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Open House and Elections Q&A

3/30/2017

Do you love archives? Have you considered running for the Society of American Archivists Student Chapter (SAASC) office? Are you curious about SAASC and the election process? The SAASC election nomination period runs from April 3-17 and all three officer positions are open for the 2017-2018 academic year: Chair, Vice-Chair, and Secretary!

Join us Tuesday, April 4th for an Open House, during which the current officers will answer your questions and discuss their experiences as officers.

When: Tuesday, April 4th at 6:30pm PST

Link to session:
https://sas.elluminate.com/d.jnlp?sid=2011274&password=D.3AC3B9C4CB7C7534DA728484020AA6

Individuals requiring real-time captioning or other accommodations should contact Sue Alman at alman.sjsu@gmail.com ASAP.

This event will be recorded and may be found here:
http://sjsusaasc.weebly.com/past-events--recordings.html

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SAASC visits the Huntington Library

3/27/2017

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On Friday, March 10th, SAASC enjoyed the chance to tour the world-class Huntington Library. Many thanks to Daniel Lewis at the Huntington Library for offering this amazing opportunity and serving as tour guide. Thanks to Debbie Faires for providing the connection and helping to make this happen! And a big Spartan cheer for iSchool student and SAASC member, Enid Ocegueda, who served as the tour coordinator and local liaison on behalf of SAASC. For those that were unable to attend, Enid was gracious enough to regale us with her account of the event. Enjoy!

I, along with fellow San Jose State University students, had the opportunity to take a tour of the Munger Research Center at the Huntington Library, located in San Marino, California. With Daniel Lewis, the Dibner Senior Curator of the History of Science, Medicine and Technology, as our tour guide, we embarked on a deeper understanding of what happens behind-the-scenes of one of the “largest and most complete libraries in the United States.” Personally, as an MLIS student, this tour was, in essence, a sort of reassurance of what I was most excited about in the field of archives: getting to work with, not only amazing historical material, but with amazingly (and sometimes intimidatingly) talented people.

At the start of the tour we had a quick discussion about the reading room and the various steps it takes for scholars to access material. In understanding how the library manages their holdings, we later proceeded our way down to the stacks area, where we came across the all-too-familiar archival boxes. What was a real treat to witness was the photo lab, which the library utilizes to take photographs of material for either publication purposes or research requests. What was even more interesting than the photo lab itself was something archivists don’t necessarily get to do very often in our line of work: conservation. Within the conservation lab we witnessed a really high-tech facility and further discussed the implications of conservation in archives.

All in all, I truly enjoyed this experience, as it was also an opportunity to connect with fellow classmates! We hardly ever get the opportunity to meet outside of our usual online setting, so it was a tremendous pleasure to meet a few of my classmates in person.

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Weigh in on this Wikipedia survey

3/25/2017

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Do you use Wikipedia? Help improve their services with this survey!

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The Wikimedia Foundation invites you to contribute to a study to help improve the quality as well as the findability of primary research resources linked to Wikipedia. The purpose of this research is to determine how Wikipedia users are gathering and assessing the information they have gathered on the site. We are also seeking to find out if the current Research Help page is useful to users. The questionnaire will be available for an indefinite time period through the Google Forms platform. The website link is: https://goo.gl/forms/Za12Djx4LKYGwTOY2

All demographic populations are welcome to respond to this survey and we encourage respondents to forward to other participants.

Your participation in this survey questionnaire is completely voluntary. If you agree to participate in this survey, you are asked to answer the short questionnaire as best as you can. It should take approximately 15 minutes to complete.

In order to keep our efforts transparent, our survey is sponsored by a task force of The Wikimedia Foundation.

Information on the rights of human subjects in research is available at http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/belmont-report/index.html.

Thank you for your help in this important endeavor.
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Don't forget: PDA2017 starts Wednesday!

3/23/2017

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The Personal Digital Archiving conference at Stanford runs from March 29-31.

PDA 2017 will showcase both current and emerging scholarship on personal information management and personal digital archiving, as well as exciting and innovative projects and programs. Participants will include a wide-range of people and organizations.

Who should attend?

community organizations focused on gathering oral histories or other local collections
scholars, researchers and graduate students of all levels in all related disciplines
those preserving familial material, activist groups, hobbyists, and tool developers
information professionals such as archivists, librarians, and curators

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Sutro Library Tour

3/19/2017

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Join SAASC in touring the fascinating Sutro Library!

According to their website:

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The Sutro Library (our San Francisco branch) holds the original collection of Adolph Sutro (1830–1898), California businessman and San Francisco mayor. The library has a large collection of publications and items dating from the 13th to the 21st centuries. It also has one of the largest genealogy collections in the U.S.

Some of the outstanding and rare items in the collection are:

William Shakespeare's First, Second, Third and Fourth folios (1623–1685);
Letters and papers of British explorer and naturalist Joseph Banks (1800s);
The Mexican Collection: materials on Mexican culture, religion and politics (1540–1889);
Belgian mapmaker Pieter van den Keere's World Map (1611).

Adolph Sutro's heirs donated his collection to the California State Library in 1913 with the requirement that the collection stay within the city of San Francisco. After operating in various locations in the city for almost 100 years, the Sutro Library moved to a permanent home at San Francisco State University in 2012.
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When: Monday, April 24th at 11am until about noon
RSVP required: http://bit.ly/2mmlmqR

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E-Portfolio Presentation from Recent MARA Grad

3/7/2017

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SAASC presents an e-portfolio discussion with recent graduate and past SAASC Chair, Catherine Folnovic. Catherine will give a presentation based on her experience completing the MARA e-portfolio class in Fall 2016. Whether you're in the midst of working on it right now, or planning ahead, this event is sure to answer your questions and provide helpful tips for both MARA and MLIS'ers!

Date: Tuesday, March 14th
Time: 6:30pm PST
Participation Link: https://sas.elluminate.com/d.jnlp?sid=2011274&password=D.3AC3B9C4CB7C7534DA728484020AA6

Catherine Folnovic is a recent MARA graduate from Saskatchewan, Canada working in an academic archives and RIM environment. She successfully completed her e-Portfolio in Fall 2016

Individuals requiring real-time captioning or other accommodations should contact Sue Alman at alman.sjsu@gmail.com ASAP.

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Open House and Elections Q&A

SAASC visits the Huntington Library

Weigh in on this Wikipedia survey

Don't forget: PDA2017 starts Wednesday!

Sutro Library Tour

E-Portfolio Presentation from Recent MARA Grad

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