Posting on behalf of the SAA Museum Archives Section:
Save the Date! The Museum Archives Standards and Best Practices Working Group will hold a “Work in Progress†symposium at this year’s SAA Annual Meeting in Portland. The symposium will take place on Wednesday, July 26th, 9am-12noon, at the Oregon Convention Center. Please mark your calendars!
This year our annual symposium will focus on the projects currently underway in museum archives. Frequently, sessions at professional conferences are devoted to reports on successful projects already completed; this symposium will instead provide a forum for sharing pilots, road-tests, and in-progress projects not yet finished at our repositories. Presenters can solicit feedback and comments from attendees on potential next steps as well as answer questions on how they implemented their work and reached their current status.
We are looking for colleagues to share their current work on any museum archives-related topic in approximately 15-20 minute presentations. Please send a 250-word (maximum) proposal for your talk to Working Group co-chairs Rachel Chatalbash (rachel.chatalbash@yale.edu) and Megan Schwenke (megan_schwenke@harvard.edu) by Friday, March 3rd.