Seminar Ideas 2008

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Brainstorming at Midwinter 2007-- New Seminar Ideas

RBMS/Seminars Committee Members:

Rather than wait until our meetings to share ideas for potential future seminars, list your ideas here. These may or may not be ideas that you wish to develop into a proposal yourself, but if it is something that you want to organize, please indicate this.

If you see seminar topic posted and have a suggestion regarding possible speakers, add your comment in a "suggestions" area below. Please provide your name for both potential topics and supporting suggestions.


Topic: 1. Collecting the Perfoming Arts/Performance Art

Proposed by: Riva Feshbach

Suggestions: Jennifer MacDonald is assisting on this

Contributed by:


Topic: 2. Portolan Charts

Proposed by: Marguerite Ragnow

Suggestions: Arvid Nelsen is serving as a Liaison for development of this idea

Contributed by:


Topic: 3. Creative Alternatives for Professional Development

Proposed by: Kathleen Burns

Suggestions: modify with "Developing Sources of Support Not Connected to Your Supervisor"

Contributed by: Terry Belanger


Topic: 4. Dealing with Electronic Archives

Proposed by: James Fox

Suggestions:

Contributed by:


Topic: 5. Cooperative Collection Development/Joint Ownership

Proposed by: ?????

Suggestions:

Contributed by:


Topic: 6. Digital Photography on a Budget

Proposed by: Erika Dowell

Suggestions: I'll work on this one. At least to start out, my focus will be on equipment, procedures, metadata, etc., for a basic in-house imaging operation. I'm thinking it may be of interest to those who might be able to must $5,000 to get started, but aren't in the market for state-of-art digital cameras that cost five-figures.

Contributed by: Erika.


Topic: 7. The Other Side of Digitization ÃÂÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ Electronic Text Projects

Proposed by: Erika Dowell

Suggestions: I'll also take a look at this one, though it seems less strong than the other topic (#6) that I'm looking into. My interest in this one stems from a small project I'm doing to encode out-of-print exhibition catalogs in TEI.

Contributed by: Erika.


Topic: 8. Latest Developments in Security ÃÂÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ Lessons from Recent Cases

Proposed by: Arvid Nelsen

Suggestions: Perhaps get someone from Yale and Rich Oram from HRC? Everett Wilkie research on weighing collections could be an addition (Erika).

Contributed by: Arvid


Topic: 9. Latest Developments in Fire Suppression: Does This One Kill You Too?

Proposed by: Terry Belanger

Suggestions:

Contributed by:


Topic: 10. Hiring and Training of Special Collections Catalogers

Proposed by: Bibliographic Standards Committee

Suggestions: I will contact BSC chair(s) for input

Contributed by: Sarah Fisher


Topic: 11. Decision-Making/Priority Setting regarding Your Preservation Budget

Proposed by: Curators and Conservators Discussion Group

Suggestions: I'm willing to take this seminar on, if there's interest. I'd like to talk to some of the Curators and Conservators Discussion Group members to get their ideas on speakers.

Contributed by: Shannon Supple


Topic: 12. Salaries: The Hiring and Retention of Rare Book Librarians

Proposed by: Terry Belanger

Suggestions:

Contributed by:


Topic: 13. Disaster Planning (West Coast Perspective?)

Proposed by: ?????

Suggestions: I'm willing to plan this seminar as well, if there's interest. Perhaps CalPreservation, run by Barclay Ogden (UC Berkeley) and Julie Page (UCSD) would be a good resource. (It's a regional organization, and they're currently expanding their services throughout the western states.) Maybe Mary Sackett from the Getty Research Institute could contribute? [Shannon, you may also want to get in touch with the LA preservation consortium, LAPNET - Jen S.]

Contributed by: Shannon Supple


Topic: 14. Diversity: As Diversity is Increasingly Represented in Our Collections, Is our Staff Diversity and or Expertise Able to Support It? (Perhaps we could get the Diversity Committee involved?)

Proposed by: Arvid Nelsen

Suggestions: Get assistance/organization/sponsorship from the Diversity Committee? Arvid did speak briefly with Julie Grob at Midwinter.

