Many thanks to those who submitted questions last night during our Webcast! All of us who organized it are relieved that the technology held up (for the most part)!
My name is Erin Matas and for the last seven months I have served as the President of the UM SAA Student Chapter. The UM chapter is extremely lucky to have a wealth of professional archivists in the area who are willing to collaborate with us on events; last night’s Webcast is proof of this. We also know that other SAA student chapters and even other student archivists out there might not have the same kind of resources. Last night’s Webcast with Dr. Boles is our attempt at making some of our programming available to more archives students and professionals.
To bring everyone up to speed, and to provide a little introduction to the event, I will re-introduce our 7 exciting panelists:
Frank Boles, Director of Central Michigan’s Clarke Historical Library, and author of Selecting and Appraising Archives and Manuscripts (more info. about the book here: http://www.archivists.org/catalog/pubDetail.asp?objectID=139
A little more about Frank:
Dr. Frank Boles has been the director of Central Michigan University’s Clarke Historical Library since 1991. Previously, he has worked at the University of Michigan, the Chicago Historical Society, and the
National Endowment for the Humanities, an agency of the United States government. Boles received a Ph.D. in American history from the University of Michigan. He has spoken and published frequently on
archival subjects. In recognition of his contributions to the profession, he was elected a fellow by Society of American Archivists in 1997, and is currently a member of the governing council of the
Society of American Archivists.
Fran Blouin, Director of the Bentley Historical Library
Mike Smith, Director of the Walter Reuther Library at Wayne State University
Elizabeth Adkins, Director of Global Information Management (GIM) at Ford Motor Company and incoming President of SAA
Margaret Hedstrom, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information
Beth Yakel, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information and Faculty Advisor to the UM SAA Student Chapter
Bill Wallach, Associate Director of the Bentley Historical Library
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The archived version of the Webcast should be available around March 13th, so please check back, view it, and submit your comments or questions here - in the Reflections area of the blog.
We look forward to continued discussions about archival appraisal!
I’m closing comments, as site is getting spammed and I don’t want to take time to install captcha and this isn’t likely to get legit comments at this point.
Erin Matas said,
March 9, 2006 @ 4:07 pm
Many thanks to those who submitted questions last night during our Webcast! All of us who organized it are relieved that the technology held up (for the most part)!
My name is Erin Matas and for the last seven months I have served as the President of the UM SAA Student Chapter. The UM chapter is extremely lucky to have a wealth of professional archivists in the area who are willing to collaborate with us on events; last night’s Webcast is proof of this. We also know that other SAA student chapters and even other student archivists out there might not have the same kind of resources. Last night’s Webcast with Dr. Boles is our attempt at making some of our programming available to more archives students and professionals.
To bring everyone up to speed, and to provide a little introduction to the event, I will re-introduce our 7 exciting panelists:
Frank Boles, Director of Central Michigan’s Clarke Historical Library, and author of Selecting and Appraising Archives and Manuscripts (more info. about the book here: http://www.archivists.org/catalog/pubDetail.asp?objectID=139
A little more about Frank:
Dr. Frank Boles has been the director of Central Michigan University’s Clarke Historical Library since 1991. Previously, he has worked at the University of Michigan, the Chicago Historical Society, and the
National Endowment for the Humanities, an agency of the United States government. Boles received a Ph.D. in American history from the University of Michigan. He has spoken and published frequently on
archival subjects. In recognition of his contributions to the profession, he was elected a fellow by Society of American Archivists in 1997, and is currently a member of the governing council of the
Society of American Archivists.
Fran Blouin, Director of the Bentley Historical Library
Mike Smith, Director of the Walter Reuther Library at Wayne State University
Elizabeth Adkins, Director of Global Information Management (GIM) at Ford Motor Company and incoming President of SAA
Margaret Hedstrom, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information
Beth Yakel, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information and Faculty Advisor to the UM SAA Student Chapter
Bill Wallach, Associate Director of the Bentley Historical Library
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The archived version of the Webcast should be available around March 13th, so please check back, view it, and submit your comments or questions here - in the Reflections area of the blog.
We look forward to continued discussions about archival appraisal!
Nicole Laflamme said,
March 20, 2006 @ 2:56 pm
Great job and wonderful effort, your SAA chapter should be commended for putting together this event. I really appreciated this insightful discussion.
Admin said,
April 5, 2007 @ 10:06 am
I’m closing comments, as site is getting spammed and I don’t want to take time to install captcha and this isn’t likely to get legit comments at this point.