Hi Everyone –

You will notice in the press release below that Simmons College has received a grant to build an Archives and Preservation Digital Curriculum Laboratory to create some learning modules for training students to work on a variety of digital archiving and preservation initiatives. I am happy to say that we will be participating in the project as one of the test sites. Our kickoff meeting at Simmons will be held in April, and you will be hearing more about our participation as things move forward.

Peter

Subject: Press Release- Simmons College GSLIS Receives $138K Grant from NHPRC
From: “Timothy R. Gladson”
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:30:28 -0500
X-Message-Number: 23

BOSTON (March 1, 2010) — The Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) has received a grant of $138,182 from the National Historic Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) for the project “Building an Archives & Preservation Digital Curriculum Laboratory.”

Through this NHPRC grant and an IMLS grant received in 2009, GSLIS will build a digital curriculum laboratory to enhance archives and preservation education. The Lab will enable students, educators and researchers to learn, instruct and experiment with digital materials in a digital environment. Goals built into this grant include building the infrastructure of the lab, and producing learning modules.

The Simmons Archives and Preservation Digital Curriculum Lab will be a controlled digital space providing integrated access to digital content, content tools, curriculum-based scenarios, and workspaces. Students will have opportunities to experiment with and implement a range of digital archival and preservation procedures from record creation through preservation and delivery. The Lab will allow educators and students to evaluate and gain practical experience with current software and standards and a variety of open source content management systems.

Curriculum development specialists from Yale University and Tufts University will work in conjunction with GSLIS faculty on scenarios and learning modules. The scenarios will be tested and evaluated in the archives education programs of New York University, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and by students of Simmons College.

NHPRC, the grant-making arm of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), supports a wide range of activities to preserve, publish, and encourage the use of documentary sources relating to the history of the United States.

The nationally ranked Simmons GSLIS (www.simmons/gslis) is one of the oldest and largest library and information science programs in the nation. It is also ranked as one of the top 10 Archives/Preservation Management programs in the country by U.S. News & World Report.

Contact: Jeannette Bastian
jeannette.bastian@simmons.edu
617-521-2881

Peter J. Wosh
Director, Archives/Public History Program
History Department
New York University
53 Washington Square South
New York NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-8601
Fax: (212) 995-4017

http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/history.gradprog.archivespublichistory.html

Subject: SEM : New York City – Metro NYC ARMA Chapter Workshop – March 18, 2010
From: “Grevin, Fred”
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 09:58:23 -0500
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If you’re involved in Records Management, IT, Legal or Compliance, then you don’t want to miss the Annual Metro New York City ARMA Chapter All-Day Educational Workshop. This is our most anticipated educational event of the year!

This event offers a unique opportunity for professionals to hear from leading experts in the field of Records & Information Management, Technology, Compliance and Professional Development.

Register at http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Invitation.aspx?e=129c110d-7b0e-46d3-9621-8edbf0260e4b

We are offering eight regular sessions (you may select up to four) led by leaders in the Records and Information Management field and ** five special sessions on E-Mail Management led by Jesse Wilkins, CRM, CDIA+, ECM(M), ERM(M).**

The regular sessions are priced at $145 for Members, $170 for Non Members and $75 for Students (must have a valid ARMA Student Membership).

The E-Mail Management sessions are priced at $245 for Members and $270 for Non Members and includes the Opening & Closing Addresses.

Please Note: If you do not register in advance, there will be an additional $20 surcharge for all Walk-ins.

Also, the regular sessions qualify for 5.5 CRM Maintenance credits, and the E-Mail Management led by Jesse Wilkins qualifies for 7 CRM credits.

