with emergency recovery services, training staff, and testing disaster plans.
Presented by: Julie A. Page, Co-Coordinator for the Western States & Territories Preservation Assistance Service (WESTPAS) and Gary Menges, Preservation Administrator at the University of Washington Libraries
Full day, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (Lunch on your own)
Cost: $50.00
Register: http://northwestarchivistsinc.wildapricot.org/Registration
Attendance is limited to 30
Archival Recertification Credits: 5, section B.3.c
Grant Writing
This practical workshop reviews various types of state, federal, and private foundation grants that have the potential to support the archival enterprise and provides information about researching and writing grant proposals. Topics include types of grants and grant funders, fundamentals of effective grant proposal writing, creating realistic budgets, the grant review process, and funding resources.
Presented by: Daniel Stokes, Director for State Programs at the NHPRC, overseeing the State and National Archival Partnership (SNAP) grants program.
Full day, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (Lunch on your own)
Cost: $50.00
Attendance is limited to 25
Archival Recertification Credits: 5, section B.3.c
Register: http://northwestarchivistsinc.wildapricot.org/Registration
Implementing “More Product, Less Process”
Backlogs don’t have to weigh as heavily as they do! Focus on implementing concrete strategies for increasing processing rates and reducing backlogs as outlined in the Greene-Meissner article, “More Product, Less Process: Revamping Traditional Archival Processing,” and learn as you share information and experiences with your fellow workshop participants. Topics include appraisal, arrangement, description, digitization, and preservation, as well as development of processing plans, policies, and benchmarks.
Presented by: Jennifer Meehan, Accessioning Archivist, at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University
Time: Full day, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (Lunch on your own)
Cost: SAA Members: $185 / $235
Nonmembers with WR discount $210 / $260
SAA Student Members: $95.50 / $117.50
Nonmember Student: $117.50 / $142.50
Please note that this is an Society of American Archivists workshop so you must register for it on the SAA website. Click here for more information.
Attendance is limited to 35
Archival Recertification Credits: 5, section B.3.c
We hope to see you tomorrow for our Seattle Area Archivists meeting.
When: March 11, 2010 10:00-11:30
Where: University of Washington Special Collections classroom in the basement of Allen Library South
What: Short business meeting followed by presentations by Nicolette Bromberg and Hannah Palin.
Presentation Descriptions:
Discovering Viretta Denny, and how she kept growing on me–literally!
Nicolette Bromberg, Visual Materials Curator at UW Libraries, Special Collections, will talk about her experiences when she uncovered (and kept uncovering) a collection of photographs by an early Seattle photographer.
Films, Football, and Raccoons
There were always rumors about the Intercollegiate Athletic Film Collection, that a treasure trove of films documenting the UW’s athletic history was buried somewhere in Husky Stadium. In early 2009, Hannah Palin, Film Archives Specialist at the UW Libraries, Special Collections, met with representatives from the Intercollegiate Athletics Department to discuss a project to evaluate, inventory, and make recommendations for the care and storage of the department’s films. At that meeting, Ms. Palin was taken to the fabled storage room in Husky Stadium, containing hundreds of boxes filled with thousands of films and videotapes. The rumors were all true. Ms. Palin will discuss the Intercollegiate Athletics Moving Image Project in detail and will touch on issues of preservation and access in regard to large moving image collections.
Check the event flier here
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Scott Cline, City Archivist, “Treasures in the Seattle Municipal Archives”
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Paul Dorpat,“Making and Preserving Community”
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Programs begin at 1pm.
INTERNSHIP AT WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES
Here is a chance to set up an archive almost from scratch! Wellspring Family Services (formerly Family Services of King County) has recently relocated from our longtime Pioneer Square location, and are looking for an intern to help organize a small agency archive at our new locale in the Rainier Valley. We have accumulated a wide variety of documents and other archival materials from 1892 to the present, and we need help identifying what we have and setting up procedures for labeling, storage, retrieval, and display.
TASKS
Organize a private archive for a non-profit social service organization.
Materials include approximately 30 cubic feet of boxes containing: brochures, pamphlets, documents outlining services and policy, news clippings related to the organization, as well as some videos, film, audio recordings, photographs (some oversized), and miscellaneous items.
Create a basic, workable inventory system for ongoing maintenance by non-specialists.
Put collection into appropriate temporary storage.
Materials are currently in scrapbooks, plastic sleeves in binders, file folders, etc., inside moving boxes; current labeling is inconsistent and inadequate.
Safe permanent storage is a long-term goal; intern will advise on cost-effective storage systems for future purchase.
Budget of $500 available for supplies & materials; intern will advise on purchases.
Establish (and document) a basic identification, labeling, and retrieval system.
Establish (and document) systems for creating a digital image archive of key holdings.
Intern will train staff on identifying ‘key holdings’ and creating, naming, and storing digital images so that the project can go forward as time permits.
Consult on potential for display of materials.
Long-term plans include display cabinets for revolving display of documents items from the agency archive; intern will advise on cabinets, display techniques, etc.
TIMEFRAME
8 weeks, June-August 2010; start/end date and weekly schedule (approx. 30 hrs/wk) can be somewhat flexible
STIPEND
$1000
SUPERVISION
Overall project supervision from the agency’s Executive Assistant; the intern will work independently much of the time and should also be prepared to train staff in systems and procedures.
The ideal candidate will be a competent second-year graduate student with some experience, or a post-grad student looking for a short-term project.
APPLICATION
Please send letter of interest and qualifications to
Deborah Townsend
Wellspring Family Services
1900 Rainier Ave. S
Seattle, WA 98144
dtownsend@wellspringfs.org
Because this year is saa’s 25th Anniversary, I want to include well-wishes, birthday cards, reminiscences of saa or members (past and present) in the Spring edition of the newsletter. Although it’s saa’s birthday, this invitation is not limited strictly to members or even former members. We welcome any comments (or articles) about saa in particular or the value of regional archival organizations in general. Please send responses to zimmerj6@gmail.com and put “saa birthday” in the subject line.
Mark your calendars for March 11, 10:00-11:30 for the Seattle Area Archivists winter membership meeting to be held at the University of Washington.
Note that the focus of the meeting has been shifted: since we didn’t get a hearty response from student presenters, we will be treated to an inside look at two visual collections in the Special Collections department at UW. Nicolette Bromberg will share an acquisition story about a collection of materials from an early woman photographer, Viretta Denny; Hannah Palin will talk about the appraisal and eventual acquisition and inventory of large sports film collection.
More details will be forthcoming.
Seattle Area Archivists is a nonprofit organization that promotes the use of archives and supports archivists working in the greater Seattle area.
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