MAA at MAC in Grand Rapids OPEN ENTRY Volume 40 Number 2 Summer 2012 MiArchivists.Wordpress.com Impressions of MAC’s spring meeting in Grand Rapids, April 19-21, 2012 HIGHLIGHTS President’s Board Member New Book MAA Board Michigan Column - 3 Interview - 4 Alert - 5 Updates - 6 Collections - 8 Table of Contents MAA Board Members Summer 2012 2 President’s Column 3 New Board Member Interview: Nicole Garrett 4 New Book Alert: Medieval Intrigue: Decoding Royal Conspiracies 5 OPEN ENTRY is the newsletter of the Thank You, Whitney Miller 5 Michigan Archival Association News from Your Board of Directors 6 Editors, Rebecca Bizonet and Barbara DeWolfe Production Editor, Cynthia Read Miller Open Entry Vote for Print and Electronic 7 All submissions should be directed to the Editors: MAA 2012 Fall Workshop, Lansing, Michigan 7 [email protected] or [email protected] MAA 2013 Annual Meeting, Ann Arbor, Michigan 7 By the deadlines: Michigan Collections • February 10 - Spring 2013 issue 8-18 • August 10 - Fall 2013 issue Editors’ Note 19 MAA Board Members Summer 2012 Mystery Photograph 20 Officers Photograph Sources Kristen Chinery Page 1 – Rebecca Bizonet Page 3 – Kristin Chinery, Walter P. Reuther Library President (2012-2014) Page 4 – Nicole Garrett, Albion College Archives Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University Page 5 – Top: Continuum International Publishing; Bottom: Tom Nanzig 5401 Cass Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202 Page 6 – Susan Panak (313) 577-8377 [email protected] Page 7 – Historical Society of Michigan Page 10 – Bentley Historical Library Melinda McMartin Isler Page 12 – Marian Matyn, Clarke Historical Library Vice-President/President Elect (2012-2014) & MAA Page 15 – Michigan Tech University Archives Page 16 – From the collections of The Henry Ford, webpage screen shot Online, Editor for ID 64.167.175.410 University Archives, Ferris State University, Alumni 101 Page 17 – From the collections of The Henry Ford, ID 2011.193.1/ 410 Oak St., Big Rapids, MI 49307 THF205083 (231) 591-3731 [email protected] Page 18 – Walter P. Reuther Library Page 19 – Rebecca Bizonet and Barbara DeWolfe Cheney J. Schopieray Page 20 – Spring Arbor University Archives Secretary (2012-2014) Nicole Garrett (2011-2013) [appointed to fill vacancy] William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan Stockwell-Mudd Libraries, Albion College 909 S. University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190 600 E. Cass St., Albion, MI 49224 (734) 764-2347 [email protected] (517) 629-0487 [email protected] Susan Panak Rebecca Bizonet (2011-2014) & Open Entry, Co-editor Treasurer (2011-2013) Benson Ford Research Center, The Henry Ford Hugh A. and Edna C. White Library, Spring Arbor University 20900 Oakwood Blvd., Dearborn, MI 48124-5029 106 E. Main Street, Spring Arbor, MI 49283 (313) 982-6100 ext. 2284 [email protected] (517) 750-6434 [email protected] Karen Jania (2011-2014) Diane Hatfield Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan Conference Coordinator (2012-2014) 1150 Beal Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2113 Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan (734) 764-3482 [email protected] 1150 Beal Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2113 (734) 764-3482 [email protected] Carol Vandenberg (2012-2015) Madonna University Library Members-at-Large 36600 Schoolcraft Road, Livonia, MI 48150 (734) 432-5691 [email protected] Sarah Roberts (2010-2013) University Archives and Historical Collections, Michigan State Elizabeth Skene (2012-2015) University Arab American National Museum 101 Conrad Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824-1327 13624 Michigan Avenue, Dearborn, MI 48126 (517) 884-6440 [email protected] (313) 624-0229 [email protected] 2 Open Entry Summer 2012 President’s Column By Kristin Chinery Not only did Beaver Island turn out to be a very special and memorable conference for many of us, it was also where you bestowed upon me the great honor of becoming MAA’s 24th president (complete with a pink tiara!). I would like to take this opportunity to extend a heartfelt thank-you to Whitney Miller for her many years of dedicated service, both on and off the board. Whitney successfully navigated several difficult challenges as president and her leadership strengthened the organization. This year saw a slight departure from our normal conference agenda. In an effort to assist MAA members Kristen Chinery, President of MAA. and our colleagues in MAC, given these difficult economic times, we decided to hold a business meeting Program Chair Melinda Isler are already hard at work during MAC’s annual meeting in April instead of a full planning a spectacular event. Please contact Melinda conference. We offer special thanks to Sarah Roberts with any suggestions for speakers, sessions, or workshop for coordinating the logistics. This arrangement proved ideas. to be beneficial for many of our members, as