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13 Jun ' 18:01
NYART JUNE MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
Archivists Round Table Annual Business MeetingA Presentation of the Leo Baeck Institute’s DigiBaeck Project
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street (between Fifth and Sixth Avenues), Manhattan. The Center for Jewish History is wheelchair accessible. 5:30 - 6:30 pm Social; 6:30 - 8:00 pm Program4, 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.phpFREE to members of the Archivists Round Table. $6 admission for all others. 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.
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27 Apr ' 07:14
NYART MAY MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
The Story of a Book: Changing Jersey City: A History in Photographs Please join the New York Archivists Round Table as we venture across the Hudson to the beautiful and historic Jersey City Free Public Library. We will be introduced to the holdings of the New Jersey Room, and learn how two dedicated authors collaborated on a pictorial history of the Garden State’s second largest city. Co-authors Leon Yost and Cynthia Harris will discuss how the concept of their book, Changing Jersey City: A History in Photographs, evolved over a three year period. Initially planning a simple collection of then and now views, they switched their approach to the evolution - sometimes including the rise, fall, and rebirth - of various sites and institutions intermingled with then and now views. Dividing their task based upon their strongest points of knowledge, Leon worked from the architectural viewpoint in the first three chapters while Cynthia addressed the last three chapters giving glimpses into the people who made up the city through the years. They will conduct a slide presentation highlighting some of the fascinating, sometimes quirky items in the book. Leon Yost is a professional documentary photographer who has worked as a location scout for the BBC and is published in Time-Life Books, American Photo, The New York Times, and many other publications. A Jersey City resident for 36 years, he has methodically photographed its changing landscape using a kind of reverse archeology by locating and re-photographing historically documented scenes. Jersey City-born Cynthia Harris was a middle school teacher in her hometown for 25 years. After suffering a substantial hearing loss she set her sights upon a new career in which she merged her hobby of collecting Hudson County postcards with the profession of librarianship and now manages the archival collection of Hudson County's history housed in the New Jersey Room of the Jersey City Free Public Library.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Jersey City Free Public Library (Main Library), 472 Jersey Avenue, Jersey City
5:45 - 6:30 pm Social; 6:30 - 7:45 pm Program
Subway Directions: The library is accessible via the Grove Street station of the PATH train, a quick trip from Manhattan. Directions will accompany RSVP confirmation.
Fee: FREE to members of the Archivists Round Table and staff of the Jersey City Free Public Library. $6 admission for all others.
RSVP: To Jennifer Anna by Friday, April 30, 2010 at veep@nycarchivists.org. Please provide first and last name and institutional affiliation within body of message. Let us know if this is your first meeting or if you are a new ART member. Please be sure that you can attend before responding.
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15 Apr ' 11:55
the Owner and Executive Vice President of Horizon Toys, Ltd., a large, local toy distributor that recruits from FIT's program. Speakers will discuss how historical research, reference, or records have influenced them or their work. In the case of the Cohens, they’ll reflect on their mother’s avocation in and love of costume history as manifested in her paper doll and clothes creation.
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12 Apr ' 07:14
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09 Apr ' 10:42
Historical Research? It's Childs' Play!: The Importance of Special Collections toToy Design in honor and loving memory of Malgert Halpern Cohen (1928-2007)
Friday, April 23, 2010In addition to supporting scholarly research that results in books and articles, archival collections are also heavily used within design disciplines for inspiration and innovation.Tonight’s program will focus on how the Fashion Institute of technology’s Special Collections and Archives supports academic research by the designers of tomorrow and the design industry of today through the example of toy design.
Speakers include Brendan Brick,a graduating student in FIT’s Toy Design program; Elisa and Rachel Cohen,donors of the Cohen family papers consisting mostly of their mother's creations of paper dolls with historically-correct costumes from (and for) scholarly research; and Roshan L. Wijerama and Evan Buzzerio the Owner and Executive Vice President of Horizon Toys, Ltd., a large, local toy distributor that recruits from FIT's program. Speakers will discuss how historical research, reference, or records have influenced them or their work. In the case of the Chen, they’ll reflect on their mother’s avocation in and love of costume history as manifested in her paper doll and clothes creation.
