A Presentation of the Leo Baeck Institute’s DigiBaeck Project/Archivists Round Table Annual Business Meeting
Posted on | June 18, 2010 | Comments Off
| June 23, 2010 | ||
| 5:30 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
Date: Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Place: Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street (between Fifth and Sixth Avenues), Manhattan.
The Center for Jewish History is wheelchair accessible.
Time: 5:30 – 6:30 pm Social; 6:30 – 8:00 pm Program
Subway Directions: 4, 5, 6 , L, N, R, W to Union Square. F, V to 14th Street at Sixth Avenue. For more detailed directions, please visit: http://www.cjh.org/about/directions.php
Fee: FREE to members of the Archivists Round Table. $6 admission for all others.
RSVP: To Jennifer Anna by Monday, June 21, 2010 at veep@nycarchivists.org. Please provide first and last name of all people attending under your RSVP message within body of message. Please be sure that you can attend before responding.
Board elections will be held at the Annual Business Meeting on Wednesday, June 23 at the Center for Jewish History. Nominees and ballots will be forthcoming. Ballots for this year’s board positions will be accepted in person at the meeting until 6:30 pm. Ballots sent via email or USPS mail must be received no later than Friday, June 18, 2010.
Please join the New York Archivists Round Table at the Center for Jewish History to learn more about launching a large-scale digitization project. The staff of the Leo Baeck Institute’s DigiBaeck project will speak about their ongoing work: digitizing their entire archival holdings.
The Leo Baeck Institute New York (LBI) is a research, exhibition, and lecture center whose library and archives offer the most comprehensive documentation for the study of German Jewish history. In the fall of 2008, after having received private funding, the LBI launched a project – named DigiBaeck – to digitize all of its archival holdings. In Phase I, which is nearing completion, the DigiBaeck team digitized LBI’s microfilmed collection, approximately 3,500 reels. In their ART presentation, they will address the following topics: finding the right vendor for their venture, working out workflows, establishing criteria for quality control and copyright issues; and creating adequate metadata for their newly acquired digital assets. Digitization of original materials will begin in June 2010.
Molly Hazelton is a native Vermonter, who was educated at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA, before receiving her MSLIS from Simmons College in 2004. She was the founding archivist of the Presidential and College Archives at the American College of Greece in Athens, Greece. She has also worked at the Mount Holyoke College Archives, the Sarah Lawrence College Archives and the Alcoholics Anonymous Archives. She is currently the Project Archivist for Digitization at the Leo Baeck Institute, where she has been managing the DigiBaeck digitization project since December 2007.
Timothy Ryan Mendenhall joined the staff of the Leo Baeck Institute in February of 2010 to assist with the DigiBaeck digitization initiative. He completed coursework in May 2010 at Queens College for an MLIS with a certificate in archives and records management. Prior to signing on at Leo Baeck, he worked at the Frick Art Reference Library, and interned at the Coney Island Museum and the Cooper-Hewitt Library Smithsonian Institution. Because of his undergraduate background in German literature, he feels right at home at the LBI.
Hermann Teifer was born, raised and educated in Vienna, Austria, where he earned his degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Vienna. After freelancing as journalist, translator, editor and author in Vienna, Jerusalem and New York, he worked as a fulltime homemaker in New York. He then embarked on a new career as a librarian, acquiring his MLS degree at Queens College. He is currently the managing archivist at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York.
The Archivists Round Table of New York expresses its gratitude to the Leo Baeck Institute and the Center for Jewish History for making this event possible.
