Archivists of Religious Collections Section invites you to join us to learn about the amazing Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) program and how you can take part!
Thursday, July 6, 2023 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Register in advance for this webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6OcBVA9iSQOXsDQpNX8swg
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
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Presenters:
Jerry Simmons is the lead National Archives and Records Administration Agency Liaison to the SNAC cooperative, and serves as lead of the SNACSchool and as the SNAC Operations Coordinator. Since 2000, Jerry led several authorities cataloging projects for the National Archives including the start up of NARA's NACO and SACO contribution projects. He was an archivist and cataloger for the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from 1990 to 1999. His first archives job, 1986-1990, was in the Diocesan Archives of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Savannah, Georgia, working as an assistant to the late Sr. Mary Felicitas Powers, RSM. Jerry taught as adjunct faculty at the Catholic University of America's Department of Library Science from 2011 to 2015, and now teaches as adjunct professor in the Simmons University (Boston) School of Library and Information Science.
Dina Herbert is the National Archives liaison to Social Networks and Archival Contexts (SNAC) where she is responsible for working with partner organizations, editing SNAC, training, and more. Previously she served as the Innovation Hub Coordinator at NARA as the Librarian of the Iraqi Jewish Archive Preservation Project at NARA. She received degrees from Columbia University (BA), the Jewish Theological Seminary (BA, MA), and the University of Maryland (MLS).
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Mary Grace Kosta
Congregational Archivist
Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada
London ON
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