When: June 9, 2017
Time: 3 p.m. pacific Location: Collaborate - https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/meeting.jnlp?sid=2011274&password=M.8522D9BF1E2F5ED2CA7839E2C944C0 Abstract: iSchool students share experiences as researchers for the International Directory of National Archives, edited by Dr. Pat Franks and Dr. Anthony Bernier. IDNA will serve archivists, historians, and researchers with information about 198 national archives. Slated for publication in 2018, IDNA has allowed iSchool students and alumni to conduct research on how nations manage and preserve their documentary heritage and to contribute to a work that will share their findings with a wide audience. Presenters: Alyse Dunavant-Jones, Heather Kohles, and Kathryn Eminhizer More info at: https://ischool.sjsu.edu/about/webcasts/upcoming Questions: Contact Dr. Pat Franks, [email protected]
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Interested in interning for SAA? Get to know more about SAASC's parent organization and the archival profession by interning for the 2017-2018 year. Applications are due by Friday, June 16.
Learn more here: www2.archivists.org/news/2017/call-for-2017-2018-saa-interns SAASC has just released their Annual Report for the 2016-2017 academic year! Check it out! http://sjsusaasc.weebly.com/annual-reports.html
SJSU SAASC was featured on SAA's SNAP blog!
Read more about it here: https://snaproundtable.wordpress.com/2017/05/02/leading-a-virtual-student-chapter-the-saasc-community-at-san-jose-state-university/ It's been a great year! SAASC has participated in 13 events: including 3 in-person tours, and 5 virtual events which we hosted. We learned about cultural competency in the archives, the benefits of SAA membership & ACA certification, oral history, and how to attack the eport. We've been graced by distinguished speakers such as Helen Wong Smith, Rebecca Hankins, Sammie L. Morris, Brenda Gunn, Lauren Kata, and past SAASC Chair, Catherine Folnovic.
We would like to extend a huge thank you to all of you who participated in SAASC over the past year. If you attended our events, participated on a team, or even expressed an interest in our group, we are grateful and hope that you will become more involved in the future. Thank you also to the iSchool faculty and staff, especially our SAASC Faculty Advisor, Lori Lindberg! We rely on your support! A very special THANK YOU to our executive officers and teams. Without you, none of this would be possible. Kudos and thanks to Tiana Trutna, who has served as SAASC Vice Chair and the Events Team Leader for two terms! Thank you to Amanda Mellinger, who is graduating this semester, served on the Web Team from 2015-2016 and was elected as Secretary and Web Team Leader for 2016-2017. Amanda, you rock for getting SAASC established on ScholarWorks and YouTube. Thank you Catherine Folnovic who graduated in December 2016, but stayed on until the last minute to train our new Archeota Team. She also came back to share her experience in a presentation about the eport! Way to go Melissa Rupp! Melissa is graduating this semester and has served on the Web Team for two years!!! Melissa, we appreciate your always interesting and informative Facebook posts. This year we have also welcomed newcomers who are putting in their time and showing their true dedication. Kimberlee Frederick trained as Archeota's Managing Editor in the Fall with Catherine and officially took over the position in the Spring. Jody Perlmutter took over the reigns of Twitter and did a great job with October's SAA #AskAnArchivist event. Thanks, Jody! Thank you to Sarah Edwards Obenauf who helped Amanda launch the ScholarWorks page! And last, but certainly not least... we wish the best of luck to our incoming officers. Jennifer Castle, Incoming SAASC Chair... thank you for always showing an interest in SAASC, and serving on the Archeota Team throughout the year. All the best! April Austin, Incoming Vice Chair, we are looking forward to your events line-up for next year. We know it will be great! Theresa Berger, Incoming Secretary, kudos to you for getting involved as a first-year student. Looking forward to seeing you shine! Have a great summer and see you in the Fall! -Rebecca Leung, on behalf of SAASC 2016-2017 Chair 2015-2016 Secretary The Spring edition of Archeota is here! Read about preservation internships, get the scoop on the best resources for archival students, and find some summer reading recommendations to satisfy your archives cravings. Visit http://sjsusaasc.weebly.com/archeota.html to see the issue now!
The Society of American Archivists Student Chapter (SAASC) would like to formally congratulate the incoming officers for the 2017-2018 academic year!
Please welcome: Chair - Jennifer Castle Vice-Chair - April Austin Secretary - Theresa Berger For all of you with archivist inclinations, please don't hesitate to get involved! SAASC is always looking or people to participate on our Events Team, Web Team, or to write an article for our online publication Archeota. Contact us at: [email protected]. Or check out our website: http://sjsusaasc.weebly.com/ On May 1, SAASC will collaborate with the Special Libraries Association Student Chapter to present The End of Term Web Archive: Collecting & Preserving the .gov Information Sphere online event.
