Museum Archives Standards and Best Practices Working Group: 2019 Symposium

SAA Museum Archives Section Standards and Best Practices Working Group

2019 Annual Symposium: Updates from the Floor

Saturday August 3, 2019, 8:30am to 10:30am

JW Marriott Austin, Austin, TX

This year our symposium will formalize the “Updates from the Floor” portion of the Section meeting and focus on projects currently underway or recently completed in museum archives. This symposium will provide a forum for sharing pilots, in-progress projects, and recently completed projects, initiatives, and activities at our repositories with our colleagues, and offers an opportunity for sharing ideas and assessing the current state of the museum archives field.

Please click here to access the recording of the symposium

Schedule

8:30-8:35: Symposium Introduction: Megan Schwenke, Harvard Art Museums

8:35-9:30: Panel 1

Building a Museum Archives Program: A Game of Chutes & Ladders 

Katrina O'Brien, World of Speed

Back to Basics: Recent Projects in the Archives at The Henry Ford

Brian Wilson, The Henry Ford

American Museum of Natural History Authorities

Rebecca Morgan, American Museum of Natural History

Moderator: Rachel Chatalbash, Yale Center for British Art

9:30 - 10:30: Panel 2

ArchivesSpace at the Whitney Museum of American Art

Tara Hart, Whitney Museum of American Art

Wrangling a Hybrid Collection

Malia Van Heukelem, University of Hawaii at Manoa

One Smithsonian, Many Libraries and Archives

Sharad J. Shah, Smithsonian Libraries

Moderator: Megan Schwenke, Harvard Art Museums

Questions? Please contact Working Group co-chairs Rachel Chatalbash (rachel.chatalbash@yale.edu) and Megan Schwenke (megan_schwenke@harvard.edu).