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penpiano — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:19:11 CST

Chapters and Loose Papers is the official SAA newsletter for students of archival science. The newsletter allows students of archives from all paths to share their ideas, experiences, and knowledge. To learn more follow this link: About Chapters and Loose Papers.

2008-2009 Editorial Board:
Daniel Donatacci and Robynne Dexter

The Spring 2009 issue of Chapters and Loose Papers, the official SAA newsletter for students of archival science, is approaching. The newsletter, as you may already know, allows students of archives from all paths to share their ideas, experiences, and knowledge; this year we will be putting out three issues. We invite you to send us your submissions for the second of three issues we are putting out this year - we anticipate publishing in May. The continuing theme will be "Light At the End of the Tunnel", and will, as that phrase suggests, focus on projects and goals to feature and track through the year. Please keep us updated on the exciting endeavors that you wrote about in the first issue! We are also very interested in hearing of your recent events and accomplishments, including your experiences at midwinter conferences.
We encourage you to join the wiki and contribute to discussion on the open boards that can be found here, in addition to sending us your submissions. On this site you will also find RSS feeds for current topics within the industry and other useful resources.
The goals for the 2008-2009 issues of Chapters and Loose Papers are to expand the topics of the newsletter, highlight student chapter activities, reflect student interests more broadly, and engage those whose interests may not be tied solely to student chapters.
We are confident that we can meet these goals, with the help of your submissions. Do not hesitate to let us hear your opinion on any topic of interest to the archival student community – it’s your voice we represent and we cannot do so if we do not hear it!
You can submit using the Wiki or directly to our emails: penpiano@yahoo.com (Daniel) or robyn.k.dexter@us.army.mil (Robynne). The deadline for submissions to the Spring 2009 issue is May 1. Thanks!

Daniel Donatacci and Robynne Dexter
Editorial Board, Chapters and Loose Papers

The Fall 2008 issue can be found at:
http://www.archivists.org/students/index.asp

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If you haven't checked it out, yet, there is a wiki available about the annual conference in San Francisco. It's a great resource, and we encourage you all to check it out! The link for it is here.

The Editorial Board

penpiano — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:45:52 CST

Daniel Donatacci is currently working on his Ph.D. at Brandeis University , and also pursuing a MLIS through San Jose . His MLIS concentration is in Archival Studies and Records Management, as well as Academic Librarianship. His areas of interest include conservation and preservation (books), digital humanities, queer cultural archives, genealogy, collection development, and reference services.

Robynne Dexter is *** .

Volume 2, Issue 3 Information

penpiano — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:11:23 CST

Submissions for the second issue of the 2008-2009 academic year are now being collected. The continuing theme for this issue will be The Light at the End of the Tunnel. This topic is looking at projects and plans for the groups through the school year; keep us updated!

Guidelines:

Submissions ought to be 500 words or less, unless otherwise indicated by the topic.
Please e-mail all submissions to Robynne or Daniel. In the email, please indicate what general topic you are submitting for and the school you attend.
Submissions should be saved as a .doc file. Please include in the file name your last name for easy reference. ex: butler_paperclips.doc ..
If you'd like to submit an image to accompany your submission, please do! Make sure the image file's name is related to your .doc file. ex: butler_paperclips.jpg.

General Topics:

Student Chapter Happenings: These are brief re-caps of what the student chapters have been up to. Usually an officer of the chapter submits a general overview of a few events, or about events in the making.

Student Projects: Individual students are encouraged to submit descriptions about any projects they are involved with at their school, at work, or in the community relating to archives. These projects can include, but are not limited to:

Papers/Research Pursuits: The newsletter would like to feature student research. Submit an abstract/synopsis of a thesis, or a summary of a paper you’ve worked on. Maybe there’s a topic you are trying to flesh out and just want to share a few thoughts about it.

Education: Since this issue is highlighting archival education, please submit any writings about any educational programming/research you have participated with or worked on.

Internship Experiences: Hearing about other internships, the good and the bad, is helpful to everyone! It opens us up to environments which we may want to look into, or perhaps other types of institutions that really don’t sound as appealing as we originally thought. Reflect and share!

Technology: Hear of any intriguing tools or software for the profession? Used any software which you thought was quite helpful or too temperamental? We’re exposed to technology in the profession constantly, and it would be great to hear about others experiences and thoughts.

