Ohio Archivist VOL. 30 NO. l Untangling Copyright Regulations --{~ THIS ISSUE .. Dayton, October 16 Archives Week ................................................... 2 Symposium: Wright Brothers' legacy ................ 2 SOA is presenting an all-day workshop entitled "Copyright for Archives and Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity ........................ 3 Libraries" in lieu of the usual fall meeting. Sessions on this topic, so essential H·OHIO/H-NET .................................................. 5 to the modem records profession, will take place on Saturday, October 16, Intellectual capital ............................................. 6 History Day Awards ........................................... 7 at the University of Dayton Law School. As of this printing, the schedule will Merit Awards ..................... ................................ 8 . include: registration at 9 A.M.; a 9:30 session by Prof. Kenneth Crews of Business meeting; Council actions •••....••.•••... 8, 9 Indiana University/Purdue on copyright for traditional print media; lunch at Session reports ............................................... 10 Archives Listserv sampler to cease ................. 16 P.M . noon; and a session from 1:30 to 3 given by Prof. Robert Kreiss of the OPLIN information source ............................... 17 University of Dayton Law School on copyright and the World Wide Web. We News Notes/Calendar ...................................... 18 are proud to have two speakers, both well known nationally for their expertise ON THE COVER: Kappa Kappa in this area. Gamma Fraternity headquarters For more information contact Kerrie Moore, SOA treasurer, at the prior to purchase in 1951 University of Dayton (address and contact numbers on back page). PHOTO /KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA ARCHIVES PRESIDENT'S COLUMN Looking back, looking ahead I would like to express my sincere thanks to Ken Grossi cess. Your ideas and input are very important, and .we for ten years of dedicated service to the Society of Ohio encourage you to review the strategic plan and let us know Archivists. Ken has served SOA as Treasurer, Vice what you think! President and President, and has been a driving force in John Brannick and Chuck Piotrowski have put together helping SOA to accomplish its goals. I'd also like to an excellent workshop on 'Copyright for Archives and thank all of those who have served on Council, planned Libraries' in lieu of SOA's usual fall conference, to be held at programs and taught workshops. Your time and the University of Dayton Law Library on October 16, 1999. dedication are appreciated. Finally, the support and I encourage all of you to attend! encouragement of every member of SOA has enabled The next century is an opportunity for the Society of Ohio us to be successful in achieving many goals outlined in Archivists to build on and improve its programs and services our strategic plan. to its members and the profession. Thank you for providing A major goal for Council this year is to review SOA's me with the opportunity to serve as SOA president. 1995 strategic plan, evaluating where we have been and determining ways to plan for the next century. Council is Dawne Dewey dedicated to involving all members in the planning pro- SOA President Cleveland Archival Archives Week, Oct. 1 7-23: Roundtable report ucelebratingEducation in Ohio" Helen Conger of the Case Western Reseive Beginning with the year 2000, SOA wlll celebrate Archives Week annually during the University Archives has completed an update week (Saturday to Sunday) that Includes October 12, Columbus Day. This will conform of CAR's publication, A Gulde to Archives · to MARAC's practice and make It easy to remember the date for the week each year. In Northeastern Ohio. The Gulde includes -George &in, Chairman, Ohio Archives Week Committee institutions from Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Mahoning, Medina, This year's theme is "Celebrating Education in Ohio." This year's publicity program is Portage, Stark, Summit, andTrumbull Coun- ambitious. Kevin Grace is in charge of getting the design work done at the University of ties. The new second edition includes the Cincinnati. Chairman Bain would like to have an SOA poster in every school building in the logos of participating institutions, which, along state, which means we would need over 7000 posters. The Ohio Education Association would with the CAR coat of arms by Tony Phelps, be asked to help in the distribution. enliven the publication. There is an entry for each member organizat_ion which includes SOA has as partners in the Archives Week events and poster production: the Academic the name (and previous names in some Ubrary Association of Ohio; the Ohio Education Association; the Ohio Council for the Social cases), mailing address, personnel, contact Studies; and the Ohio Ubrary Association. The poster will feature a picture of William Holmes numbers, email addresses and URLs, hours, McGuffey and a background including a McGuffey reader and a mid-20th century classroom. information on access/use/membership, and a short