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S.C. Archival Association Spring Meeting



SCAA Spring Workshop
Access in the Digital Age
Tuesday, February 26, 2002
at the SC Archives and History Center

Program:
9-9:45 a.m. Registration, coffee and refreshments

9:45-10:00 a.m. Welcome, announcements

10:00-11:15 a.m. Your choice of sessions

"You Can Run but You Can?t Hide: Meeting the Challenges of Non-Traditional Archival Records" Repositories regularly acquire collections that include formats such as artifacts, electronic records, and non-standard sized paper records. These items are accepted because they are part of larger traditional archival collections, but are often regarded as incidental or as problems to be ignored. This session will focus on the nature of documentary evidence provided by such special items. Additionally, strategies for making them accessible for current researchers and preserving them for future generations are covered. Instructors: Pam Hackbart-Dean (Georgia State Archives), Jill Severn (University of Georgia Libraries), Carol Crawford, (USC)

"In the beginning?: Revelations on the Start-Up of a New Digitization Project" We have all attended presentations that have dealt with digitization projects in their finished and completed form. This session provides the experiences of the start-up of a digitization project. Covered will be the challenges, the successes, the failures, and the optimistic expectations of first time digitizers. This session will be presented in a dual lecture and hands-on format. So bring that favorite document or photograph to digitize it.
Instructors: Pat Morris (SCDAH), Sarah Murray (SCDAH)

"They?ve Got It, You Need It: The Basics of Grant Writing"
We have all heard it: "There is money available, but you just have to seek it out." The speakers in this session will discuss recent successes in grant writing for archival projects. Additional topics include sources of grant funding and strategies for grant writing. Instructors: Aimee Berry (SCSU), Michael Kohl (Clemson University), Barbara Stein (Charleston County Public Library)

12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m. Lunch

12:30 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
Keynote Speaker Dr. Robert Weyeneth
Professor of History, University of South Carolina

1:30-3:30 Afternoon sessions
"When Rice Cultivation is not Farming: Indexing Archival Records"
Indexing is one of the final steps in an archival description and also one of the most difficult and exasperating. This session will focuses on the steps in providing the necessary tools and knowledge in creating indexing terms for your descriptions. Topics covered will be content analysis, Library of Congress Subject Terms, APPM indexing, and other indexing tools. Instructors: Brian Cuthrell (Caroliniana Library), Hiedi Hoerman (USC School of Library and Information Sciences), Sharon Mackintosh (SCDAH)

"In the Front Lines: Reference Services in the Digital Age"
The speakers in this session will discuss topics such as patron interviews, gathering and reporting of researcher statistics, security, answering mail, telephone and e-mail requests, processing photocopy orders, staffing the reference desk, publicity and the impact of the Internet on reference services.
Instructors: Robin Copp (Caroliniana Library) and Steve Tuttle (SCDAH)

"Proactive Archives: 9/11 Case Study"
Experienced archivists Michael Kohl, Tom Johnson and Jeanette Bergeron lead a participant seminar in developing a proactive collection policy for archives on the September 11 (9/11) terrorism events. It will cover planning for acquisitions, appraisal, arrangement, description, coordination with other collecting agencies, and preservation. The seminar is for those who will actually manage 9/11 collections as well as those who want general exposure to the steps of a collection planning model. Facilitators: Jeaneatte Bergeron (Crumley Lutheran Archives), Tom Johnson (Caroliniana Library), Michael Kohl (Clemson University)


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Early registration fees (prior to February 15) are $25 for SCAA members and $45 for non-members. Late (after February 15) and on-site registration is $35 for SCAA members and $55 for non-members. Lunch is included in the registration cost.

Funded in part by a grant from the SC State Historical Records Advisory Board.

For additional information and to register:

Beth Bilderback, Treasurer
South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina 29208
803-777-5183; email bilderbk@gwm.sc.edu

Directions:
The Archives and History Center is the home of the S.C. Department of Archives and History and is located at 8301 Parklane Road. Visit the SCDAH web site for driving instructions: http://www.state.sc.us/scdah/location.htm

SC Archival Association
http://www.state.sc.us/scdah/scaa.htm

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