Archives are Alive in South Bend, Indiana! by Alison Stankrauff, Archivist, Indiana University South Bend South Bend, Indiana is set to celebrate Archives Month in grand fashion. For the first time ever, there will be a community-wide celebration of the archives around the city. The archivists of the area have joined together to promote their holdings to the public in a series of events entitled “Archives Alive!” Institutions include: Brothers of the Holy Cross Archives, Indiana Province Archi… Continue

For those of you not on the Archives and Archivists listserv, there has been quite a bit of discussion about getting SAA to give accreditation to graduate programs. Most job descriptions (depending on the job) will request that an archivist have an ALA Accredited Masters degree in Library Science/Information Studies. At the annual meeting in San Francisco a proposal was put forth to encourage SAA to give their own accreditation to graduate programs. The proposal can be seen here:… Continue

THE MIDWEST ARCHIVES CONFERENCE 2008 FALL SYMPOSIUM Digital Preservation Lawrence, Kansas November 7-8, 2008 PROGRAM Join us November 7-8, 2008 for MAC's third annual Fall Symposium. This year's meeting brings you to Lawrence, Kansas, home of the University of Kansas. Nancy Y. McGovern, digital preservation officer for the University of Michigan's Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), will present Cornell's highly respected Digital Preservation Management wo… Continue

Hi All – As many of you have heard and know, SAA members may officially join up to two roundtables by indicating their selections on the membership application and/or renewal form(s) or by contacting the SAA staff at servicecenter@archivists.org . Please let me take this opportunity to urge each of you to – if you’ve not already done so – to officially sign up for the Lone Arranger Roundtable as one of your two Roundtable memberships. You can either renew/apply for membership via your perso… Continue

I've just created a Google Group that goes beyond the scope of Lone Arrangers for the Boston-area. This group is the latest version of "Boston Archivist Group," aka BAG- that existed a few years ago and was so folks could get together in between NEA meetings. Christina Zamon, Paige Roberts, and I were talking about how nice it would be to see the other archivists who are so close, yet we rarely see each other. End the isolation! Let's have lunch on the Common. Some ideas we were batting around… Continue