Here’s a listing of topics and speakers:

Keynote Address: Dr. Stuart B. Weiss, NY RoadRunners Club, NYC Marathon (Open to all Attendees)

REGULAR SESSIONS
- Legal Implications of Cloud Computing: Judges Ronald J. Hedges & James C. Francis
- Data Mapping for Successful Conversions (2 Parts): Melissa Dederer, CRM
- Getting Your Organization Going with GARP: Galina Datskovsky, Ph.D., CRM; April Dmytrenko, FAI, CRM; & Lenore Greenberg, CRM
- Using Taxonomies to Improve Search: Seth Early
- Writing for Publication: Susan Goodman, CRM
- It’s 2010, Do You Know Where Your Records Are? The Status of Search & Retrieval and the Role of Records & Information Management in eDiscovery: Maura Grossman, Esq.
- Establishing Wiki & Blog Governance – A Case Study: Jason C. Stearns, CRM

SPECIAL SESSIONS: EFFECTIVE E-MAIL MANAGEMENT led by Jesse Wilkins, CRM, CDIA+, ECM(M), ERM(M):
- Developing an E-Mail Policy
- Identifying & Classifying Messages as Records
- Selecting/Implementing E-Mail Management
- Managing your E-Mail Better – By Managing Less of It!
- Outside the Inbox: Collaborating More Efficiently

John Mancini, AIIM President will be our closing speaker. (Open to all Attendees)

Best regards,

Fred
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Frederic J. Grevin
Email: fgrevin@records.nyc.gov
Land phone: 212-788-8615
Cell phone: 917-902-2462

Peter J. Wosh
Director, Archives/Public History Program
History Department
New York University
53 Washington Square South
New York NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-8601
Fax: (212) 995-4017

http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/history.gradprog.archivespublichistory.html

A Night with NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) Program

Monday, March 22, 2010

This month’s meeting focuses on moving image materials in all their diversity. From film reels to digital video, the MIAP program at New York University has the bases covered. Come hear about what’s new from the experts who help us to navigate the complex and fascinating world of moving pictures.

Professor Dan Streible will talk about orphan film preservation and access, focusing on on-going projects with local repositories for the upcoming Orphan Film Symposium, held this year in New York from April 7-10 (please visit http://www.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/ for further information).

MIAP student Joseph Gallucci will report on a video preservation project recently undertaken by Prof. Mona Jimenez’s students for the Latin American Video Archives. The presentation will be used as a springboard to discuss issues pertinent to the preservation of magnetic media, including storage methods, tape decomposition and signal loss, and current best practices for analog video preservation workflows.

Professor Mona Jimenez will talk about saving digital video. Instead of boxes full of videotapes, archives will soon be acquiring hard drives or DVDs with video files. What is the production process for digital video, what challenges does it present for archives, and what are some of the

evolving best practices for saving digital video?

Joseph Gallucci is a second-year graduate student in the MIAP program. He has previously worked for the Fales Library and Special Collections at NYU, and has interned at the Pacifica Radio Archives, the Women’s Film Preservation Fund, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Anthology Film Archives and Andrea Rosen Gallery. He is currently completing his Master’s thesis on the born-digital working files of the artist Jeremy Blake.

Mona Jimenez is an Associate Arts Professor and Associate Director in NYU’s graduate program in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation. Her focus is on the preservation of independently produced video and digital media. She has consulted extensively on preservation projects with public television stations, community media stations, museums, libraries, archives and artist spaces, and for the past two years has led teams of moving image archivists to work with audiovisual collections in Ghana.

Dan Streible is an associate professor of cinema studies at NYU and associate director of its MIAP program. He directs the Orphan Film Symposium, a biennial gathering of scholars, archivists, curators, and artists devoted to neglected films. He is author of Fight Pictures: A History of Boxing and Early Cinema (University of California Press, 2008) and co-editor of the forthcoming reader Learning with the Lights Off: A Reader in Educational Film (Oxford University Press).

Date: Monday, March 22, 2010

Place: New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway Room 674. Manhattan.

Time: 5:30 – 6:30 pm Social

6:30 – 8:00 pm Program

Subway Directions: Astor Place 6 train or the 8th Street R and W trains.

Fee: FREE to members of the Archivists Round Table and faculty, staff, and students of New York

University’s Tisch School of the Arts, MIAP Program.

$6 admission for all others

RSVP: To Jenny Swadosh by Monday, March 15, 2010 jennyswadosh@gmail.com. Please provide first and last name and institutional affiliation within body of message. Please also let us know if this is your first meeting or if you are a new ART member. Please be sure that you can attend before responding.

NOTE: Space is limited. Priority will be given to NYART members who were placed on a waiting list for the February meeting.

