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Metropolitan Archivist Volume 12, No. 1 Winter 2007 www.nycarchivists.org board of directors Welcome New Members! Mindy S. Gordon Rockefeller Archive Center The following individuals have joined the Archivists Round President Table of Metropolitan New York since June 2006. Jocelyn Wilk Gary Alden Eunice Liu Columbia University Archives NYC Department of Records Pratt Institute - School of Library Vice President and Information Science Alexandra Bernet Lisa Anderson-Gaona Columbia University New York Public Library Michael Lonergan Treasurer Mike Vitale Marian Bach Kevin Manion The Winthrop Group, Inc. Collegiate School Consumers Union Secretary Kristy Buchalla Olga Marder Mary Hedge Doris Duke Foundation New York Botanical Garden New York City Housing Authority Co-ordinator, Education Committee Maiko Ota Cagno Olivia Morales Rebecca Altermatt Columbia University – C.V. Starr Brooklyn Public Library/Pratt American Museum of Natural History East Asian Library Institute Co-ordinator, Communications & Outreach Committee Jennifer Comins Riki Lynn Moskowitz Aviva Gray Long Island University, Girl Scouts of the USA Federal Reserve Bank of New York Palmer School Co-ordinator, Samg Ae Park Meeting & Nominating Committee Adrianna Del Collo Pratt Institute - School of Library Metropolitan Museum of Art and Information Science Webmaster Daniel Sokolow Robert Christopher Ellwood Joysetta Pearse Monmouth University Library African-Atlantic Genealogical Features Editor Society, Inc. Celia Hartmann Amy Filiatraeu AA World Services, Inc. Susanne Pichler Book Review Editor Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Kristen Angelo Galeazzi The Winthrop Group Rebecca Rudolph Newsletter Layout Pearson Education Bonnie Marie Sauer Joseph Gleason New York Society for the Beatrice Stein Prevention of Cruelty to Animals DC Comics Halley Grogan Jonathan Tanner New York University Weill Medical College of Cornell University Erika Gottfried New York University, Hermann Teifer Tamiment Library Leo Baeck Institute Barbara LaMonica Jennifer Winters Long Island University, Gap, Inc. Palmer School www.nycarchivists.org Contents President’s Message 4 Editor’s Note 5 Feature Articles Coming to Light: The Louis I. Kahn Monument to Franklin D. Roosevelt 7 Gina Pollara On to Smooth Sailing: The New York Yacht Club Project 9 Vanessa Cameron and Teresa Bogar Interview with the Archivist: Alexandra Bernet Profiled 11 Ellen Mehling Book Reviews Architectural Records: Managing Construction and Design, by Waverly B. 13 Lowell and Tawny Ryan Nelb. Review by Sharon A. Pullen. Political Pressure and the Archival Record, edited by Margaret Procter, Michael G. 14 Cook and Caroline Williams. Review by Mario H. Ramírez. Thirty Years of Electronic Records. Bruce I. Ambacher, ed. 15 Review by F. Jason Torre. ART News New York Archives Week Awards Ceremony 16 Sarah Lawrence Women on the Home Front 16 Archivists Roundtable Wins State Award 20 Workshop Update 21 Meeting Roundup 22 Cover Image: From left to right: Dan Sokolow, Archives Coordinator; David Taylor Archives, North Shore – Long Island Jewish Health System; Ron Young, Archivist, Merrill Lynch; Jocelyn Wilk, Assistant Director, Columbia University Archives & Columbiana Library; Steven Wheeler, Director, Archives and Philanthropic Programs, NYSE Group; Daniel May, Company Archivist, MetLife; Nelson Chai, Chief Financial Officer, NYSE Group; Mindy S. Gordon, President, Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York, Inc. and Senior Archivist, Rockefeller Archive Center Janet Linde, Archivist, NYSE Group; Althea Bernheim, Consultant, World Trade Center Documentation Project; Jennifer Winters, Archivist, GAP, Inc.; Stephen E. Novak, Head, Columbia University Medical Center Archives & Special Collections; and Trina Yeckley, Archivist, NARA-Northeast, NYC. Courtesy of the NYSE Group. The mission of the Metropolitan Archivist is to serve members of the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York (ART) by: • Informing them of ART activities through reports of monthly meetings and committee activities. • Relating important announcements about individual members and member repositories. • Reporting important news related to the New York metropolitan area archival profession. • Providing a forum to discuss archival issues. The Metropolitan Archivist (ISSN 1546-3125) is issued semi-annually to the members of ART. Comments, questions, or submissions for features should be directed to editor, Rebecca Altermatt, at [email protected]. Deadlines for submissions are May 30th and November 30th. Similar inquiries and submissions for reviews should be directed to XXXXX. Preferred length of submissions is 800-1000 words for feature articles and 400-500 words for reviews. The Metropolitan Archivist and