they were able to attend two professional events for the price Planning is also underway for MAA’s fall workshop. of one. This year’s business meeting was particularly This year we are partnering with the Historical Society important, as the membership voted on whether to of Michigan to bring you a half-day workshop on continue to offer a print version of Open Entry (the exhibits for the budget challenged. Many thanks membership voted yes by a razor-thin margin). We to Larry Wagenaar and the HSM staff for their also elected Melinda Isler as vice president/president outstanding efforts and assistance. We are hoping elect, Cheney Schopieray as secretary, Elizabeth Skene to cultivate like partnerships and develop additional and Carol Vandenberg as members-at-large, and Diane collaborative opportunities to expand quality educational Hatfield as conference coordinator. The Nominating programming for our membership. Committee had their hands full this year and should be proud of a job well done! The 2013 annual meeting will resume its normal Save the Date! schedule and format in June when MAA returns to Thursday-Friday, June 20-21, 2013 Ann Arbor, the site of one of our most well attended MAA Annual Meeting conferences. Conference Coordinator Diane Hatfield, in Ann Arbor Local Arrangements Chair Elizabeth Skene, and Open Entry Summer 2012 3 New Board Member Interview: Five Questions for Nicole Garrett With Rebecca Bizonet, Open Entry Co-editor Email: [email protected] Editors’ note: Over the last year, the history and from Wayne State with MAA board has seen three new (or an MLIS and Graduate Certificate in returning) faces whom we’ve not yet had Archival Administration. a chance to recognize with more than a passing mention within these pages: Nicole 3. What sorts of duties do you perform Garrett, Karen Jania, and Elizabeth at your workplace? Skene. We’ll be profiling them in this and a future issue, as a way of introducing I’m a “lone arranger,” so them to MAA’s membership. basically anything and everything! Nicole Garrett was appointed a 4. Why were you interested in serving on Member-at-Large in December the MAA board? 2011 by the MAA board. She is I’ve been more peripherally brand new to the board. I asked her involved in MAA for a few years. to answer a few questions for this I’ve presented at a few of the profile, and she happily obliged. – meetings and been on the program Nicole Garrett, January 2011. Rebecca Bizonet committee. When a position opened up, I thought I would take it. I also 1. Where do you work and how long like seeing other Michigan archivists 6. (Bonus Round!) Other interesting have you been there? on a more routine basis, since I’m facts: usually by myself! In other professional arenas, I work for Albion College and Nicole is also vendor coordinator have been there a little over two 5. What would you like to see for Midwest Archives Conference. years. accomplished in the next year? 2. Where did you grow up and where did I’m looking forward to a great you go to school? fall workshop and the 2013 annual meeting. I grew up in the Lansing area. I graduated from MSU with a B.A. in Volunteer for the Have you read an interesting book Conference Committee: that relates to archives, history, or your work? How about sharing a brief write- • Conference Coordinator, Diane Hatfield [email protected] up for “New Book Alert” in the next • Program Chair, Melinda McMartin Isler Open Entry newsletter? [email protected] • Local Arrangements Chair , Elizabeth Skene Email your co-editors: [email protected] or [email protected] [email protected] 4 Open Entry Summer 2012 New Book Alert Medieval Intrigue: Decoding Royal Conspiracies (London: Continuum, 2010), 400 pp. By Patrick Galligan, William L. Clements Library, The University of Michigan Perhaps the most the impartiality of each document in Ultimately, you may not believe interesting parts order to present a fair and balanced Mortimer’s somewhat far-fetched of Ian Mortimer’s new book Medieval vision of historical events. Expanding claim that Edward II wandered Intrigue: Decoding Royal Conspiracies are on his earlier statement, Mortimer around the British countryside for not his conclusions regarding the fate claims, “In assessing the veracity of years after his reported death, but the of King Edward II, but the methods archival certainties, it is essential to way he approaches primary sources is he uses to arrive at them. This book understand that it is not ‘the evidence’ refreshing. The author’s treatment of covers a number of historical topics that we need to verify – all evidence archival sources serves as a pleasant ranging from Edward III’s relationship is ‘true’ in the sense that it proceeds reminder about the importance of an with moneylenders and rules governing from the past – it is the veracity of archivist’s work, and how this work can the British crown to Mortimer’s the information contained within that help shape historical theory.