description of the collections. The Gulde will alsobepublishedonCAR's website SYMPOSIUM: (if it isn't already bythe time you receive this). The website will be updated as often as Preserving the Wright Brothers' legacy possible, but the printed version will be re- vised less frequently. DAYTON, OHIO • OCTOBER 22, 1999 CAR wishes to thank Helen Conger for The Dayton and Montgomery County Pub- pants from the Dayton area, this coopera- an immense amount of work at a very busy lic Ubrary, in cooperation with the Engi- tive effort will bring several individuals time. Many thanks are also due to her hus- neers' Club of Dayton and several other from Ohio and across the nation to talk band Dave, especially -for hours spent in Miami Valley institutions, is organizing a about their activities in preserving, sharing scanning. Thanks go as well to the Case symposium to commemorate the legacy and exhibiting their holdings in aviation Western Reseive University Archives, which of the famed pioneers of powered flight history. The program will be held at the donated printing costs at the University Print- and the approaching centennial year of Engineers' Club of Dayton on October 22, ing Department, and to Greg Ramm of the their historic flight in 1903. It will feature 1999. For further information, contact: Central Business Group for his support of the several rare written and photographic ElliBambakidis, 937/227-9500, ext. 323 publication. records and other artifacts of the Wright or <ads_elli@dayton./lb.oh.us>. The Gulde is available at a modest cost to brothers which are in the holdings of the This symposium is sponsored, in part, nonmembers as well. Interested parties should Dayton and Montgomery County Public by a grant from the Ohio Humanities contact the Cleveland Archival Roundtable in Ubrary and the other participating institu- Council and the National Endowment for care of Barbara Clemenson at 330 East tions. In addition to speakers and partici- the Humanities. 266th Street, Euclid, Ohio 44132. 2 Ow 11~,;,,a • Fall 1999 Columbus is home to Kappa Kappa Gamma headquarters APPA KAPPA GAMMA is a women's frater- nity founded in 1870 at Monmouth College in Monmouth, DI. Six young college women, who are called the Founders, were determined to have a fraternity of their own after observing the several men's fraternities on their campus. As one of the oldest Greek-letter women's orga- nizations, it maintains the "fraternity" classification. "Fraternity" comes from the Greek phratla, meaning "family." It wasn't until the late 1880s that "sorority," from the Latin root soror meaning "sister," became a designation for women's fraternal organizations. From a small beginning, Kappa Kappa Gamma grew to have 27 chapters by 1900. Presently, there are 127 chapters in the United States and Canada and 349 alumnae associations world- wide. There are more than 150,000 living members. Kappa Kappa Gamma was the first women's fraternity to establish a headquarters, first in Texas and then in Missouri. The fraternity headquarters was moved from St. Louis to Columbus, Ohio, in 1929 when Clara 0. Pierce, a Columbus native, became Executive Secretary. She served the fraternity in that capacity for 40 years. It was her foresight and business acumen that convinced 1886 Convention in Akron, Ohio the Fraternity Council to purchase the current headquarters program grew, the furnishings, memorabilia and historical docu- building at 530 East Town Street in 1951. ments required professional oversight, and a professional archivist This historic Italianate villa, originally built in 1852, is on the was hired to make the collection accessible and enhance the National Register of Historic Places due to its architecture and programming efforts. because it was a the Governor of Ohio's residence from 1862 The Fraternity Archives are housed in a former hayloft of the tol864. Portraits of that Governor, David Tod, and his wife are original carriage house, built in the mid-19th century and now on display in the Grand Parlor. restored to a functional and attractive space suitable for housing an In 1980 Kappa Kappa Gamma established the Herltoge extensive archival collection. The collection is very diverse, from Museum, later incorporated, and operates the first floor rooms of early correspondence to chapter house blueprints, scrapbooks, the original structure as a Victorian house museum. The museum photographs, jewelry, memorabilia, printing plates and audiovisual is used as a vehicle for education about the history of the fraternity materials. One of the largest collections consists of Fraternity and the lives of women in the 19th century. As the museum Convention items. Since 1876, with a few exceptions, the fraternity has held biennial conventions, including several in Canada. This collection has correspondence, programs, photo- graphs, charms and memorabilia from 62 conventions spanning 124 years. Several interesting items come from individuals' collections. Cleora Oark Wheeler was a professional artist in Minneapolis and an avid Kappa collector. She served as Grand Registrar for two years and as Custodian of the Badge for seven.