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Fall/Winter 2010 LOUISIANA ARCHIVES & MANUSCRIPTS ASSOCIATION LAMA NEWSLETTER ARCHIVES NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE FALL/WINTER 2010 LAMA 2010 ANNUAL MEETING AT LSU’S HILL MEMORIAL LIBRARY ble primary source materials for genea- been invited to join the lunch discus- logical study. Elizabeth Dow, Associ- sion and are encouraged to drop by for ate Professor at the LSU School of Li- a session or two. Student attendees will brary and Information Science, will also have an opportunity to speak with have an update on the Archival Train- practicing archivists during the business ing Collaborative Getting and Giving meeting. Workshops. Recently retired Director Following the conclusion of official -Archivist at the Sam Houston Region- business, attendees will meet up in al Library and Research Center, Rob- front of the Louisiana State Museum ert Schaadt, will recount the ups and downtown for a tour of Historic Span- downs of his 30-year career in ar- ish Town with John Sykes. Sykes is the chives. And, apropos of football sea- education director for the museum, a son, Mark Martin and Barry Cowan long-time Spanish Town resident, and (both from LSU’s Hill Memorial Li- serves as the neighborhood’s repre- brary) will discuss the process of pub- sentative on the city’s Historic Preser- lishing original work using archival vation Commission. Don’t miss this This year’s annual meeting will be materials. highly-touted tour of Baton Rouge’s held Friday, October 29, 2010, at Hill Lunch will be provided by Chef Don oldest neighborhood. Memorial Library on LSU’s Baton Bergeron Enterprises of Baton Rouge. Once the tour wraps up, LAMA Rogue campus. The meeting program The lunch break will also include an members are welcome to stay down- features four presentations from LA- informal Q&A with members of the town for the final concert in this year’s MA members on a broad range of ar- LSU School of Library and Information the Live After Five series in Galvez chival topics. Keith Fontenot, archi- Science SAA Student Group. By spe- Plaza near the Old State Capitol Build- vist at the St. Landry Parish Clerk of cial arrangement with group president, ing. See www.la5.downtownbr.org/ Court Office, will discuss his experi- Felicia Thomas, students who are una- for more details. ences working with and making availa- ble to attend the entire meeting have -Brad Wiles SPECIAL POINTS OF NUCMC SEEKS TO DESCRIBE CIVIL WAR COLLECTIONS INTEREST: As part of the Library of Congress ob- must regularly admit researchers; and 3) Connecting To Collections servance of the forthcoming sesquicenten- must lack the capability of entering their Survey Info (page 4) nial of the American Civil War, the Nation- own archival cataloging into OCLC. al Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections Also part of the NUCMC observance of Advocacy Opportunities (NUCMC) is seeking the assistance of eligi- the Civil War sesquicentennial will be a (pages 3 & 8) ble repositories in identifying and describ- five year/five part exhibit on our Web site LAMA Institutional News ing archival collections relating to the con- entitled “NUCMC and the Documentary (pages 2, 5, 6, 7, & 9) flict. Eligible repositories must 1) be locat- Heritage of the American Civil War.” The ed in the United States or its territories; 2) (CONTINUES ON PAGE 3) PAGE 2 LAMA NEWSLETTER NEW RESOURCES, EVENTS, AND PERSONNEL AT NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC LIBRARY Allison Collection, is on view graphs (digital and print) doc- on the third floor of the Main umenting Mayor Nagin’s ten- Library, 219 Loyola Avenue, ure in office. At the same and online, in full, at www. time, the City Archives acces- neworleanspubliclibrary.org/ sioned records from out- exhibits/allison/allison.htm. going New Orleans City Alexander Allison, a long Council members Shelly time civil engineer with the Midura, Cynthia Willard- Sewerage and Water Board of Lewis, and James Carter. New Orleans, was also an Processing of these records amateur photographer who has begun. shot images, ca. 1905-1952, Recently processed collec- of New Orleans houses, tions include: Records of buildings, street scenes, Chief Administrative Officer churches, cemeteries, statues, Marlin N. Gusman, 1994- port activities, Mardi Gras, 2000; Records of the Park- The Alexander Allison exhibit at NOPL’s Louisiana Divi- and more. Allison also took way & Park Commission, sion features dozens of photographs of Allison’s family in numerous photographs of 1930-2001; Mary-Kate Tews various places throughout New Orleans, including this one family members and family Papers, 1958-2007 with his daughters in City Park. (Photo courtesy of the activities, including vacations. (correspondence, journals, NOPL Louisiana Division) The exhibit -- in some ways and reports dealing largely “The Best of Alexander Alli- with the 1984 Louisiana Yvonne Loiselle, MLIS, CA, sources most commonly used