2004-2005 Annual Report

2004-2005 Student Members:
Dharma Akmon, President
Leslie Knoblauch, Vice Presidents
Eva Reffell, Secretary
Shahana Alam, Treasurer
Christy Eyre, Publicity Chair
Joanna Axelrod, Social Chair
Nick Baker, Webmaster

Elizabeth Yakel, Faculty Advisor

The University of Michigan Student Chapter of the Society of American Archivists had another busy year made up of tours, professional development sessions, and special speakers. The chapter continued to provide opportunities for students to get to know their colleagues by hosting social events such as our weekly happy hour, a night of bowling, and welcome back potluck.

The UM student chapter raised money to fund activities by selling “Michigan Archives” t-shirts and sweatshirts and hosting a bake sale. Particularly successful was our shirt sale at SAA’s annual conference in Boston. We set up a table at the UM reception and quickly sold out.

We also updated our website (http://www.si.umich.edu/SAA) and created a tool for rating UM courses and professors, which has been very popular with the entire student body. Further, the website was used to post all of our events throughout the year and serves as an archive of past events to guide future officers.

The chapter is a recognized University of Michigan student group and has a University bank account.

2004-2005 EVENTS

• Welcome Back Potluck
• Tour of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library Coffee with Abby Smith from CLIR
• Panel: How to get a job in the archival profession
• Guest Speaker: Keith Harper on recent Indian Law cases involving the mismanagement of records
• Annual Bentley/SAA archival reception
• Students speak on their internship experiences
• Speaker: Tim Hogarth from the Buhr Conservation Lab on preservation of archival materials
• Archives students meeting where students solicited for comments and suggestions for student chapter of SAA
• Bowling Night
• Brownbag: Getting involved with SAA’s annual conference. Beth Kaplan met with students to share different ways of getting involved.
• Speaker: David Wallace, professor at Catholic University on “Archives for Justice in South Africa”
• SAA Ice Skating Party
• Speaker: Julie Herrada from the Labadie talks about the collections there
• Resume and Cover Letter Workshop
• Tour of Papyrus Collection, University of Michigan
• Tour of Clements Library, University of Michigan