SAA 2011 Events of Potential Interest to Visual Materials Section Members

Wednesday, August 24

• 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
  Metadata and Digital Objects Roundtable
• 3:15 PM - 5:15 PM
  Architectural Records Roundtable
  Visual Materials Cataloging and Access Roundtable

Thursday, August 25

• 10:00AM – 11:30 AM
  101- Skeletons in the Closet: Addressing Privacy and Confidentiality Issues for Born-Digital Materials
  108 – Consider the Possibilities: Creative and Low-Cost Preservation Strategies in Practice
• Noon – 1:15 PM
  Social Media Forum
• 1:30 PM – 3:00PM
  202 – Long Live the Story: How Public Media Archivists are Influencing Content Lifecycle Best Practices Outside the Traditional Archive
• 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM
  Tour: Museum of Contemporary Photography, 600 South Michigan Avenue. Join the Visual Materials Section for a tour of this great museum including meeting with museum staff and a chance to view their current exhibit, Our Origins.
• 9:00 PM – 10:15 PM
  Archives in the Movies

Friday, August 26

• 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM
  301 – Archives on the Go: Using Mobile Technologies for Your Collections
  302 – Practical Approaches to Born-Digital Records: What Works Today
  308 – Changing Trends in Collecting, Preserving and Accessing Performing Arts Archives
• 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
  401 – Re-arranging Arrangement and Description: Original Order and Provenance in Modern Multi-format Collections
  409 – Geospatial Preservation: The State of the Landscape
• 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM
  VISUAL MATERIALS SECTION MEETING
  TALK “Energizer Volunteers”– 10+ Years and Still Going!
  David Benjamin, Visual Materials Archivist, Wisconsin Historical Society will talk about the success of their ongoing volunteer project to catalog local newspaper photographer’s images into Wisconsin Historical Images their online image database.

Saturday, August 27

• 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
  501 – Complex Archives in Novel Contexts: the Grateful Dead and Phish
  502 – Born-Digital Archives in Collecting Repositories: Turning Challenges into Byte-sized Opportunities

• 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM
  609 – Design for the Next Larger Context: Exposing Architecture Collections for the Broadest Use
  610 – Practical Approaches to Born-Digital Records: What’s Coming Next?