Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York Latest News

Revised Bylaws Approved

Tue, 15 May 2012 18:11:02 GMT

ART's newest bylaws were accepted by member vote on May 10, 2012.

A copy of the ART bylaws is available for download here.

"For The Record" News from ART May/June '12 Now Available!

Wed, 09 May 2012 23:15:30 GMT

The ART Board invites you to check out the May/June 2012 edition of For The Record: News From The Archivists Round Table.

You can access For The Record within your browser here.

For The Record provides members with the latest news between meetings and will keep members informed in-between issues of Metropolitan Archivist, our semi-annual publication.

For future editions, we encourage you to subscribe if you have not done so already.

Here is a direct link to sign up: http://bit.ly/IJUK8x

You will have the option of receiving For The Record as HTML, text, or in mobile format.

Emma Curtis serves as Editor, and all content is compiled by the ART Communications and Outreach Committee.

Please contact Ryan Donaldson, Coordinator, Communications and Outreach Committee at outreach@nycarchivists.org

Welcome Aboard! Tiffany Colannino Appointed as New ART Advocacy Committee Chair

Fri, 04 May 2012 03:03:55 GMT

Photograph by Bradly Brown.

The ART Board is pleased to announce that Tiffany Colannino has been appointed as Chair of the Advocacy Committee. The Advocacy Committee addresses significant issues facing archivists at the national and regional levels. The Committee is dedicated to actively promoting and supporting the archives profession and the work of archivists. The Committee: serves as a voice for the archives community; reports on pending state and federal legislation in a timely manner; promotes archives and archival issues to government, decision-makers, funders, other organizations, the media and the general public; and provides resources to archivists so they can better advocate for the profession, their repositories, and themselves.

Tiffany Colannino is the Archivist for the Woody Guthrie Foundation & Archives in Mount Kisco, New York. A graduate of Simmons College, Tiffany obtained a Master of Science degree in Library and Information Sciences, with a concentration in Archival Management. Prior to arrival at the Woody Guthrie Archives in September 2007, Tiffany interned and worked in a variety of archival repositories, including the Institute Archives and Special Collections at MIT, the Tufts University Digital Collections and Archives, and the Simmons College Archives.

As the lone arranger overseeing the daily activities of the Woody Guthrie Archives, Tiffany manages all aspects of the Archives, including collections maintenance, researcher requests, image licensing, educational programming, donor relations, technology, and acquisitions. In addition, Tiffany has presented domestic and international public educational programming related to the Woody Guthrie Archives, and has worked with a variety of museums world-wide to curate special exhibits of archival material from the Collection. She also manages an annual summer internship program, engages in grant-funded digitization projects, and has started new ventures, including an international archives exchange.

During her free time, Tiffany likes to attend music festivals and concerts. A native of Montreal, Quebec, she also enjoys traveling throughout the United States, and exploring New York City. ART members are encouraged to join the Advocacy Committee to work with Tiffany on future endeavors. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Tiffany at advocacy@nycarchivists.org.

ART Awards - Call for Nominations

Tue, 01 May 2012 00:49:37 GMT

Each year ART presents four awards during Archives Week. These awards recognize Outstanding Support of Archives, Innovative Use of Archives, Archival Achievement, and Educational Use of Archives.

We invite members to submit nominations for worthy colleagues, archival organizations, and innovative projects. The awards acknowledge distinguished work and long term achievements in our profession. Nominees must be members of ART or operate within the New York metropolitan area.

For more information about the awards, and to submit a nomination, please use the form here. The Awards Committee will be accepting nominations through May 18, 2012.

This year's Awards Ceremony will take place on Thursday, October 11th at the New York Junior League, following a reception at 6:00pm.

New Volunteer Opportunities!

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:42:26 GMT

Please check out our updated list of volunteer opportunities here.

New York History Blog Post: Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:00:54 GMT

The following post originally appeared in the New York History Blog, and is reprinted below:

Music legend and songwriting luminary Woody Guthrie was born on July 14, 1912, and this year marks his centennial birthday. To celebrate, the Grammy Museum, the Guthrie family,Woody Guthrie Publications and the Woody Guthrie Archives have planned an international program of events, including tours, concerts, festivals, and conferences.

