Please Join the Design Records Section for its 2023 Annual Meeting!
Date: Wednesday, June 28th
Time: 2pm - 3:30pm EST
Location: WebEx. Use the following link to register: https://connect.archivists.org/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=a01f1e9c-2d2e-4513-b3c1-01879f4fdab5&Home=%2fevents%2fcalendar
We have an exciting group of presenters for the meeting including:
Updates from the new approved Digital Design Records Committee.
Three Presentations:
Packing up the Canadian Architecture Collection: Moving from Proposal to Practice.
Tellina Liu, Archivist and Liaison Librarian for the Moshe Safdie Archive, Interim
Curator for the John Bland Canadian Architecture Collection at McGill University
Tellina began this position in January 2023, with the responsibilities to prepare and pack over 200,00 items as part of Fiat Lux, a multi-year library renovation project. Our collection holds a variety of formats, including drawings, models, and photographs, as well as textual documents and audiovisual material. This presentation will describe the move planning decisions made and storage systems purchased, explain how plans have already been adapted due to new circumstances and realities, and share the current status of the move.
Fit To Move: practicalities in a pandemic.
Beth Dodd, Curator, Alexander Architectural Archives, University of Texas at
Austin
This talk will give practical advice learned from a major collection move. Alexander Architectural Archives, Special Collections and the Architecture and Planning Library staff moved collections during the pandemic to a temporary location in response to a building infrastructure renovation. This talk will cover practical lessons learned front he move, including preparation, the logistics of moving a collection, ongoing work while in the temporary locations, and aspirations for moving back.
Moving and housing the Charles M. Goodman architectural archive and the Paul Rudolph archive
Gillian Mahoney and Samantha Ruggirello, Processing Technicians, Prints &
Photographs Division, Library of Congress
This talk will discuss the challenges of moving, housing, and safe handling of the collections. This comparison includes scalability of solutions based on collection size and processed status, with Goodman's processed archive holding 14,000+ drawings while Rudolph's unprocessed archive is estimated to hold 75,000+ drawings. We will discuss the factors that influenced the decisions for flattening drawings vs. leaving drawings rolled, the challenges of both storage choices, and their impact on physically moving the collections.
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Allison Olsen
Digital Archivist
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Wilmington DE
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