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Volume 36 Newsletter of the Michigan Archival Association No. 2 http://www.maasn.org Fall 2008 Mackinaw City!
Wayne State staffers know how to party at MAA’s 50th Anniversary Reception, June 12, 2008! Left to right: Elizabeth Clemens, Mary Wallace, Kristen Chinery (all from the Walter P. Reuther Library) and Suzan Altieri (Purdy/ Kresge Library). The reception at the Annual Meeting was generously sponsored by Graphic Sciences and University Products.
HIGHLIGHTS
3 President’s Corner
4 Philip P. Mason AASLH Award Winner
8 Michigan Collections
12 Annual Meeting Retrospective Mackinaw City
22 Marshall: Looking Forward to 2009
26 MAA Pride - CafePress Online Store
Open Entry Fall 2008 1 Table of Contents http://www.maasn.org Board Members 2 President’s Corner 3 Philip P. Mason AASLH Award Winner 4 Connections and Collaborations: Undergraduates as Interns 5 New Board Members 6 MAA Scholarship Award Winner 7 Michigan Collections 8 Archive Media Partners Advertisement 8 Annual Meeting Retrospective Mackinaw City 2008 12 Grant Program Guidelines 21 Marshall: Looking Forward to MAA 2009 22 Donate to Annual Raffle 23 Archives and Paper Conservation Information 24 Michigan Oral History Association 25 Cultural Emergency Response Team 25 MAA Election Results 25 Open Entry is a biannual publication of the MAA Pride - CafePress Online Store 26 Michigan Archival Association New Dues Structure for 2009 26 Editor, Robert Garrett Production Editor, Cynthia Read Miller Dues Renewal Form for 2009 27 All submissions should be directed to: Calendar of Events: 2008-2009 28 Robert Garrett at [email protected] Photograph Sources 28 Archives of Michigan 702 W. Kalamazoo Street Board Members Lansing, MI 48909-8240 By the deadlines: February 10th - Spring 2009 issue Brecque Keith September 10th - Fall 2009 issue President (2008-2010) Walter P. Reuther Library Wayne State University 5401 Cass Avenue Detroit, MI 48202 Robert Garrett (2008-2011) (313) 577-9894 & Open Entry Editor [email protected] Archives of Michigan 702 W. Kalamazoo Street Whitney Miller Jennifer A. Thomas Lansing, MI 48909-8240 Vice-President/President-Elect (2008-2012) Conference Coordinator (2007-2009) (517) 241-1382 University Archives and Historical Stockwell-Mudd Library [email protected] Collections, 101 Conrad Hall Albion College Michigan State University 611 E. Porter Street Melinda McMartin Isler (2006-2009) East Lansing, MI 48824-1327 Albion, MI 49224 & MAA Online, Editor (517) 355-2330 (517) 629-0487 Ferris State University Archives [email protected] [email protected] FLITE 358 1010 Campus Drive Susan Panak Members-At-Large Big Rapids, MI 49307 Secretary (2008-2010) (231) 796-1693 Hugh A. and Edna C. White Library Heidi Christein (2008-2009) [email protected] Spring Arbor University Archdiocese of Detroit 106 E. Main Street 1234 Washington Blvd. Amy L. Reimann (2007-2010) Spring Arbor, MI 49283 Detroit, MI 48226 Starr Commonwealth (517) 750-6434 (313) 237-5864 13725 Starr Commonwealth Road [email protected] [email protected] Albion, MI 49224-1936 (517) 630-2317 Kristen Chinery [email protected] Treasurer (2007-2009) Matthew L. Daley (2007-2010) Walter P. Reuther Library Department of History Carol Vandenberg (2008-2009) Wayne State University 1060A MAK Madonna University 5401 Cass Avenue Grand Valley State University 36600 Schoolcraft Road Detroit, MI 48202 Allendale MI 49401 Livonia, MI 48150 (313) 577-8377 (616) 331-3298 (734) 432-5691 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 2 Open Entry Fall 2008 President’s Corner
by Brecque Keith
Dear Colleagues,
By the time this reaches you, we will be in the holiday season. Here’s hoping summer and fall were both wonderful seasons for you and yours. Please consider saving April 25, 2009 to Thanks to everyone who participated in the fiftieth anniversary help judge state finals for Michigan celebration during the Conference in Mackinaw City June 11-13, History Day! Groups of Michigan 2008. Thursday evening’s reception at the Old Mackinac Point children from grades four through twelve Lighthouse was enjoyed by all in attendance. In addition to the will come together to compete for the wonderful refreshments and live music, tours of the light keeper’s “best” interpretation of the theme: “The cottage were provided and past presidents of MAA were Individual In History.” These students recognized. Our golden anniversary was celebrated in fine style! prepare truly spectacular projects using many different media, and range in age While the local arrangements committee - Frank Boles, Steve from fifth to twelfth grade. Your Brisson, Bambi Mansfield, Kim VanNuck and Marcus Robyns - contribution of time and talent to these endeavored to make our conference comfortable, the program children is invaluable. For more committee worked hard to find topics of interest to all. Thanks to information, please see the event brochure the program committee: Rebecca Bizonet, Kristen Chinery, Robert at
Open Entry Fall 2008 3 Philip P. Mason is a 2008 AASLH Award Winner
The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) proudly announces that Philip P. Mason is the recipient of an Award of Merit from the AASLH Leadership in History Awards for more than fifty years of championing the history of Michigan. The AASLH Leadership in History Awards, now in its 63rd year, is the most prestigious recognition for achievement in the preservation and interpretation of state and local history. Awards for 2008 represent fifty-seven organizations and individuals from across the United States. Award winners will be honored at a special banquet during the 2008 AASLH Annual Meeting in Rochester, New York, on Friday, September 12th. A generous contribution from The History Channel will once again help underwrite the cost of the awards banquet.
The AASLH awards program was initiated in 1945 to establish and encourage standards of excellence in the collection, preservation, and interpretation of state and local history throughout the United States. The AASLH Leadership in History Awards not only honor significant achievement in the field of state and local history, but also bring public recognition of the opportunities for small and large organizations, institutions, and programs to make contributions in this arena. For more information about the Leadership in History Awards, contact AASLH at 615-320-3203, or go to
Contact: Bethany Hawkins AASLH press release submitted by Hugh Gurney [email protected] Historical Society of Michigan 615-320-3203 E-mail: [email protected] AASLH
Right: Philip P. Mason in his office at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University, 1985
Left: Cesar Chavez and Philip P. Mason at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University, 1967.