Ryan Anthony Donaldson of the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York (ART) recently had the chance to ask Tiffany Colannino a few questions about the Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration. Tiffany is the Archivist with the Woody Guthrie Archives, currently located in Mount Kisco, New York, as well as the newly appointed ART Advocacy Chair.

ART: How did the centennial partnership between the GRAMMY Museum, Guthrie Family/Woody Guthrie Publications, and Woody Guthrie Archives come about?

TC: The centennial partnership between the GRAMMY Museum and the Woody Guthrie Archives has deep roots. For starters, we are both non-profit organizations committed to the history of American music. The Archives’ mission is to perpetuate Woody Guthrie’s life and legacy through the proactive preservation of his Archival material, whereas the GRAMMY Museum’s mission is to explore and celebrate the enduring legacies of all forms of music. Although these missions differ, with the Archives’ focus on preservation and research, and the GRAMMY Museum on public programs and activities, our two organizations can work together to use these archival documents to bring Guthrie’s life to a broad audience.

But it’s more than just our missions that link us together: Robert Santelli, Executive Director of the GRAMMY Museum, is actually a former researcher at the Woody Guthrie Archives. Since 1990, Santelli has researched in the Archives in support of several Woody Guthrie book projects, including his 2012 work This Land Is Your Land: Woody Guthrie and the Journey of the American Folk Song. He has maintained an active working relationship with Nora Guthrie – President of Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc and Director of the Woody Guthrie Archives – for over 20 years.

In a recent press release, Nora Guthrie comments on this partnership, remarking: "Because of its deep enthusiasm for Woody's creative legacy as well as the underlying influence he's had on so many musicians and songwriters in all genres of American music, the GRAMMY Museum is the obvious choice to help us celebrate the legacy that he created."

The centennial celebrations will include concerts, conferences, and exhibits across the United States, Canada, and Europe. We’ve launchedwww.Woody100.com as a one-stop-shop for all of our North American events, and www.Woody100.de for our European events. In addition to the events we are planning with the GRAMMY Museum, these sites also list the Grassroots events that Guthrie fans and supporters are planning across the world, including lecture series, concerts, hootenannies, and exhibits. In addition, there are many new releases – books, films, and musical albums – including many based solely on material from the Woody Guthrie Archives, set to launch in 2012 to help celebrate Guthrie’s centennial, and perpetuate his legacy.

ART: In terms of centennial celebrations for Woody in the New York area, there will be a concert at Brooklyn College as well as a conference at Penn State University in September. What topics relating to Woody Guthrie would you like to see explored at the conference?

TC: That’s a tough question, because there are so many facets of Woody Guthrie’s life yet to be explored! However, the great thing about the academic conferences being planned for this year is that rather than focus solely on a specific aspect of Guthrie’s life, each conference will use Guthrie as the starting point to open a discussion on a broader, contemporary theme. The theme for each conference will be selected by the host institution, allowing them to decide on a topic that is of direct relevance to their local community.

The 2012 Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebrations will include four large academic conferences: Tulsa, Los Angeles, Penn State, and Brooklyn.

The Tulsa conference, Different Shades of Red: Woody Guthrie and the Oklahoma Experience at 100, used Guthrie as a stepping stone to discuss Oklahoma politics. At the University of Southern California conference, Woody Guthrie’s Los Angeles: A Centenary Celebration, we’ll talk about Los Angeles in the late 1930s, where Guthrie worked for several local radio stations and wrote for various newspapers after fleeing the Dust Bowl. Woody At 100: Woody’s Legacy to Working Men & Women, the Penn State conference in September, will use Guthrie to focus on the labor movement and unions, while the theme for the Brooklyn conference, also in September, is yet to be announced.

ART: It has been announced that the research collection of the Woody Guthrie Archives will be relocating from Mount Kisco, NY, to Woody's home state of Oklahoma in 2013. How is the planning coming along for it?

