Society of American Archivists U of M Student Chapter

I met with the Canton Historical Society yesterday. They have a varied collection including paper, photos, oral histories on audio and videocassette, a book collection with copies from as early as the 1730's, maps (large and small), and many physical objects. To start they would like to inventory and arrange the collection to get a better understanding of what they have at the archive. From there, digitization of many of the photographs, maps, and oral histories is possible. They would definitely be interested in having some work with them on a more permanent basis.

Come see what a special collection looks like at the Clements Library. Its a short walk from West Hall. Sign up, as spots will be going fast.

Would you like to build your own website? Jeremy will show you some neat moves to make it happen. Other stuff will be discussed as well, but hey I figure this is enough writing...

We will actually be building a portfolio at the meeting. If you want to follow along and build your own, you can get ahead by choosing a template to use for your site from the web. Some free sites you could download one from are:

http://www.freelayouts.com/ (This is the best free site of what I have found. If you know of others, please leave them in a comment below.)
http://andreasviklund.com/templates/

In this workshop, SI Career Services staff will go over the basics of how to write a cover letter. Then, participants will share their cover letters with other session attendees for peer review. Please bring three to five copies of your resume and cover letter for review. If you are writing a resume and cover letter for a specific position, please also bring a copy of the job description. If you have any questions, contact Kelly Kowatch at kkowatch@umich.edu

Local archivists and records managers will discuss what should be on a resume and what they look for when they are hiring an employee. Please bring your lunch and gain some useful information on resumes.

Verne Harris, Project Manager for the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory at the
Nelson Mandela Foundation in South Africa, will be leading an informal
discussion on Archives and Justice at SI on December 4 from 4 to 5pm. Many
of us know Mr. Harris from his writings on Archives, Politics, and Justice
from SI 504 and other ARM classes. Please join us for this special
opportunity.

Topic: The Relationship of Privacy Laws and Records Management
Speaker: Keith Cheresko, JD, CIPP

Topic Description: Keith will discuss the legal and regulatory environment regarding current privacy regulations. While the focus will be around U.S. requirements he will also touch on some International aspects of privacy. After discussing the various approaches to privacy regulation, he will also discuss what records managers may wish to consider to help their organizations in addressing privacy in the context of records management.

Harold T. Pinkett minority student award from Society of American Archivists is available for minority undergraduate and graduate students. The deadline is February 28, 2008.

Please visit http://www.archivists.org/saagroups/aac/Awards_Pinkett.htm for more details regarding this award,

Good Luck!

The A2CT went really well today. Ten people came including David
Wallace and myself. David was very helpful in overseeing what we
should be doing from the beginning. It was great to have him there
and he is very interested in helping with this project and others.

We managed to take many of the boxes down and put them into basic
series. All of the AV materials are also sorted off to the one side.
Only a few people were able to be in the loft, but since we moved
boxes down to the floor more people were able to work.

Please join us for a talk with Dr. Frank Boles about the future of the Archival Profession.
Dr. Boles is the director of Central Michigan University's Clarke Historical Library. Dr. Boles is currently the Vice President of the Society of American Archivist. Dr. Boles received his PhD in American History from the University of Michigan and was elected a fellow by the Society of American Archivist in 1997.