A NEWSLETTER OF STUDENT CHAPTERS AND INDIVIDUAL STUDENT CHAPTERS & LOOSE PAPERS MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARCHIVISTS • A Student Archivist Newsletter VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 F A L L 2 0 0 6 OCTOBER WAS AMERICAN ARCHIVES MONTH California State Univer- regional repositories workshops on the basics sity-Sacramento with archival holdings of archives, and informa- This year’s American on display at the open tion pertaining to histori- house. The California cal research in the ar- EDITOR Archives Month proved Russell D. James quite fruitful in Sacra- State Archives open chives. SAA-LSU mento, California. The house, held on October student chapter at Cali- 7, had a remarkable visi- Lastly, many chapter INSIDE fornia State University, tor turn out with nearly members maintain em- THIS ISSUE: Sacramento (CSUS) par- ployment at regional ar- CSU-Sacramento 2 ticipated in and helped chival repositories. Simmons 3 organize several differ- Two of the chapter’s Each of these members Milwaukee played a vital role in as- ent activities and events members served on Wright State celebrating Archives sisting their respective Kent State 4 month. the California Ar- archives with carrying Emporia-Oregon chives Month plan- out Archives month preparations and activi- E-portfolios 5 Two of the chapter’s ning committee. Michigan members, former Presi- ties. Overall, Archives British Columbia 6 dent Greig Best and Month 2006 proved a busy, yet rewarding Kentucky 7 Treasurer Lisa Prince, Syracuse were on the California 300 people attending the month for the members one night event. of the student chapter at Long Island 8 State Archives Month CSUS. Most of all, both University planning committee and surely contributed some Additionally, the student the public and the archi- chapter organized an val community thor- Wayne State 9 of the innovative ideas Speed Processing that made the month’s open house at the CSUS oughly enjoyed the Ar- Special Collections and chives Month events and Tennessee 10 activities successful. Pratt Institute Secondly, the CSUS stu- University Archives. activities in Sacramento. dent chapter coordinated This event attempted to Life, Learn- 11 reach out and inform the - Brent M. Rogers ing, and with the Special Collec- Fulfillment tions and University Ar- campus community of President the archival collections Washington chives at CSUS to dis- play some of the treas- of the University Ar- Pratt Institute 12 chives. Some of the fea- photographs ures of their archives at the California State Ar- tures of this open house chives open house, rep- included tours of the ar- resenting one of the ten chives facilities, brief P A G E 2 Wisconsin Archives Week in Madison We have been Outlook” potluck where We were honored to host a busy in Madison, with a Rick Pifer of the Wisconsin talk by Russian Archivist record number of members Historical Society offered Dr. Marina Sorokina in and event attendees. In cele- his advise on applying for early November and we are bration of Archives Week jobs, how to read job an- keeping busy with plans for we hosted a bake sale (we nouncements and ways to another bake sale in De- are quite famous amongst beef-up your resume. cember along with a Re- the SLIS community here in Thanks to Russell James of sume writing workshop and Madison), offered sampler- LSU and our own Gabe an interview workshop in Zines of the Archivist Cook- Angulo we were able to January. book at the Zine-fest (part offer attendees a sampling Interested in order- The Archivist Cookbook of the week long Wisconsin of recent job postings and ing a copy of the Archivist for sale by UW- Book Festival), and created data on skills employers are Cookbook for the holidays? Madison SAA chapter, a beautiful display about the looking for. (If you are in- We are taking orders through December 1 st and is on sale until history of the Archives Pro- terested in seeing what we will ship in time for the December 1st for gram at SLIS. came up with please contact We have also had [email protected]) holidays. If you would shipment by two gatherings for chapter Fifteen first year rather order on your own Christmas. members. A potluck at co- SLIS students have been and see what else we have ordinator Alexis Braun accepted to the archives to offer please visit us at Marks’ home was held in track and we are hoping to http://www.cafepress.com/ September as a meet and that all 13 of the graduating uwsaachapter all sale prof- greet for first and second second year students find its go to benefit the UW- year students. Advisor Ci- employment come spring. Madison Student Chapter. aran Trace hosted a “Job SAA-LSU Louisiana State University The Louisiana State Archives Week. During the both archivists and researchers University student chapter latter, the chapter released a in Louisiana by updating the received its charter from the bookmark created by webmas- online LAMA