Tag: reading discussion

Article Discussion: Trading Eights: Teaching Collaboratively with Primary Sources

The Teaching with Primary Sources Subcomittee of the Reference, Access and Outreach Section would like to invite you to an informal article discussion on Friday, November 15 on Zoom. We will be discussing the article “Trading Eights: Teaching Collaboratively with Primary Sources” by Jill E. Anderson and Kevin Fleming. This article is freely available online at creativelibrarypractice.org/2019/10/23/…

We look forward to seeing you there!

Zoom Information

When: Nov 15, 2024 01:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) 

Register in advance for this meeting:

uky.zoom.us/meeting/register/… 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Book Discussion: GLAM Bookworms

Join the next G.L.A.M.* Bookworms book discussion!

Book: THE VAULTS by Toby Ball: In a dystopian 1930s American metropolis, a chilling series of events leads three men – a journalist, an archivist, and a private investigator – down a path to uncover their city’s darkest secret.

When: Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024, 7pm (EST)

Where: Zoom, RSVP required: info@wolfsonarchives.org

*Gallery, Library, Archives, and Museum professionals, but anyone is welcome to join!

Next discussion: THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY by Matt Haig, Mar. 19, 2025, 7pm (EDT)

Sponsored by Miami Dade College’s Wolfson Archives.

Need any additional information or have any questions? Please contact me directly at lkramer1@mdc.edu.

Thank you!

Regards,

Lou Ellen Kramer
Miami Dade College Archives

G.L.A.M. Bookworms discussion

Miami Dade College’s Wolfson Archives invites everyone to join the next G.L.A.M. Bookworms discussion:

THE BOOK OF LOST NAMES by Kristin Harmel
Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, 7pm
via Zoom

[The next discussion (we’re switching things up a bit): 
THE VAULTS by Toby Ball
Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024, 7pm
via Zoom]

Please share with anyone who might be interested-​all are welcome to join the book club!

Please let me know if you have any questions: lkramer1@mdc.edu.

Regards,
Ms. Lou Ellen Kramer
Archives Manager
Miami Dade College

Reading Discussion: Eira Tansey’s “A Green New Deal For Archives”

Please join SAA’s Issues & Advocacy Section Steering Committee for our 1st meetup of 2024 in the Hive Mind program series, in which we will be discussing Eira Tansey’s A Green New Deal For Archives on Thursday, January 25th from 2-3pm EST (1-2pmCT/12-1pmMT/11-12pmPST).  Zoom information below.

Tansey’s important work brings up a lot of issues archives and archivists are facing and calls for us to take action in demonstrating the centrality of our work.

We invite you to join us for this conversation to talk about this thought (and hopefully action)-provoking piece.  Topics we plan to discuss include: 

  • Gaps inarchival education: How do we effectively create opportunities to understand the impacts of climate change on communities and collections in both graduate archival programs and continuing professional education?)
  • Advocacy: What strategies if any are archival professionals currently using to advocate for engaging with communities impacted by climate change? Are any institutions actively changing collecting practices in ways that adapt to climate change?) 
  • Cross-institutional collaboration: How are institutions supporting one another against the threat of climate change in their region? Are there networks that might be activated to ensure the safety of both communities and collections as threats associated with climate change are realized?

We look forward to seeing you there!  Please reach out with any questions or concerns.  

Issues and Advocacy Section Steering Committee 

Elizabeth Call is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: I&A Hive Mind

Time: Jan 25, 2024 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

rit.zoom.us/j/91575968470

Meeting ID: 915 7596 8470

Find your local number: rit.zoom.us/u/amko9M5Sv

Announcing the “Archival Futures: Ethics and Carework in the Archive” Reading Group

From Archive/Counterarchive

If the archive is a remnant, it is one that keeps whispering to me, insisting on its place in my everyday life.

Julietta Singh, No Archive Will Restore You (Punctum, 2018)

How have attitudes about ethics and care in archival research – and other work concerning archives and special collections – changed in recent years? How has this shifted the social, cultural, economic, and political significance of archives in scholarly and creative forms of humanistic inquiry? In the Archival Futures reading group, we will make our way through a curated list of key readings that illustrate the ways that archival scholarship in a variety of disciplines and research areas and features a range of important voices in the field. Selected readings focus on contemporary, evolving critical and generative conversations taking place between scholars and the archive, attending to themes of ethics and carework and the ways relationships between collections and different forms of scholarship are framed and reimagined in recent texts. 

Our first reading will be a selection from Michelle Caswell’s Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work (Routledge, 2021), a call to action for archivists and others to reimagine and renegotiate the relations between archives, affected communities, and the present.

This reading group is intended for academics, artists, and memory workers from any background interested and/or involved in scholarly and creative research about archives and invites participants to read, discuss, and share perspectives. Some knowledge and experience working and reading in archives and/or archival studies is useful but not necessary.

SCHEDULE AND REGISTRATION

The group will be led by Dr. Julia Polyck-O’Neill (University of Guelph). The first session will take place via Zoom on Thursday Oct 5 at 4:30pm EST. Please register using the Google Form below. Subsequent meetings will also be held throughout the Fall and Winter semesters, with specific dates to be announced shortly. 

https://forms.gle/3WpLKCcv79HG9uDb7

SAA RAO Section April Article Discussion Group

Please join us on Thursday, April 20th at 3pm EST for the next Article Discussion Group. We will be reading Teaching with Ephemera by Julia Gardner and David Pavelich, which is available freely online.

For this month’s selection we want to try something new. Following the group discussion portion, we would like to have a show-and-tell, where participants are encouraged to share their favorite objects and/or ephemeral collections to teach with. Come with examples and tell us what ephemera have been a hit (or miss) in your instruction sessions! We hope that this will be an interactive session.

  • When: April 20th, 3pm-4pm EST
  • Register in advance for this meeting: bit.ly/3mvGNu3

JCAS Reading Group with Elizabeth Joan Kelly

Details

Tuesday, July 28, 2020 at 1 PM – 2 PM EDT

Hosted by Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

Online Event

Join us for a Q&A session with JCAS author Elizabeth Joan Kelly about her article “Assessing Impact of Medium-Sized Institution Digital Cultural Heritage on Wikimedia Projects.” Read the article and discuss strategies for increasing access to digital cultural heritage resources.

Download the article: elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol6/iss1/25

This event is free and will be hosted by the NEA Education Committee using Zoom. Registration is limited to 100 participants.