From the Metro Detroit Archivists League (MEDAL):<\/p>\n
The Metro Detroit Archivists League<\/a> will host its third Preconference Symposium on Monday, August 3, 2015 in the University of Michigan Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery<\/a> from 1:00-4:00 PM. Speakers will present preliminary versions of talks, discussions, and posters that have been accepted for the program of the 2015 Annual Meeting<\/a> of the Society of American Archivists.<\/p>\n All are welcome to attend, admission is free, and refreshments will be provided.<\/p>\n The schedule of speakers is as follows:<\/p>\n Martha O’Hara Conway (University of Michigan) Assessment activities have emerged as increasingly important areas of action, framed particularly by the new joint SAA\/RBMS Task Forces. This talk examines engagement with assessment activities that lead to Olga Virakhovskaya (University of Michigan) While abiding by the mission of providing access, should institutions make privacy exceptions in high-profile cases? Should creators of records be notified when access is either required or restricted by law? How do shifting interpretations and external pressures affect curators\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 decisions?<\/p>\n Caitlin Brennecke (Troy Historic Village) With the goal of expanding beyond traditional archival advocacy methods, the speaker will discuss how archivists and museum curators can forge connections with a wide variety of communities and grow the profession via new and creative approaches to outreach programs.<\/p>\n Poster presentations:<\/p>\n Stefanie Caloia (Wayne State University) Sarah Breen (University of Michigan School of Information) Panel:<\/p>\n Kat Hagedorn (University of Michigan) As technologies improve, digital preservation practice and standards have kept pace. Although this constant adaptation is generally positive, challenges have emerged – particularly in cases of older digital content. The panelists lay out these challenges and discuss options by sharing projects from the University of Michigan to migrate first-generation digitized texts to HathiTrust, and from The Henry Ford\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work around content previously preserved on older media.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the Metro Detroit Archivists League (MEDAL): The Metro Detroit Archivists League will host its third Preconference Symposium on Monday, August 3, 2015 in the University of Michigan Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery from 1:00-4:00 PM. Speakers will present preliminary versions … Continue reading
\n“Collecting, Analyzing, and Acting with Assessment Data”<\/p>\n
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\n“Privacy v. Access: Legal and Ethical Challenges in High-Profile Collections”<\/p>\n
\n“You Do What? Nontraditional Outreach that Works”<\/p>\n
\n“Revisiting MPLP and Backlog Processing”<\/p>\n
\n“Methods for Assessing Risk in Physical Digital Media Collections: The Robert Altman Archive as a Case Study”<\/p>\n
\nLance Stuchell, chair and moderator (University of Michigan)
\nBrian Wilson (The Henry Ford)
\n“Just Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf: Reconciling Legacy Digital Content with Current Preservation Practice”<\/p>\n