Following the presentations, attendees will have an opportunity to tour an exhibition of some of the relevant holdings from FIT Special Collections and Archives within the toy design focus.Attendees are invited to take time to visit the Museum at FIT's "Night and Day" exhibition ( http://fitnyc.edu/6842.asp ) on the Ground Floor of the E Building where they will see many original items from FIT Special Collections.Museum is free of charge and open to all.Date: Friday , April 23, 2010
Katie Murphy Auditorium (Conference center), D(Northwest corner) building, Ground Floor, Fashion institute of Technology (SUNY), Seventh Avenue at 27thStreet. Manhattan. http://www.fitnyc.edu/2688.asp5:30 - 6:30 pm Program (FIT Conference center) : 6:30 - 8:00 pm Social (Reference department, E Building 4th Floor, FIT Library, Southwest building)
*Please note: Due to campus regulations, the presentation part of the program will be first followed by the social gathering.Subway Directions : Please visit FIT’s website: http://www.fitnyc.edu/1888.aspFREE to members of the Archivists RoundTable and faculty, staff, students, and guests of the Fashion Institute of Technology (SUNY).$6 admission for all others.
To Jennifer Anna by Friday, April 16, 2010 at veep@nycarchivists.org . Please provide first and last name and institutional affiliation within body of message. Let us know if this is your first meeting or if you are a new ART member. Please be sure that you can attend before responding.
The Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York expresses its gratitude to the Fashion Institute of Technology(SUNY) for making this event possible.
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09 Mar ' 08:17
A Night with NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) Program
Monday, March 22, 2010
This month’s meeting focuses on moving image materials in all their diversity. From film reels to digital video, the MIAP program at New York University has the bases covered. Come hear about what’s new from the experts who help us to navigate the complex and fascinating world of moving pictures. Professor Dan Streible will talk about orphan film preservation and access, focusing on on-going projects with local repositories for the upcoming Orphan Film Symposium, held this year in New York from April 7-10 (please visit http://www.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/ for further information). MIAP student Joseph Gallucci will report on a video preservation project recently undertaken by Prof. Mona Jimenez’s students for the Latin American Video Archives. The presentation will be used as a springboard to discuss issues pertinent to the preservation of magnetic media, including storage methods, tape decomposition and signal loss, and current best practices for analog video preservation workflows. Professor Mona Jimenez will talk about saving digital video. Instead of boxes full of videotapes, archives will soon be acquiring hard drives or DVDs with video files. What is the production process for digital video, what challenges does it present for archives, and what are some of the evolving best practices for saving digital video?Joseph Gallucci is a second-year graduate student in the MIAP program. He has previously worked for the Fales Library and Special Collections at NYU, and has interned at the Pacifica Radio Archives, the Women's Film Preservation Fund, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Anthology Film Archives and Andrea Rosen Gallery. He is currently completing his Master's thesis on the born-digital working files of the artist Jeremy Blake.Mona Jimenez is an Associate Arts Professor and Associate Director in NYU's graduate program in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation. Her focus is on the preservation of independently produced video and digital media. She has consulted extensively on preservation projects with public television stations, community media stations, museums, libraries, archives and artist spaces, and for the past two years has led teams of moving image archivists to work with audiovisual collections in Ghana.Dan Streible is an associate professor of cinema studies at NYU and associate director of its MIAP program. He directs the Orphan Film Symposium, a biennial gathering of scholars, archivists, curators, and artists devoted to neglected films. He is author of Fight Pictures: A History of Boxing and Early Cinema (University of California Press, 2008) and co-editor of the forthcoming reader Learning with the Lights Off: A Reader in Educational Film (Oxford University Press).Date: Monday, March 22, 2010 Place: New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway Room 674. Manhattan.Time: 5:30 - 6:30 pm Social 6:30 - 8:00 pm Program Subway Directions: Astor Place 6 train or the 8th Street R and W trains. Fee: FREE to members of the Archivists Round Table and faculty, staff, and students of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, MIAP Program. $6 admission for all others RSVP: To Jenny Swadosh by Monday, March 15, 2010 jennyswadosh@gmail.com. Please provide first and last name and institutional affiliation within body of message. Please be sure that you can attend before responding. NOTE: Space is limited. Priority will be given to NYART members who were placed on a waiting list for the February meeting. -
02 Feb ' 15:27
Digitization in the Real World: A Panel DiscussionTuesday, February 9, 2010
The Metropolitan Library Council, or METRO, has been a guiding force in New York for the creation of digital collections. Its efforts include a combination of grant funding, workshops and digital hosting. Now, METRO is extending its efforts to an anthology of case studies of digital collections entitled, Digitization in the Real World, which will be self published by METRO. In collaboration with METRO, NYART is pleased to present a panel discussion by authors who have contributed their experiences with the creation and evolution of digital collections to the anthology. Participants are representative of different institutional perspectives, priorities, and needs.