4 Open Entry Fall 2008 Connections and Collaborations: Undergraduates as Interns By Matthew Lawrence Daley Assistant Professor of History / Internship Director Grand Valley State University E-mail: [email protected] Matthew L. Daley, 2004
The era of reduced funding, limited staff, increased Connected to that, some internships exist as the “coffee workloads and exhortations to do more with less has and copy” variety that provide unpaid clerical work for brought a renewed emphasis on collaborative ventures the sites but result in frustration on the part of the between organizations. Such efforts can produce interns and their home institution. Consider what you results of high quality and tangible benefit to all want your intern to do and what he or she will need to involved but can also reveal tensions between large and know to successfully complete the projects. Having a small shops and exist as simply another imposition on clear set of guidelines and expectations along with a the “lone-arranger” or small museum. Visions of clear description of the projects helps students to regional organizations often back the basic better select the internship that interests them. It also collaborative framework needed to make such a helps the home institution of a potential intern to venture possible. This type of networking and better gauge whether a student should apply for a interactive activity has helped my own collaborative position or how to assist a student during the efforts of gaining internships for Grand Valley State application process. University history majors within the public history world of West Michigan. As an outsider to the By collaborating and interacting with internship sites, I archival world, I can offer a few suggestions have learned how to channel students to appropriate regarding how a collaborative process can provide a locations and to know what is expected of students at a better set of outcomes. particular position. This also helps to diffuse potential hard feelings when an internship does not work out as First, internships for undergraduate students offer them hoped – for reasons ranging from personality clashes to the opportunity to encounter the professional side of non-performance of assigned duties. The internship history that the academic world does not always site should have a line of communication with the emphasize to history majors. When students consider intern’s home institution. The two can then work history as a major they have a limited knowledge of together to resolve the situation and to maintain the career paths, and internships help to broaden their relationship for the future. perspective. At the same time, undergraduates have only started on a career path and lack the specialized Thus, collaboration tends to resemble conflict training of a professional school. Despite being a resolution based upon interpersonal relationships and simple and possibly obvious point, undergraduate fostered through confidence building measures. The students require training and time from the sponsoring diplomatic metaphor helps to highlight the give and institutions. That’s a critical factor that must be take nature of collaborative projects. Few interactions considered by these institutions before the intern come without problems, but through personal appears on their doorstep. Interns can also provide a connections and an effort to build a relationship, well of creativity, but a careful balance must be struck collaborative projects such as an internship program to avoid expecting too much or too little of them. can bear fruit for years to come.
Open Entry Fall 2008 5 New Board Members Editor’s note: This year, the MAA Board has two new faces: Carol Vandenberg and Heidi Christein. I’m profiling both in this issue, as a way of introducing them to MAA’s membership.
Carol Vandenberg was elected a Board Member-At- Large during the June 2008 annual meeting. She is brand new to the board. I asked her to answer a few questions for this profile, and she happily obliged. – Bob Garrett
Where did you grow up and where did you go to school?
My roots are in Michigan. I grew up in Royal Oak, a northern Detroit suburb, and I graduated from Wayne State University in Detroit with two degrees. I have a B.A. in Radio, TV & Film and an MLIS with a concentration in health care libraries.
Before getting my library science degree, I worked in administration at Wayne State School of Medicine and at Henry Ford Health System, giving me a strong background in health care. New Board Member Carol Vandenberg of Madonna University, October 2008. I came to archives by chance. I accepted a position at Madonna University in Livonia as a reference librarian and members. Some of us are professionally trained while archivist. Not having formal training in archives, I have others are accidental archivists who fall into the charge. The turned to fellow MAA members for direction. Board considers this when planning programs and works to address all interests. In 2006, I served as an exchange librarian/archivist with Notre Dame University, Lebanon http://www.ndu.edu.lb/ What are your impressions of the Board so far? where I worked with both the Library and the Lebanese Emigration Research Center (LERC). I was there from I have only been to one Board meeting, but all Board May through mid July. While there, I redesigned a members are interested in our members and how they can database for LERC. best be served.
Why did you decide to run for the MAA Board? What would you like to see accomplished in the next year? I decided to run for the MAA Board because I was interested in helping the organization and to learn more During the next year, I would like us to plan a meeting or about the needs of the many archives throughout the state. session for our members in addition to the annual meeting. I The MAA Board recognizes the varying backgrounds of our believe this is already a goal of the Board.
6 Open Entry Fall 2008 MAA President Brecque Keith appointed Heidi Christein to fill a Member-At-Large vacancy until the next election. I asked Heidi a few questions for this profile. She answered them in a narrative, which I’m pleased to present here. – Bob Garrett
My undergraduate degree is in History, from the University of Chicago. I also have an MA in Humanities from Chicago, and a Master of Philosophy in American Studies from New York University. My archives training was done at Wayne State, where I got my Graduate Certificate in Archival Administration. I am now taking the classes toward the MLIS at WSU.
My current job (since July 2007) has been with the Archdiocese of Detroit Archives. I was hired as the assistant archivist, but since August of this year have been placed in charge of the department. Prior to that, I worked as the New Board Member, Heidi Christein, shown attending the archivist at the Jewish Community Archives in Bloomfield MAA Annual Meeting in Mount Pleasant, June, 2003. Hills and at Temple Beth El (also in Bloomfield). I got my start in archives at the Reuther at WSU.
I have served on the Board before, and some things seem We Have a Winner! very different. Less emphasis on conference planning is the By Karen Jania biggest change. The local arrangements people are much Bentley Historical Library more familiar with the area, and the lesser known “treasures” E-mail: [email protected] that conference participants might enjoy are highlighted. The dedication of the people who serve on the Board is still the The recipient of the MAA Scholarship award at the School same, despite new faces. They’re all willing to do some of Information (University of Michigan) is Rachael Dreyer. good work on behalf of the members. Rachael is a second year graduate student majoring in archives and records management. A Portland, Oregon native, I would like to see more students involved in MAA as a goal Rachael did her undergraduate work at Grinnell College and for the next year. MAA benefits from the new ideas and spent two years in Japan (2005-2007). While in Japan, she questions that student members bring. taught English and was an editor for Healthlink, a Peer Support Group bimonthly magazine. I grew up in Michigan, but couldn’t wait to leave when I went to college. I loved being in Chicago and thought bigger might be better, so I went to New York City After a few years in New York, I was happy to come home. I still enjoy going to Chicago and NYC when I can.
I never planned to be an archivist; through a series of circumstances and people I met, I became an archivist. I also never thought I’d be an archivist for religious institutions, and I’m on my second job in that area. But I love my job: I’m paid to read other people’s mail and for the most part, it’s really interesting mail! The $500 MAA award is given yearly to a graduate student at the School of Information at the University of Michigan and to a graduate student at the Library and Information Science Program at Wayne State University.
