SAA@Pitt

Homewood Cemetery Event this Friday

2009-03-17T13:34:00.000-07:00

Hope your Spring Break was restful, productive, or both. This is just a friendly reminder that Debbie Day's talk on Cemeteries as Archives will be happenings this Friday the 21st from 3:00pm until about 3:45 in room 501 of the IS building. Afterward there will be a tour of Homewood Cemetery and its archive. We'll be headed there directly from the IS building via good old Pittsburgh port authority

No Sleep Till Austin!

2009-02-17T20:53:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone: Just received the following message from Jacquelyn Ferry: I am very pleased to inform you that the Student Program Subcommittee for Sustainable Archives: AUSTIN 2009, the Joint Annual Meeting of the Council of State Archivists and the Society of American Archivists, has accepted your student chapter paper proposal. So, let's give ourselves a quick pat on the back and cross a

SAA Conference Proposal

2009-02-12T07:27:00.000-08:00

Here's the proposal that I submitted last month, so you all know what you signed up for. The Society of American Archivist Student Chapter at the University of Pittsburgh would like the opportunity to present a poster at this year's SAA Conference in Austin, Texas. In discussion concerning this year's conference theme, Sustainable Archives, we were influenced by the recent economic crises that

General Meeting on Wednesday 2/11/09, and info about Field Trip

2009-02-09T19:23:00.000-08:00

Just a reminder that there will be a SAA meeting at 3pm this Wednesday in room 502 of the SIS building. There is a meeting in there before us so we may have to mill about in the hall outside a for a few minutes. For people attending the after hours tour of the Heinz History Center on Friday, below you'll find a Google Map with a few example bus times from Oakland. View Larger Map

FIELD TRIP!!!

2009-01-20T13:19:00.000-08:00

I talked to David Grinnell, Chief Archivist at the Heinz History Center. We are scheduled for a tour on February 13th starting at 5:00 PM. We need a loose estimate of how many people will be in attendance. So if people could start RSVP-ing (Tim, can we perhaps get this out in a group email?) that would be wonderful. The museum is located in the Strip District on Smallman Street, which is just a

Proposals for Poster/Paper Presentations

2009-01-14T18:52:00.000-08:00

As we discussed at the last (1/14/09) meeting, proposals for poster and paper presentations at the SAA Conference this August are due at the end of January. We'd like to use the comments of this space as a forum for discussion before we meet again next Wednesday to finalize a definite proposal (or potentially proposals if there is enough interest). This is just an informal brainstorming space, no

First SAA Meeting of 2009

2009-01-12T20:26:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year All, better late than never I suppose.We'll be having an general body SAASC meeting this Wednesday, January 14th at 3 o'clock in room 501 of the IS building. We plan to keep the meeting to 40-45 minutes, and one of the things we'd like to do is break up into small groups/sub committees to discuss separate ideas. One of the small groups will discuss potential presentation/session

To describe at the item level or not to describe at the item level, is that the question?

2008-11-22T07:25:00.001-08:00

Last monday was a strangely bookended day for me and the rest of you who have the "hat-trick" Intro to Archives, Intro to Technology, and Intro to Preseveration. In the morning, Dr. Callery and Dr. Cox drove home the message: "forget about item-level archival description," while Joel Blanco-Rivera in Preservation talked about archival digitization, which, he points out, requires that same

Meet & Greet :)

2008-11-06T08:36:00.000-08:00

Hi all--Just a friendly reminder that we will be getting together this evening for a very causal and informal and relaxing evening at The Library, a bar and restaurant. The address is:2302 East Carson Street in the Southside. Thanks Google Maps.We will be gathering around 8pm, but feel free to stop by earlier or later--it should be a great time!Also, bring friends, spouses, significant others--as

FREE BOOK!

2008-11-04T14:41:00.000-08:00

I'm not sure if this was announced to us all and I simply missed it, but it exciting and worth repeating nonetheless:The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill has made a digital version of the 1922 edition of A Manual of Archive Administration, Including the Problems of War Archives and Archive Making by Sir Hilary Jenkinson available for free download. Check it out here.

Let's go bowling!!

2008-11-03T06:19:00.001-08:00

Hey everyone, I'm trying to get a sense of how many SAAers are interested in the idea of a bowling night during the first week of December. We will be partnering with SCALA and are going to try to involve local librarians and archivists (in a very casual way) so the event will have a networking element to it in addition to being a lot of fun. So, comment to this post, or send me an email (hbb8

Joining SAA

2008-10-28T15:13:00.000-07:00

As members of this organization, we should all be members of SAA! Not only does membership offer you great values on books, it also provides you with many valuable resources, especially for those of us just beginning in our career.I wanted to point out one of those many resources: SAA's new member mentoring program. On the SAA homepage at archivists.org, it can be accessed by clicking on the "

Did you miss the meeting?

2008-10-28T15:10:00.001-07:00

Check out the agenda below. If you would like to be added to the email list, email saa.at.pitt.@gmail.com. Thanks! Society of American Archivists Student Chapter The University of Pittsburgh (saa.at.pitt@gmail.com) I. Introductions a.