Archives in The World : Whenever I hear the word “archive” being used outside academic walls, my ears perk up. I’m always excited to see how archives are being reflected outside of journals, workshops, and chapter meetings. This is where we can bring each other’s attention to where archives are also being mentioned outside of our own bubbles.

Current Events : Hear any news lately? Give us a brief summary of any archival “news”, citing the source of the news as well.

Pop Culture: Played a video game recently and found that the character must access an archive? (yes… it does happen!) Or maybe been watching a movie and the plot includes an archive? Whatever it may be, cartoon, a song, comic book… Share it with us! We may want to check it out too!

Literature Reviews: Read a good book with an archival theme, principal or an archive within it? Share your opinion about the book and expose us to more reading material.

If you have any questions, please leave us a message. Thanks!

Editorial Board Information

penpiano — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 09:15:59 CDT

The following is a general description of the Editorial Board's responsibilities. If you're interested in participating as part of the Editorial Board for the 2008-2009 Academic Year, please get in in touch with either Robynne or Daniel for further information.

There is no fixed size to the Editorial Board, nor is there a fixed term of membership. The SAA Vice President will appoint members to the Editorial Board every year, selecting from among members of SAA student chapters or independent student members of SAA. Editorial Board members may be reappointed for consecutive terms as long as they continue to be enrolled in a graduate archival education program. The SAA Vice President will each year solicit both volunteers and recommendations from current Editorial Board members to identify new Editorial Board members if needed. Consideration will be given to potential Editorial Board members’ experience with newsletter editorial and production duties, but such experience will not be mandatory.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

Create and update as needed an editorial structure, a mission, and editorial policies.
Solicit content from SAA student chapters and independent student members of SAA, as well as from SAA elected leaders.
Educate student members about the range of student chapter and independent student member activities and about SAA activities that are relevant to student members.
Publish the newsletter online on a regular basis, hosted on the SAA website, with technical assistance from SAA’s Director of Member and Technical Services.
Maintain Chapters and Loose Papers wiki-site.
Contribute to the overall mission of SAA.

About Chapters and Loose Papers

penpiano — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 09:09:28 CDT

Chapters and Loose Papers is the official SAA newsletter for students of Archival Science. It was launched in 2006 by Russell D. James, graduate of Lousiana State University and Donald Force, graduate of Indiana University. Russell served as its editor for the 2006-2007 academic year. Currently, he's chair of SAA's Records Management Roundtable.

The title, Chapters and Loose Papers, calls upon images of books and documents, but it also suggests an interest and a focus on both SAA Student Chapters and those students who are not affiliated with SAA chapters.

There are two members on the editorial board for the 2008-2009 academic year: Robynne Dexter, a senior at Virginia State University and the archivist of the US Army Women's Musuem, and Daniel Donatacci, who is an MLIS student at San Jose State University and a PhD student (English) at Brandeis University. The goal for the 2008-2009 issues is to expand the topics of the newsletter, to highlight student chapter activities, and to reflect student interests and to engage those whose interests may not be tied solely to student chapters. It is hoped that by using this medium, we can get more students involved, get ideas, challenges and projects highlighted.

This wiki site was established with the release of Volume 2, Issue 1. It is hoped that the site will grow as more students become members of the wiki, and it will serve to compliment and enhance the newsletter. The newsletter is unique as it is the only SAA Newsletter not affiliated with an SAA Roundtable.

Archival Happenings

AWMarchivist — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:37:44 CDT

This is a page dedicated to available newsfeeds, so that we can keep ourselves updated on archival happenings from institutions around the world. If you believe there are other archival newsfeeds we should post here, please suggest them!

Global Museum Magazine
http://www.globalmuseum.org/

Podcast- Global Museum subscription address http://www4.wave.co.nz/~jollyroger/GM2/GMPod.xml

UK's 24 Hour Museum
Archival listings

From NARA:
Press Releases from October 2007 to present

From Australia:

Lectures on Demand

Records release

From the UK:

RSS Feed Testing

OTA — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:20:58 CST

Ok. So, the following links *should* work for RSS feeds. At least they worked on the RSS widget. I just tested it here (see below) to see if it would update as I made changes... and it did, so that's a good sign, right?

RSS Feed url for update pages:
http://chaptersandloosepapers.wetpaint.com/rss2_0/pageReport/updated

RSS Feed url for threads:
http://chaptersandloosepapers.wetpaint.com/rss2_0/pageReport/updatedThreads