son” -- comprises selections of World Exposition, as well as has joined the staff of the Lou- in family research, including his views of the city of New the 1996 Atlanta Olympics). isiana Division/City Archives resources available online. Orleans and his images of Finding aids are available at as Assistant Archivist. The emphasis in the class family-related activities at www. neworleanspublicli- Yvonne comes to us with will be on local resources home, around Louisiana, and brary.org/spec/speclist.htm. previous work experience at available in the Louisiana Di- in Bay Saint Louis. Alexander - Irene Wainwright the New Orleans Notarial vision and online through Allison’s New Orleans was guest Archives, Loyola University, such databases as Ances- -curated by former Louisiana the Historic New Orleans try.com and Family Division Archivist Wayne Collection, and Mignon Search.org: books, newspa- Everard and mounted by Lou- Faget, Ltd., where she was pers and obituaries, vital rec- isiana Division staff member contracted to process and ords (birth, marriage and Maya Lopez; the online ver- organize Ms. Faget’s archives death certificates), census sion was designed by Irene in anticipation of an exhibit records, burial records, im- Wainwright. currently on view at the His- migration and naturalization toric New Orleans Collection records, and probate records. The exhibit will remain on view at the Main Library into (see photograph and caption The class will be held from on bottom right of this page). 2011 and will remain online 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Main Li- permanently. The entire The Louisiana Division will rd Mignon Faget: A Life in Art and brary Auditorium (3 floor), Allison Collection can be seen host its first post-Katrina ge- Design is on display at the 219 Loyola Ave., New Orle- online at www. neworle- nealogy class – Genealogy for ans, LA. Free and open to Historic New Orleans Collec- anspubliclibrary.org/photos/ tion until January 2, 2010. The Beginners: How to Research Your the public, but pre- allison/allison.htm. exhibit details Faget’s 40-year Family’s History – on October registration is required. Call career in jewelry design and 23, 2010. Conducted by 504 596-2610. In May, the City Archives includes hundreds of original received approximately 100 members of the Louisiana The Louisiana Division’s drawings and photographs. cubic feet of records from the (Digital image courtesy of the Division staff, the class is de- current exhibit, Alexander Historic New Orleans Collec- signed to introduce the begin- administration of Mayor C. Allison’s New Orleans: Selected Ray Nagin, along with photo- tion website) ning genealogist to the Photographs from the Alexander FALL/WINTER 2010 PAGE 3 FUTURE OF LIBRARY EDUCATION IN LOUISIANA REMAINS UNCERTAIN Editor’s Note: The following press Science will hurt the people of Louisiana their children can do homework. We release was sent out earlier this fall by even more. We offer the only Master of also make a significant contribution by LSU School of Library and Information Library & Information Science degree in preserving the history of the state in Science Dean Beth Paskoff. As of pub- the entire state. We are important to government and local archives. Library lication the closure of SLIS is still un- Louisiana, and we take our responsibil- collections and archives do not organ- der discussion. Go to http://slis. lsu.edu/ to find out how to get in- ity to the state seriously. It is possible ize themselves. Without the work of volved and help keep an accredited to earn the MLIS by taking classes in our graduates, future generations will library program in Louisiana. Baton Rouge or by being a distance edu- not have access to the records of the On Friday afternoon, I was asked to cation student in Shreveport, Monroe, past and the present. Helping children meet with LSU's Chancellor and Prov- Lake Charles, Houma, Lafayette, New to find the books that will stimulate ost. They informed me that because of Orleans or Alexandria. their interest in reading is important the budget constraints facing the uni- For 15 years, it has been possible for work, and our graduates are in the versity now and projected for the com- students to earn the MLIS degree with- forefront of our state's efforts to pro- ing years, they are proposing the elimi- out having to take classes on the LSU vide access to both print and electronic nation of various units at LSU, includ- campus in Baton Rouge. Our students resources. ing the School of Library & Infor- can take classes through two-way, real- Without the School of Library & mation Science. Of course, I disagree time interactive courses at other loca- Information Science at LSU, students with this decision. The Chancellor's tions where the students at those other in Louisiana would have to leave the plan is to phase out the MLIS program, sites can see and hear the professor and state to earn their degrees.
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