The Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York, Inc. (A.R.T.) Board seeks input from current membership to more effectively meet its needs and increase sustainability.

The survey can be accessed at:

https://nycarchivists.wufoo.com/forms/art-member-survey-winter-2015/

Your feedback and comments are invaluable. You may submit your responses anonymously or provide your name and email. If you supply your contact info, the A.R.T. Board may contact you regarding your responses.

Thank you for your participation! The survey ends February 23, 2015 at midnight EST.

Please contact Tamar Zeffren, Director of the Membership Committee, for A.R.T. member questions regarding this survey, at membership@nycarchivists.org.

With funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the newly formed Crowdsourcing Consortium for Libraries and Archives (CCLA) aims to forge a national partnership to examine how crowdsourcing technologies, tools, and platforms can help libraries, museums, and archives augment their collections and enhance user experiences.

Through an ongoing series of meetings and webinars, the CCLA team is now collecting cutting-edge information and best practices in the field and summarizing them in an accessible way, with accompanying principles, strategies, and resources to be continuously gathered and shared on the CCLA website (www.crowdconsortium.org).

The questions in this survey cover a variety of topics, including the challenges faced by institutions in implementing crowdsourcing applications as well as personal media usage habits. 

This survey aims to inform technology development and government agencies' funding of projects in the crowdsourcing domain. With this work, we are establishing what we know and do not know as a community. This anonymous questionnaire will take no more than 10 minutes.

Here's the link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CCLASurvey2

Take the 2015 Archivists Employment Survey!

SAA is gathering employment data relating to archivists and the archives profession. Your participation will help us better understand the current employment landscape and inform our advocacy efforts. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey, and spread the word so that the survey reaches as many archives professionals as possible. Thank you!

Click here to take the survey.

Interference Archive is continuing their education series, and seeks proposals for single-session classes. Classes could be lectures, film viewing and discussion, hands-on workshops, or any other format you can imagine. In keeping with the mission of Interference Archive, there is a goal of exploring the link between social movements and culture-making.

Deadline for proposals is January 30th.

For more information:

http://interferencearchive.org/education-working-group-invitation-for-class-proposals/

Posted on behalf of the SAA Awards Committee.

The Society of American Archivists’ Awards Committee is seeking nominations for the Sister M. Claude Lane, O.P., Memorial Award. This award recognizes individuals who have made a significant contribution to the field of religious archives. Criteria for nomination include:

·        Involvement and work in the Archivists of Religious Collections Section (ARCS) of the Society of American Archivists.

·        Contributions to archival literature that relates to religious archives.

·        Participation and leadership in religious archives organizations.

·        Evidence of leadership in specific religious archives.

Only individual archivists are eligible for nomination. The award is sponsored by the Society of Southwest Archivists, in conjunction with Society of American Archivists.  It is named in honor of  Sister M. Claude Lane, the first professionally trained archivist at the Catholic Archives of Texas in Austin, who served there from 1960 until her death in 1974. The award finalist is recognized with a certificate from SAA and a $300 cash prize provided by the Society of Southwest Archivists at the annual Society of American Archivists meeting. 

For more information on the Lane Award, including past winners, see:

http://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-lane

To nominate an archivist for the Lane Award please follow the guidelines provided in the Nomination Form via the link on that page.

All nominations shall be submitted to the Awards Committee by February 28, 2015.

Please contact me if you have any questions:

David Kingma, CA

Foley Center Library

Gonzaga University

502 East Boone

Spokane, WA 99258-0095

509-313-3814

kingma@gonzaga.edu

 

As reported on the Society of American Archivists website:

CHICAGO—Thirty-six archivists earned the Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) certificate from the Society of American Archivists (SAA) after completing required coursework and passing a comprehensive examination in November. SAA’s DAS certificate program was developed by experts in the field of digital archives and provides archivists with the information and tools needed to manage the demands of born-digital records.