Open Entry Fall 2008 7 Michigan Collections
Archives of Michigan The “Michigan Polish Americans Collection” represents another recent highlight. This online collection consists of Michigan Department of History, Arts and Libraries scanned images from the J. William Gorski manuscript Michigan Library and Historical Center collection. Forty-six online photos provide depictions of 702 W. Kalamazoo Street Polish American businesses, churches and cemeteries in Lansing, MI 48913 Hamtramck, Detroit and Parisville, Michigan. (For a (517) 373-1408 description of the complete, physical Gorski Collection – as Fax: (517) 241-1658 well as of other notable Archives of Michigan collections - E-mail: [email protected] see the Archives of Michigan Online Finding Aids site. You Web: http://www.michigan.gov/archivesofmi can find this by going to
The Archives of Michigan continues to grow its online digital The Archives of Michigan will continue making archival collections site. One glance reveals a small trove of virtual materials digitally accessible to growing number of treasures! For a complete list of collections, go to researchers. In cyberspace, everyone can see you dream!
Thanks to a Talbert and Leota Abrams Foundation grant, Civil War manuscript materials supplement the regimental service records. “Virtual patrons” can now peruse letters, diaries and other personal accounts of actual Civil War combatants. The Archives of Michigan intends to have all its Civil War materials scanned and online by the Civil War Sesquicentennial in 2011.
The Abrams Foundation has also provided funding to digitize WPA property inventories. The Michigan State Tax Commission, in cooperation with the Works Progress Administration (later the Work Projects Administration), sponsored the property inventory project from 1935-1942. The final products include detailed descriptions of private property, covering mostly rural areas. Property inventories for Hillsdale, Jackson and Oakland Counties can now be viewed online, and inventories for other Michigan counties will be forthcoming.
8 Open Entry Fall 2008 effort to construct Michigan Stadium, Yost Fieldhouse and Bentley Historical Library other facilities, negotiating the Big Ten’s exclusive contract The University of Michigan with the Rose Bowl starting in 1946, hiring Fritz Crisler as 1150 Beal Avenue football coach and athletic director, and acting as a Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2113 spokesman for the University and Big Ten for many years (734) 764-3482 on NCAA rules and eligibility issues. The collection Fax: (734) 936-1333 documents Aigler’s university life and his life-long interest in E-mail: [email protected] intercollegiate athletics. Included among his correspondents Web: http://www.bentley.umich.edu/ are Branch Rickey, Fritz Crisler and Fielding H. Yost. Hours: M-F 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. September to April: Sa, 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 a.m. Arnold Transit Company:
10,000th Donor: The Bentley Historical Library recently acquired a collection of records from the Arnold Transit Company, who operate Early in February 2008, Charlotte M. Love of Ypsilanti, the longest running ferry line on the straits of Mackinac. Michigan became the 10,000th donor of historical materials Founded in 1878 by George T. Arnold, the line continues to to the Bentley Historical Library. The donation was a small, transport thousands of passengers and tons of freight every but significant collection of photographs of the Bethel year. The collection – which is expected to grow – consists A.M.E. Church in Ann Arbor collected by her father, the primarily of early financial records. Some date back to Rev. Clarence Carrington. Typical of the types of materials 1850, before the company was founded. Other records received over the past seventy-three years, this donation document the property interests of Arnold Transit and the would have pleased the library’s first director, Lewis G. estates of the Arnold family. The vessels themselves are Vander Velde. Dr. Vander Velde recognized the importance represented through certificates, manifests and logs. of local history, eagerly seeking materials – frequently church Historical advertisements of Arnold Transit have been records – that he believed were critical to the understanding preserved, as well as promotions of the Straits of Mackinac of Michigan’s history. A glance at the Library’s accession and the surrounding area in general. Architectural plans, books over the past seven decades reveals that the great documents of area organizations, information on competing majority of our donors either lived in or close to Ann Arbor lines and photographs round out the collection. The records or had some connection with the University of Michigan. document the company’s activities up until the 1970s, though The Library, of course, has received donations from every the bulk of the material dates from the 1920s to the 1940s. Michigan county, throughout the nation and around the The Arnold Transit Company records couple nicely with world. But it is collections such as the Carrington other Mackinac-area collections available at the Bentley photographs that represent the kind of collecting that has Library, including the records of the Grand Hotel, the developed the overall resources of the Bentley Library. papers of Prentiss M. Brown and documents of other prominent organizations and individuals. Other New Accessions: Lillian Gill: Ralph W. Aigler: Our documentation of the African American community in A nationally renowned expert on real property law, an Grand Rapids was enriched by the addition of the Lillian advisor to the American Law Institute in the drafting of the Gill papers. Born in Mississippi, Gill moved to Grand Restatement of the Law of Property and a University of Rapids in 1936. Much of her life has been devoted to Michigan Law Professor, Ralph W. Aigler was heavily religious, civic, political and fraternal activities and involved in athletics at Michigan, holding two important organizations. A long-time member of New Hope Baptist posts. He was the University’s faculty representative to the Church in Grand Rapids, she has participated in state and Big Ten Conference from 1917 to 1955 and a representative regional African American Baptist organizations, notably the on Michigan’s Faculty Board in Control of Athletics from Western District Association of Baptist Churches of 1917 to 1942. Aigler’s contributions included guiding Michigan and the General Baptist State Convention of Michigan back into the Big Ten Conference, leading the Michigan. In politics, Lillian Gill has been active in local
Open Entry Fall 2008 9 Democratic Party affairs and participated in various local on camera and covered a broader range of social issues. elections, notably as a candidate to serve as delegate to Weather and human interest content became “news you can Michigan’s Constitutional Convention in 1961. An extremely use.” In part due to the work of consultants, newscasts energetic woman, Gill was also active in the Order of the began to make better use of the television medium and Eastern Star, affiliate of the International Free and Accepted started to include more pictorial content. The work of Modern Masons. She participated locally in the Queen McHugh and Hoffman was also instrumental in introducing Esther Chapter and also on the state and national level. She female anchors and reporters to the television news industry. has been Grand Matron of Michigan, Illustrious Grand The McHugh and Hoffman collection consists mainly of Matron and Supreme Sovereign of Stars. The bulk of the research reports and analyses performed by the firm on collection details her Masonic responsibilities, activities with scores of local TV newscasts throughout the nation. The her church and with her denomination’s regional and state research files provide valuable sociological and demographic organization. A smaller portion of the collection relates to data for most major cities in the United States. The reports her varied business endeavors as an insurance underwriter include viewer attitudes toward a particular city’s television for the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company and viewing, along with the firm’s findings and its observations the Great Lakes Mutual Life Insurance Company and as a and recommendations. Of particular interest is a 1963 salesperson with Amway. There is also a small amount of report concerning Sing Along With Mitch, ultimately leading to material relating to her political and civil rights involvement