Alison Stankrauff's Blog (10)

Hi All - For those of you attending the Midwest Archives Conference in St. Louis from April 30th to May 2nd, there will be a Social for Lone Arrangers... Don't miss it! FRIDAY, May 1st 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Lone Arrangers’ Social Join your fellow Lone Arrangers—colleagues who are the sole archivist in their organization—for an opportunity to share ideas, see old friends, and make new ones. The Lone Arrangers will get together for an evening of camaraderie and good food. The group will meet i… Continue

Hi All - For those of you attending the Midwest Archives Conference in St. Louis from April 30th to May 2nd, there will be a Social for Lone Arrangers... Don't miss it! FRIDAY, May 1st 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Lone Arrangers’ Social Join your fellow Lone Arrangers—colleagues who are the sole archivist in their organization—for an opportunity to share ideas, see old friends, and make new ones. The Lone Arrangers will get together for an evening of camaraderie and good food. The group will meet i… Continue

SAA Annual Meeting 2009: Sustainable Archives / August 9-16, 2009; Austin, Texas Lone Arranger Roundtable Meeting Wednesday, August 12, 5:30-7:30pm Join the Lone Arrangers Roundtable for our annual meeting. We usually take care of roundtable business first, and then we often break out into small groups to discuss issues that are important to us. Afterwards, we usually head out to dinner for more Lone Arranger networking and socializing! Lone Arranger Sessions * “Bridging the Gap: Sustaining… Continue

Hi All - For those of you attending the Midwest Archives Conference in St. Louis from April 30th to May 2nd, there will be a Social for Lone Arrangers... Don't miss it! FRIDAY, May 1st 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Lone Arrangers’ Social Join your fellow Lone Arrangers—colleagues who are the sole archivist in their organization—for an opportunity to share ideas, see old friends, and make new ones. The Lone Arrangers will get together for an evening of camaraderie and good food. The group will meet i… Continue

Dear Lone Arrangers – The Society of American Archivists annual awards cycle is in full swing for 2009. Call for Nominations: 2009 Waldo Gifford Leland Award Have you read a great new book about archives? Have you come across an exceptional finding aid for a newly-processed archival or manuscript collection? Have you encountered a documentary publication that is head and shoulders above the rest? Has a web publication really stood out to you? If you have, please consider nominating it for th… Continue

THE MIDWEST ARCHIVES CONFERENCE 2009 Annual Meeting: St. Louis, Missouri April 30 - May 2, 2009 Co-hosted with the Association of St. Louis Area Archivists (ASLAA) and the St. Louis Area Religious Archivists (SLARA). See More at: http://www.midwestarchives.org/conferences.asp#Upcoming . Continue

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

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

There will be a dinner directly following the Lone Arrangers Roundtable meeting on Wednesday, August 27th. The Roundtable meeting runs from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the conference hotel, the Hilton San Francisco. This will be a great opportunity for lone arrangers to get together informally, connect and network with other lone arrangers, and enjoy a meal as a collective! Restaurant location to be announced - suffice to say that it will be close to the conference hotel. Submitted by: Alison Stan… Continue