2009 Make an Impact! Contest Participants and Winners
SAA congratulates the winners of the 2009 American Archives Month Make an Impact! Contest. "Did You Know Your Grandmother Was a Beauty Queen?" submitted by the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library of the Denver Public Library, received the most votes for Best Poster to Promote 2009 Archives Month/Week, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Student Chapter of SAA won for Best Successfully Implemented Campaign for its class project. Browse all entries below. Thanks to everyone who submitted entries and to all who voted. Together, we can make an impact!
Entries for Best Poster to Promote 2009 Archives Month/Week
- Did You Know Your Grandmother Was a Beauty Queen?
Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library (BCL)
Denver Public Library, Denver, CO
Description
Digitized Collection on Flickr, Denver Public Library Western History and Genealogy Department (WHG)
- Kentucky Archives Month
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Kentucky State Historical Records Advisory Board, Kentucky Council on Archives
Description
- To Choose Our Better History
Virginia Archives Month Committee, Library of Virginia, Virginia Caucus of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC), Library of Virginia Foundation, Virginia State Historical Records Advisory Board
Description
Archives Month in Virginia
- Scrapbook Wisconsin
Wisconsin Historical Records Advisory Board (WHRAB), Wisconsin Historical Society
Description
- Celebrate American Archives Month!
Smithsonian Institution
- "I Have So Much to Tell You...."
Mississippi Archives Month
Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Mississippi Historical Records Advisory Board, Society of Mississippi Archivists
Description
Society of Mississippi Archivists 2009 Archives Month
- No Matter How You Get There...Visit Your Local Archives
Jesse White, Secretary of State and State Archivist, Illinois State Archives, Illinois State Historical Records Advisory Board, Chicago Area Archivists
Description
Illinois Archives Month, October 2009
- Reflecting the Dutch Heritage of Albany and Its Presence in American Records
University at Albany Student Chapter of the Society of American Archivists
Description
- Tough Times in a Tough Land
Arizona State Library, Archives & Public Records, Arizona Historical Records Advisory Board
Description
Entries for Best Successfully Implemented Campaign
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
Students of LIS 754: Archives User Services and Outreach,
UW-Madison Student Chapter of SAA
Full Project Description
Summary: In the fall of 2008, the Archives and Records Administration students at the University of Wisconsin—Madison School of Library and Information Studies first launched an outreach campaign in celebration of American Archives Month. Led by students enrolled in Dr. Ciaran Trace's "Archives User Services and Outreach" class, the project revolved around the creation, development, and marketing of a blog centered on a specific topic or theme. The topic for October 2008 was the dissemination of information "about the various institutions around the state that act to preserve and make available for use the records of Wisconsin's rich heritage." The blog proved to be such a success that it continued again in 2009.
This Make an Impact! contest submission for Best Successfully Implemented Campaign describes the topic of our blog, briefly explains the information gathering and advertising strategies we used to populate and market our blog, and reports statistics and other data on visits to the blog.
- Smithsonian Institution
Archives of American Gardens
Washington, D.C.
Full Project Description
Summary:The Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Gardens (AAG) celebrated American Archives Month by reaching out to the general public as well as a targeted audience of garden professionals to raise awareness about the Archives' holdings and the importance of archival resources in general. Given the popularity and impact demonstrated by examples from other Smithsonian photographic collections on Flickr Commons, AAG staff uploaded an inaugural selection of images of historic glass lantern slides from the Garden Club of America Collection in celebration of American Archives Month.
In addition to posting to Flickr, archives staff crafted a simple blast email announcement (see Full Project Description link above) using the sample press release provided by SAA online. They compiled a distribution list of editors of garden magazines with online versions and also targeted garden history and garden enthusiast bloggers from across the country. As a result, the Archives' announcement made it into several online venues, including the American Public Gardens Association (APGA) Newsletter for October, the Garden Design Magazine Blog and Twitter to name a few.
See How Your Colleagues Are “Celebrating the American Record”
Archives Month Web Pages, Blogs, and Wikis
- Sponsored by the California Historical Records Advisory Board (CHRAB), the Society of California Archivists (SCA), and the California State Archives (CSA), Archives Month in California is "Celebrating California's Cultural Diversity."