that television program’s cancellation despite high ratings. with the local chapter of the NAACP. Some see this event as symbolic of popular culture’s shift to a younger, more rock-and-roll oriented base. John Lesinski, Jr.: Obituaries: The Library accessioned the papers of John Lesinski, Jr., a seven-term Democratic Congressman from Michigan’s 16th We sadly note the passing of Elizabeth (Betty) Sparks Adams District. Serving from January 1951 to January 1965, on October 11, 2007. Betty was the first employee of the Lesinski was a member of the Committee on Post Office Michigan Historical Collections, now the Bentley Historical and Civil Service and the House Administration Committee. Library. Born on December 12, 1911 in Romeo, Michigan, Outside of his committee assignments, Lesinski took a Betty graduated from Pontiac High School in 1930 and special interest in the “captive nations” of Eastern Europe, received an A.B. from Eastern Michigan University in 1934 Polish-American issues and the work of anti-communist and an M.A. in history from the University of Michigan in organizations. A victim of redistricting of the 15th and 16th 1935. While a Research Assistant in 1935, she assisted Congressional Districts in 1964, Lesinski lost in the Professor Lewis G. Vander Velde in establishing a home for Democratic primary to long-time Congressman John the archives of the University of Michigan. She became the Dingell. The papers are particularly valuable for legislation first curator of the Michigan Historical Collections, working he introduced and the views of his constituents on such in that position from 1938 to 1939. Mrs. Adams served on issues as civil rights, immigration and the “captive nations” the Michigan Historical Commission since her appointment of Eastern Europe. Of note in the collection are portraits by Governor Murray D. Van Wagoner on March 20, 1941. and photographs from Lesinski’s congressional career. While on the Commission, she served as President and Vice These include photos depicting campaign events and group President and was reappointed every six years by succeeding photos of Lesinski with other public figures. John F. governors. She stepped down in 1995 (but remained active Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Sam Rayburn, John until her successor was appointed in 1996), completing fifty- McCormack and Gerald R. Ford are among the public four years of volunteer service to the people of Michigan. figures represented. Mrs. Adams also served as President of the Historical Society of Michigan, Oakland County Pioneer and Historical McHugh and Hoffman: Society and the Pontiac Y.W.C.A. She was an active member of the Oakland County Historical Society and the Pontiac Founded in Detroit in 1962 by Philip McHugh and Peter Historical Commission, among other organizations. Hoffman, McHugh and Hoffman was the first television news-consulting firm in the nation. A valuable resource for Submitted by Marilyn McNitt the understanding of television news, McHugh and E-mail: [email protected] Hoffman’s research found that viewers wanted more than just a laundry list of facts or a retelling of what was already available in newspapers. McHugh and Hoffman pioneered the “Eyewitness News” format, where reporters appeared 10 Open Entry Fall 2008 Charles H. Wright Museum of Detroit Public Library African American History Burton Historical Collection Archives and Research Library 5201 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202 315 East Warren Ave. (313) 833-1480 Detroit Michigan, 48201 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.detroitpubliclibrary.org/burton/ Website: www.maah-detroit.org Hours: Tu, W 12:00 noon - 8:00 p.m. Hours: By Appointment Th, F, Sa 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
July 31, 2008 marked the completion of a one-year Institute Bill Rauhauser generously donated a large portion of his for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museum grant for photography archive to the Burton Historical Collection. African American History and Culture at the Charles H. The donation consists of more than four hundred exhibit Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit. quality photographs and nearly two thousand negatives. The The archives professional capacity project that began in August of collection contains extraordinary images of the rich social, 2007 facilitated the hiring of a full-time archivist and interns economic and political life of Detroit from the 1930s from the Wayne State Library and Information Science through today. program to revitalize the archival collection and research library of the Museum. The project began with a complete survey of the Museum’s manuscript and photographic Rauhauser’s photography is critically acclaimed in many collections; afterward the staff worked to arrange and quarters. His photographs appeared in the famous 1955 describe more than 125 collections using the More Product, Edward Steichen exhibit - “The Family of Man” – at the Less Process standards. In addition, more than 2,500 The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. He published titles were cataloged in an online public access opened “The Group 4 Gallery” in 1964 – the first Detroit catalog that will grow to include the catalog records of the gallery devoted strictly to photography. He served as a guest archival collections. As with most archival repositories, there curator at the Detroit Institute of Arts and convinced them is always more work to be done, but much was to establish their own photography collection. For over accomplished in this first year that has helped to lay the thirty years, he has taught photography at the College for foundation for a successful archives program. Creative Studies in Detroit, where he was appointed Professor Emeritus. The Museum was founded by Dr. Charles H. Wright to preserve the history and culture of Detroit’s African The collection, officially titled the “Bill and Doris Rauhauser American community for future generations. Since its Photography Archive,” is another wonderful treasure in the incorporation in 1965, the Museum’s collection has grown to Detroit Public Library’s Special Collection. include numerous titles now out of print that support the study of African Art and the African and the African Submitted by Mark Patrick American Experiences. The major collections include the E-mail: [email protected] institutional records of the Museum, the personal papers of Dr. Wright, the collections of community organizers Clarence and Norma Gatliff; Dr. Haley and Mary Bell, Michigan Collections Continued on Page 16 owners of Bell Broadcasting and co-owners of WCHB- AM; the Adler and W. L. Smith Studio Collections that captured the Black Bottom neighborhood in the 1940s and early 1950s; as well as portions of Coleman A. Young’s The NEXT mayoral papers and the personal papers of Horace L. Sheffield, Jr. MAA Annual Meeting The archive is currently open by appointment only, but the staff looks forward to a formal opening in early 2009. Wednesday-Friday Questions can be directed to the Archivist at the Museum, Alexis Braun Marks – [email protected]. June 24-26, 2009 Submitted by Alexis Braun Marks E-mail: [email protected] Marshall
Open Entry Fall 2008 11 The Legend Lives on from the Mackinac Bridge on Down! A Review of MAA’s Annual Meeting and Fiftieth Anniversary, June 11-13, 2008 By Jennie Thomas, MAA Conference Coordinator Albion College E-mail: [email protected]
From fudge tours and archeological digs to informative sessions and some rather unfortunate singing (of which I was a part), Mackinaw City supplied a beautiful backdrop to MAA’s fiftieth anniversary celebration.
Our keynote speaker this year was William H. Gnodtke, the chair of the Mackinac Bridge Authority Board. He shared with us the emotionally stirring story of the bridge – from inspiration to inception and from iron worker to architect. Thanks to Gnodtke, we received a special sneak peak of “The Mackinac Bridge: 50 Years and Beyond.” This video was shown at the Mackinac Bridge Authority Board’s 2007 celebration for the bridge’s fiftieth anniversary. Gnodtke also brought with him a special guest: Larry Rubin. Rubin was secretary to the Board Okay, so one letter’s wrong! It was still a great cake. MAA’s 50th Anniversary before the bridge or Bridge Authority even existed, cake for the Reception on Thursday June 12, 2008. and he shared with us a number of humorous eighteenth-century fur trading community. Some attendees found this and the anecdotes about the bridge’s creation. keynote to be the highlight of the conference.
