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Volume 39 | Number 1 Article 7 7-1-2011 MAC News Midwest Archives Conference Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/macnewsletter Part of the Archival Science Commons Recommended Citation Midwest Archives Conference (2011) "MAC News," MAC Newsletter: Vol. 39 : No. 1 , Article 7. Available at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/macnewsletter/vol39/iss1/7 This MAC News is brought to you for free and open access by Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in MAC Newsletter by an authorized editor of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Preserving the Documents of the Past and Making Them Accessible to the Future! Volume 39, Number 1 (152) http://www.midwestarchives.org/ July 2011 MAC Archivists Meet in Saint Paul Over 350 MAC members and friends descended on Saint Paul April 28–30, 2011, for the MAC Annual Meeting. The conference offered a wide selection of workshops, sessions, and other events organized by the Program Committee (PC) and Local Arrangements Committee (LAC), designed to appeal to archivists of all experience levels and repository types. Ellen Swain Joshua Ranger Despite the unseasonable snowflakes, groups enjoyed Wednesday evening outings to the Minnesota Twins game and a historic pub tour. Thursday morning brought a variety of tours to local repositories, in- cluding the Minnesota Historical Society, Minnesota Public Radio, and the Science Kathy Koch Janet Olson Museum of Minnesota. The meeting officially kicked off with plenary speaker Dr. Mark Neuzil’s address “The Mississippi River of Henry Bosse: MACers enjoy the baseball game Government Photography as History.” between the Minnesota Twins and Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Conference attendees then flocked to the Rebecca Bizonet Erik Moore (Continued on page 5) See page 15 for election results and ex officio appointments. Fall Symposium: Mysteries of Magnetic Tape Revealed! In This Issue… Sioux City, Iowa, October 19–21, 2011 President’s Page ...................2 MAC News .............................5 Test your Iowa trivia, MAC members! Treasurer's Report .............. 17 What do advice columnists Dear Abby (Pauline Friedman) and Ann Landers Archival Resources on (her sister, Esther), and actors Fred Grandy (Gopher of TV’s The Love Boat) and the Web .............................. 20 Jerry Mathers (Beaver Cleaver of TV’s Leave It To Beaver) all have in common? News from the Midwest .............................. 22 Answer: They were born and raised in Electronic Currents .............27 Sioux City, Iowa, site of the 2011 MAC Preservation Essentials ...... 29 Fall Symposium, Mysteries of Magnetic Tape Revealed! Take our advice—with or without Up-and-Comers ................... 32 a situation comedy laugh track—and plan to People and Posts ................ 34 attend this very informative two-day work- shop. If you have wondered how to better 1939 Postcard. Curt Teich and Regionalia .......................... 36 Co., Inc. MAC Officers ....................... 38 manage and make accessible those stacks of (Continued on page 6) MAC News—Adriana Cuervo, Assistant Editor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign MAC Archivists Meet in Saint Paul provided an opportunity for new members to learn about (Continued from page 1) MAC on a personal level and also to network and make sessions to learn more on topics as diverse as marketing contacts with more established colleagues. Many Pals met their collections, to managing electronic records. Sixteen during the Thursday afternoon break, in a room specially vendors filled the exhibit hall with demonstrations of their reserved for the official meet-and-greet. Other pairs made products and services (and offered fabulous prizes to those arrangements to meet at different times throughout the who entered their contests). Friday’s Members’ Meeting event. MAC Pal Erik Moore reports, “As a member of MAC, featured a “State of MAC” report from President Tanya the Pals Program encouraged me to take a step out of my Zanish-Belcher, a vote on a revision to MAC’s bylaws own comfort zone and meet new members and student dissolving the Archives Committee, announcements of attendees in a forum that was casual and friendly. Although Emeritus and Presidents’ Award winners; and previews designed to make newcomers feel more welcome, it had of the 2011 Fall Symposium in Sioux City, Iowa, and the the added benefit of allowing veteran attendees [to] see the 2012 Annual Meeting in Grand Rapids, Michigan. meeting through a fresh, exciting perspective.” The meeting continued the use of various social media to The reception was held Friday evening at the Wabasha document the goings-on. Local information provided by Street