- California Sisters of Notre Dame Archives
- Visit American Archives Month pages on Facebook (log in and search "Archives Month") for Virginia Archives Month, Archives Month in Washington State, and Utah Archives Month.
- Idaho State Historical Society
- Archives Month in the MARAC region
- National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division is “Celebrating the American Medical Record”
- Archives Month at the Smithsonian
- Trinity Church Wall Street Archives celebrated Archives Month with a targeted inreach campaign in the weekly staff e-news. Each week a different group of materials were highlighted with a short description, overview, list of recent uses, and image. Each record group was chosen with a specific internal customer group in mind.
- University of Hawaii Archives & Manuscripts department showcases a Web exhibit, American Archives Month: Diversity, A Part of the American Dream, that draws upon several different collections from the department of Archives & Manuscripts to illustrate the diversity of the student body from the institution's beginning. Materials from this collection and others are also on display in the John Troup Moir Jr. & Gertrude M.F. Moir Archives Reading Room on the 5th floor of Hamilton Library on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. throughout the month of October.
- University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Library and Information Studies Archives and Records Management students are pleased to announce the second annual Archives Month Blog.
- “Scrapbook Wisconsin,” sponsored by the Wisconsin Historical Society and the Wisconsin Historical Records Advisory Board, showcases hidden gems and unknown treasures that exist in scrapbooks held by participating historical societies across the state. Participating institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Library and Information Studies.
Official Recognition
Special Events
- Council of State Archivists' Directory of 2009 Archives Month Activities Planned by Organizations and Repositories
- Capital District Library Council (CDLC) Document Heritage Program 2009 Archives Month Schedule
- Long Island Library Resources Council 2009 Archives Month Calendar
- Mississippi has “So much to tell you….” during Archives Month this October. Click here.
- The Wittliff Collections and the University Archives at the Alkek Library, Texas State University–San Marcos, hosted a panel consisting of representatives from area archives who have undergone recent building projects, as well as a shelving/space planning expert and an architect. View the details and the press release.
- The SAA student chapter at the University of Texas at Austin is celebrating Archives Week 2009 by exploring When Disaster Strikes! Check out the complete schedule of events.
- Society of North Carolina Archivists is Celebrating the North Carolina Record! View a sample PSA here.
- Check out the University of Maryland iSchool's Calendar for activities related to Archives Month, including: Ian Wilson, former National Archivist of Canada, will be on campus Wednesday, October 14, conducting a seminar and meeting with archives specialization students. The University of Maryland will host "Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Today and Tomorrow" on Wednesday, October 21. An alumni panel will focus on theory versus practice and a distinguished panel featuring Anne Gilliland (UCLA), Matt Kirschenbaum (MITH, UMD), and Seamus Ross (University of Toronto) will focus on "Stewardship of Our Digital Cultural Heritage."
Media Coverage
- Listen to a podcast of an interview of the Virginia State Archivist, Conley Edwards, about American Archives Month by Coy Barefoot, host and producer of "Charlottesville-Right Now," NewsRadio 1070 WINA.
- Council of State Archivists' Archives Week/Month poster gallery.
- Indiana University South Bend has American Archives Month coverage this month in the student newspaper, The Preface. Articles will include photographs of student life in past decades from the Archives' collections.
Other Activities
- Indiana University South Bend has a permanent display in the new McDonald's restaurant across from the campus. IUSB has a display field with a rotating set of four different scans of photographs and covers from class schedules to include campus history as a part of the permanent display. These are scans are printed on photographic paper so they look like originals. There is also a plaque crediting the IU South Bend Archives in the case, with contact information for the Archives and the Archivist. IUSB also has a display up in the Library featuring the American Archives Month poster and items from the Press Kit.
- The Warren County Records Center & Archives displays current and past framed American Archives Month posters.
- The Woody Guthrie Archives will display the American Archives Month poster and materials from the press kit to make researchers more aware of the presence of archives.
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