Month: January 2023

CFP: MAA 2023

The Michigan Archival Association Program Committee is seeking session proposals for the 2023 Virtual Conference on Monday, June 19 – Tuesday, June 20, 2023.  You do not need to be an MAA member to present and we are also happy to contact people to fill in our program. So if you know someone working on an interesting project, please let us know!  

Possible session topics include, but are not limited to:

  • All things digital (access, preservation, new technologies, etc.)
  • Archivists in non-traditional settings (e.g., private archives, consultants, corporate)
  • Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
  • Career planning/advice
  • Cataloging and metadata
  • Collections management
  • Conservation
  • Donor relations/cultivation
  • Exhibits on a budget
  • Fostering a diverse and inclusive profession
  • Fundraising and grant writing
  • Invisible labor
  • Processing
  • Promoting collections
  • Records Management
  • Reference
  • Repository round-up (short updates on projects presented at past conferences)
  • Web archiving, preserving social media

Please consider using the MAA 2023 Session Proposal Collaboration spreadsheet to find others interested in your topic. 

To submit a proposal, please complete the MAA 2023 Annual Meeting Session Proposal form.  Proposals are due by January 20, 2023.

There will be a separate call for poster session proposals in early 2023.

Thank you and please feel free to spread the word!  Let us know if you have any questions or concerns. We look forward to hearing from you!

Sincerely,

MAA Program Committee

Elizabeth Nicholson, Chair
elizabethanicholson at gmail dot com

Eli Landaverde
elandav at msu dot edu

Request for Speakers: Unpacking Access (Library History Round Table)

Call for Submissions to 2022 ALA LHRT Research Forum: Unpacking Access 

The Library History Round Table (LHRT) of the American Library Association (ALA) seeks proposals for its annual Research Forum, to be held in advance of the 2023 ALA Annual Meeting. 

To accommodate as many LHRT members as possible, the 2023 LHRT Research Forum will be held virtually on a date to be determined in mid-to-late June 2023.

The theme of the Forum is “Unpacking Access.” The Forum will examine the histories of library practices and policies around user access to facilities and collections.  Each speaker will be asked to present for approximately 20 minutes, with a 10-minute Q&A to follow.

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, histories of: 

  • Interlibrary loan and resource sharing; 
  • Public domain and open access materials; 
  • Circulation policies; 
  • Use of library facilities by community members; 
  • Library responses to book challenges from patrons and censorship by the state; 
  • Patron use of special collections and rare books; 
  • Relations between public services and technical services staff regarding issues of acquisitions, cataloging, and processing of materials; 
  • Subscriptions to and use of vendor-owned licensed databases in libraries; 
  • The question of “access vs. ownership” in collection development;
  • Other explorations of access 

LHRT welcomes submissions from researchers of all backgrounds, including library students, practitioners, faculty, independent researchers, and those retired from the field. LHRT especially encourages submissions from early-career researchers.  

Each proposal must give the paper title, an abstract (up to 500 words), and the presenter’s one-page vita. Please indicate in the abstract whether the research is in-progress or completed. 

The LHRT Research Committee will select up to three authors to present their completed work at the Forum. Proposals are due January 31; successful proposals will be notified shortly thereafter. Completed papers are due May 31. 

Please submit proposals and direct inquiries to Steve Knowlton, LHRT Vice Chair/Research Committee Chair, at steven.knowlton@princeton.edu. 

Research Committee Members: 

Alea Henle 

Jennifer Bartlett 

Catherine Minter 

Stacy Hisle 

Happy New Year!

Greetings readers!

After a nearly 2 year hiatus, I am going to start posting publishing news again. I recently started two service activities that inspired me coming back to this blog; I am on SAA’s Dictionary Working Group, and I was elected as the ACA Regent for Exam Development.

It turns out that because of both these positions, I find myself wanting to look at this blog to find sources. I have used the journal list frequently (now updated with current links) and lamented that there isn’t a single resource to browse newly published books.

Likely, it will take a while to get back into the groove of regular posts, so please bear with me as I get back on track. In the meantime, please feel free to send me anything you’d like posted.

I am excited to again provide a place to collate information about publishing in the archives profession. Thank you for reading!

Cheryl