For others, it was all about the sessions! Though the 2008 Program Committee (Rebecca Bizonet, Kristen Chinery, Bob Garrett, Sarah Roberts, and Amy Reimann as Chair) received fewer evaluations at last year’s conference, the members were still able to bring MAA members a comprehensive program. The committee incorporated a number of first-hand accounts by Michigan archivists. These archivists discussed electronic records management, EAD, digitization, oral history, and the use of primary sources in educational programming. Sessions also addressed the biggest issue affecting the future of archives—funding. A number of our MAA colleagues presented on ideas for filling the gaps between institutional funding and need. These ideas included institutional collaborations, consortiums and do-it-yourself exhibits. Other sessions featured the tales of published MAA authors, reference policies that work and the state of archival education from the student perspective. Sarah Roberts (left) of the Michigan State University Archives Local Arrangements (Steve Brisson, Bambi Mansfield, and Kim VanNuck with & Historical Collections and Rebecca Bizonet (right) of the Marcus Robyns and Frank Boles as Co-Chairs) had their hands full planning for a Benson Ford Research Center find something interesting at the conference at a distance. The tours, which included a walking tour of Colonial Fort Michilimackinac dig, Wednesday, June 11th. Michilimackinac, fudge-making demonstrations from Dean Marshall at Marshall’s Fudge and Candy Co. and a guided tour from bow to stern of the U.S. Coast In place of a pre-conference workshop this year, we Guard Cutter Mackinac, sounded so good to attendees that they lamented their arranged for interested conference attendees to assist inability to attend all three at once! One tour everyone was able to enjoy was that of in the archeological dig at Colonial Michilimackinac. the Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse for our fiftieth anniversary reception. The Every summer since 1959, archeologists have been musical duo TOPAZ (Thomas Zantow and Jennifer Dean) provided a lively uncovering the remains of this important accompaniment to an evening of delicious food and drink from Audie’s Restaurant. 12 Open Entry Fall 2008 Bob Garrett (Archives of Michigan) and Tom Nanzig (Proquest) pick another lucky winner in the MAA raffle! Thursday, June 12th. Outgoing President Karen Jania (Bentley Historical Library) enjoys her farewell card from the MAA Board. In the background are (from left to right): Jennie Thomas (Albion College) and Nicole Garrett (Archives of Michigan), Thursday, June 12, 2008.
“Quit looking at my cookie, Boles!” (Left to right): Frank Boles (Clarke Historical Library), Marcus Robyns (Northern Michigan University Archives) and Greg Kinney (Bentley Historical Library), June 12th. At the MAA Authors’ Panel on Thursday June 12th (left to right): Tom Nanzig of Proquest, and Whitney Miller and Portia Vescio of the Information student. A vote was passed instituting two new types MSU Archives & Historical Collections. of membership: a two-year membership for $35 that includes a $5 discount on regular annual dues, and a three-year membership for By the close of the reception, “The Wreck of the Edmund $50, a $10 discount. Then the moment everyone was waiting for – Fitzgerald” was heard reverberating off the walls of the lighthouse, the raffle! This year’s raffle also included what has become our own as former presidents of MAA (and some members) proceeded to “Bob and Tom Show” with emcees Bob Garrett and Tom Nanzig serenade the group. offering their usual dose of humor. The grand prize, the C2 by Herman Miller, offering desktop temperature control, was won by The business meeting provided an opportunity to say goodbye to Rebecca Bizonet, who, to the amazement (and disappointment) of outgoing President Karen Jania and Member-at-Large Jamie Myler. others, managed to win several other prizes as well – great way to We also greeted our newly elected officers and board members: Vice- support MAA’s contributions to Michigan History Day and the President Whitney Miller, Secretary Susan Panak and Member-at- Scholarship Fund! Large Carol Vandenberg. As her last duty as secretary, Whitney Miller presented the minutes of our last business meeting. Treasurer We have already begun planning for next year’s annual meeting in Kristen Chinery provided her report to the membership, as did Marshall on June 24-26, 2009. Check out the article on our future Karen Jania on MAA’s Scholarship Fund and on the awards MAA visit to Marshall, also available in this issue of Open Entry, page 22. presented in the past year to the winners of Michigan History Day We will continue to provide updates as we have them: both on the and the University of Michigan scholarship for a School of website and via the listserv. Hope to see you next year! Open Entry Fall 2008 13 Left to right: Matt Daley (Grand Valley State University), Karen Jania (Bentley Historical Library), Sharon Scott (Historical Society of Clinton), Susan Panak (Spring Arbor University) and a Lighthouse tour guide, Thursday, June 12, 2008. MAA’s 2008 Annual Meeting and
Our speakers for Thursday’s Archives and the Media Session (Left to Right): Mark Patrick (Detroit Public Library, Special Collection), Diane Hatfield (Bentley Historical Library) and Mary Wallace (Walter P. Reuther Library), June 12th.
MAA members enjoy the Thursday luncheon, June 12th.
Our Keynote speakers on Friday (left to right): Lawrence Rubin, first Executive Secretary of the Mackinac Bridge Authority and William Gnodtke, current Bridge Authority Chairman, June 13th.
Toni Gibson (Detroit Public Schools) and John Gibson (Detroit Public Library, Burton Historical Collection) enjoy pleasant conversation at the reception, Thursday, June 12th.
14 Open Entry Fall 2008 Celebrating MAA’s 50th Anniversary at the Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse, June 12, 2008. Fiftieth Anniversary, June 11-13
Matt “Scoop” Daley (Grand Valley State University) and Karen Jania (Bentley Historical Library) engage in dueling cameras while in the lower right foreground, Nicole Garrett (Archives of Michigan) hopes not be caught in the crossfire, Thursday June 12th.
Musicians Thomas Zantow (left) and Jennifer Dean (right) of TOPAZ perform at the reception, Thursday, June 12th.
Local Arrangments Committee members Marcus Robyns (Northern Michigan University Archives) and Steve Brisson (Mackinac State Park Commission) unwind at the Thursday’s reception, June 12th.
From left, Sharon Scott (Historical Society of Clinton), Karen Jania (Bentley Historical Library), Larry Wagenaar (Historical Society of Michigan) and Marcus Robyns (Northern Michigan University Archives) demolish the song “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” The sing-a-long was during the reception.