Caves, just a short distance from the conference hotel. the LAC and descriptions of the sessions were posted on the Attendees sampled Minnesota-themed foods (including LAC blog (http://2011mac.wordpress.com). Twitter writers a tater tot hot dish and Swedish meatballs) and enjoyed and followers tweeted away at #2011mac, sharing their the fully-stocked bar, while they mixed and mingled with impressions of the speakers, venues, tours, and reception. their MAC colleagues. In addition, “Dapper Dan” Hogan provided guided tours of the caves, describing the unique Almost 60 students and archivists-in-training attended history of the venue from the point of view of one of its this year’s MAC meeting and took advantage of special gangster clientele. opportunities designed by the PC and LAC for them. Friday afternoon featured MAC’s first student research A special thank you goes out to Local Arrangements session, where Suzanna Conrad (University of Illinois Committee members Ann Kenne (cochair), Karen Spilman at Urbana-Champaign) and Edward Benoit (University (cochair), Ryan Bean, Stephanie Crowe, Lara Friedman- of Wisconsin–Milwaukee) presented their research. On Shedlov, Ellen Holt-Werle, Jennifer Huebscher, Jennifer Saturday morning, seven graduate students in archival Johnson, Stephanie Kays, Alex Kent, Deborah Kloiber, studies participated in a poster session highlighting their Jamie Martin, Erik Moore, Ann Mulfort, Daardi Sizemore, work. Alexis Logsdon, a student at the University of Wis- Susan Wakefield, Sarah Warmka, and Program Committee consin–Milwaukee, won the one hundred-dollar prize for members Lynn Smith (cochair), Alison Stankrauff (cochair), her work at the Quatrefoil Library in Saint Paul. Hillary Bober, Tamar Chute, Monte Kniffen, Meg Miner, Jeanne Christie Mithen, Shane Molander, Mark Myers, The MAC Pals program, established by the 2011 LAC, Danelle Orange, Carole Prietto, Barbara Trippel Simmons, made a successful debut at the Saint Paul meeting. Nineteen Anthony Smith, Thomas Steman, Joseph Turrini, Rachael current MAC members volunteered to partner up with Vagts (ex officio), and Elizabeth Myers (ex officio) for plan- 29 new members who had requested Pals. The program ning and executing such a memorable meeting! MAC 2012 Annual Meeting Call for Papers The Midwest Archives Conference invites submissions of presentations, sessions, and papers for its Annual Meeting, to be held April 19–21 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The MAC Program Committee invites proposals on any aspect of the archival profession, especially on current issues. Proposals from those in related fields (public history, libraries, museums, genealogy, information science, and records management) and from graduate students are welcome. Individual proposals that need additional presenters or fine-tuning will be considered, although fully realized proposals are preferred. Early proposal submissions are encouraged! Please submit proposals by September 16, 2011. The submission form is downloadable from the meeting’s Web site at http://www.midwestarchives.org/2012cfp. To submit a session proposal, save the form to your computer, complete it, and then send it via E-mail, traditional mail, or fax it to one of the cochairs listed on the form. MAC Newsletter • July 2011 5 MAC News—Continued Adriana Cuervo, Assistant Editor Fall Symposium (Continued from page 1) audio and video recording tapes in your repository, this Archives of Iowa symposium is for you. Broadcasting at Wartburg Col- Analog audio- and videotape formats dominated the lege in Waverly, recording of sound and moving images for the better part Iowa, will relate of the late twentieth century, stretching back as far as his repository’s the 1950s. Whether acquired through in-house creation experiences with or external donation, these machine-readable formats magnetic media have become increasingly common denizens of archival received from holdings all over the world. Their growing numbers, the radio and tele- recent alarms regarding their uncertain physical viability, vision stations From the Andreas Atlas of Iowa, and their dependence on largely obsolete technology serve across the state. 1875. only to further perplex the collections manager who is more comfortable with paper and born-digital records. The symposium will kick off on Wednesday evening, Oc- tober 19, with an opening reception at the recently opened The symposium gathers archivists and practitioners to Sioux City Public Museum (http://wwwsiouxcitymuseum discuss the basics of magnetic audio and video media. .org), a remarkable and rich showcase of Great Plains Topics such as physical characteristics, preservation issues, heritage and Siouxland history. The museum, located in format obsolescence, collections management, description,