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02 Feb 2010 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 2009 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 2009 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 2009 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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02 Nov 2009 20:48
Oral History Recordings: A Discussion about Access
Thursday, November 12, 2009
In conjunction with the oral history workshop on November 19, this program will explore different perspectives on providing access to oral history recordings
Ben Alexander will present “From Capture to History: The Personal Audio Recordings of Louis Armstrong.” During his lifetime Louis Armstrong recorded an extraordinary volume of personal audio recordings.Armstrong would, quite literally, set up reel-to-reel recorders in his house and during his extensive travels and record the everyday activities of his life.In Armstrong's own words, these recordings were intended, "For Posterity." Ben’s presentation will focus on his study of how these tapes survived years of neglect following Armstrong’s death and consider their transition into the Archive and specifically how their preservation, various migrations and description have shaped both access and response to Armstrong's extraordinary experiment with audio capture.
Desiree Leary will talk about StoryCorps, a non-profit organization dedicated to recording the stories of ordinary Americans. Starting in 2003 with a booth in Grand Central Terminal, StoryCorps has helped thousands of people preserve their experiences and make them accessible to listeners.The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress preserves these recordings for future generations. Please visit www.storycorps.org for a fuller history and a sample of some recordings.
Ben Alexander is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at Queens College were his teaching and research focuses on Archival theory and practice as well as the History of Books and Printing.Alexander as the Head of Special Collections and Archives for the Queens College Archives. Alexander's recent article publications have appeared in American Archivist, Archival Science, and The New England Quarterly. His books include Community Archives: The Shaping of Memory (co-editor with Jeannette Bastian) and Yaddo: A Creative History which is forthcoming from the University of Georgia Press.
Desiree Leary is the Archive Senior Coordinator for StoryCorps’ Archive Senior Coordinator.She holds a BFA in Studio Art from Alfred University, is working towards a MLIS at Rutgers 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.
Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009
Place: Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, Manhattan
5:30 - 6:30 pm Social
6:30 - 8:00 pm Program
Directions: Subway: 6 to 103rd Street (Lexington Avenue). Alternate, 2 or 3 to Central Park North (110th Street). Bus service: M1-M3. Visit http://www.mcny.org/visit-the-museum/ for more specific instructions.
FREE. This meeting is limited to Archivists Roundtable members who are current with membership dues. Spaces for this event is limited. After maximum capacity has be filled, a waiting list will be created.
RSVP: To Jenny Swadosh by Friday, November 6, 2009 jennyswadosh@gmail.com (preferred) or telephone: (212) 229-5942. Please provide first and last name within body of message. Please be sure that you can attend before responding. Jenny will respond to all messages by e-mail on Saturday, November 7.
The Archivists Round Table of New York expresses its gratitude to the Museum of the City of New York for making this event possible.
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15 Sep 2009 10:18
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10 Sep 2009 12:32
Behind-the-Scenes: Green-Wood Cemetery
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Before Central Park, before the Statue of Liberty, before Coney Island, New York had Green-Wood Cemetery. Founded in 1838, Green-Wood Cemetery was once a top national tourist destination, rivaling Niagara Falls in annual visitors. Conceived as part of the nascent rural cemetery movement, Green-Wood helped reconfigure how Americans viewed death and mourning. Among its notable “permanent residents” are Leonard Bernstein, Louis Comfort Tiffany, “Boss” Tweed, Albert Anastasia, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lola Montez, Henry Ward Beecher, and a flock of (living) parrots. In addition to functioning as a cemetery over 170 years after its founding, Green-Wood is also recognized as a National Historic Landmark by the United States Department of the Interior.
The Archivists Round Table is being offered a behind-the-scenes look at record-keeping in Green-Wood Cemetery. Remarkably complete documentation has been preserved in the form of ledgers, deeds, photographs, grounds keeping reports, etc. While these records help cemetery offices carry out their day-to-day functions, they have also been great resources for historians, biographers, and genealogists, often revealing details unobtainable through other available forms of documentation.
Jeff Richman is Green-Wood Cemetery’s historian. He is the author of Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery: New York’s Buried Treasure and has developed a variety of cemetery tours. Richman has led baseball, Civil War, and, most recently, artist documentation projects at Green-Wood. He also conducts workshops on cemetery photography.
Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009
Place: Historic Chapel, Green-Wood Cemetery, 500 25th Street, Brooklyn
5:00 - 5:45 pm Social; 5:45 - 7:45 pm Program
Directions: Subway: R to 25th Street/4th Avenue, Brooklyn. Walk east one block to 5th Avenue (uphill, away from the Gowanus), cemetery entrance at 25th Street and 5th Avenue. NOTE: Although there are multiple entrances to Green-Wood, all but the 25th Street entrance will be locked after 4 pm.
Fee: Free to Members and Students, $6 Non-members
RSVP: To Jenny Swadosh by Friday, September 17, 2009 jennyswadosh@gmail.com (preferred) or telephone: (212) 229-5942. Please be reasonably sure that you can attend before responding.
Attendees are welcome to arrive early and take a self-guided tour of Green-Wood Cemetery. A cemetery map may be downloaded from http://www.green-wood.com/index.php/5/detail.
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03 Aug 2009 11:44
Archivists Round Table Summer Social
Not going to SAA this year? Dont let lack of travel funds get you down! Join your fellow Archivists Round Table members at Long Island Citys newest beer garden. Chat with those you know, meet those you dont, have lunch, and drink a beer!
