The Archeota submission deadline has been extended until midnight Pacific time on Friday, 4/28! Don't miss this great chance to get published. Looks great on a resume or the e-portfolio! Also great conversation piece for dinner parties. Email [email protected].
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Still thinking about what to write for Archeota? Don't worry, you can still submit your idea by tomorrow, Friday 4/21! We love student contributions, so don't be shy!
Here are some ideas of topics to get you thinking:
Submit your idea to [email protected] by April 21st, 2017 at 11:59 PST. You DO NOT need to be a member of SAA to contribute to Archeota! HTTP://SJSUSAASC.WEEBLY.COM/ARCHEOTA.HTML Join the Society of American Archivists Student Chapter (SAASC) for an in-person tour of the fascinating Sutro Library!
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. When: Monday, April 24th from 11am - noon Where: California State Library; Sutro Library, 1630 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, CA 94132 Attendance is limited! RSVP required: http://bit.ly/2mmlmqR For more information, contact [email protected]. The End of Term Web Archive: Collecting & Preserving the .gov Information Sphere On Monday, May 1, from 6:30-7:00 pm Pacific, San José State University's student chapters of SLA and SAA will be hosting a virtual social (half) hour. Join us and get to know everyone! This is a great time to ask questions, network, and even commiserate. The program will be from 7:00-8:00pm Pacific. 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. This is the third time this End of Term (EOT) group has organized with the goals of identifying, harvesting, preserving, and providing access to a snapshot of the federal government web presence. They do this for two important reasons. The first is that the transition of elected officials in the federal government's executive branch prompts a reset of sites like www.WhiteHouse.gov, so it's critical to document the changes. The EOT group's work also provides a broad snapshot of the federal domain once every four years; it's replicated among a number of organizations for long-term preservation. 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. They will highlight the challenges and opportunities of large-scale, distributed, multi-institutional, born-digital collecting and preservation efforts; how the project aligns with participant institutions collection mandates; the project's importance for archiving historically-valuable but highly-ephemeral web content without a clear steward; and how the breadth and size of the EOT Web Archive informs both new methods of collaboration and new models for data-driven access and analysis by researchers. Our speakers will also discuss the project's alliance with other government data preservation projects as well as ideas and future plans for long-term sustainable methods for collecting, preserving and maintaining the .gov information ecosystem. http://eotarchive.cdlib.org/ http://digital2.library.unt.edu/nomination/eth2016/ When: Monday, May 1 - 6:30-7:00 pm Pacific (social); 7:00-8pm Pacific (program) Join us via Blackboard Collaborate by using this link: https://sas.elluminate.com/d.jnlp?sid=2011274&password=D.68D389EFEF158E48BA6C0ACB48717D Individuals requiring real-time captioning or other accommodations should contact Dr. Sue Alman as soon as possible. For speaker bios and more information, check out our website: SJSU iSchool SLA Student Chapter Don't let your beloved chapter of SAASC go dormant! Please consider nominating yourself for SAASC office! The deadline is 11:59pm TODAY! Questions? Email us at [email protected]!
At the end of March, I attended the Personal Digital Archiving Conference on the Stanford campus (March 29-31). Unfortunately, due to schedule conflicts, I was unable to attend the first two days of sessions. By Friday, I was ready to immerse myself in personal digital archiving, starting with the Archiving Born Digital Audio and Video Collections workshop. Instructors Annalise Berdini (Digital Archivist at UC San Diego Library) and Stefan Elnabli (Media Curation Librarian at UC San Diego Library) introduced participants to the characteristics of born digital media; how methods of generating audio-visual materials affect the way that they are archived; things to consider when creating a collection policy for audio-visual materials (e.g. should repositories only accept born digital media in certain formats?); and preservation strategies. We also examined tools, such as VLC, MediaInfo, iTunes, Handbrake, MPEG Streamclip, and many others. One of my favorite parts of the workshop was the breakout activity, in which we formed groups to work on different exercises. The exercise topics included imaging, transcoding, metadata, web archives, and collection policy. The group I joined worked on web archives. I learned that the Internet Archive does not let you create a collection yourself. Instead, you need to put together a minimum of 50 URLs and send a request for the collection to be created. In this exercise, we searched specific URLs of videos to see if they were represented. Our group found that websites like epa.gov and cnn.com were archived many times per day over the years, but less-known links were less likely to be archived on the Internet Archive.
The second workshop I attended was Archiving Preservation Tools and Techniques for Podcasters with presenters Mary Kidd (New York Public Library's Special Collections Division, XFR Collective), Dana Gerber-Margie (A/V and Digital Archivist for Recollection Wisconsin's Listening to War: Uncovering Wisconsin's Wartime Oral Histories grant project), Anne Wootton (co-founder of Pop Up Archive), and Danielle Cordovez (New York Public Library's Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound). The class was a mix of archivists, podcasters, oral historians, and various other interests. Mary Kidd created a fantastic zine called How to Start Archiving Your Podcast Files. You can find a digital version at kiddarchivist.wordpress.com/podcast-archive-zine or you can follow Mary on Twitter at @kiddarchivist. This zine was a great way to follow along with the presentation and to keep your knowledge fresh after the session. In addition, we talked about the ways that podcasts are unique, how to work with the metadata, how to use the command line, and how to preserve your podcasts (make sure you save them in multiple places that are geographically diverse! Remember LOCKSS - Lots Of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe.) I learned so much at the Personal Digital Archiving Conference! Great workshops, great connections. If I didn't see you this year, I hope to see you there next year! Rebecca Leung Join the Society of American Archivists Student Chapter (SAASC) for an in-person tour of the fascinating Sutro Library!
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. When: Monday, April 24th from 11am - noon Where: California State Library; Sutro Library, 1630 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, CA 94132 Attendance is limited! RSVP required: http://bit.ly/2mmlmqR For more information, contact [email protected]. Submit to Archeota, the official publication of SJSU SAASC!
One of the missions of Archeota is to be a platform for students to create original content. We invite you to put your ideas forward! NOT SURE WHAT TO SUBMIT? Some ideas to get you started:
Submit your idea to [email protected] by April 21st, 2017 at 11:59 PST. You DO NOT need to be a member of SAA to contribute to Archeota! HTTP://SJSUSAASC.WEEBLY.COM/ARCHEOTA.HTML Love archives and records? Want to do something that looks great on your resume and e-portfolio? Become a Society of American Archivists Student Chapter (SAASC) officer for the 2017-2018 academic year!
The nomination period runs from April 3-17; the voting period is from April 24-May 1. To be an officer of SJSU SAASC you need to be a matriculated, currently enrolled student of the SJSU iSchool, an individual member of SAA (proof of membership must be provided within one month of taking office), and you need to be able to serve the entire 2017-2018 academic year. Since all three of our officers are graduating this semester, all three officer positions are up for election: Chair, Vice-Chair, and Secretary! Nominate yourself by April 17th by emailing [email protected]. Feel free to email with questions! The Society of California Archivists (SCA) is having their Annual General Meeting from April 27-29, 2017 at the Westin Hotel in Pasadena. Don't miss the chance to attend interesting and career-enhancing session and workshops, such as:
Register here by April 20! The full conference fee for students is $80 (not including extended workshops). Are you interested to meet up with other SAASC members? Email us! |
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