TC: In 2013, the Woody Guthrie Archives will relocate from Mount Kisco, New York to a permanent home with the George Kaiser Family Foundation in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As a native Oklahoman, this move will truly bring Guthrie’s life full circle!

The Archives will be located in a repurposed warehouse – the Tulsa Paper Company – along with other arts oriented organizations, and I have had the opportunity to walk through the building site several times. Work is already underway, and it is exciting to see the Archives’ new home come to life! I have had meetings with the building architects to review design plans and requirements, discussing the archival needs to be taken into consideration during the design phase. This relocation to Tulsa will ensure continued researcher access to the material in the collection, and the long-term preservation of over 10,000 pages of documents held in the Woody Guthrie Archives.

More information on Woody Guthrie centennial events is available online.

Advocacy Alert: NJ State Division of Archives and Records Management

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:58:18 GMT

CLICK HERE FOR FULL ACTION ALERT

The Issue: The proposed FY2013 state budget released by NJ Governor Chris Christie calls for splitting the State Division of Archives and Records Management (DARM), transferring its records management program to the Department of the Treasury and leaving the State Archives behind in the Department of State. This proposal would sever a function of government that was integrated nearly a century ago, at the urging of New Jersey’s history community, to ensure public records preservation and improved government accountability. Separating these integrated and interdependent functions will seriously hamper the effective management of records and archives for State and local government, and put New Jersey’s documentary heritage at risk.

Contact: Call, write, fax, or e-mail the following individuals and your district legislators urging them to transfer the State’s Archives and Records Management programs to the Department of the Treasury as one agency. At least send a short email to the NJ Governor or call:

Governor: Hon. Chris Christie, Office of the Governor, P.O. Box 001, Trenton, NJ 08625-0001	Tel. (609) 292-6000
	Fax (609) 292-3454
	E-mail Chris.Christie@gov.state.nj.us

New York History Blog Post: "A New Face for the Associated Press" by Nick Pavlik

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:03:11 GMT

Nick Pavlik has written a post for the New York History blog on the Associated Press Archives and about the recent ART monthly program at AP:

http://www.newyorkhistoryblog.com/2012/03/nick-pavlik-new-face-for-associated.html

DORIS Sign-On Letter Update

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:31:33 GMT

We are nearing 1,500 signatures for the sign-on letter in support of NYC's
Dept. of Records and Information Services. Thank you to all who have helped with this advocacy effort! The sign-on letter deadline is soon, so please sign-on today- http://bit.ly/yeO7q8.

"For The Record" March 2012 Edition Now Available!

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 21:20:26 GMT

The ART Board invites you to check out the March 2012 edition of For The Record: News From The Archivists Round Table.

You can access For The Record within your browser here.

For The Record provides members with the latest news between meetings and will keep members informed in-between issues of Metropolitan Archivist, our semi-annual publication.

For future editions, we encourage you to subscribe if you have not done so already.

Here is a direct link to sign up: http://bit.ly/wnO7T1

You will have the option of receiving For The Record as HTML, text, or in mobile format.

Emma Curtis serves as Editor, and all content is compiled by the ART Communications and Outreach Committee.

Please contact Ryan Donaldson, Coordinator, Communications and Outreach Committee at outreach@nycarchivists.org with any comments, questions, or suggestions.

ART Member Nick Pavlik Joins the New York History Blog

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 04:28:30 GMT

We are pleased to announce that ART member Nick Pavik has joined as ART’s Editor for member contributions to the New York History blog. Providing “historical news and views from the Empire State,” New York History reaches nearly 2,000 people each day via Email, RSS, Twitter, and Facebook updates.

Nick is a recent graduate from the MLS program at Queens College, CUNY, and is now the archivist for the 92nd Street Y. Founded in 1874, 92Y is one of New York's preeminent cultural institutions, conducting a wide range of community programs and presenting performances, readings, discussions, and lectures from world-renowned political leaders, scholars, literary figures, and performing artists. Prior to joining 92Y, Nick was a member of the project team for "Uncovering the Secrets of Brooklyn's Nineteenth-Century Past: Creation to Consolidation," an archival survey project at the Brooklyn Historical Society that resulted in the creation of hundreds of online descriptive records for BHS's unique and invaluable collections. Nick has also worked as an intern at the archives of the American Museum of Natural History and the New York Transit Museum.

