Seaaa Newsletter Spring 2012
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S E A T T L E A R E A A R C H I V I S T S S P R I N G 2 0 1 2 N E W S L E T T E R Image: Close-up of photo- grapher and artist Daniel A. Carrilloʼs camera. Photo: Josh Zimmerman, 2011. published quarterly by Seattle Area Archivists SEATTLE AREA ARCHIVISTS CONTENTS January 4th Meeting Recap January 4th Meeting Recap 2 Member Snapshot 2 Caitlin Oiye News from the Board 3 Editor Archival Magnetism: UW Libraries’ Puget Sounds Project 4 John Vallier “Geeking Out” Archivist Style 6 Josh Zimmerman Seattle’s Gay Rights Movement and the City of Seattle Seattle Area Archivists met at Seattle Universityʼs new library During the 1970s 10 and archives facility for a tour and presentation by Mary Jonathan King Sepulveda, the libraryʼs coordinator of collection Local Emerging Academic Archives Get a Boost from development. SU has an impressive collection of materials, NWDA and NHPRC 12 is a member of NWDA (and has a number of finding aids Elizabeth Knight available online), and boasts a brand new archival storage Seattle area archives news & updates 14 space complete with a roomy processing area and research room. The archivesʼ number one challenge, said Sepulveda, Welcome new members 16 is that the university hasnʼt created a position for, or hired an archivist. Seattle area event calendar 17 For more information on SUʼs archives and its participation Audiovisual resource links 18 in NHPRCʼs grant-funded project “Building and Supporting Information on preserving and accessing video materials 19 Emergent Archival Programs in the Northwest,” see Elizabeth Knightʼs article on page 12. What is Denshō? The organization’s My work with Denshō allows me to mission statement really says it all: combine my professional knowledge and M E M B E R “Denshō is a nonprofit organization experience with something that speaks started in 1996, with the initial goal of to me on a personal level in terms of its s n a p s h o t documenting oral histories from broader societal mission and goals. I'm This section introduces you to your SeaAA colleagues, Japanese Americans who were excited to be back in the world of one member at a time. Send suggestions to SeaAA incarcerated during World War II. This collections management and archives. CAITLIN OIYE, PHOTOGRAPH AND evolved into a mission to educate, Why do you like archives?: I like the preserve, collaborate and inspire action DOCUMENT COLLECTIONS MANAGER, anticipation you feel before opening an Denshō: The Japanese American Legacy Project for equity. Denshō uses digital unprocessed box for the first time. You technology to preserve and make never know what you might find. accessible primary source materials on the World War II incarceration of If you couldn’t be an archivist, what Japanese Americans.” would you be?: I'd probably be a librarian, hopefully working with young adults. I’m currently working toward a What prepared you for your position master’s degree in library and information with Denshō? I finished my graduate science through the online MLIS program degree in History, Archives and at San Jose State University. Records Management from WWU in 2008 with the defense of my final Do you have a favorite young adult research thesis which focused on book you would recommend to SeaAA Japanese American Internment members? That’s a hard question to photographs, archives , and the answer; I have so many. The Hunger construction of memory. From 2008 Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins, until January 2012, I worked as a Jellicoe Road or Finnikin of the Rock by project analyst with King County’s Melina Marchetta, and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by David Levithan and electronic records management project. Rachel Cohn (to name a few). 2 Seattle Area Archivists newsletter SPRING 2012 SEATTLE AREA ARCHIVISTS News from the Board and to answer specific questions education. Networking meet-ups related to A/V materials on offer members a forum for Membership report February 29 at the College Inn informal archives-related The 2011-2012 SeaAA Pub. For detailed information on discussions. Look for our membership drive began A/V preservation and access upcoming e-mail on networking November 1, 2011. Welcome to provided by John and Hannah, meet-ups. SeaAA, new members! To read visit pages 18-20. more about three of our new Board Members members in their own words, visit Managing Electronic Records in page 16. Archives and Special Collections SeaAA will is hosting a training Notes from the Treasurer workshop: Managing Electronic SeaAA has begun sending e-mail Records in Archives and Special receipts for member registrations Collections on May 10-11 at the and renewals. Seattle Municipal Tower, room Jennifer Hawkins Seth Dalby 1650. SeaAA members receive a Chair Vice-Chair Board Election discount of $25. Contact SeaAA SeaAA’s current Chair and Vice- for the promo code or if you have