Panelists include Professors Claudia A. Perry and Thomas T. Surprenant (Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies) on their ongoing efforts to teach MLS students digitization fundamentals through the creation of digital collections, Barbara Mathé and Stacy Schiff (American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)), on the digitization and database management of AMNH's extensive photograph collection, and Jill Annitto (managing archivist for the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archive Digital Library (ALBA)) on ALBA's digital library.
Claudia A. Perry is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies (GSLIS) , Queen College, CUNY, where she teaches courses in digital imaging, managing new technologies, and sci-tech reference. Dr. Perry holds a Ph.D. from Rutgers University, and has 20 years experience in health sciences and academic librarianship and administration. Research and professional interests include the evolving nature of digital technologies, diffusion of innovations, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Dr. Perry will serve as the Acting Director of the QC Center for Teaching and Learning in Spring 2010.
Thomas T. Surprenant is a Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies (GSLIS), Queens College, CUNY, where he teaches the basic computer technology course and digital imaging. Dr. Surprenant holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin and a second Master’s in Audiovisual Instruction. He has 15 years experience in special and academic libraries. He has over thirty years experience as a library school faculty member. Current research and professional interests include digital technologies, ePortfolios and teaching. He is currently the acting chair of the GSLIS.
Jill Annitto holds a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Master of Public Administration from Baruch College, CUNY, and a Bachelors degree from Loyola University Chicago. She is currently an archival consultant working with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to enact control over their 80,000 square-foot warehouse of September 11th artifacts at John F. Kennedy Airport. Her experience in digital asset management includes collections from the American Geographical Society Library at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the Brooklyn Historical Society, AFS Intercultural Programs (formerly the American Field Service), and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives.
Barbara Mathé has been Museum Archivist and Head of Library Special Collections at the American Museum of Natural History Research Library since 1998. She holds an MSLS from Columbia University. Her experience includes Museum Librarian at the Robert Goldwater Library in the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1997, she was guest curator for the exhibition Drawing Shadows to Stone: Photographing North Pacific Peoples 1897-1902. As a member of the Resources Available in the Natural Sciences (RAVNS) Working Group supported by RLG Programs natural history partners, she collaborated on a standard for describing natural history collections. Her ongoing work is to develop digital resources so that historical images of indigenous cultures may be returned to descendent communities for their use and commentary.
Stacy Schiff is Assistant Photograph Cataloger in Special Collections at the American Museum of Natural History Research Library. She holds a Master of Library Science and a certificate in Archives, Records Management, and Preservation from the City University of New York, Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, as well as an MA/Ed.S in Counseling from Seton Hall University. Prior to working for the Museum, Ms. Schiff was on staff at the Center for Fiction at the historic Mercantile Library in New York City. Ms. Schiff’s first article, a discussion of primary source use in education was published in Current Studies in Librarianship, and was listed as a resource on the American Library Association / Association of College and Research Libraries’ web page of Information Literacy in the Disciplines.
Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Place: Metropolitan Library Council, 57th East 11th Street (between Broadway and University Place, near Union Square)
Time: 5:30 - 6:30 pm Social ; 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. Program
Subway Directions: Please visit METRO’s website for directions:
http://metro.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20&Itemid=268
Fee: This meeting is exclusive to NYART members. Membership renewals and dues may be paid at the door.
RSVP: To Jennifer Anna by Saturday, February 6, 2010 veep@nycarchivists.org. Please provide first and last name and institutional affiliation within body of message. Please be sure that you can attend before responding. Space for this event is limited.
To view digital collections discussed at the upcoming panel discussion, please visit the following links:
- Queens College [ http://cdm128401.cdmhost.com/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/qcgslis_f06]More information about the project:Waterways of New York V 2.1 Fall 2006/Spring 2007/Fall 2007/Spring 2008 Digital Imaging
- American Museum of Natural History
- Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archive Digital Library
The Archivist Round Table of Metropolitan New York expresses its gratitude to the Metropolitan Library Council for making this event possible.
