2010 SAA Research Forum “Foundations and Innovations” Call for Participants / Call for Presentations

Call for Participants ★ Call for Presentations

Research Forum “Foundations and Innovations”
Tuesday, August 10 • 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

The past three Research Forums have yielded great participant responses, confirming that the full spectrum of research activities—from “pure” research to applied research and innovative practice—is of interest and value to the archives community. The 2010 Research Forum will build on its previous success with a full day of presentations.

Join SAA for the 4th Annual SAA Research Forum if you’re:

• Engaged in research.
• Seeking to identify research-based solutions for your institution.
• Willing to participate in the research cycle by serving as a beta site for research trials.
• Simply interested in what’s happening in research and innovation.

Researchers, practitioners, educators, students, and those across all sectors of archives and records management are invited to participate. Use the Forum to discuss, debate, plan, organize, evaluate, or motivate research projects and initiatives. The event seeks to facilitate collaboration and help inform researchers about what questions and problems need to be tackled.

As archivists from around the country and the world convene at ARCHIVES*RECORDS/DC 2010, the Research Forum provides a platform to acknowledge current, and encourage future, research and innovation across the broad archives community. View Research Forum material from 2007-2009 here.

Research Forum Events at ARCHIVES ★ RECORDS/DC 2010

The following events are planned for 2010:

• Research Presentations and Posters, Tuesday, August 10, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
  • Here’s your chance to present, discuss, listen to, or view research reports and results on a variety of topics. The final 30 minutes of this session will seek input for SAA’s 2011 Research Forum.
• “Office Hours” in the Exhibit Hall, Thursday, August 12, and Friday, August 13
  • Research Forum organizers will be on hand to hear your ideas about the Forum and for ad hoc discussions about specific research projects.
• Poster Sessions
  • Be sure to visit the poster sessions, which will include practice innovation and research topics.

Call for Platform and Poster Presentations (Closed)

SAA invites submission of abstracts (250 words or less) for either 10-minute platform presentations or poster presentations. Topics may address research on, or innovations in, any aspect of archival practice or records management in government, corporate, academic, scientific, or other setting. Presentations on research results that may have emerged since the Joint Meeting Call for Proposals deadline in September 2009 are welcome, as are reports on research completed within the past three years that you think is relevant and valuable for discussion. Please indicate whether you intend a platform or poster presentation.

Abstracts will be evaluated by a review committee co-chaired by Nancy McGovern (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, University of Michigan) and Helen Tibbo (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill).

Deadline for submission of abstracts: May 3, 2010. Proposers will be notified of the review committee’s decision by July 9. Submit to researchforum@archivists.org.