DAS certificate holders must complete nine courses from four tiers: Foundational, Tactical and Strategic, Tools and Services, and Transformational, and pass the comprehensive examination. DAS certificate holders have the skills to understand the nature of electronic records; define requirements, roles, and responsibilities related to digital archives; formulate strategies for appraising, describing, managing, organizing, and preserving digital archives; plan for new tools and technologies and integrate them into existing functions to appraise, capture, preserve, and provide access to digital collections; curate, store, and retrieve original masters and access copies of digital archives; and provide reliable service related to electronic records and digital archives.

The new Digital Archives Specialists are: Marci Behm (Des Moines Public Library), Michael L. Case (USO), Jenny Cashman (Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences), Ryan A. Donaldson (The Durst Organization), Martin Firestein (William Rainey Harper College), Sharon L. Guthrie (Rice University), Mary Haberle (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences), Sarah A. Haug (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum), Jennifer Ho (Chicago Community Trust), Amy B. James (Maryland State Archives), Kellie M. Johnson (Utah Valley University), Lisa Johnston (University of Minnesota), Jennifer E. King (The George Washington University), Elizabeth S. Knight (Consulting Archivist), Carol Kussmann (University of Minnesota), Matthew B. Leavitt (Brigham Young University), Janice Lurie (Minneapolis Institute of Arts), Alexis S. Macklin (University of Colorado, Boulder), Jamie L. Martin (IBM Corporation Archives), Shannon Mawhiney (Missouri State University), Megan H. McGovern (Progressive Insurance), Jessica McIntyre (Minneapolis Institute of Arts), Lisa A. Mix (New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center), Martha R. Noble (California Judicial Center Library), Amanda G. Pellerin (Jimmy Carter Presidential Library), Clint Pumphrey (Utah State University), Andrea W. Richardson (The Portman Archives), Rebecca Russell (Rice University), Lisa M. Schmidt (Michigan State University), Lauren Seney (The College of William and Mary), Elizabeth Shepard (Weill Cornell Medical Center Archives), Gina M. Strack (Utah State Archives), Lisa Sutton (Washington National Records Center), Rodney R. Swaner (Utah State Archives), Ashley L. Taylor (University of Pittsburgh), and Todd Welch (Northern Arizona University).

A total of 186 people have earned Digital Archives Specialist certificates since the program began in October 2011. Currently, there are more than six hundred participants in SAA’s DAS program who are working toward earning a certificate. For more information, visit www2.archivists.org/prof-education/das or contact SAA Education Director Solveig De Sutter (sdesutter@archivists.org).

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Founded in 1936, the Society of American Archivists is North America’s oldest and largest national archival professional association. SAA enables more than 6,100 individual and institutional members to achieve professional excellence and foster innovation to ensure the identification, preservation, and use of records of enduring value. For more information, visit www.archivists.org.

The National Humanities Alliance is having their annual meeting and advocacy day March 16-17 in Washington DC.  

What better way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day than meeting members of Congress and advocating for Federal funding of archives?

For more info and registration see: http://www.nhalliance.org/events/index.shtml

Advance registration closes January 31st.

The new issue of the International Council on Archives' Human Rights Working Group News, containing information about events that occurred in December, is now on line at http://www.ica.org/16770/hrwg-newsletter/hrwg-newsletter-december-2014.html

The recently-passed Senate FOIA bill is jostling with lots of other unfinished business for room on the House’s suspension calendar. If It doesn’t make it on the calendar, it dies for the year – and will likely be even harder to pass next year (http://www.openthegovernment.org/Now_or_Never_FOIA). Please help us convince Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader McCarthy that they cannot miss this opportunity to pass a bill that will make federal agencies more accountable to the public.

 

Please tweet:

@SpeakerBoehner & @GOPLeader don't miss this opportunity to make fed agcys more accountable to the public! Schedule #FOIA vote today

The new issue of the International Council on Archives' Human Rights Working Group News, containing information about events that occurred in November, is now on line at http://www.ica.org/16981/hrwg-newsletter/hrwg-newsletter-november-2014.html