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Detroit Symphony Orchestra Gerald R. Ford Library National Archives and Records Administration Archives 1000 Beal Avenue 3711 Woodward Ave Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Detroit, MI 48201 (734) 205-0555 Fax (734) 205-0571 (313) 576-5081 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov Web: www.detroitsymphony.com Hours: M-F, 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Closed Federal Holidays There is a lot new at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Archives. The collection has recently been moved one block - from its location in the Max M. Fisher Music Center, adjacent Accessions and Openings to historic Orchestra Hall, to a renovated building now known as the Archives Center. The new building provides a The Library recently acquired the Ford Family climate-controlled facility for storage of the archival materials. Photograph Albums, 1913-2005 (30.0 cu. ft.), containing It also provides chemical fire suppression. There is a reading mostly photographs, but also some letters and other room with plenty of room for researchers to sit and peruse scrapbook materials that document the lives of Gerald the Orchestra’s historical documents and photographs. This and Betty Ford and their family. While many of the room includes hook-ups for laptop computers. The 1575 albums contain images from the Ford White House with square foot stacks area provides ample room for the which we were already familiar, there are nearly 750 Orchestra’s growing collection of materials, and there is a 280 images (many new to us) covering their early life. square foot processing room where preliminary work is done Archivist Ken Hafeli is currently describing those images, on the collections. A generous donation of shelving units and all of which will be scanned for preservation purposes and furniture no longer needed at the Detroit Institute of Arts has to share with the Ford children. enabled us to get the archival materials set up in the new Archives Center and processing is now in full swing there. The Library acquired the James L. Trimpe 30-30 Club Scrapbook, 1930-2005 (0.2 cu. ft), containing materials In addition to our new facility, the DSO archive also has some from the 1930 Grand Rapids South High School new technology that makes preparing inventories and archival championship football team and its subsequent reunions, research easier. Earlier this year, one of our IMLS cohort including the 1974 reunion that included a visit to the White interns completed setting up the Archivists’ Toolkit database House as the guest of team member Gerald R. Ford. for use in preparing searchable inventories for the archival collections. Additionally, he designed and implemented an The Library opened three large accretions to the Robert electronic search tool enabling the archives database to M. Teeter Papers (1967-2004). Teeter was a political communicate with the performance database. Using a code strategist and survey research specialist. The accretions unique to each individual orchestral performance, it is possible consist of 138 videotapes, the bulk of which relate to to link archival materials such as marketing brochures or Teeter’s role as senior campaign adviser in the 1988 and photographs of guest performers and guest conductors to 1992 presidential campaigns of George H.W. Bush. the specific performance to which they relate. With a few Included are campaign advertisements, interviews, debates, clicks of the mouse, the Performance and Archives Search speeches and news reports from presidential election Tool enables any DSO staff member to find virtually all of campaigns [(1976) 1984, 1988 and 1992] and various the available information on the symphonic performances mayoral, gubernatorial and state and U.S. Senate elections from the 1920s onward. As processing continues, we expect in the same time period. Also included are eight campaign to be able to have scans of some of the more interesting and ads from George W. Bush’s Texas gubernatorial race and colorful brochures relating to performances available as well. 1999 inauguration, and Oliver North testimony before a joint Congressional Committee on the Iran-Contra Affair. Submitted by Cynthia Korolov, Archivist E-mail: [email protected]
16 Open Entry Fall 2008 Processing and Description Over the last few years several State Department researchers have visited the Library to select documents for inclusion in Bill McNitt and Stacy Davis continue to work with the staff the Foreign Relations of the United States volumes covering of the National Archives’ Archival Research Catalog (ARC) the Ford years. This research phase of the project is now on a project to convert local PRESNET database folder complete and the volumes (some printed and some online) description records to ARC. As of June, over 63,000 are now appearing. Released volumes concern European PRESNET folder records had been uploaded into ARC. security and U.S. relations with China, Africa, South Asia and Greece/Cyprus/Turkey. The online volumes can be found Student staff completed the arrangement and description of at
Reference and Research Grants On April 16, the Library celebrated Mrs. Ford’s birthday with a talk by Betty Ford Center Director John The Gerald R. Ford Foundation’s research travel grants Schwarzlose about the Center’s mission and its programs. selection committee met at the Library on April 30. On June 1, in the Library’s first-ever Sunday afternoon event, Committee members reviewed a record number of twenty- Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Tim Weiner seven proposals and awarded grants to eleven applicants. discussed Ford administration/CIA issues, as researched for Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, for which he won the At a June 11 meeting at the Library, the award committee 2007 National Book Award for Non-Fiction. selected Adam M. Saunders as the recipient of the 2008 Ford Scholar Award in Honor of Robert A. Teeter. As a result of the On November 18, David Broder and other speakers will be award, Mr. Saunders, a doctoral student in Comparative appearing at the Library this fall. For information on upcoming Social Policy at the University of Oxford, visited the Library events see
Open Entry Fall 2008 17 Grand Valley State University Kalamazoo College Archives Special Collections & University Archives Upjohn Library Commons 1200 Academy Street Seidman House Kalamazoo, MI 49006 1 Campus Drive (269) 337-7151 Allendale, MI 49401-9403 E-mail: [email protected] (616) 331-2749 Webs: http://www.kzoo.edu/is/library/archives/index.html E-mail: [email protected] Hours: M, Th 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Web: http://www.gvsu.edu/ F 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Hours: M-F 9 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. Tu, W By Appointment Hours vary during semester intersessions and summer. As part of its 175th Anniversary activities, Kalamazoo College announces the launch of its Digital Archive, a web- based collection of historical College documents, faculty publications and student work. The Digital Archive includes all seven published College histories, as well as student theses, faculty publications and student presentations and posters. Some collections are open to the public, while others are accessible only to current students, faculty and staff due to copyright restrictions. Student theses, for example, are only available to current Kalamazoo College students, faculty and staff, while researchers around the globe can access photographs from the College Archives and other historical documents. The Kalamazoo College Digital Archive is made possible by DSpace, software developed jointly by MIT and Hewlett-Packard, and NITLE (National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education), a non-profit organization that advances learning through digital technologies. Kalamazoo College and twenty-five other Grand Valley State University Digital Collections NITLE-member colleges use DSpace software to power the Digital Archive, while NITLE provides training and support. The Grand Valley State University Special Collections & The Kalamazoo College Digital Archive can be accessed University Archives has recently released a digital collections through the web at
Submitted by Nancy Richard E-mail: [email protected]
18 Open Entry Fall 2008 fall semester entitled “From Beanies to Body Piercing.” Michigan State University The goal of the class is to teach students the history of MSU University Archives & Historical through the use of primary sources.