On the New York History blog, Nick will be posting content related to ART’s activities and events, as well as general NYC archival news and updates. Nick’s posts so far include articles about NYC’s Department of Records and Information Services as well as a Q+A with Tessa Fallon of the Human Rights Web Archive at Columbia University Library. He welcomes your ideas for future content, and can be reached at nickpavlik@gmail.com.

Please Help the NYC Department of Records and Information Services

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 23:09:01 GMT

At the behest of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, the New York City Council has proposed legislation (Int. 486-2011) that would eliminate the autonomy of New York City’s Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS), the agency that is responsible for the records and archival documents produced by past and present City governments.

Please add your name to the sign-on letter to oppose the proposed legislation, and advocate for the preservation of DORIS as an autonomous records agency, with the financial support and professional respect it deserves. The sign-on letter is located at http://www.nycarchivists.org/doris_petition. Every signature matters. Help New York City, as an international cultural and financial leader, and the place with the greatest variety and highest density of archives in the world, set the standard for how a democratic government preserves and makes accessible its documentary heritage.

Our full position statement on the proposed Legislation (Int. 486-2011) is available through this link.

Are You Interested in Running for the ART Board?

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:10:30 GMT

At this time, The Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York would like to bring to membership's attention our upcoming annual election for open Board positions. Elections will open at the end of May and the winners will be announced at our business meeting in June, however, we invite members to inquire about open positions now.

Board positions are a two-year commitment. Being on the ART Board is a wonderful opportunity to give back to the profession, volunteer within the local community and to network with fellow archivists. If you are interested in running for open positions, or know of anyone who would make a good candidate, please email the Membership and Nominating Committee at membership@nycarchivists.org to begin a conversation, and learn more about the opportunities on the ART Board.

Thank you, and we look forward to your participation!

Best,

Heather F. Ball
Membership and Nominating Committee Coordinator, ART

Announcing an SAA Workshop in New York City: Visual Literacy for Photograph Collections

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 04:39:14 GMT

Society of American Archivists Workshop: Visual Literacy for Photograph Collections

Details:
Monday, May 21, 2012
9 am- 5pm
The National Archives at New York City
New York, NY

Workshop Description

This workshop provides methods to gain information from photographs and to understand how this information can be applied in a practical manner to help manage, arrange, and describe collections more effectively and for researchers to extract information. If you’ve attended SAA’s “Understanding Photographs” workshop, this is your next step! This workshop adds more concepts that are important for understanding the intellectual and physical nature of photographs. Incorporating these concepts into daily practice can have practical and economical benefit for the archivist and provide better service to the researcher. Learn to understand the photograph as artifact,visual literacy, and their application to photograph collection management and research uses.

Upon completing this workshop, you’ll:

Have examined visual literacy in-depth and learned to apply this information in practice always to arrange and describe photograph collections;
Know about the importance of the concept of object and image in collection management and the difference between physical order and intellectual order;
Comprehend the intellectual and social nature of photographs;
Understand the photographic messages, the complex collective life of photographs, and how the photographic information can be obscured or changed over time; and
Be able to apply this knowledge to managing photo collections to save time and money.
Who should attend? Archivists or others who work with photograph collections and researchers wishing to understand more about finding information contained in photographs. Archivists or others who want to build on the knowledge gained from the introductory SAA “Understanding Photographs” workshop.

Attendance limited to 30.

More information and a link to registration is available at the following link:

http://saa.archivists.org/4DCGI/events/329.html?Action=Conference_Detail&ConfID_W=329

The Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York is proud to serve as a co-sponsor of this event. ART members receive a discount of $25 off the early bird registration price by entering code VLPC25NY during online registration.