ART assume no responsibility for statements made by contributors. The Metropolitan Archivist accepts advertisements from businesses which provide services that would be of professional interest to ART membership. Rates and other related information can be obtained by contacting the editor or visiting the ART website at www.nycarchivists.org. )Job advertisements can be posted directly to the ART web sire by contacting the ART web master at [email protected].) An advertisement (or sponsor recognition) appearing in the Metropolitan Archivist does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation of the advertiser’s product or service by ART or the Metropolitan Archivist. Page 4 Presidential Message by Mindy S. Gordon The coincidental occurrence of two celebratory a professional goal but fortified an individual events held during Fall 2006, honored the satisfaction. This particularly defines us as Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New archivists. It is perhaps where we differ most from York for their influence in the New York Archives those in different fields. That we choose to pursue community. I ventured to Albany in late October archival issues in our designated ‘leisure time’ with to accept the 2006 William Hoyt Annual Archives this certain direction and passion is also a reason Award for Excellence in Advocacy from the for the reigning success and survival of ART. State Education Department and the New York State Archives. This award recognizes the role This commonality overrides other boundaries, ART played in several noteworthy events of determining that procedures practiced are dictated the recent past, particularly recognizing the by archival theory and not political treatise, work of a number of core individuals who have corporate benefit, or competition. ART’s greatest participated meaningfully in several episodes resources are reflected by the strength and talents in our organizational history. This award also of member volunteers, who chose to do what they recognizes the role of each and every member of like to do best and choose to do so as members of the Round Table who contribute to other efforts ART. I thank everyone involved in ART, past and and may compose newsletter features, select award present, for his or her devotion to the perpetuation winners for the annual October ceremony, serve a of this now world-famous organization. term (or two) as a Board member, assist in program planning, produce an annual calendar and, also, attend monthly events. All are to be congratulated Have you Subscribed to ART’s upon this level of recognition. Electronic Bulletin Board? Another equally gratifying event was the opportunity for some members of the Round Table This bulletin board/mailing list is available to all to participate in the Opening Bell Ceremony at ART members, who can post job listings news the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday October bulletins, or discuss matters of interest to the local 10th, 2006. Both these events are detailed in archives community separate articles within this newsletter. As a member of ART for a number of years and as a To reach the list, visit: former Vice President, I have great admiration for www.topica.com/lists/NYART the strength and focus which this group of talented archivists continues to sustain. While we do share From this introductory page, you can join or the same goals as other archives organizations, we have the great fortune of being a part of the New read the list. Once you have subscribed, you can York archives community. New York metropolitan post to the list either from the above web page or archivists work within a community with one of the directly by email at [email protected] largest concentrations of archivists in the country, representing a wide range of institutional work Questions, comments or suggestions about the environments and disciplinary practice. However, bulletin board should be directed to Daniel there are many more characteristics we possess Sokolow at: in common with our cousin-archivists than those [email protected]. in which we differ. Many archivists I have spoken to maintain that this field has satisfied not only Page 5 Editor’s Note I’d like to recognize the volunteers who help make this newsletter possible. Kristen Nyitray, Head of Special Collections and University Archives at the Stony Brook University coordinates and edits our book reviews; Ellen Mehling, Outreach Librarian in Special Services at the Central Library of Queens Public Library, is our “oral historian” who seeks out and interviews our colleagues in the profession; and Celia Hartmann is our ART Features compiler and co-editor who will soon complete her degree at the Palmer School of Long Island University A new volunteer this year is Bonnie Marie Sauer, a project archivist with