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Society of Indiana Archivists Annual Meeting



Society of Indiana Archivists
Annual Fall Meeting
November 17, 2000

Minnetrista Cultural Center
Muncie, Indiana

The Society of Indiana Archivists meeting will be held in Muncie, Indiana,
on November 17, 2000. The host institution will be Ball State University
and the site of the meeting will be the Minnetrista Cultural Center (1200
North Minnestrista Parkway).

Schedule of events

9:00-9:30 Registration, socializing, and light refreshments

9:30-10:45 Morning session

The morning session will feature a facilitated open discussion entitled
"Challenges of the Cyber-Archivist." Steve Towne, Indiana State Archives,
and Brenda Burk, IUPUI Special Collections and Archives, will lead the
discussion as we learn from each other about such issues as: conducting
reference via email; EAD; digitizing collections; MARC records; and
similar topics of interest to the participants.

11:00-12:15 Plenary Address

The plenary speaker will be Dr. Anthony Edmonds, Professor of History,
Ball State University. His talk will be on "Researching the Vietnam War."

12:30-1:30 Lunch and Annual Business Meeting

1:45-3:00 Afternoon session

The afternoon session will be "Documenting Middletown," a reprisal of a
session done at the Midwest Archives Conference in May 2000. In the 1920s,
Robert and Helen Lynd conducted a sociological study of Muncie, Indiana,
that was published as Middletown: A Study in American Culture. Robert Lynd
revisited Muncie over a decade later and published Middletown in
Transition in 1937. An ongoing series of articles, books, critiques, and
documentaries followed, including a Middletown III research project, a PBS
documentary, and recently Middletown IV. This session discusses the Lynd's
studies, the history and mission of the Center for Middletown Studies,
recent research projects, and the reality of life in the 1930s in
America's "Middletown." The session will provide an opportunity to examine
archival strategies for documenting a "typical" American community.
Presenters from Ball State University will be Dr. Bruce Geelhoed,
Professor of History and Director of the Center for Middletown Studies;
John Straw, Archives and Special Collections Librarian; and Nancy Turner,
Emeritus Head of Archives and Special Collections.

3:00 Tours

Minnetrista Cultural Center contains both a museum and archival
collections documenting East Central Indiana's history. The Center has two
galleries which will be featuring the exhibits A Question of Truth, which
examines bias in science, and Metamorphosis. The Art of Linda Arndt. A
viewing of each exhibit will be part of the tour of Minnetrista Cultural
Center offered at the end of the meeting. In addition, tours will be
available of Oakhurst Gardens and the E. B. and Bertha C. Ball Center. All
of these facilities are located on the site of or are housed in the former
Ball family mansions along Minnetrista Parkway, with a scenic vista of the
White River and downtown Muncie.

Minnetrista Cultural Center is located on Minnetrista Parkway, just off of
Wheeling Avenue. Signs throughout the city direct you to the Cultural
Center. There is ample parking available and it is free. For information
on hotels, specific directions, or any other local information, contact
John Straw at 765-285-5078 or jstraw@gw.bsu.edu

To register in advance and make reservations for the luncheon, contact
SIA Secretary/Treasurer Bonnie Houser, Archivist/Librarian, Taylor
University, 500 W. Reade Ave., Upland, IN 46989, Phone: (765)
998-5520, Fax: (765) 998-5569, bnhouser@tayloru.edu

-- Kevin Cawley
   President
   Society of Indiana Archivists
   kevin@cawley.archives.nd.edu
   http://cawley.archives.nd.edu/sia/

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