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23 Dec ' 12:16
A Legal Perspective on the Google Book Search Settlement
Tuesday, January 12, 2009
Archivists, librarians, and information professionals who preserve and provide access to orphan works have been closely following the Google Book Search settlement. The outcome will have a far-reaching impact on these professions, but copyright law seems insurmountably complex to many in these fields. James Grimmelmann of New York Law School has graciously offered to bring the Archivists Round Table up-to-date on this important and timely issue.
Mr. Grimmelmann will review the history of the Google Books project, lawsuit, and proposed settlement, then discuss the questions it raises for information policy and the rule of law. These touch on issues of copyright, antitrust, privacy, free speech, and civil procedure, and are connected to bigger themes in public policy.
James Grimmelmann is Associate Professor at New York Law School and a member of its Institute for Information Law and Policy. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of LawMeme and a member of the Yale Law Journal. He has served as a Resident Fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale, as a legal intern for Creative Commons and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and as a law clerk to the Honorable Maryanne Trump Barry of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. As a lawyer and technologist, he aims to help these two groups speak intelligibly to each other. He writes about intellectual property, virtual worlds, search engines, online privacy, and other topics in computer and Internet law.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 (this is also the 1 Annual World’s Fair Use Day)
Place: New York Law School, 185 West Broadway (between Worth & Leonard Streets), Manhattan
Time: 5:30 - 6:30 pm Social ; 6:30 - 8:00 pm Program
Subway Directions: Easily accessible from 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, A, C, W, R, J, Z trains. Please visit the following URL for more specific directions: http://www.nyls.edu/about_the_school/contactmeet_us
FREE to members of the Archivists Round Table and faculty, staff, and students of New York Law School. $6 admission for all others
To Jennifer Anna by Thursday, January 7, 2010 . Please provide first and last name and institutional affiliation within body of message. Please be sure that you can attend before responding.
The Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York expresses its gratitude to New York Law School for making this event possible.
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23 Nov ' 21:14
Table ofContents Holiday Party: "Tonight, we’re gonna party like it’s 1909!"
Thursday, 3 December 2009You are cordially invited to attend our Annual Archivists Round Table Holiday Party. For this event, The Center for Jewish History has graciously offered us the use of its beautiful Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Great Hall, which features the art of Diane Samuels and Michele Oka Doner.Enjoy delicious Middle Eastern cuisine, beer and wine, and the company of your ever-fabulous colleagues! We will venture beyond falafel and humus(also available) to sample such delicacies as bourekas (Turkish savory pastries) and kuba (beef croquettes with pine nuts). Plentiful vegetarian options will be available for non-carnivores.
The theme of this year’s party is “1909”. Please bring a story from your repository or from a historical text that is set in December 1909 to share. In bringing together these findings, we will muse on our world from a century ago.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16 Street (between Fifth and Sixth Avenues), Manhattan. The Center for Jewish History is wheelchair accessible.Time: 6:00 - 8:00 pm
:4,5, 6 ,L, N, R, W to Union Square. F, V to 14thStreet at Sixth Avenue. For more detailed directions, please visit: http://www.cjh.org/about/directions.php
$10 per person,payable upon arrival. This covers unlimited food and beverages. No BYOB please as the Center for Jewish History is a kosher facility.
To Jennifer Anna at veep@nycarchivists.orgby Monday, December 1st. 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.
The Archivists Round Table of New York expresses its gratitude to the Center for Jewish History for making this event possible.
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04 Nov ' 09:06
In conjunction with the oral history workshop on November 19, this program will explore different perspectives on providing access to oral history recordings.
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is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies atQueens College Queens College University ofGeorgia Press
She holds a BFA in Studio Art fromAlfred University , is working towards a MLIS atRutgers with a concentration in digital libraries. Previously she managed the archiving department for a photo-retouching studio, restored and cataloged video, and worked with various collections of art and rare books.Museum of the City ofNew York 1220 Fifth Avenue at103 Street ,Manhattan 6 to
103 Street (Lexington Avenue ). Alternate, 2 or 3 toCentral Park North (110 Street ).Space for this event is limited. After maximum capacity has been filled, a waiting list will be created.
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