The Society of American Archivists at UT Austin Presents
UT is celebrating Archives Week this week, and we have a panel discussion tonight, a lecture on Thursday afternoon, and, on Saturday, a community event where Austinites are invited to bring family history items–home movies, photos, letters, anything, and the Austin History Center staff will give advice on how to care for these items so they will last a long time.
Please inform that one interpreter will be present on Saturday, Deaf RSVP if possible in case we need more. Especially RSVP for the panel and lecture, as we have not hired an interpreter at this time. RSVP to my email, [email protected].
Archives Week 2007
Power, Privacy, and the Public Good: The Politics of Archives
www.ischool.utexas.edu/~saa/archivesweek_2007.html
Schedule of Events (All events are free and open to the public)
Monday October 15th 7:00 PM
“The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination: the Case, the Records, and the Management of a High-Profile Archival Collection,†a keynote address by Nancy Zimmelman Lenoil, State Archivist of California.
The presentation focuses on the Los Angeles Police Department papers on the RFK assassination in the California State Archives. June 5, 2008 will mark the fortieth anniversary of the shooting.
Location: LBJ Library, Brown Room
Reception to Follow
Nancy Zimmelman Lenoil joined the California Sate Archives as an archivist in 1991. In 2006 she became the first woman appointed State Archivist of California. She is a member of the Academy of Certified Archivists, the Society of American Archivists, the Society of California Archivists, the National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators, and the Council of State Archivists.
Tuesday, October 16th 7:00 PM
“Archives Politics and Policies: A Panel Discussionâ€
Participants:
Philip Doty, Professor, School of Information
Regina Greenwell, Archivist, Lyndon Baynes Johnson Presidential Library
Steve Mielke, Senior Archivist, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
Professor Doty’s areas of research and teaching expertise are copyright, privacy, federal information policy, information behavior, cultural and gender aspects of information technologies, history and politics of computer networks, research methods, philosophy and information studies, and digital libraries.
Steve Mielke is an archivist at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. He processed the Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers, which will be the focus of his comments in the panel discussion.
Regina Greenwell is senior archivist at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum. She is an expert in classification and declassification of governmental records.
Location: Pharmacy Building, PHR 2.108
Food and drink will be provided.
Thursday, October 18th 4:00 PM
“Politics and Perils in the Archives,†a keynote address by Dr. Donna J. Guy, Distinguished Professor of Humanities, Ohio State University Department of History
Location: Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, Rare Books Reading Room, Sid Richardson Hall, Unit 1
Dr. Guy has been conducting historical research in Latin America and the United States for over three decades. A pioneer in the historical study of women, gender, and sexuality in Latin America, she is the author of the award-winning Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires: Prostitution, Family and Nation in Argentina (1991), as well as White Slavery and Mothers Alive and Dead: The Troubled Meeting of Sex, Gender, Public Health and Progress in Latin America (2000) and From Private Acts to Public Identities: Teaching the History of Sexuality Since the Eighteenth Century (2000).
Saturday, Oct. 20th 2:00-4:00 PM
Austin History Archives Clinic Center
Personnel will be on hand to provide specific recommendations on how to best preserve your family treasures.
Location: The Austin History Center, 810 Guadalupe
Archives Week 2007 Sponsors:
Society of American Archivists, UT Austin Student Chapter, School of Information, Department of History, Gender Symposium, Austin History Center, Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection (UT Libraries), Hollinger Corporation, Senate of College Councils, University Co-Op