Collections Submitted by Sarah Roberts 101 Conrad Hall E-mail: [email protected] East Lansing, MI 48824-1327 (517) 355-2330 Fax: (517) 353-9319 University of Michigan E-mail: archives.msu.edu Special Collections Library Web: http://www.archives.msu.edu/ 711 Hatcher Library Hours: M-F 8:00 a.m. - noon; 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1205 (734) 764-9377 Fax: (734) 764-9368 In September, Ed Busch joined the staff as a project E-mail: [email protected] processing archivist. Ed is a 2007 graduate of Wayne State Web: http://www.lib.umich.edu/spec-coll University. In addition to his other duties, he will spend part Hours: M-F 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. of his time processing records relating to the Colleges of Sa 10:00 a.m. – noon Human Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine. New Exhibit In July, the MSU Archives received a “Creating Inclusive Excellence” grant through MSU’s Office of Inclusion and In remembrance of the fortieth anniversary of the historic Intercultural Initiatives to begin a new documentation world events of 1968, the Labadie Collection has mounted project: Documenting Diversity @ MSU. The focus of the an original exhibit, The Whole World Was Watching: Protest project is to reach out to student organizations of all types and Revolution in 1968. (See image on page 20.) and create awareness of the MSU Archives’ desire to collect • September 19 - December 19, 2008 the records of MSU’s student organizations. This will be an • The Gallery at Room 100 ongoing project. • Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, Ann Arbor • Free and open to the public The Archives exhibited at several agriculture expositions on This exhibit features selections from the Labadie Collection, campus over the summer with the help of the College of University of Michigan Library, providing a snapshot of a Natural Science. Themed booths were set up at the MSU complex and pivotal year in history that was characterized by Ag Expo, the Dairy Expo, the Swine Expo and the Horse protest and revolutionary change. The Vietnam War and the Expo. In addition, the MSU Archives helped celebrate the draft, the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, one hundredth anniversary of 4-H in Michigan by activist groups for social change such as Students for a participating in the annual 4-H Exploration Days held at Democratic Society, the Black Panthers, the White Panthers MSU. Portia Vescio taught a class for the attendees about and the Yippies, international events such as the Soviet invasion the different 4-H collections at the MSU Archives. She also of Prague and the May uprising in Paris are represented. created an exhibit that traveled around to different dining hall locations of the attendees. On November 13th an afternoon panel discussion featuring activists from the era and a live performance in the evening On September 25 and 26, MSU hosted an electronic records by Country Joe McDonald will take place in The Gallery. forum – “Managing University Digital Assets and Resources: Collaborative Approaches and Persistent Challenges.” This The exhibit is curated by Julie Herrada of the University of Committee on Institutional Cooperation/University Michigan Library, with support from the University Library, Archivist Group (CIC/UAG)-based forum brought together the University’s Institute for the Humanities, the Department stakeholders from the CIC institutions to discuss concerns of History and the Arts at Michigan program. Check about the creation, management and use of digital resources
The J. Louis Engdahl Papers document Engdahl’s life and work through letters, trial transcripts, photographs, memorabilia, clippings, pamphlets and other printed material, and artwork. Collection highlights include the letters Engdahl wrote to his wife and daughter, in which loving epithets and stories of day-to-day life mingle with accounts of his work and that of other prominent labor, socialist and communist figures. The collection contains several pieces of Engdahl’s original writings, along with numerous published works in various formats. Causes for which Engdahl fought, both on his own behalf and that of others, are documented through letters, clippings, trial transcripts and images. Over sixty photographs, as well as various pieces of personal memorabilia, depict both family life and professional associations. Also of note is a portrait of Engdahl by the artist Mitchell Siporin. An image from the Labadie Collection exhibit, “The Whole World is Watching: Protest and Revolution in 1968.” A seven linear feet collection of research papers belonging to Margaret L. Rossiter, author of Women in the Resistance, correspondence; personal files; topical files; FBI surveillance contains interview transcripts and audio recordings, files; court documents; photographs, slides and negatives; government documents, correspondence, articles, artwork; audiovisual materials; realia; scrapbooks, and photographs, ephemera, questionnaires, personal accounts and posters relating to the life and activities of political activists drafts of chapters, as well as some research for other works. and members of the Yippies. The Yippies were involved in The collection offers insight into the strategies, challenges and anti-Vietnam war protests and had ties to groups such as the day-to-day workings of French resistance groups and the Black Panther Party, Students for a Democratic Society and personal experiences of the people involved. These groups, the Weather Underground. The Alberts had close ties to also referred to as the maquis, were engaged in underground prominent figures in the movement, such as Yippies Abbie efforts to liberate France from German occupation during Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver World War II. Artifacts document the lives of pilots and and SDS leader Tom Hayden. These individuals are well- resisters (many of whom were women and sometimes represented in the collection through writings, referred to as “helpers”), military plans and the international correspondence, photographs and audio interviews. world of politics (particularly in France) during this time. The collection contains the research that was the basis of Rossiter’s The J. Louis Engdahl Papers, a 6.5 linear feet collection, book and also offers a look at the resistance research she did have also been recently processed. Engdahl (1884-1932) was not include because it may have been beyond the book’s an editor and journalist, and a tireless advocate for labor, scope. The collection also offers a look into Rossiter’s socialist and communist causes. A reporter and editor for research and political interests outside the French resistance. several Socialist newspapers – including the Chicago Daily Socialist, the American Socialist and the Daily World – in 1913, Submitted by Julie Herrada Engdahl joined Eugene Debs, Mother Jones and others in E-mail: [email protected] 20 Open Entry Fall 2008 Walter P. Reuther Library of members and the Liuzzo Family’s subsequent lawsuit against the U.S. Government regarding FBI informant and Labor and Urban Affairs eyewitness Gary Thomas Rowe. Materials in the collection include FBI murder investigation files, legal motions and Wayne State University proceedings, deposition files, correspondence, Freedom of 5401 Cass Avenue Information and Privacy Act requests and documents related Detroit, MI 48202 to the Freedom Riders. (313) 577-4024 Fax: (313) 577-4300 E-mail: [email protected] The Reuther has also opened Part 3 of the American Web: http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/ Association of University Women of Michigan Hours: M-Tu 11:00 a.m. – 6:45 p.m. Collection (2 linear feet). The collection includes board W-F 9:00 a.m. – 4:45 p.m. reports, meeting minutes, correspondence and newsletters The Reuther Library is co-sponsoring the North American from the organization dating from 1995-2004. Labor History Conference October 16-18 at Wayne State University in Detroit. The plenary speakers will be UAW Troy Eller has stepped in as the new archivist for the Society President Ron Gettelfinger, former Congressman David of Women Engineers (SWE) at the Walter P. Reuther Library Bonior, and prominent authors Elizabeth McKillen and at Wayne State University. Troy had previously been a Kevin Boyle. Additional conference information is available college reference librarian, the co-webmaster for the WSU at
