SAA 2019 Visual Materials Section schedule

See the details below and if you are interested in Thursday’s tour of the Wittliff Collections, Friday dinner, Saturday lunch, or Sunday breakfast, please add your name, phone number and email address to the sign-in sheet found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WXeW7yxGmbQhc3_hblA8vMdKyUhIVNoQ...

Thursday, August 1

10:45 am -6:30 pm (tour 1:00 pm-4:00 pm) Special Collections Tour

Join us for a tour of the Wittliff Collections whose mission is “to collect, preserve and share the artistic process that springs from the Southwestern imagination.”  The collection is located south of Austin at Texas State University in San Marcos, so we will carpool to the destination. Led by Photography Archivist Carla Ellard, we will learn about the collections and see the current photography exhibition, Arthur Tress: Mexico 1964-65, before we head over to the Wittliff’s new off-site storage facility. ***This tour is limited to 15 participants and you must RSVP by next Tuesday the 30th.

https://www.thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu

https://www.thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu/exhibitions/Arthur-Tress.html

Friday, August 2

5:30 pm Section Dinner

Join us at Guero’s Taco Bar for the annual Section dinner. A local institution since 1986, Guero’s offers a wide selection of Mexican dishes including gluten-free and vegan options. If it’s a margarita you’re after, their hand-shaken margaritas made with fresh lime juice couldn’t be better. And if you want to stick around after dinner you can enjoy live music out in the Oak Garden. Please RSVP by next Wednesday the 31st.

https://gueros.com/

Saturday, August 3

10:00 am Audio & Moving Image Section meeting

1:00 pm Lunch Meet-Up

Join us for lunch at Fare Ground, Austin’s food hall, where you can sample food from some of the city’s best restaurants. Whether you’re craving Japanese, Mexican, Italian, Israeli, or locally sourced American fare, you’re bound to find something to tempt your taste buds.

https://faregroundaustin.com/

***3:15PM Visual Materials Section Meeting***

Business meeting and presentations:

- “I think I saw the picture in the Durham paper”: A case study in iterative processing, Patrick C. Cullom, Visual Materials Processing Archivist, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

- Reimagining metadata practices for a large digitized image collection, Elliot Williams, Digital Initiatives Metadata Librarian, University of Miami Libraries

Sunday, August 4

8:30 am Breakfast Meet-Up

Join us for a light breakfast at Austin’s best bakery, Easy Tiger. Grab a cup of coffee and a pastry or piece of quiche upstairs and then meet us downstairs at a table.

https://www.easytigerusa.com/sixth-street-austin

2:30 pm Professional Posters:

- Distance Collaboration and "Our Story: Photographs and Publications of the Atlanta University Center"

- Wrangling a Hidden Fine Art Collection, Or a Librarian, an Archivist, and a Curator (Cross)walk into ArchivesSpace

4:30 pm Session 407: Transnational Archives: A Special Focus Session on Borderlands Archives Cartography

5:30 pm Graduate Posters:

- A Quantitative Approach to the Status of the Magnetic Media Crisis: From Hoping to Knowing

- Cold Storage: Icelandic Home Movies in the National Film Archive

- Digital Curation of DTE Aerial Photographs

- Community Archives as Alternative Narratives: The Creation and Maintenance of the Digital Image Collection “Archiving South Carolina Women”

- Visualizing the 19th-century Mexican Political Sphere

7:30 pm Archives in the Movies

Monday, August 5

12:30 pm Professional Posters

- Distance Collaboration and "Our Story: Photographs and Publications of the Atlanta University Center"

- Wrangling a Hidden Fine Art Collection, Or a Librarian, an Archivist, and a Curator (Cross)walk into ArchivesSpace