Good day archives colleagues,
I am thrilled to invite you to attend the first of three Archival Vistas Briefings virtual events!
As a companion to the successful IAAS Archival Landscapes series, the SAA International Archival Affairs Section is pleased to begin this new initiative.
Archival Vistas Briefings is a series of virtual events that addresses topics or subjects that literally know no boundaries, geographic or otherwise. This year's focus is "archives at risk."
We begin the series broadly by hosting a conversation with Mr. Jacob Nadal, Director of Preservation, Library of Congress and a U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield Board Member. The Committee of the Blue Shield's mission is to protect the world's cultural heritage, including archival records, from threats ranging from armed conflicts to natural disasters. Given there is no shortage of any such threat, this conversation promises to be quite informative if not instructive and will set the stage for the remaining two events.
Please register for the event at
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIucuytqD8vGNOTjKXL2SU46dSOPhpoIaSO#/registration
And please join us via zoom on April 19, 10-11a, EDT at
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86355564527
For full transparency, these events will be recorded and accessible via the SAA YouTube channel playlist, "Archival Vistas Briefings" #IAAS.
Please feel free to share this message widely; all are welcome to attend.
Also worth calendar-marking are the other two events of this three-part series; they are scheduled for May 17, 12-1p EDT [Dr. Saad Eskander, former Director (during 2003 US invasion) of the Iraq National Library and Archives and current Cultural Heritage Adviser, Iraq Ministry of Culture, Tourism, and Antiquities] and June 16, 12-1p EDT (Dr. Maryna Paliienko, Head of the Archival Science and Special Branches of History Department, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine). Please stay tuned for more details in the coming weeks.
Thank you very much for your interest and see you on April 19 if not before!
Sincerely,
Prof. Karen Trivette, MLS
IAAS Steering Committee
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Karen Trivette
Prof., Head of Special Collections and College Archives
Fashion Institute of Technology
New York NY
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