Twin Cities Archives Round Table

9th Annual Minnesota Archives Symposium

The Twin Cities Archives Round Table is pleased to announce the ninth annual Minnesota Archives Symposium (MAS). MAS is a local educational and networking opportunity for archivists, librarians, records managers, curators and other information professionals. We seek to broaden opportunities to share knowledge and insights among peers at a local level. The Symposium will be held on Monday, November 1st on Zoom.

This year’s topics will not be limited to a theme.

Due to the truncated nature of this year’s MAS we have decided to forgo a theme.

Registration is REQUIRED by October 27, 2021, but the event is FREE.  

Please enter the email you used for your membership. Non-member email addresses will not be sent a link for the event. Please Register using this link: https://carleton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0pduihqzwoHN2E9MTjvK63w3PccVkywA1Z 

Schedule of Events:

• 9:30-9:45 Welcome
• 9:45-10:30 Business Meeting 
• 10:30-10:45 Break
• 10:45-11:30 Session 1: Down to Earth Documentation by Sarah Barsness
  • Documenting your work in policies, procedures, manuals, guidelines, how-tos, frameworks, templates, and rubrics is a time-consuming, difficult process. We all know the benefits, but getting documentation done is often nearly impossible.  But if I can do it, so can you!  This session will discuss practical, real-life strategies I’m using to create and expand my own documentation
• 11:30-11:45 Poster session – Preserving Scrapbooks by Rachel Johnson
• 11:45-12:30 Lunch Break with project showcase video breakout rooms
• 12:30-12:45 Word from Sponsors
• 12:45-1:20 Session 2: Halfway There: Inheriting a Large Collection as a Lone Arranger by Erin McBrien
  • The Federal Cartridge business archive is comprised of not only documents, but also developed photographs, moving image film, still image film, 3D artifacts, packaging, printing plates, and framed art. After weeding, it measures at slightly over 85 linear feet of archival material, not including framed objects and printing plates. It is a relatively recent acquisition of the Anoka County Historical Society, which has a small staff including only one full-time archivist. Inheriting this collection as a work in progress was especially challenging, and involved near-constant assessment and reassessment. The current ACHS archivist will be going through the hurdles of taking on a collection halfway through processing, including everything from weeding to cataloging to hiring interns.
• 1:20-1:30 Closing

The symposium will take place on Monday, November 1st on Zoom. Directions and information will be sent to qualifying emails the day of the event.

Registration Information:

Registration is FREE, but we ask that participants complete the registration form by Wednesday, October 27^th using this link: https://carleton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0pduihqzwoHN2E9MTjvK63w3PccVkywA1Z 

Showcase Videos:

Showcase videos highlighting member accomplishments will be available for viewing at the following links. Breakout rooms discussing the videos and other topics will be available during the lunch break, if you would like to discuss the videos during the lunch break please watch them during the first break.

Archiving Film at the Minnesota Historical Society / Joseph Larsen, Minnesota Historical Society

https://www.dropbox.com/s/h2zxg3tfr1bco98/Archiving%20Film%20at%20the%20Minnesota%20Historical%20Society.mp4?dl=0

Lenticular Kodacolor Digitization / Nat Wilson, Carleton College Archives

https://www.dropbox.com/s/m3a0lulqxe4f0eb/Carleton%20College%20Lenticular%20film.mp4?dl=0

Questions?

Please contact TCART at tcartmn@gmail.com.

The Twin Cities Archives Round Table is pleased to announce the ninth annual Minnesota Archives Symposium (MAS). MAS is a local educational and networking opportunity for archivists, librarians, records managers, curators and other information professionals. We seek to broaden opportunities to share knowledge and insights among peers at a local level. The Symposium will be held on Monday, November 1st on Zoom.

This year’s topics will not be limited to a theme.

Due to the truncated nature of this year’s MAS we have decided to forgo a theme and are open to ideas from our members.

Ideas for presentation topics include:

• Born digital/digital archiving/web archiving
• Scary things happening in archives
• Disaster preparedness or triage of endangered formats
• Creative ways for funding and advocating for your collection (on a budget)
• Reimagining Archives
• Recent projects

This is not an exhaustive list, but will hopefully spur on ideas.

Call for Participants: Virtual Presenters, Student Posters, Exhibit or Location Tour Videos. 

We welcome submissions to presentations submitted to or given at other conferences and symposiums, or perhaps you would like to update the group on a project mentioned in a previous presentation. 

We are also continuing with the section for student poster presentations. Each student will be allocated 5 minutes for speaking on their topic and 2 minutes for question

Not ready to commit to speaking live? How about filming a tour of your archive or exhibit for our virtual tours? Low-key brag to us about your cool collection or great space in a format you can control. These five to ten minute videos will be posted online (probably Youtube) and available to the public. 

We would especially like to hear from new institutions or those who have never spoken at a symposium before. We encourage presentations from archivists and information professionals at all levels of their career.

If you have a great idea but don’t think you can speak for an entire hour, please still submit your idea! We will attempt to pair you with other presenters with similar topics for a panel presentation.

If you are interested in presenting at the symposium, please provide us with a brief abstract and working title for your presentation, along with how long you wish to present (30 minutes/60 minutes). Include full contact information with submissions, including your name(s) and institution or school if applicable.

Submissions should be sent to tcartmn@gmail.com.

Deadline for submission is Monday, September 6, 2021.

Registration:

Save the Date!!! The Minnesota Archives Symposium will be held virtually (via Zoom) on Monday, November 1st. Registration is FREE, but we will ask that participants register their intent to attend. Look for more details on registering for this event on the TCART listserv and website.

Questions?

Questions should be sent to the TCART Communications Officer Jennie Shaw at tcartmn@gmail.com or shawx186@umn.edu.