In the fall of 2016, a group of institutions – Internet Archive, Library of Congress, CA Digital Library, and libraries from the University of North Texas, Stanford University, and George Washington University – organized to preserve a snapshot of the federal government website. Jefferson Bailey from the Internet Archive and James Jacobs from Stanford University Libraries will discuss the project's methods for identifying and selecting in-scope content, strategies for capturing web content, and access models for collected content. When: Monday, May 1 6:30-7:00pm Pacific - virtual social (half) hour; 7:00-8:00pm Pacific - program Link to session: http://bit.ly/2pDZ6hK For more information: http://bit.ly/2oXb5pC This session will be recorded. Individuals requiring real-time captioning or other accommodations should contact Dr. Sue Alman as soon as possible. Today seven iSchool students had the privilege of getting the insider's view of the Sutro Library, thanks to Sutro Librarian Colyn Wohlmut and Bureau Chief of the State Library Services Bureau, Rebecca Wendt. The Sutro Library began in 1913 when Adolph Sutro's heirs donated his collection to the California State Library. Sutro was the 24th mayor of San Francisco (1895-1897) and a philanthropist. His heirs hoped to benefit the public with access to this magnificent library, with the stipulation that the library stay in the city of San Francisco. Now located on the fifth floor of San Francisco State University's J. Paul Leonard Library, the Sutro Library contains a wealth of resources from genealogical to rare books to rare maps and more! Our tour began in the reading room, where we learned that some of the Sutro Library's books circulated at one time. Next stop on the tour was the card catalogs, where genealogists can look up family names and obituaries (carefully clipped from newspapers and affixed to cards). From there, we proceeded upstairs to the vault, a staff-only area of the library. The stacks were filled with treasures. Colyn pointed out a collection of early printed books from Mexico. In Europe, early printed books, or incunabula, are those printed between 1450 and 1500. However, early printed books in "the New World" have a slightly later time frame. We also saw the Belgian mapmaker, Pieter van den Keere's original World Map from 1611. This famous map is framed and mounted in the vault, but the public can view a replica in the reading room. Another favorite from the vault is the tiny book section. Because of their size, these books are shelved in a special section so they don't get lost next to the larger items. We ended our tour in a room where the librarians had displayed many amazing items for us to view. We saw Shakespeare's First Folio; a large, beautifully illustrated book of orchids (Colyn reminded us that lifting large books like this is part of the job description); a cuneiform tablet that was over 2,500 years old; a book of Japanese silk textiles from 1890; a book printed by Benjamin Franklin; an incunable printed by Aldus Manutius from 1499 (Manutius was the inventor of italic type); and more! Colyn and Rebecca generously answered our questions about all of these treasures, as well as questions about the protocol and procedures at the Sutro Library. We couldn't have asked for a better tour! Many thanks to Colyn Wohlmut, Rebecca Wendt, and all of the tour attendees. If you didn't make it to this tour, we hope to see you next time! To see more photos, go here!
The Society of American Archivist Student Chapter (SAASC) is pleased to announce that we are putting three unopposed nominees forward for the positions of Chair, Vice-Chair and Secretary for the 2017-2018 academic year and move to cancel the election. The membership has one week to oppose this motion. To oppose, please send an email to [email protected] by May 1, 2017 at midnight Pacific time.
And the nominees are... Jennifer Castle, Chair My name is Jennifer Castle, and this is my formal self-nomination for the position of SAASC Chair. I’m a Master of Library and Information Science student on the Archival Studies and Records Management career pathway, and I plan to graduate in December 2018. Being on the east coast, participating in SAASC provides me opportunity to interact with other students outside of course work (as I’m unable to attend any in-person meet-ups in California), and to feel a sense of camaraderie. I volunteered this academic year to be an editor for Archeota, which is allowing me to put my writing and editing skills to good use, and I’ve enjoyed seeing the inner workings of how the SAASC executive committee operates. I would love the opportunity to help the chapter continue and thrive. I believe I have some fresh ideas on programming and marketing, and I relish the prospect of collaborating with other present and future archivists. BIO Jennifer is a graduate student at San Jose State University pursuing a Master of Library and Information Science with an emphasis on archival studies and records management. She graduated magna cum laude from Savannah College of Art and Design with a BA in visual communication/photography. Before college, she was an arts correspondent for The Tampa Tribune, a staff writer/photographer for The Paintsville Herald, and the owner/photographer of Cardboard Sea Photography. She now works as the student news writer for the SJSU iSchool blog and as a library clerk at South College Asheville. Jennifer also serves as the assistant blog editor for the Special Libraries Association Student Chapter and an editor for the Society of American Archivists Student Chapter’s publication, Archeota. After graduation, she would like to pursue a career in photographic collections or as an art librarian. April Austin, Vice-Chair Hello! I'm focusing on Archives and Records Management and am planning to graduate in Spring 2018. I have done research in manuscript archives as a graduate student, so my passion lies in preserving rare books and materials to show students, scholars, patrons, and the public what we as a society have done, said, and created over time. Since the events hosted by the SAASC have been important for my professional development, including archive tours and online lectures, I hope to help plan these activities to introduce the students at SJSU to the many benefits of the SAA and this career path. Theresa Berger, Secretary Hi Everyone, I'm Theresa. I'm a first-year student in SJSU's MLIS program and very happy to be here. I have a B.A. in American Studies from UC Berkeley and a serious passion for history and archives. Right now, I'm fortunate enough to work as an archival intern at the Hoover Institute Library & Archives at Stanford University. I also volunteer with my local historical society in processing and digitizing collections. I'm excited to be a part of the SJSU SAASC and as secretary, would like to use the chapter's web platforms to grow our membership and spread as much archival-related news as possible. When I'm not studying or organizing, I can usually be found on the couch reading a history book or watching Star Wars. I look forward to working with all of you and continuing to build the SJSU SAASC together. |
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