Peter J. Wosh
Director, Archives/Public History Program
History Department
New York University
53 Washington Square South
New York NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-8601
Fax: (212) 995-4017

http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/history.gradprog.archivespublichistory.html

March 2010
Navigating Copyright Waters for Your Digital Projects
For librarians and archivists in the “Digital Age,” understanding how copyright law applies to new technology is essential. During this interactive workshop, instructor Linda Tadic (NYU) will teach participants how to responsibly manage intellectual property rights for digital collections. Topics will also include how to analyze underlying and third party rights, and the use of metadata in conducting legal due diligence.

Linda Tadic consults and lectures in the areas of digital asset management, audiovisual and digital preservation, and metadata. She is an adjunct professor in New York University’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation graduate degree program, teaching two core courses: Collection Management, and Access to Moving Image Collections. Ms. Tadic’s over 25 years experience working with and managing audiovisual, digital, and broadcasting collections includes the positions of Manager of the Digital Library at Home Box Office (HBO), and Director of the Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia. She is the past Director of Operations for ARTstor.

March 17, 2010 | 10am-4pm
Registration fees: $75 members: $60 myMETRO; $100 non-members
To register, please visit http://bit.ly/9vfWW8 or contact Laura Forshay at lforshay@metro.org, 212.228.2320 ex. 10.

Peter J. Wosh
Director, Archives/Public History Program
History Department
New York University
53 Washington Square South
New York NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-8601
Fax: (212) 995-4017

http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/history.gradprog.archivespublichistory.html

Announcing an upcoming panel discussion at NYU:

“Collecting and Collectivities”

Thursday, March 11th, 5:30 pm
20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor

Brent Hayes Edwards, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Steven G. Fullwood, Manuscripts Librarian, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Jacqueline Goldsby, Visiting Associate Professor of English, NYU

Nikhil Pal Singh, Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History, NYU

Moderated by Elizabeth McHenry, Associate Professor of English, NYU

Peter J. Wosh
Director, Archives/Public History Program
History Department
New York University
53 Washington Square South
New York NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-8601
Fax: (212) 995-4017

http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/history.gradprog.archivespublichistory.html

From: Clifford Lynch
Date: March 5, 2010 7:45:54 AM EST
To: CNI-ANNOUNCE — News from the Coalition
Subject: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] UK Digital Lives Program Synthesis Draft Available
Reply-To: CNI-ANNOUNCE — News from the Coalition

The Digital Lives program in the UK has recently made a draft of a major synthesis of its work available at its web site

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital_lives/

This is an extensive look at the way in which personal records and histories are migrating into digital forms and an analysis of some of the implications for memory organizations and scholarly work.

The site also contains other material that may be helpful, including documentation from the Digital Lives Conference and a late 2009 report on legal and ethical issues surrounding personal digital collections.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

Peter J. Wosh
Director, Archives/Public History Program
History Department
New York University
53 Washington Square South
New York NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-8601
Fax: (212) 995-4017

http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/history.gradprog.archivespublichistory.html

We’ve organized a brainstorming symposium bringing together diverse
specializations to formulate what can be termed Pacific worlds studies.
This will be examining historical framings and content, but also the
forms in which these changes can begin to happen. As you know, I
certainly think of archives building as an integral part of this work.
So please consider inviting staff, colleagues, and students.

In addition to featuring the new Pacific-related scholarship of Bruce
Cumings and Gary Okihiro and many stellar NYU faculty and beyond, key
conversations will feature Rick West, the founding director of the
Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and pioneering
publisher Andre Schiffrin, the guiding light at Pantheon Books and The
New Press (who first published E.P. Thompson, Studs Terkel, Marguerita
Duras, Foucault, Chomsky, and many more).

Thanks,
Jack

*Remappings: Asias / Pacifics / Americas Symposium
1. Decolonizing ‘America’s Pacific’*

An A/P/A Institute symposium rethinking the conventional categories of
U.S. history.
“Decolonizing ‘America’s Pacific’” will be the first of a series of
symposia exploring the
multiple movements of people, practices, goods, and ideas in and through
Oceania ­
what Fijian philosopher Epeli Hau’ofa has called “a sea of islands.”