Thanks to the National Archives at New York City for graciously hosting this event. Please direct all questions regarding the workshop to the Society of American Archivists.

Call for Donations! Help Occupy Wall Street Archives

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:06:30 GMT

Call for Donations!
Help Occupy Wall Street Archives

Your fellow archivists need your help!

Since the early days of Occupy Wall Street, members of the OWS Archives Working Group have been engaged in collecting materials significant to documenting the movement. Without financial support, however, the collections languish in a general office space, uncataloged and exposed to the surrounding environment.
As part of its mission, the Archivists Round Table Advocacy Committee is working to support the efforts of the OWS archivists. To that end, the ART Advocacy Committee is holding a donation drive to collect materials desperately needed by the OWS Archives to process the collections. Please consider donating any unneeded materials or materials ready to be discarded by your institutions.

Your donations will help the OWS archivists fulfill their mission to develop a grass roots collection documenting the actions and legacy of the movement, in the overall spirit of openness and transparency advocated by the OWS movement. In addition, support from the professional archival community will lend a legitimacy to the OWS Archives and boost their visibility within the OWS movement.

We are collecting donations of:
•   Acid-free boxes (any size)
•   Acid-free folders (any size)
•   Pencils
•   Archival-quality pens
•   Acid-free tissue paper
•   Archival-quality labels
•   Digital storage media (i.e. flash drives, hard drives)
•   Any office supplies (notepads, paper, pens, etc.)

If you are able to donate, please contact the ART Advocacy Committee at advocacy@nycarchivists.org with a list of materials. We will determine on a case-by-case basis how best to collect materials.

For more information on the OWS archives, see the following websites:

OWS Archives Working Group:
http://www.nycga.net/groups/the-occupy-wallstreet-archives/

OWS Archives Mission Statement:
http://www.nycga.net/groups/the-occupy-wallstreet-archives/docs/occupy-wall-street-mission-statement

NYC General Assembly:
http://www.nycga.net/

Submitted by ART Advocacy Committee

ART Member Rachel L. Conrad Joins the Metropolitan Archivist as Managing Editor

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:44:57 GMT

We are pleased to announce that ART member Rachel L. Conrad has joined the staff of Metropolitan Archivist, as a managing editor. Rachel brings a unique set of skills and experiences to her role: she currently serves as publications editor at the New York Philharmonic, where she was originally employed as an editorial assistant from 2003 to 2006 while she pursued a master's degree in library science at Pratt's School of Library and Information Science, which she obtained in 2006.

She added that degree to an already impressive academic portfolio, which includes a bachelor's degree in flute performance and music history from Temple University and an M.A. in musicology from NYU. After earning her library degree, Rachel spent three years in Washington D.C. as an online publishing specialist at the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

She returned to New York in 2010, when the Philharmonic offered her her current position as publications editor. As a managing editor at the Metropolitan Archivist, Rachel joins a team that already includes Mary Ann Quinn and Madeline Rogers, both of whom are delighted to welcome her.

Rachel's extracurricular passion, apart from her cat Mimi, is hiking and long-distance walking. Between hiking trips abroad (most recently to Tenerife) she stays in shape by walking at least one way to work each day, weather permitting, from her home in Brooklyn (about eight miles).

Submitted by Madeline Rogers

ART Mourns the loss of colleague Steve Siegel

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:16:33 GMT

STEVEN W. SIEGEL died early Saturday morning, 21 January 2012, at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. He would have been 66 on Feb. 23.

Funeral, Monday, Jan. 23rd at 10AM at the Plaza Memorial Chapel,

630 Amsterdam Avenue, (91st Street) in Manhattan (www.plazajewishcommunitychapel.org/).

Please direct condolences in care of Steve’s mother, Mrs. Eleanor Siegel,
9511 Weldon Circle – Apt 302, Tamarac, Florida 33321.

Steve was a dear friend and mentor to countless Jewish genealogists. A founding member of the Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc. (NY) and an original member of the JGS Executive Council, he served as JGS president from 1985 to 1989 and again in 2011. He was the only founding member of the JGS who served on the JGS Executive Board from its inception in 1977 to now. He served on the Center for Jewish History's Genealogy Task Force which helped establish the Center's Genealogy Institute.