Friends and family are welcome.
We hope to see you there.
Saturday, August 15th, 2009. Rain or shine (if raining, find us indoors)
12:30 pm 3:30 pm
Location: Studio Square // 35-33 36th Street (between 35th & 36th Avenues), Long Island City, Queens (http://www.studiosquarenyc.com). When you arrive, look for the ART balloon.
Directions:
*R, V, G: 36th Street stop. Walk two blocks North on 36th Street to 35-33 36th St.
*N, W: 36th Avenue stop. Walk East on 36th Ave and make a left on 36th Street to 35-33-36th St.
Cash bar. Credit cards are not accepted.
Comments or concerns can be directed to Rachel Chatalbash, Communications and Outreach Coordinator at outreach@nycarchivists.org.
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29 Jun 2009 20:23
The Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York, Inc.
PresentsManaging Archives During Challenging Times
This session, which is free to all, consists of a panel discussion with four archivists, who will discuss their work experiences during past and present recessions. The speakers presentations will address the following topics: identifying and demonstrating the essential value of archives to your organization, adapting the role of archives to align with your institution's current priorities, and managing the archives activities with limited resources.
Date: Thursday, July 23, 2009
Time: 3:00pm-5:00pm
Place: New York Public Library
South Court Auditorium 42nd Street & Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10018-2788
Directions by Subway:
1, 2, 3 to 42nd Street and Broadway. Walk two blocks east to Fifth Avenue
A, C to 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue. Walk four blocks east to Fifth Avenue
D, B, F, V to 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue. Walk one block east to Fifth Avenue
4, 5, 6 to Grand Central Station. Walk two blocks west to Fifth Avenue
7 to Fifth Avenue
RSVP: Space is limited. Please RSVP by Monday, July 20th to Francine Snyder at francine.snyder@guggenheim.org. Please contact the Communications and Outreach Coordinator, outreach@nycarchvists.org, with any questions.
Speakers:
Ira Galtman (Chair) joined American Express in 1996 and manages the Corporate Archives. He is also responsible for the development of a Digital Asset Management library, maintaining a permanent company history exhibit, and communicating historical information to internal and external audiences through presentations, exhibit tours, and articles on the companys Intranet.
Michelle Elligott is the Museum Archivist at The Museum of Modern Art. She has been with the Museum for thirteen years, and has been head of the Archives for over ten. In addition to directing the department, she organizes archival exhibitions and has co-edited the Museums first self-published history: Art in Our Time: A Chronicle of The Museum of Modern Art. She is also co-curator of the upcoming MoMA exhibition, 1969, which will be held at the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center.
Joseph Komljenovich is currently Archivist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where, in addition to managing the historical records program, he serves as a member of the Records Management Administration team. His responsibilities include participating in the revision of enterprise-wide retention schedules, providing reference services, and promoting awareness and understanding of records-related issues. Joseph has worked in the Archives field for over ten years and had been affiliated with the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives, Municipal Archives, and Transit Museum Archives.
Stephen Novak has been Head, Archives & Special Collections, at the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library of the Columbia University Medical Center since 1997. Before that he served as Archivist at the Juilliard School for seven years, and has also worked at the Medical Archives of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and at the New-York Historical Society. He has held many positions in archival organizations, including being President of the Archivists Round Table in 1997-1999. -
02 Jun 2009 20:23
Annual Business Meeting / “Archives and the Semantic Web”Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Board elections will be held at the Annual Business Meeting. 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 Monday June 22nd.
Following the business portion of the meeting, Mark Matienzo will discuss new technologies and their applications in the Archival field.
Mark A. Matienzo is an Applications Developer in the Digital Experience Group of the New York Public Library, where he works on digital repositories; digital projects with archives and manuscript collections; search, indexing, and information retrieval applications; linked data and semantic web projects; and other architecturally interesting problems. As of September 2008, he is Co-Chair of the RLG Programs Roundtable and a member of the Description Section Steering Committee, the Metadata and Digital Object Roundtable Steering Committee, the Technical Subcommittee on Descriptive Standards, and the Web Working Group, all of the Society of American Archivists (SAA). He was Chair of SAA's Description Section from 2007-2008.
Prior to joining the New York Public Library, he worked as assistant archivist for systems and metadata at the Niels Bohr Library & Archives of the American Institute of Physics, as project cataloging archivist at the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, and as catalog librarian at ProQuest Information and Learning. He received his MSI from the School of Information at the University of Michigan and a BA in Philosophy from the College of Wooster.
Co-Sponsored by: The Center for Jewish History
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Place: The Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street
Time: 5:30 - 6:30 pm Social, 6:30 - 8:00 pm Program
Directions: Subway: 4,5,6, L, N, Q, R, and W trains to the 14th Street and Union Square station.
F, V, L, and PATH trains to the 14th Street and 6th Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) station.
1, 2, and 3 trains to the 14th Street and 7th Avenue station.Fee: Free, thanks to a generous grant from the MetLife Foundation
RSVP: To Leilani Dawson at leilanid@juno.com by Thursday, June 18. If you are person with a disability and need reasonable accommodations to attend this meeting, please contact Vanessa Cameron at veep@nycarchivists.org at least 7 days in advance so that we can make the appropriate arrangements.
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