Twin Cities Archives Round Table

Here are some parking options downtown near the library. If public transportation is available to you, it will be a cost-savings compared to parking rates.

Here are some last minute details about the meeting tomorrow from the Red Wing Corporate Archives. See you in Red Wing!

Join the Hennepin County Library Special Collections and the Twin Cities Archives Round Table on Friday, November 15, 2013 for the second annual Minnesota Archives Symposium. This year’s theme is Making Connections: Advocacy, Awareness and Archives. Attend the Symposium to meet with your peers and learn what methods archivists, librarians, curators, and other information management professionals are doing to advocate and make connections with others, both within their institution and with the public.

Registration for this event is FREE.

Schedule of Events:

• 12:15-12:45 pm Optional HCL Archives Tour w/Ted Hathaway (must pre-register limit 20)
• 12:45-1:00 pm TCART Sponsored Pre-Symposium Coffee & Mingle Break
• 1:00-1:15 pm Speaker: Introduction to the Symposium
• 1:15-2:15 pm Session One: Advocating Within: Demonstrating the Value of Archives and Archivists with Jamie Martin, Freelance Archivist
  • Learn from real-world examples of recent archival and career advocacy, including working with management, creation of new partnerships, and career changes & advancements. The presenter will discuss both successes and efforts that failed, highlighting practical tips, lessons learned, and how to succeed in spite of challenging circumstances.
• 2:15-2:45 pm TCART Sponsored Coffee & Mingle Break & Optional HCL Archives Tour w/Ted Hathaway (must pre-register limit 20)
• 2:45-3:45 pm Session Two: Using Interns and Volunteers to Improve Your Community Relations and Promote Future Librarian and Archivists (While Still Supporting Your Operations) with Ted Hathaway, Manager Special Collections, Hennepin County Library
  • Learn how to recruit, manage, motivate and recognize volunteers or interns. This presentation will help you match them to appropriate tasks and give you an idea of their commitment level. It will also guide you in making their volunteer or intern experience personally useful and rewarding. The presenter will draw on years of experience working with volunteers and interns for a special collections and archives department at a large public library.
• 3:45pm-4:00 pm TCART Sponsored Coffee & Mingle Break
• 4:00-5:00 pm Session Three Making Deeper Connections: How Community Outreach Can Strengthen Support for Special Collections and Create More Meaningful Programming with Elissah Becknell, Librarian & Instructor, Minneapolis Community & Technical College, and Rebecca March, Librarian & Instructor, Minneapolis Community & Technical College
  • Learn how to promote a special collection through community outreach, events and programming. Attendees will learn strategies on how to identify and engage different user populations that may be interested in their collections. The presenters also discuss the importance of collaboration with community members with common interests or shared goals.

Registration Information: The Minnesota Archives Symposium will be held in the Mary and David Doty Board Room (2nd floor) at Central Public Library in Minneapolis, MN from 1:00 – 5:00 PM on Friday, November 15.

Registration is FREE, but we ask that participants register their intent to attend by filling out a registration form by Friday, November 8th for planning purposes. You can find the form online here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/15nc1v4w8E6kSQFALr3PAZft2WB8HHvEZ1qiOsIVwqRk/viewform

Questions? Please contact TCART or Elissah Becknell for questions and information.

Friday, October 25, 2013
9:00AM-12:00PM
Red Wing Shoe Company
314 Main Street, Red Wing, MN (Parking is available in the ramp behind the corporate office)

Please RSVP for this meeting by Friday October 18. All attendees will register at the corporate office when they arrive before proceeding to the original 1905 office and manufacturing facility where the TCART meeting will be held.

Please join us in Red Wing, MN, for the fall TCART meeting. In addition to the business meeting and tour of the facilities, Beth McLaughlin, Textile Conservator, will do a presentation on textile preservation.

If there is a particular topic you would like Beth to address, or if you have an idea or issue you would like to add to the agenda, please contact Jennifer Johnson at jennifer_i_johnson@cargill.com.

The TCART fall meeting is open to all who are interested in attending. Membership information will be available at the meeting for those who wish to join. Members, please remember that membership renewal is due at the Fall meeting. See https://tcartmn.org/membership/ for more membership information or to join today!

And now a message from Clare Pavelka, Corporate Archivist at the Red Wing Shoe Company:

The Red Wing Shoe Company campus is located just an hour south of the MSP Airport on Hwy 61. TCART attendees will have an opportunity to visit and explore the four downtown campus buildings, including the Flagship Red Wing Shoe Store and Museum home of the World’s Largest Boot.

Leave time in your schedule to visit the Flagship Red Wing Shoe Store and Museum across the street from the corporate office. Be sure to see the original Norman Rockwell art, WW II paratrooper Skytrooper boots, the first pair of Red Wing Shoes and world’s largest Red Wing Shoe at size 638 ½. Lunch options for the downtown area will be provided.