Volume 40 | Number 4 Article 1 4-1-2013 MAC Newsletter (Vol. 40, No. 4) Midwest Archives Conference Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/macnewsletter Part of the Archival Science Commons Recommended Citation Midwest Archives Conference (2013) "MAC Newsletter (Vol. 40, No. 4)," MAC Newsletter: Vol. 40 : No. 4 , Article 1. Available at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/macnewsletter/vol40/iss4/1 This Complete Issue is brought to you for free and open access by Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in MAC Newsletter by an authorized editor of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Preserving the Documents of the Past and Making Them Accessible to the Future! Volume 40, Number 4 (159) http://www.midwestarchives.org/ April 2013 Step into the Driver’s Seat: This Year, Don’t MAC Annual Meeting 2013 Indianapolis Forget to Go Green! Rev your engines, because it’s time to head to Indianapolis for the MAC There are several on-line services Annual Meeting! Come early for some fantastic workshops to increase your knowledge of digital curation and preservation of all types of materials. On you can now take advantage Wednesday, you can attend the Society of through MAC’s Web site, of American Archivists preconference including the MAC event calendar, workshop, “Developing Specifica- tions and RFPs for Record-Keeping on-line voting, membership Systems.” The course is part of the renewal, electronic download of Society of American Archivists’ Digital Archives Specialist Curriculum (DAS) MAC publications and conference and one of the Tactical and Strategic programs, and registration for Courses within the DAS Curriculum the Annual Meeting and Fall and Certificate Program. Symposium. Log on to http:// This year we have three workshops Harry MacQuinn and Ralph Keller, planned for Thursday morning. Each www.midwestarchives .org/. photograph, 1934. Courtesy Indiana State costs $40, and attendance is limited Archives. to 30 people. The workshops include “Introduction to Digital Preservation Concepts” led by Geoff Edwards of the In This Issue… Indiana State Archives, “Reeling in Your Film Materials: Identification and President’s Page ...................2 Care Basics” led by Nadia Ghasedi and Irene Taylor of Washington University, and “Sprinklers, Steam Pipes, and Sewers: Mitigating Smaller-Scale Disasters” MAC News .............................3 led by Hilary Seo of the Iowa State University Preservation Department. Full Treasurer's Report ................5 workshop descriptions can be found in the program: www.midwestarchives.org/ assets/documents/2013annualmeeting.pdf. Archival Resources on the Web ................................7 Francesca Coppa kicks off the conference with her plenary, “Building Archives of Our Own: Fans Conserving Fanwork.” Coppa is a professor of English and News from the Midwest ................................9 film studies at Muhlenburg College and currently is the Wolf Professor of Television Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a founding member Electronic Currents ............. 14 of the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), a nonprofit organization Preservation Essentials ...... 17 established by fans to provide access to and preserve the history of fanworks and culture. OTW has established the Fan Culture Preservation Project in Mixed Media ....................... 19 conjunction with the University of Iowa’s Special Collections Library. The Up-and-Comers ...................21 OTW also created the Archive of Our Own, a fan-created, fan-run, nonprofit archives for transformative fanworks. People and Posts ................ 24 The vendor fair will be open between 1:00 P.M. and 5:00 P.M. on Thursday, Other News ......................... 26 and from 8:30 A.M. to 3:30 P.M. on Friday. Sessions start at 3:30 on Thursday MAC Officers ....................... 30 afternoon and will present some fascinating cutting-edge topics, including (Continued on page 3) President’s Page April 2013 Dear MACers: It’s hard for me to believe that my term as president is nearing its end. It has been an honor to serve in this position, and I sincerely thank you for the opportunity. I have always felt that MAC is a special organization. Over these past two years, I have come to appreciate this “specialness” more fully, through the unwavering dedication and hard work of so many MAC members who give freely of their time and talents. Thanks to all, for everything you do and have done to make this a high-quality operation! Speaking of dedication and hard work, the Program and Local Arrangements Committees have planned a wonder- ful Annual Meeting for us in Indianapolis. Program sessions promise to provide engaging and thought-provoking treatments of a wide array of subjects. I should admit that Indianapolis is one of my favorite cities, partly because of my deep family roots in the area, but mostly because Indy is just a really cool place to visit! I know you will enjoy