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Dying Well in the Anthropocene: On the End of Archivists

https://journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jclis/article/view/107

by Samantha R. Winn, Virginia Tech

Descriptive Notes: Accessible Anti-Racist Community Centered Description

Newsletter of the SAA Description Section, Summer 2019.

Archivist Salary Transparency Spreadsheet

An open spreadsheet to share salary data.

http://bit.ly/archivistsalaries19

This move toward salary transparency is coming out of the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting 2019, from sessions such as ‘Low Pay in Archives: Review of Recent Events, and Where Do We Go From Here?’ and the SAA Council Forum on Archivist Salaries.

#BREAKINGNEWS

Student Impressions of Tech Skills for the Field

Survey results from a study of technology skills employed by current MLIS, MLS, MI, and MSIS students. Written by Sarah Nguyen for bloggERS!

https://saaers.wordpress.com/2019/07/31/student-impressions-of-tech-skills/

#BREAKINGNEWS

Deadline: SAA2020, Call for Program Proposals

ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2020: Creating Our Future, the Joint Annual Meeting of the Council of State Archivists and the Society of American Archivists, will take place August 2–8, 2020, at the Hilton Chicago.

THE CONFERENCE THEME: Creativity fuels the twenty-first century archivist.

Submission Deadline: November 15, 2019

#DEADLINES

Guides: “An Optical Media Preservation Strategy for NYU Special Collections”

A blog post introducing critical research about optical media preservation completed by Annie Schweikert, a graduate student in NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) program.

Written by Kelly Haydon, February 14, 2019.

https://wp.nyu.edu/specialcollections/2019/02/14/an-optical-media-preservation-strategy-for-nyu-special-collections/

#GUIDES #OPTICALMEDIA

The Future Is Open Access, but How Do We Get There?: A Symposium

Metropolitan New York Library Council Thu, September 12, 2019 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

“As open access becomes the norm, what decisions will scholars, libraries, and institutions make? Will we reproduce existing power structures, guaranteeing the continued dominance of high-profit publishers and flawed impact metrics? Or will we build something different — community-led publishing on community-owned infrastructure, with legal terms that protect the rights and privacy of authors and readers?

We will explore these questions in a symposium hosted by METRO Library Council on Thursday, September 12. This event is planned in collaboration with colleagues from the City University of New York.”

via Metropolitan New York Library Council

Proposal Submission Deadline: August 1, 2019

#EVENTS #CONFERENCES #DEADLINES

Event: Archivematica Con

April 15-17, 2020 Brooklyn Historical Society

“Announcing the first Archivematica Con! Unlike Archivematica Camps, this event will be driven by the Archivematica user community and have content geared towards existing Archivematica users. There will be a mix of unconference sessions, planned sessions, hackathons, and workshops. This will be a space for Archivematica users--from archivists to sysadmins--to come together, share their experiences, and learn from each other.

This is a community-driven event, so please reach out to the program committee with any questions or ideas.”

via Archivematica / Community / Camps / Brooklyn2020

#EVENTS #CONFERENCES

Guide: Metadata for Web Archives

Descriptive Metadata for Web Archiving: Recommendations of the OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Metadata Working Group (2018) by Jackie Dooley and Kate Bowers

Metadata Application Profile Description of Websites with Archived Versions (Version 2, August 2018) by New York Art Resources Consortium

#WEBARCHIVES #GUIDES

Deadline: Archival Outlook Submission

August 1, 2019

“Submit your article in time for the September/October issue of Archival Outlook, SAA's bimonthly magazine. Articles are typically 700 words (one page in layout) to 1,200 words (two pages in layout) in length. They should include some kernel of information that will enlighten the reader professionally. Photographs are encouraged. Please contact SAA's Editorial and Production Coordinator, Abigail Christian, with queries and ideas.”

via SAA Important Dates & Deadlines (2018-2019)

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Event: BARCHIVES #2: Moonshine, Speakeasies, and Local Stills: The Brooklyn Collection at Van Brunt Stillhouse

Van Brunt Stillhouse Thursday, July 25, 2019 at 7:30 pm.

“Van Brunt owner Daric Schlesselman will tell us about founding a distillery in Red Hook. Kaitlin Holt will talk about stills and prohibition in Brooklyn, with references from the Brooklyn Public Library's Brooklyn Collection and the Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper morgue.”

via Barchives

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Upcoming Conferences & Meetings

BitCurator Users Forum 2019 October 24-25, 2019 Yale University (New Haven, CT)

iPres 2019 September 16-20 Amsterdam, Netherlands

#CONFERENCES

Free/Open Source Windows Tools with Graphical Interfaces for Digital Archives workflows

Members of the Digital Preservation Interest Group of METRO recently drafted a list of recommended tools for digital archives processes, covering the management of file and directory normalization, metadata packaging, format identification, file transfer and validation, disk imaging, and more:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GTcfq4IcI1qpDSG4Hw50XWOD5QgtFyxJ9-dyXtHp9cE/edit#gid=915102366

Relevant contributions to the spreadsheet are welcome.

#SOFTWARE #CHECKSUMS

Guide: University Web Archiving Programs

Thinking about the structure of your current web archiving program, or about to break ground? Take inspiration from these stand-out guides created by three universities.

Stanford Libraries: guide to web archiving practices.

North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries: policies and collection of websites using Archive-It.

Penn Libraries: The Fisher Fine Arts Web Archiving Program

#WEBARCHIVES #GUIDES

Event: Intro to Data Analysis with R, Part 1

Metropolitan New York Library Council Thu, May 3, 2018 4:00 pm

Participants will build on critical data literacy skills from previous workshops and begin to explore open data using R, a free open source programming language used in various academic and professional fields. We’ll explore how patrons at academic, public, and high school libraries can use R to aid their research, explore data sets and discover insights.

#WORKSHOPS

Deadline: Code4Lib Journal Issue 41, Call for Papers

May 11, 2018

The Code4Lib Journal (C4LJ) exists to foster community and share information among those interested in the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future.

We are now accepting proposals for publication in our 41st issue. Don't miss out on this opportunity to share your ideas and experiences. To be included in the 41st issue, which is scheduled for publication in August 2018, please submit articles, abstracts, or proposals at http://journal.code4lib.org/submit-proposal or to [email protected] by Friday, May 11, 2018.

via Code4Lib

#DEADLINES

Event: WPA Exhibit Talk & Reception

1 Court Square, Long Island City May 2 2018, 6pm

Come see selections from Queens Library Collection of New Deal Art and hear professors Dr. Kristin Szylvian and Dr. Kara Schlichting speak about the New Deal and the WPA. Also learn about the Citi + Queens Library Fellowship Program and hear from our students Ariana Kaleta and Kasey Doherty speak about the exhibit. Reception to follow.

Seating for this event is limited. To RSVP please contact [email protected].

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