Contributed by: Arvid


Topic: 15. Are Cultural Communities Entrusting Their Materials To Academic Institutions or Are They Collecting Themselves. Pros and Cons of Different Models

Proposed by: Arvid Nelsen

Suggestions: Examples could be the Tretter LGBT Collection at the University of Minnesota and San DiegoÃÂÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs Lambda Archives that chose to remain independent of the University

Contributed by: Arvid

Suggestions: Get assistance/organization/sponsorship from the Diversity Committee? Arvid did speak briefly with Julie Grob at Midwinter.

Contributed by: Arvid


Topic: 16. Realia Bites: Dealing with Realia in Special Collections

Proposed by: ?????

Suggestions:

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Topic: 17. Sensitive Materials in Special Collections

Proposed by: Kenneth Giese and Terry Belanger

Suggestion: A seminar to examine the complexities of dealing with special collections materials that have encountered (or are likely, sooner or later, to encounter) legal, cultural and other problems. Categories of such materials include (among others) non-PC, overtly personal, religious and sacred, sex, race, egregious violence, illegal objects, etc., the common thread being the tensions they provoke (or are predicted to provoke).

The participants would include (1) a panelist giving an overview of sensitive collections and the problems they ran into (e.g. Little Black Sambo at Princeton; the Enola Gay fiasco at the Smithsonian); photographs of lynchings at Emory; (2) a person who mounted an exhibition that was publicly (and noisily) challenged, and what happened as a result; (3) a person from an institution with a sensitive collection -- but with a carefully constructed collection description (and collection development policy) intended to head off or at least defuse challenges.

Possible title: "Jumping On and Off the Banned Wagon: The acquisition and interpretation of sensitive materials in special collections."

Contributed by: KG/TB


Topic: 18. Film and Video Preservation

Proposed by:

Suggestions: Arvid spoke briefly with Jennifer Hain Teper on this, since they are also organizing an ALA Conference Program on this theme [Might this be a part of the Anaheim conference program? - Jen S.]

Contributed by:


Topic: 19. Facilitating Primary Source Research with Expanding Patron Bases: K-12, Undergraduate, and Public Patrons

Proposed by: Arvid Nelsen

Suggestions: Jennifer MacDonald and Pablo Alvarez are working on a proposal with a focus on teaching issues; Alvarez is one of the prospective speakers, to talk about teaching a non-credit continuing ed class at University of Rochester; Lisa Berglund, a professor who takes a book-history class on field trips to libraries and elsewhere, is another potential speaker; we are looking for someone active with K-12 groups as a third speaker. JSM

Possible title: Teaching and Outreach in Special Collections: From K-12 to Undergraduates and Beyond

Contributed by:


Topic: 20. The problem of retention of patron records in the era of the Patriot Act, / The benefit of retention of patron records for collections security in light of the Smiley case et al

Proposed by: Susan Walker

Suggestions:

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Topic: 21 Working title: ÃÂÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂCowboys and IndiansÃÂÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ

Title ideas: -Interfiling LAM special collections ÃÂÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ merging and thinking collectively -Celebrating combining libraries, archives and departments: merging identities -Merging identities -One library, one collection: converging collections and merging identities -The whole is not just the sum of the parts

Proposed by: Liza Posas, Southwest Museum and the Autry Museum

Suggestions: When in the course of human events it becomes necessary to improve library functions and services (and create efficiencies), it can be challenging to merge separate departments, libraries, archives, museums together into one. How can we celebrate and ÃÂÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂbrandÃÂÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ the new combined organization? This can be thought of as an experiment, a management directive, or a bottom-up recommendation to improve our work. Librarians and archivists sometimes struggle to create new merged identities from established separate and independent collections and functions. When we acquire collections (say the Burndy history of science collection at the Huntington, ) we process and provide access to our integrated collections. How can we do this with the people, the librarians, the readers, and even the building and architecture? How can we embrace and celebrate change?

(Is it a hostile takeover? Is it a survival strategy?)

Liza Posas, Southwest Museum and the Autry Museum

Linda Garnets, consultant

[Note ÃÂÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ would two speakers be enough, or might three be preferred? Someone from UMinn? Kris? Karen? Or U Kansas? Or?]

Contributed by: Jennifer Schaffner

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