Steve was also active in the wider genealogical and archival communities. A professional archivist and librarian, he worked for many years as library director at the 92nd Street YM-YWHA in Manhattan. He was past president of the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York and initiated New York's annual Family History Fair, an event that he chaired for 16 years. Steve was the 2004 recipient of the Archival Achievement award in recognition of his management of the Fair for so many years.

A proficient writer and editor, Steve was co-founder and co-editor of "Toledot: The Journal of Jewish Genealogy," from 1977 to 1983, and served as managing editor and acting editor of JGS's newsletter, Dorot. He also compiled Archival Resources, Volume I of Jewish Immigrants of the Nazi Period in the USA (Saur, 1978) and, with Zachary Baker, "A Bibliography of Eastern European Memorial (Yizkor) Books" (1992).

Steve was president of the Jewish Historical Society of New York, a director of the Jewish Book Council, and a member of Association of Professional Genealogists. A proud Cornell alumnus, he served on the Board of Trustees of Cornell University Hillel and on the Cornell University Council. He recently received the Frank H.T. Rhodes Exemplary Alumni Service Award for 2011.

Steve was a native of New Jersey -- he was born in Union City and grew up in Teaneck -- but he lived on Manhattan's upper East Side for many years. Beloved son of Eleanor Simon Siegel and the late Morris Siegel, he is also survived by his brother, Jerry Siegel; sister, Connie Siegel Dennis and nieces Jessica and Katelyn Dennis. Steve's life partner for 29 years, Rob Selden, died in 2008.

May his memory be as a blessing.

Roni Seibel Liebowitz

President, JGS, Inc. (NY)

President@JGSNY.org

To make a gift anyone can use any of the following options – and for each one – please make sure to note that it is in memory of Steven Siegel.

Mail a check (made out to Cornell University with Cornell Hillel.
IMO Steven Siegel in the memo line or attached note) to:
Cornell University
Box 223623
Pittsburgh, PA 15251-2623

To make a gift by phone, call our Annual Fund office at: 1-800-279-3099 and mention that the gift is directed to Cornell Hillel in memory of Steven Siegel.

Or, to make a gift online, click on the link below:

https://www.giving.cornell.edu/give/ and in “Other” Section, “Cornell Hillel” can be noted along with indication of it being in memory of Steven Siegel.

American Institute for Conservation Blog Post on ART's Artists' Records Symposium

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:46:59 GMT

"Conservators Converse," the Emerging Conservation Professionals Network blog of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, has published a nice review of ART's Artists' Records in the Archives symposium. The symposium was held in October as part of the 2011 New York Archives Week.

The blog post was written by Amy Brost, and she describes how the symposium was relevant for conservators working today. She concluded by saying "I gained a new appreciation for the field of archives and preservation, and I am excited by the new directions for collaboration between archivists and conservators."

The post can be accessed at:

http://www.conservators-converse.org/2012/01/artists-records-in-the-archives-a-two-day-symposium/

ART wants to thank Amy and the American Institute for Conservation. We also look forward to future collaborations between archivists and conservators!

New Winter Issue of Metropolitan Archivist Now Available!

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 07:02:40 GMT

The new winter issue of Metropolitan Archivist is now available on the ART website or can

be downloaded directly.

Direct link: http://bit.ly/uvIagj

In this issue:

*FEATURES*

"FROM FEVER TO FOLDER: Session Presentations from the 'To the Source' Symposium"

featuring contributions from Grace Lile, Jonathan Lill, and Jenna Freedman

"The Cooper Union 100th Anniversary Photographs"

by Julie Castelluzzo & Carol Salomon

"Roundabout Theatre's Stephen Sondheim Theatre: Discovering Its Past"

by Tiffany Nixon

"Edward Steichen Archive Now Available at the Museum of Modern Art"

by Celia Hartmann

"Brooklyn Historical Society Launches Project to Teach Undergrads to Use Archives"

by Robin Katz

"METRO Digitization Grant at the Center for Jewish History"

by Susan Woodland

"History Coming Home"

by John Beekman

*METRO ARCHIVIST INTERVIEW*

with Jason Kucsma, Executive Director,

Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)

*BOOK REVIEWS*

*CITING COLLECTIONS*

*ART BOARD REPORTS*

*And more, so... take a look inside!