Directory. SAA Council in mid-July ter Debbie Cannon (see figure LAMA is the Louisiana Ar- 2006, becoming the 25th stu- at left). The bookmark was chives & Manuscript Associa- dent chapter. Plans were made distributed to university librar- tion, the state’s professional for a big year at LSU. ies and the history department association. The project is President Russell (in hopes of recruiting some ongoing. James, vice president Neil members). It was such a hit In November, six Guilbeau, and administrative that SAA included it on its members of the group attended secretary Aimee Everrett “Archives Month Activities” the LAMA Annual Meeting in worked hard to plan a begin- webpage. Thibodaux, Louisiana, hosted ning of the year tour of the Also in October, and by Nicholls State University. SAA-LSU—The 25th student chapter university libraries’ special also to celebrate American The group heard about efforts Front row, l to r: Russell D. James collection department’s Hill Archives Month, Lee Miller, to record oral histories about (president), Dr. Elizabeth H. Dow (advisor), Memorial Library location. manuscript curator at Tulane life during and after Hurricanes Jennifer Pino, Aimee Everrett Thirteen students attended the University in New Orleans and Katrina and Rita, learned about (administrative secretary), Suzanne Horton. tour. SAA Council member, spoke the restoration of the Jackson The officers felt to the group about being a Barracks after the storms, and Back row, l to r: Debbie Cannon, Dana strongly that the chapter professional archivist and what listened to president Russell Teepell, Kyle Kendall, Andree Bourgeois, needed to become involved in it means. James give a presentation on John Hansen, Katie Erikson. the celebration of American The group decided to the cutting-edge method of Archives Month and Louisiana undertake a service project to function-based appraisal. CHAPTERS & LOOSE PAPERS VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1 P A G E 3 Simmons College student chapter Over the past year, Simmons (Jeannette Bastian), and had a SCOSAA members have visited poster presentation at the annual The Society of American Archivists holds its annual archives at Boston University SAA conference this summer in meeting from August 27-September 2 in Chicago. and the Isabella Stewart Gard- Washington D.C. Later this ner Museum. Guest lecturers month we will be visiting the Students and student chapters are encouraged to make poster presentations and present them at the have included Richard Pearce processing and audiovisual ar- annual meeting. In the past, the student chapter Moses (immediate past presi- chives at the John F. Kennedy poster presentations have been highly visible and very dent, SAA), Howard Lowell Presidential Library and holding successful. Doing a poster presentation is a way to (NARA) on the Electronic Re- an archives career panel. have your student chapter recognized and a way for cords Archive, and Susanna the students at the annual meeting to get an opportu- Belovari (Tufts University) on Heather Soyka nity to network with other archivists (read here— the processing of Holocaust potential employers). records. We co-hosted an ar- chives student potluck at the Pay attention to the SAA website and publications in home of the head of the Sim- coming months for a call for poster presentations. mons archives program Folklife and Kringles in Milwaukee The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee SAA our annual fall fundraiser. For those not able to do more activities. Look for a re- student chapter had an active Archives Month. familiar with kringle it is a Danish pas- port of our tour of the Marquette Univer- Our chapter had the privilege of a Q&A session tery shaped in an oval and filled with sity Special Collections and Archives, the with Dr. Michael Taft, Head of the Archive of fruit or nuts ( http://www.kringle.com/ ). implementation of our new website and Folk Culture at the American Folklife Center at We sold over 100! All the money raised other activities in the next segment of this the Library of Congress in October. Dr. Taft will be put towards subsidizing student newsletter. was making presentations to a class and another costs for the SAA conference in Chi- student organization and generously took the cago in 2007. Katie Blank time to talk with us. We discussed digitization, Membership in our student Vice President access to records and the most unusual item the chapter has risen in the last two years Center received- a ham. All students who were thanks to an increase in students inter- able to attend appreciated his insight and advice. ested in archives at UWM. With this In addition to that we sold kringles for influx of new members we have been Wright State University student chapter The Wright State University One of the trips we are planning Student Chapter of SAA is a is going (mid-December) to the relatively young organization.