Chair have served their two years, any questions. so we’ll be bidding Jennifer Hawkins and Seth Dalby adieu in REGISTER before April 11 to the spring. Thank you both for all receive early bird rates! Leslie Schuyler Elizabeth Russell that you’ve done for SeaAA! Electronic Records Online Course Member-At-Large Treasurer This means we’re looking for two In addition to the two-day onsite new Board members. Interested? course (above), SeaAA will host a E-mail SeaAA your self- more basic online course offered nomination, or nominate a as a part of SAA’s Digital Archives colleague for this position. Specialist currriculum this spring or summer. Stay tuned for more Meaghan Kahlo Education and Events information. Secretary Next SeaAA meeting Mark your calendars: the next Networking meet-ups SeaAA meeting is scheduled for SeaAA will launch a series of Newsletter contact July 12, 3:00 pm at Providence networking meet-up events this Please send all comments, Archives. More details will be corrections, letters to the editor, and year. The purpose of each meet- submissions to: available on our website as the up is to explore specific archives- date approaches and we’ll send related themes and topics with Leslie Schuyler Member-At-Large reminder e-mails. other SeaAA members. Meet-ups Seattle Area Archivists will be held at a café/restaurant [email protected] Solutions roundtables and will focus around a central SeaAA’s first Solution Roundtable topic. Examples of topics include: focused on audiovisual materials. archival advocacy, the meaning of Hannah Palin and John Vallier archives, archives and democracy, from the UW joined SeaAA and archival training and members to offer practical tips Seattle Area Archivists newsletter SPRING 2012 3 SEATTLE AREA ARCHIVISTS Type to enter text Bob Nelson NW Folk Music Collection – Anglo-American folk music has a long and rich tradition in Seattle and the surrounding Puget Sound region. Bob Nelson, a retired carpenter and co-director of the Pacific Northwest Folklore Society, has been an active participant in this scene, performing and recording at local folk music hoots for nearly 60 years. In 2010 Nelson began digitizing hundreds of unique Archival Magnetism: recordings—both ones he made and others donated to him—while UW Libraries’ Puget Sounds Project adding deep metadata like only one with an emic perspective can do. In 2011 he began gifting these by John Vallier they share a common connection: recordings to the UW Libraries, all are part of the University of where they filled a void in the Archival collections are rarely sexy. Washington Librariesʼ Puget Puget Sounds project. Notable Thereʼs dust, mold, metadata Sounds Project. artists in the collection include conventions, ISO standards, John Ashford, Ed Bremer, Patti copyright entanglements, and Crocodile Cafe Collection – DiLudovico, and Walt “Dean of agreement forms that force donors Looking for 120 continuous-days, NW Folk” Robertson (Robertson to confront mortality. And each of unique live recordings from recorded two albums with Moses format we aim to archive brings Seattleʼs Crocodile Café? This Asch for his Folkways Records). with it an additional mash-up of collection contains exactly that. As we work out permissions and preservation ills. In the world of Recorded at the Café between copyright issues, we add more sound recording collections we find May 2002 and December 2007 by and more of these recordings to vinegar syndrome, binder audio engineer Jim Anderson, the collectionʼs site: disintegration, bleed-through, these recordings document http://tinyurl.com/nelson-uw sticky shed, needle dig, chemical performances by a legion of residue, and crazing. Amorous, artists, both notable and obscure. these are not. From indy rock to punk, freak folk to noise, hip-hop to shoegazer, Though rarely sexy, some archival soul to ska, math rock to sound recording collections do americana, the collection captures emanate magnetic auras that are numerous memorable and not merely confined to a tape energetic performances. recordingʼs oxide particles. Their Whatever your opinion of a contents speak, bear witness, pull particular band, the crystalline and engage us in ways that text quality of the recordings is a and images cannot do. What testament to the audio follows is a brief overview of what I engineering prowess of Mr. believe are examples of such Anderson. More information, engaging, if not comely, including samples, are available Photo: Josh Zimmerman collections. While each collection online: http://tinyurl.com/croco-uw is distinct—representing a unique slice of musical reality—together 4 Seattle Area Archivists newsletter SPRING 2012 SEATTLE AREA ARCHIVISTS Type to enter text Kearney Barton Collection – Music historian Peter Blecha writes: "Seattle's Kearney Barton is the man whose audio engineering work can be credited with forging the powerful aural esthetic that became widely known as the 'original Northwest Sound.'” Indeed.