your time in the Circle City. Please remember we will be voting on a $15 dues increase at the Indianapolis Members’ Meeting on Friday. As outlined in the last newsletter, Council proposes this increase in an effort to bring MAC’s costs in line with its operating budget. As part of this effort, Council has worked diligently to pinpoint areas where we can conserve monies and streamline activities to be more cost efficient. We ask you to please take part in this important vote for MAC’s future. One of the ways we are working to cut costs is to move more operations on-line. As you know, MAC’s renewal/ new member form now includes a “Go Green” option to forego print and receive MAC publications via the Web, and, for a second year, we are utilizing an on-line election ballot that has substantially reduced mailing costs. At the same time, we are investigating news ways (or improving old ones) to engage members. The On-line Publications Task Force is exploring how the newsletter can be a stronger communication tool. Jennifer Johnson and the Task Force will be sending out a survey to members to gather your input. In addition, we continue to work out details concerning the new Speakers Bureau pilot project, with a full report coming at the Indianapolis meeting. I hope to see you there! Sincerely, Ellen D. Swain President, Midwest Archives Conference 2 MAC Newsletter • April 2013 MAC News—Adriana Cuervo, Assistant Editor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign MAC Annual Meeting There are plenty more exciting sessions to attend on (Continued from page 1) Saturday! A lightning round will focus on Civil War col- lections, in honor of the 150th anniversary of the midpoint documenting community tragedies and transformations, of the Civil War. Sessions will also cover podcast creation, the intersection of archives and endangered languages, working with congressional collections, archival instruc- and records and information management compliance tion, E-records workflows, and cutting-edge digitization and governance. Immediately following the sessions, workflows. take the short walk to the Indiana State Library for the opening reception. At the reception, a special exhibit on Of course, there will also be time for more than work- the Indianapolis 500 will be open to attendees. shops and sessions during your trip to Indianapolis. On Thursday morning, take a tour of the Indianapolis Motor On Friday, sessions focus on making Civil War collections Speedway, or learn about Indianapolis’s history either on accessible, problematic gifts, donor relations, proactive foot or by bus. Check out the archives of the Eli Lilly collecting, job hunting, crowdsourcing, leadership, Company, an international pharmaceutical company management, and cultural heritage corridors. During the with headquarters in Indianapolis. On Friday evening, afternoon, graduate student posters will be on display. Be along with the traditional restaurant tours, you might sure to stop by during Friday afternoon’s break to talk to also choose to glimpse what it was like to be a fugitive graduate students about their poster presentations, which slave on the Underground Railroad at Conner Prairie, a include topics such as Erotic Digital Archives, the Gua- living history museum. Note that only a limited number temalan National Police Historical Archives, and digital can attend this special presentation. preservation. Their posters will also be available Saturday morning. One Friday lunch session will update you on the For those of you who still haven’t registered, you can do so ArchivesSpace Project. The creators of ArchivesSpace will at the conference. For your convenience, the registration attend this session (virtually and in person) to describe desk at the Hyatt Regency will be open on Wednesday, the project and answer your most burning questions. April 17, from 3:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M.; Thursday and Friday, Alternatively, you can join Tessa Fallon from Archive-It April 18 and 19, from 7:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.; and Saturday, for a nuts-and-bolts talk on preserving Web content for April 20, from 7:30 A.M. to noon. future access. Both are great options! Lunches are available for purchase in advance on the registration form, so you All of MAC will be racing to Indy . don’t get left in the can comfortably attend either session. dust. We hope to see you there! Green Bay Symposium Is “Packed” On September 27 and 28, MAC is heading to Green a Thursday night home game, we’ll be enjoying beer, Bay, Wisconsin, for its 2013 Symposium. Operating cheese, and other tailgate-inspired cuisine as we take in under the title “Refining the Digital Presence of the the legends of “Titletown” at the Packer Hall of Fame. Archives,” the Symposium is bringing in nine experts to Additional stadium tours will be available. discuss technologies that can greatly improve your Web- Due to the technical nature of the program, MAC is also based services.