*Date: Friday, March 5, 2010
*Time: 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM

Location:
NYU Silver Center
100 Washington Sq. East
Hemmerdinger Hall, 1st Floor
(enter on Washington Place)
New York, NY 10003

*/FREE and open to the public.
/RSVP by March 3rd
*Online: www.apa.nyu.edu , Email:
_apa.rsvp@nyu.edu_ , or Call: 212-992-9653

*SCHEDULE

*9:00am ­ Registration

9:30am ­ Welcome
Ulrich Baer, Vice Provost, NYU
Jack Tchen, A/P/A Institute, NYU

*9:45am-11:15am ­ Opening Remappings
*”Pacific Ascendency and American Power”
Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago

“Toward a Pacific Civilization”
Gary Okihiro, Columbia

*11:15am-12:45pm ­ “Americas”*
Chair: Tom Bender, NYU
Karen Kupperman, NYU
Maria Montoya, NYU
Jasbir Puar, Rutgers–New Brunswick
David Roediger, University of Illinois-Champaign Urbana
Nikhil Singh, NYU

*12:45pm-1:45pm ­ Lunch and Book Table*
Lunch Session Talk – “Conversation on a New Ethics of Global Museum
Practice”
W. Richard West, Jr., Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian

*1:45pm-3:15pm ­ “Pacifics”
*Chair: Nicholas Mirzoeff, NYU
Keith Camacho, UCLA
Haidy Geismar, NYU
Ed Guerrero, NYU
Margo Machida, University of Connecticut-Storrs
Matt Matsuda, Rutgers-New Brunswick

*3:15pm-4:45pm ­ “Asias”
*Chair: Marilyn Young, NYU
Nina Cornyetz, NYU
Henry Em, NYU
Adam McKeown, Columbia
Satya Mohanty, Cornell
Ngo Vinh Long, University of Maine-Orono

*4:45pm-5:15pm ­
*”Conversation on a Publisher’s /Political Education/”
Andre Schiffrin, Founder, The New Press

*5:15 Closing comments*
Lauren Benton, Dean of Humanities, NYU
Jack Tchen, NYU

*5:30pm ­ Reception and Book Table*

•••
*/Co-sponsored by
/*Office of Multicultural Affairs at Columbia University
NYU Department of Media, Culture and Communication
NYU History Department
NYU Center for Multicultural Education and Programs

*Supported by
*NYU Department of Social & Cultural Analysis and Asian/Pacific/American
Studies Program
NYU Humanities Initiative
NYU Native Peoples Forum
Center for the Study of Ethnicity & Race at Columbia University
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
Rutgers Collective for Asian American Studies
CUNY Asian American / Asian Research Institute

Peter J. Wosh
Director, Archives/Public History Program
History Department
New York University
53 Washington Square South
New York NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-8601
Fax: (212) 995-4017

http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/history.gradprog.archivespublichistory.html

Hello!

This is my inaugural post and thanks to the Archives and Public History Program for the (cyber) space.

I work at the Veterans History Project at the Library of Congress, which has teamed up with NARA, NEH, the National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian and USHMM to pay tribute to women and their accomplishments, from ecology to aviation. (Here’s the official site).

The Veterans History Project has collected the oral history testimony of thousands of women who’ve participated in America’s defining conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries. You can listen to a handful of highlighted stories in our web-feature “Women of Four Wars” and you can search our database to learn about Women Airforce Service Pilots in World War II, nurses in Vietnam and Korea, and female helicopter pilots in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Sometimes it’s easy to be cynical about our national history months. There seems to be one every month, and the celebrations can be a bit hokie or simplistic. Oral history helps reinforce what these months are supposed to be about.  Women’s History Month celebrates extraordinary women in order to recognize how inextricable their contributions are to the accomplishments of America as a whole, as well as empower younger generations. The experiences of military women collected by the Veterans History Project illuminate how “ordinary” women became extraordinary through their actions under the most trying of circumstances.  It reminds us that events do not define us, but rather how we respond to events. Military women have consistently responded in historic ways.

How else does oral history work to enhance and add meaning to our national history months? I’d be interested to hear comments from those at other institutions.