Author @ the library presents: 2011 ART Award Winner Carl Ballenas & Aquinas Honor Society at the NYPL Tuesday 12/27 6:30PM

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:48:43 GMT

The New York Public Library welcomes Carl Ballenas and the Aquinas Honor Society of the Immaculate Conception School. They will present an illustrated lecture of

their book Images of America: Jamaica (Arcadia Publishing).

Via Arcadia Publishing's website

When: Tuesday, December 27th, 2011

Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm

Where: New York Public Library, Mid-Manhattan Branch,

40th Street and 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10016

This program is FREE.

Please note elevators access the 6th floor after 6p.m.

More information is available on the NYPL website.

About the presenters:

Carl Ballenas, a local historian, author and award-winning teacher with The Aquinas Honor Society of the Immaculate Conception School, a group of academically gifted students under his direction, previously partnered on the book Images of America: Jamaica Estates. Mr. Ballenas is also the coauthor of Images of America: Richmond Hill and Images of America: Maple Grove Cemetery.

The 2011 Archivists Round Table honorees (from left to right): Brian G. Andersson, retired commissioner, NYC Department of Records; Councilwoman Gale Brewer; New York Philharmonic Archivist-Historian Barbara Haws; Bob George, director, ARChive of Contemporary Music; Amne Madi, past president, Aquinas Honor Society; and Carl Ballenas, moderator, Aquinas Honor Society. Photograph by Michael Lorenzini, 10/13/11. Via ART's Flickr page.

Mr. Ballenas and his students received the Educational Use of Archives Award from ART at the 2011 Awards Ceremony held at Columbia University's Faculty House. The Awards Ceremony was the premier event of this year's 23rd Annual New York Archives Week. Archives Week events include lectures, tours of repositories, and workshops, all free and open to the public. These special events are designed to celebrate the importance of historical records, and to familiarize interested organizations and the public with a wealth of fascinating archival materials illuminating centuries of New York City history and culture.

Video of the awards event has been by provided by Amne Madi, Former President of the Aquinas Honor Society: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4PALgLJANQ.

See the 2011 ART Awards Ceremony Program:

http://www.nycarchivists.org/Resources/Documents/2011_ART_Awards_Ceremony_Journal.pdf

Carl Ballenas examines documents from his collections with Betsy Rosalen at the K-12 Archival Education Institute at the National Archives on Saturday, December 4, 2010. Photograph by Johanna O'Toole. Via ART's Flickr page.

Mr. Ballenas also participated in ART's inaugural K-12 Archives Education Institute (AEI). The AEI paired professional archivists with Metropolitan New York educators to demonstrate how archival documents can be incorporated in class curriculum to achieve state mandated learning standards. The focus of the 2010 AEI was on the theme of civil and human rights curricula. ART, in partnership with the National Archives at New York City and United Federation of Teachers/United Teachers of Social Studies, sponsor the AEI each year. More details, including registration information, about the 2012 AEI will become available this Spring on the ART website.

More about the K-12 Archives Education Institute:

ART's Flickr album for the 2010 AEI

ART's Flickr album for the 2011 AEI

"NARA K-12 Education Institute," Archives and Public History Digital Post:

http://aphdigital.org/2010/11/01/nara-k-12-education-institute/

*On January 19th, 2012, ART will present Young Historians, Local Educators, and Availing Archivists: Teaching with Primary Source Materials and Common Core Standards. This special program features the AEI, with a presentation by Marisa Gitto, AEI Curriculum Coordinator. This event is hosted by the National Archives at New York City. Admission is free but pre-registration is required on the ART website.* ART thanks MetLife for its generous support of the Archives Education Institute.