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Friday - April 15, 2005
8:00 am - 5:00 pm Registration
8:00 am - 5:00 pm Vendor Exhibits
9:00 - 10:15 am Plenary Address ~ Welcome and Introduction: Rand Jimerson, SAA President
Wole Soyinka is the winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature. Nigerian playwright, essayist and poet, he is author of The Man Died and The Burden of Memory, The Muse of Forgiveness, and more than twenty plays and collections of essays. The first African to win a Nobel Prize in Literature, he spent 22 months as a political prisoner during the civil war in Nigeria from 1967-69. In presenting their award to Soyinka, the Swedish Academy noted: "He possesses a prolific store of words and expressions which he exploits to the full in witty dialogue, in satire and grotesquery, in quiet poetry and essays of sparkling vitality." Dr. Soyinka is the Elias Ghanem Chair in Creative Writing at UNLV. He will be speaking on the value and importance of libraries and archives in society.10:15 - 10:45 Break
10:45 am - 12:00 pm Session 1~ Representing the Underrepresented: Strategies for Developing Manuscript Collections of Minority Groups in Special Collections
Speakers:
Chair: Susan Goldstein, San Francisco History Center , San Francisco Public Library
Linda Long, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon "Legacy, Trust, and Legitimacy: Establishing the Lesbian Collections at the University of Oregon "
Salvador Guerena, California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives, University of California , Santa Barbara "In Search of Diversity: Issues in Collection Development"
June Schumann, Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center "Preserving and Sharing the History of Japanese American Community"Although the West is a region of many minority groups-racial/ethnic, sexual, and religious-few archivists or librarians have made concerted efforts to collect the papers or records of these underrepresented groups. In this session, archivists will describe strategies they have used to actively pursue the papers and records of minority groups in the West, with particular focus on donor relations and issues surrounding access, privacy and confidentiality.
10:45 am - 12:00 pm Session 2 ~ Of Convents, Congregations, and Committees: Confidentiality and Access in Archives of Religious Collections
Speakers:
Christine Doan, Presentation Sisters Archives
Ronald Urwiller, Worldwide Church of God
Brian Reeves, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsReligions and denominations may vary in their beliefs, forms of worship, and the organization of their institutions, but when it comes to archival documentation, all share the common issues of confidentiality and access. Whether administrative or sacramental, related to the laity, leadership, ordained, or those under vows, documentation in archives of religious organizations take privacy issues further by combining the ethics of the archives profession with the ethics and mission of the church. The sensitivities and expectations of the community of members also bring another layer to these issues. Panelists will discuss their approaches from perspectives based on the mission, history, and organization of their institutions. The session will be helpful to those exploring confidentiality and access issues in archival institutions, and to those from secular institutions who may hold any type of religious documentation collections.
10:45 am - 12:00 pm Session 3 ~ Processing the Recent Past
Speakers:
Chair: D. Claudia Thompson, American Heritage Center , University of Wyoming
Stephen J. Hussman, Archives and Special Collections, New Mexico State University
Michael Griffith, Labor Archives and Research Center , San Francisco State UniversityProcessing has traditionally been an intensive effort undertaken in back rooms. Archivists handled, evaluated, cleaned, and arranged each item in a collection before granting public access to any of the papers. With the increasing size and complexity of twentieth century collections, this traditional approach has led to large backlogs and cramped quarters. This session will explore the impact of twentieth century papers on processing and will explore some non-traditional ideas for coping with these challenges.
12:00 - 1:30 pm Luncheon Dr. Hal Rothman, UNLV History Department Chair, has written extensively on environmental and tourism history in the American West. His books include The Greening of a Nation?: Environmentalism in the United States Since 1945 , Saving the Planet : The American Response to the Environment in the Twentieth Century , Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the 20th Century American West and most recently, Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century. In recent years, Dr. Rothman has become a frequent media commentator on all things Las Vegas . From the New York Times to the History Channel to CNN, national media come to Dr. Rothman when they want an academic perspective on current and future trends in Las Vegas . For the Western Round-Up luncheon, Dr. Rothman will discuss his odyssey from environmental and tourism historian of the American West to Las Vegas expert, and how his previous training, scholarship and research experience (at times with archives) has shaped how he looks and speaks on Las Vegas .
1:45 pm - 3:00 pm Session 4 ~ Grant Writing
Speakers:
Joseph Herring, Senior Program Officer, Division of Preservation & Access,
National Endowment for the Humanities
Robin L. Chandler, California Digital Library, Director, Built Content
Dick Cameron, NHPRC Director for State ProgramsJoseph Herring will discuss opportunities at NEH for archivists, especially those working at small and mid-sized institutions. He will also address the new EAD collaborative projects; Robin L. Chandler will discuss the opportunities and benefits for leveraging grant opportunities through consortial collaborations; and finally, Dick Cameron will discuss new directions for the NHPRC grant program and the kinds of grants that are available from NHPRC. He will focus on grants for archives and records management projects.
1:45 pm - 3:00 pm Session 5 ~ Users Talk Back
Speakers:
Chair: Linda Whittaker, Arizona Historical Foundation, University of Arizona
Jack L. August, Jr., Arizona Historical Foundation, University of Arizona
Sean Q Kelly, Niagara University
Scott A. Frisch, California State University, Channel IslandsPolitical collections present challenges for both archivists and researchers due to their bulk and complexity. These collections are expensive to process and are often under utilized. Two political scientists and one historian will describe the various collections and research strategies they used, compare and contrast their experiences, explain how obstacles impacted their research, describe how they overcame those obstacles and reported the results of their research, and suggest ways archivists and researchers could work together.
1:45 pm - 3:00 pm Session 6 ~ Digital Special Collections
Speakers:
Brad Westwood, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University
Gordon Daines, Brigham Young University Archives, Brigham Young University
John M. Murphy, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young UniversityThis session will discuss the development of an "integrated digital special collections" at Brigham Young University, including an e-workflow system and web store. The "integrated digital special collections" shifts the way that curators think about digitizing materials away from large scale projects to selected samples from each collection acquired. This session will examine how this concept is evolving at Brigham Young University .
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm Tour ~ Backstage at JUBILEE! Go backstage at one of the longest running production shows in Las Vegas - Donn Arden's Jubilee! - on this exciting tour led by a real Las Vegas showgirl. In addition to getting a behind-the-scenes look at one of the last great feather and rhinestone shows in Las Vegas, your showgirl tour guide will give a make-up demonstration, change into a finale costume (designed by noted fashion designer Bob Mackie), and pose for pictures with you on the Jubilee Theatre stage. Truly a unique Las Vegas tour opportunity! Transportation provided.
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Break
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Business Meetings
Society of California Archivists
Northwest Archivists
Conference of Inter-Mountain Archivists5:00 pm - 6:00 pm SCA Committee Meetings
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Progressive Archivists Caucus
Dinner on your own (See list of restaurants in your registration bag)
One of those famous Las Vegas buffets!
