On April 21st, 2012, the Student Chapter of the Society of American Archivists in collaboration with the Special Library Association hosted the first annual Graduate Symposium. The Symposium consisted of presentations of papers on topics related to archives, special collections, and the many ways in which the study of history and archives converge. This podcast…
On March 15th, 2012, Panopticon hosted a guest lecture with David Dwiggins entitled, Collections Access Project Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Chenhalls Nomenclature. Can librarians, archivists, and museum professionals ever see eye-to-eye? Can their collections be presented side-by-side? Would users benefit if they were? When Historic New England, the nation’s oldest…
On February 23rd, 2012, SCoSAA hosted a lunchtime talk with Heather Cole and Andrew Elder from University Archives & Special Collections at UMass Boston. Cole and Elder will talk about their work for the Mass. Memories Road Show, which is a community-based digital history project that documents the people, places, and events in Massachusetts history…
On November 10th, 2011, Assistant Professor Katherine Wisser gave a Research Colloquia Lunchtime Lecture entitled “Can I Be Friends with Mother Theresa?: The Wily World of Relationships in Archival Description”. Simmons GSLIS Graduate School of Library and Information Science “How It Begins” by Kevin McLeod Music used in this episode
On October 26th, 2011 SCoSAA hosted an archives panel on the Semantic Web, EAD, and EAC entitled “Emerging Practices in Archival Description”. Panelists were Aaron Rubinstein, the Archivist for Digital Collections at Tufts University; Erica Boudreau, the Digital Archivist at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum; Kate Bowers, the Collections Services Archivist at…
On October 26th, 2011 SCoSAA hosted an archives panel on the Semantic Web, EAD, and EAC entitled “Emerging Practices in Archival Description”. Panelists were Aaron Rubinstein, the Archivist for Digital Collections at Tufts University; Erica Boudreau, the Digital Archivist at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum; Kate Bowers, the Collections Services Archivist at…
On October 26th, 2011 SCoSAA hosted an archives panel on the Semantic Web, EAD, and EAC entitled “Emerging Practices in Archival Description”. Panelists were Aaron Rubinstein, the Archivist for Digital Collections at Tufts University; Erica Boudreau, the Digital Archivist at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum; Kate Bowers, the Collections Services Archivist at…
