Conference Schedule

Herman B Wells Library

Saturday, March 5, 2011

9:00-9:30: Registration and breakfast

9:30-10:30: Session I: Digitization
• The Rainbow Connection and the Archives: Using Digital Preservation to Link the Jim Henson Company’s Past, Present, and Future
Stacie Williams, Simmons College

• Migration Thinking: Dietrich Schüller, Albrecht Häfner, and the Inception of the Digital Mass Storage System for Sound Archives
Jason Groth, Indiana University Bloomington

10:30-10:45: Break

10:45-11:45: Session II (Parallel sessions)
Appraisal and Government Documents
• The Grigg Report and its Effect on Appraisal in the United Kingdom
Kristopher Stenson, Indiana University Bloomington

• Rethinking Appraisal Theory for Government Documents
Camille Torres, Simmons College

Issues in Digital Archives
• Preserving Growth, Preserving Decay: Born-Digital Materials That Will Not Sit Still
Dorothy Chalk, Indiana University Bloomington

• Open Source Electronic Recordkeeping: A Review of Alfresco Enterprise Content Management System
Eric Holt, University Archivist, Indiana State University

11:45-12:00: Break/Walk to tour location

12:00-12:45: Tour

12:45-1:00: Walk to Herman B Wells Library

1:00-2:00: Lunch

2:00-3:00: Session III (Parallel sessions)
Special Collections in Libraries and Archives
• Motion Picture Film Preservation at The Chautauqua Institution Archives
Danielle Emerling, Indiana University Bloomington

• Non-textual Objects in Library and Archival Collections
Brenna Henry, Indiana University Bloomington

Cultural Heritage in Archives: Music
• Heavy Metal as Folklore and the Case for Preservation
Ed Hill, Indiana University Bloomington

• “The Mystery Song”: Histories of the Contingent in Documentary Jazz Recordings
Richard Fischer, The City University of New York-Queens

3:00-3:15: Transportation/walk to workshop location

3:15-5:00: Workshop

Saturday evening
8:00-11:00: Social gathering at Nick's English Hut (423 East Kirkwood Ave)

Sunday, March 6, 2011

9:00-9:30: Breakfast

9:30-10:30: Session IV
Describing Visual Resources
• Photography, Identity and Descriptive Processes
Kristen Schuster, Simmons College

• Excessive, Adequate, or Not Enough: The Impact of Postmodernism and Minimal Processing on Photographic Description in the Digital Realm
Andrew McGraw, Project Archivist, University of Kentucky

10:30-10:45: Break

10:45-11:45: Session V (Parallel sessions)
Uncovering Special Collections
• An Underappreciated Resource: Medieval Manuscript Leaf Collections
Micah Erwin, University of Texas at Austin, School of Information

• “How are [we] to bring such wayward creatures into the bonds of organization?”: Zine Archives and the Archival Tradition
Rachel Woodbrook and Althea Lazzaro, University of Washington

Preserving Place
• An Analysis of African Archives: Challenges for the Present and Solutions for Change
Sarah Keil, Indiana University Bloomington

• The Woman Behind the Curtain: Winnie Allen as Archivist
Alison Clemens, University of Texas at Austin, School of Information

11:45-12:00: Break/walk to tour location

12:00-2:00: Tour