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Archivists Round Table Processing Workshop

To ART Membership:

Please note the correction to the below announcement – the workshop is on Tuesday October 13th, not Friday.

Thank you,

ART Education Committee

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Membership NYART wrote:

NYART Membership:

The Archivists Roundtable of Metropolitan New York (ART) is glad to announce that it is collaborating with the Society of American Archivists to host the full-day workshop Implementing “More Product, Less Process” at the American Numismatic Society on October 13, 2009.

Implementing “More Product, Less Process”

Workshop Description

Backlogs don’t have to weigh as heavily as they do! Focus on implementing concrete strategies for increasing processing rates and reducing backlogs as outlined in the Greene-Meissner article, “More Product, Less Process: Revamping Traditional Archival Processing,” and learn as you share information and experiences with your fellow workshop participants. Topics include appraisal, arrangement, description, digitization, and preservation, as well as development of processing plans, policies, and benchmarks. This array of topics is addressed through lecture, case studies, and group discussion.

Upon completing this workshop, you’ll be able to:

§ Understand the concepts and arguments outlined in “More Product, Less Process;”
§ Implement strategies for increasing processing rates in a variety of institutions;
§ Apply techniques for managing efficient processing programs, including developing processing plans, policies, and benchmarks;

§ Understand how descriptive standards such as DACS can assist in the creation of descriptive records that adhere to “minimum” requirements and assist in the reuse of data in a variety of outputs; and

§ Develop strategies for integrating processing with other archival functions, particularly accessioning.

Who should attend? Archivists who process archival collections or manage archival processing programs and administrators interested in processing procedures within their repositories (introductory to intermediate levels).

Attendance is limited to 30.

Workshop Date & Time:

T,uesday, Oct 13, 2009

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Place:

American Numismatic Society
75 Varick Street, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10013

Early-Bird Registration Deadline: September 17, 2009

Workshop Registration and Fee:

Fees: Early-Bird / Regular

SAA Member $185 / $285

Employees of Member Institutions $210 / $260

Nonmember $235 / $285

*ARTNY member discount

SAA will provide a $25 discount off the non-member rate for Archivists Roundtable of New York (ARTNY). Enter “MPLPNY09” into the promotional

code on the online registration form and the discount will be activated.

The link to register via the SAA site is:

http://saa.archivists.org/Scripts/4Disapi.dll/4DCGI/events/170.html?Action=Conference_Detail&ConfID_W=170&Time=848208930&SessionID=6554218y942w60iu98619gnbk91n23j2n8yvkh4lfi9l78688000k14u6005b7zf.

**Please contact Cynthia Tobar, ART Education Coordinator, at education@nycarchivists.org if you have any questions.

Peter J. Wosh
Director, Archives/Public History Program
History Department
New York University
53 Washington Square South
New York NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-8601
Fax: (212) 995-4017
http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/history.gradprog.archivespublichistory.html

Green-wood Cemetery Program

Before Central Park, before the Statue of Liberty, before Coney Island, New York had Green-Wood Cemetery. Founded in 1838, Green-Wood Cemetery was once a top national tourist destination, rivaling Niagara Falls in annual visitors. Conceived as part of the nascent rural cemetery movement, Green-Wood helped reconfigure how Americans viewed death and mourning. Among its notable “permanent residents” are Leonard Bernstein, Louis Comfort Tiffany, “Boss” Tweed, Albert Anastasia, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lola Montez, Henry Ward Beecher, and a flock of (living) parrots. In addition to functioning as a cemetery over 170 years after its founding, Green-Wood is also recognized as a National Historic Landmark by the United States Department of the Interior.

The Archivists Round Table is being offered a behind-the-scenes look at record-keeping in Green-Wood Cemetery. Remarkably complete documentation has been preserved in the form of ledgers, deeds, photographs, grounds keeping reports, etc. While these records help cemetery offices carry out their day-to-day functions, they have also been great resources for historians, biographers, and genealogists, often revealing details unobtainable through other available forms of documentation.

Jeff Richman is Green-Wood Cemetery’s historian. He is the author of Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery: New York’s Buried Treasure and has developed a variety of cemetery tours. Richman has led baseball, Civil War, and, most recently, artist documentation projects at Green-Wood. He also conducts workshops on cemetery photography.

Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009

Place: Historic Chapel, Green-Wood Cemetery, 500 25th Street, Brooklyn

Time: 5:00 – 5:45 pm Social

5:45 – 7:45 pm Program

Directions: Subway: R to 25th Street/4th Avenue, Brooklyn. Walk east one block to 5th Avenue (uphill, away from the Gowanus), cemetery entrance at 25th Street and 5th Avenue. NOTE: Although there are multiple entrances to Green-Wood, all but the 25th Street entrance will be locked after 4 pm.

Fee: Free to Members and Students $6 Non-members

RSVP: To Jenny Swadosh by Friday, September 17, 2009 jennyswadosh@gmail.com (preferred) or telephone: (212) 229-5942. Please be reasonably sure that you can attend before responding.

Attendees are welcome to arrive early and take a self-guided tour of Green-Wood Cemetery. A cemetery map may be downloaded from http://www.green-wood.com/index.php/5/detail.

Peter J. Wosh
Director, Archives/Public History Program
History Department
New York University
53 Washington Square South
New York NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-8601
Fax: (212) 995-4017
http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/history.gradprog.archivespublichistory.html

Tenement House Oral History Intern

Dave Favaloro of the Tenement House Museum sent me the note, below, concerning their search ofr an oral history intern to conduct interviews with surviving post-WWII Jewish refugees in the New York area. Fluency in Yiddish is desirable — see the announcement below and reply to him directly if interested.

Peter

We are also in the process of looking for an intern
to conduct oral history interviews with surviving post WWII Jewish
refugees currently living in the NY metro area. Fluency in Yiddish would
be a plus. This is part of a research project that will ultimately
inform the Museum’s first exhibit at 103 Orchard Street (our new
building), which will interpret the story of the Epstein Family,
Holocaust survivors resettled as refugees on the Lower East Side by the
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society in 1947. They lived at 103 Orchard in
1956/57. If you know of anyone who might be interested, please let me know.

Thanks,
Dave

David Favaloro
Director of Curatorial Affairs
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
91 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
212-431-0233 x. 257
www.tenement.org

Revealing the Past. Challenging the Future

Peter J. Wosh
Director, Archives/Public History Program
History Department
New York University
53 Washington Square South
New York NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-8601
Fax: (212) 995-4017
http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/history.gradprog.archivespublichistory.html

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