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C&UA Section's April Webinar This Week!

  • 1.  C&UA Section's April Webinar This Week!

    Posted Apr 13, 2021 04:22 PM

    Hello! If you haven’t already, please mark your calendars to join your C&UA Section colleagues in the second of four webinars in this spring 2021 season. See all the details below. We hope you can join us! Karen

    Title: Those Were the Days: Making College and University Milestones Matter Today

    Date: Thursday, April 15, 1 pm ET/12 noon CT/10 am PT

    Description: All colleges and universities have a history. College archives are charged with preserving their histories through the institutional historical records in their care. What are some unique, interesting, and innovative ways that we can leverage the records at times of institution commemoration, celebration, and remembrance? Join your colleagues from the leadership of the College and University Archives section of SAA to learn how peer archivists have done just that.

    Speaker Information:

    April K. Anderson-Zorn is the university archivist for Illinois State University.  Anderson-Zorn holds a master’s degree in History from the University of Central Florida, an MLIS from Florida State University, maintains a Digital Archives Specialist certificate through the Society of American Archivists, and is a certified archivist.  Anderson-Zorn is active in SAA and the Midwest Archives Conference, presenting topics and authoring articles related to university archives outreach projects and tools.

    Abstract: In Spring 2016, a phone call arrived at the Rayfield Archives from the demolition site of an Illinois State University campus dormitory.  Workers at the site had uncovered a time capsule and didn’t know where to send it.  In the following months, the Rayfield Archives partnered with ISU units, including Marketing and Facilities, to promote the find and redirect a narrative of the sad loss of a dormitory to one of renewal and discovery.  The work to triage the damaged capsule materials and make them immediately accessible was made all the more exciting by a second surprise time capsule discovery.  Anderson-Zorn will discuss the steps taken to work with the materials from discovery to storage and how University partnerships have informed future historic-themed celebrations and discoveries.

    Karen Trivette is an Associate Professor and Head of Special Collections and College Archives for the Fashion Institute of Technology-State University of New York. She holds a Master of Library Science degree from the University at Albany-SUNY and is pursuing her Doctorate of Archival Sciences at the Alma Mater Europaea University in Maribor, Slovenia. Trivette is active in SAA, especially the College & University Archives and Design Records sections, and presents regularly both nationally and internationally.

    Abstract: In “Pandemic Pivots and Lessons Learned: Leveraging the College Archives for Celebrations Today and Tomorrow,” Trivette will discuss attempts at conventional commemorations highlighting the College Archives and the ways in which COVID-19 and other circumstances mandated implementing Plan B.

    Zoom link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYscO-vqjIjHtBVVBhrI7XpZ6lcE6C0zFBk



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    Karen Trivette
    Assoc. Prof., Head of Special Collections and College Archives
    Fashion Institute of Technology
    New York NY
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