Award - Arline Custer Memorial Award

Arline Custer Memorial Award

given by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC)

DEADLINE:  July 31, 2013

Arline Custer Memorial Award

Presented by the MARAC Arline Custer Memorial Award Committee, this award
honors

the memory of Arline Custer (1909-1975), MARAC member and editor of the
National

Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections.

Eligibility

The Arline Custer Memorial Award recognizes the best books and articles
written

or compiled by individuals and institutions in the MARAC region – the
District of

Columbia, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia
and

West Virginia.

Works under consideration include, but are not limited to, monographs,
popular

narratives, reference works and exhibition catalogs using archival sources.

Individuals or institutions may submit up to two works published between
July 2012 and

June 2013.

Evaluation

Works must be relevant to the general public as well as the archival
community. They

also should be original and well-researched using available sources. In
addition, they

should be clearly presented, well-written and organized. Visual materials,
if used, should

be appropriate to the text.

Preference will be given to works by archivists.

Award

Up to two awards may be given, with a maximum value of $200.00 for books and

$100.00 for articles. The 2013 awards will be announced at the Fall 2011
Conference in

Philadelphia, PA.

How to submit an entry

Please send two copies of each submission with a letter of nomination to
the Chair of the

Arline Custer Memorial Award Committee:

Molly Tighe

Arline Custer Award

Mattress Factory Museum

500 Sampsonia Way

Pittsburgh, PA 15212

Email: molly@mattress.org

Entries must be received by July 31, 2013

For additional information about this award and a list of previous award
winners, see the Arline Custer Memorial Award site:

http://www.marac.info/arline-custer-memorial-award

CFP - New England Archivists Fall 2013 Symposium

*Call for Presentation Proposals*

New England Archivists Fall 2013 Symposium: Giving Color to Ideas

Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts

Saturday, October 26, 2013

Symposium Focus: Big Ideas in the Archival Profession

http://newenglandarchivists.org/meetings/meetings.html



The New England Archivists Fall 2013 Program Committee calls for
presentation proposals for the Fall 2013 symposium. This
symposiuminaugurates a two-year trial period during which NEA will
host half-day
gatherings in the fall and three-day conferences in the spring. It will
feature a plenary talk by Jeffrey Schnapp, noted thinker in the realm of
digital humanities.

In keeping with the symposium's focus on innovative thinking in our field,
the program committee invites you to submit a presentation proposal
illustrating a new, innovative idea, or a "what if" scenario. We encourage
topics that impact the profession as a whole, subjects that inspire you, or
ideas that have yet to be explored by archivists in the New England region.
This is your chance to push the boundaries of current archival thought,
challenge your colleagues to think in new ways, and start a dialogue around
your idea.

Presentations will be grouped together, followed by a moderated discussion
between presenters and attendees. Presentations must be no longer than
seven minutes and must be in one of the following formats:

*Lightning talk* – a concise presentation that may or may not include a
simple visual element, such as a PowerPoint presentation with three to five
slides. For more information, visit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Talk and
http://www.perl.com/pub/2004/07/30/lightningtalk.html.

*PechaKucha *– a presentation during which a 20-slide PowerPoint
presentation advances automatically at the rate of 20 seconds per slide.
For more information, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PechaKucha.

*TED talk* – a short presentation that may or may not include a visual
element. For more information, visit
http://www.danpink.com//2012/03/3-tips-for-ted-speakers.

Submissions should include the following elements:

1. working title of your presentation;

2. brief description of the topic;

3. name and contact information of the participant(s); and

4. presentation format.

Please submit your proposals by Friday, May 31, to Abigail Cramer and
Amanda Strauss with the subject line NEA Fall 2013 Presentation Proposal (
abigail.cramer@gmail.com, amanda_strauss@radcliffe.harvard.edu).
https://www.newenglandarchivists.org/meetings/meetings.html

CFP - Early Photography in New England

This announcement is a Call for Papers for the 2013 Wellesley College/Historic Deerfield symposium in American Art and Architecture. The title of this year's symposium is "Early Photography in New England: From Heliography to the Handheld Kodak, 1830-1900." Deadline for the CFP is December 14th, 2012. The symposium will be held at Historic Deerfield in Deerfield, MA on March 9th, 2013. http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=197658

Workshops - New England Archivists

New England Archivists announces upcoming educational workshops.

NEA members receive a discount! Follow the links below for more
information.

Digital Curation: Creating an Environment for Success - DAS (Co-sponsored
with SAA)
January 18, 2012 - Harvard Business School, Boston, MA
(http://www.newenglandarchivists.org/workshops/workshops.html#Curation)

Basic Electronic Records - DAS (Co-sponsored with SAA)
March 2, 2012 - Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, MA
(http://www.newenglandarchivists.org/workshops/workshops.html#Basic)

Implementing "More Product, Less Process" (Co-sponsored with SAA)
March 23, 2012 - Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
(http://www.newenglandarchivists.org/workshops/workshops.html#MPLP)

Digital Repositories - DAS (Co-sponsored with SAA)
March 23, 2012 - Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
(http://www.newenglandarchivists.org/workshops/workshops.html#repositories)

Digital Preservation for Videotape (Co-sponsored with Independent Media Arts
Preservation)
March 23, 2012 - Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
(http://www.imappreserve.org/educ/index.html)
or
http://newenglandarchivists.org/workshops/workshops.html#video