Bank of America is partnering with the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to provide grants to small museums, libraries and archives. The grants will raise awareness and fund preservation of treasures held in small museums, libraries and archives. Grants will help to preserve specific items, including works of art, artifacts and historical documents that are in need of conservation. Applicants will build on completed conservation assessments of their collections, to ensure that the Bank of America/IMLS grants are used in accordance with best practices in the field and underscore the importance of assessment planning. Grant programs that provide assistance with conservation planning and assessment include the Institute’s Conservation Assessment Program
Open Entry Fall 2008 21 Marshall: Looking Forward to MAA 2009 Annual Meeting June 24-26 By Jennie Thomas, MAA Conference Coordinator Albion College E-mail: [email protected]
The city of Marshall will be the location for the next MAA Annual in the state; the Honolulu House Museum; Starr Meeting on Wednesday June 24 - Friday June 26, 2009. Marshall has the Commonwealth in Albion; Marshall historic largest historic landmark district in the state of Michigan. It is, in fact, homes, and the American Museum of Magic, the country’s largest district in the “small urban” category, surpassing which has the largest publicly displayed and Cape May, New Jersey and Port Townsend, Washington. privately owned magic collection in the world. (Items in the collection include the “Milk Can” Marshall was established in 1830. It was named after United States and “Overboard Box” escape equipment used Chief Justice John Marshall, whom town founders Sidney and George by Harry Houdini himself!) Ketchum greatly admired. The city was nominated as the state capitol in 1839 but lost to Lansing. By this time, however, Marshall had become In planning the 2009 annual meeting, the the switching center for the Michigan Central Railroad, which kept the Program Committee would like to hear from town growing during the Civil War. In 1872, the rail yards moved to you! We encourage graduate students and Jackson, and Marshall’s prosperity became based upon its production professionals in all allied fields to submit of patent medicines, “pink pills for pale people.” This lasted until 1906 proposals on any aspect of archives and archival with the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act, which essentially work. Do you have a project you have recently ended the patent medicine industry. During the twentieth century, completed? A grant you have received? A new or Marshall became home to people who understood the importance of old building issue you handled or planned? A preservation and restoration long before these became popular terms. paper you have written? Have you led a Today, it is a growing city that manages to maintain its past while collaborative effort? Resolved a website or continuing to move forward into the future. online finding aid issue? Or do you have other archival advice and experience you would care to Work is just beginning on MAA’s 2009 conference. We know that there share? If so, we would like to hear from you! will be great meals, courtesy of Schuler’s Restaurant, which is celebrating Typical sessions are ninety minutes in length and one hundred years in 2009. There will also be a preconference include three panelists and a chair. Though full workshop and a number of relevant and informative sessions. Tours of panel sessions are preferred, individual proposals the area could include the Michael W. Schragg Post Office and U.S. that need additional presenters, a chair or fine- Postal Museum, one of only two postal museums in the country; tuning will be considered. To submit a proposal, Oakridge Cemetery, one of the oldest continuously operated cemeteries please send a brief description of the session, providing its title; an abstract that, in two hundred words or less, describes the purpose and content of the session; the names, contact information and biographical background of each presenter and any audiovisual needs. Proposals must be received by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, November 14, 2008 for consideration. Proposals can be submitted to the Program Committee via E-mail attachment at
2009 Conference Planning Committees:
Conference Coordinator Jennie Thomas, Albion College Conference Chair Whitney Miller, Michigan State University Local Arrangements: Chair Susan Panak, Spring Arbor University Amy Reimann, Starr Commonwealth Jennifer Rupp, Marshall Historical Society Program: Chair Karen Jania, Bentley Historical Library Rebecca Bizonet (Benson Ford Research Center) proudly Nicole Garrett, Archives of Michigan displays some recent MAA raffle winnings on June 12, 2008: Marian Matyn, Central Michigan University published books by MAA authors! Rebecca also won the Jennifer Wood, Western Michigan University grand prize: a Herman Miller C2 desk top appliance that allows for individualized temperature control of a work space.
State Street, Marshall, Michigan, circa 1920s.
Open Entry Fall 2008 23 Archives and Paper Conservation Information Submitted by Cynthia R. Miller, Benson Ford Research Center, E-mail: [email protected] Excerpted from the Archives of Michigan website, viewed 9/26/2008
In observance of May Day, the Archives of Michigan NEDCC Disaster Assistance launched an expanded Emergency Preparedness and Free 24-hour disaster assistance for institutions with paper-based collections: Conservation Site. The site provides links of resources
Stanford University’s Conservation Online A wealth of disaster preparedness and response resources - all at one site:
For Teachers: SB-CEU is offered daily. If your institution suffers damage from the recent hurricanes November 7 (.3 SB-CEU) (or floods, fires, tornadoes, etc.) please call the 24-hour November 8 (.5 SB-CEU) Hotline at (201) 661-8068. For Librarians: LM Program 08-47 November 7 (.3 Statewide CEU) We have an informational brochure at
The MAA Board held our 2008 annual elections at the For our upcoming meeting in June of 2009, we will be business meeting, Thursday, June 12th in Mackinaw City. filling vacancies for the following positions: The results are as follows: · Treasurer (2 year term) · Whitney Miller, Vice-President/President-Elect · Conference Coordinator (2 year term) (2008-2012) · 2 Member-At-Large positions (3 year terms) · Susan Panak, Secretary (2008-2010) · Robert Garrett, Member-At-Large (2008-2011) If you have any interest in running for any of the above · Carol Vandenberg, Member-At-Large (2008-2009) positions, please contact the Nominations Committee chair, Whitney Miller, [email protected], for more information In addition, MAA President Brecque Keith appointed Heidi and/or to place your name on the spring ballot. Christein to fill a Member-At-Large vacancy for the year 2008-2009. She will serve until the next annual meeting, when an election will fill the remainder of the term, 2009-2011.
Open Entry Fall 2008 25 Show Your MAA Pride! By Jennie Thomas Albion College E-mail: [email protected] With the celebration of our fiftieth anniversary, the Michigan Archival Association opened a store on CafePress.com,
Calling All Members! By Brecque Keith, MAA President E-mail: [email protected] Michigan Archival Association Membership Types:
In addition to the Individual and Retiree/Student Type/Amount Length of Membership membership types, our association board has approved two new regular membership lengths for individual Individual one year (Jan 1 – Dec 31) memberships: a two-year membership that costs $35.00, $20.00 saving $5.00, and a three-year membership that costs $50.00 and saves $10.00. The one year individual membership is Retiree/Student one year (Jan 1 – Dec 31) still an option for $20.00. $15.00
Please remember, our membership year runs from January Individual two-year (Jan 1 – Dec 31 2nd year) 1st through December 31st each year and that you may find $35.00 ($5.00 discount) the renewal form on our website at www.maasn.org and in this newsletter on page 27. Whatever type of membership Individual three-year (Jan 1 – Dec 31 3rd year) you prefer, please renew by December 31, 2008. $50.00 ($10.00 discount)
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Return completed form and your check for membership dues to: Michigan Archival Association c/o Kristen Chinery Walter P. Reuther Library Wayne State University 5401 Cass Avenue Detroit, MI 48202 Open Entry Fall 2008 27 2009 Calendar of Events April 2-3, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Society of American Archivists workshop, MARC According to DACS #0945, Roslyn Holdzkom and 2008 Katherine M. Wisser, Instructors, Kent State University, September 19 - December 19, Labadie Collection has mounted an Kent, Ohio.
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