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Email: saa [at] ischool.utexas.edu

Last updated:
July 7, 2008


Past Events of 2008-2009

Happy Hour!
The SAA-UT will be holding a Happy Hour next week! It's a great opportunity for SAA members or anyone with an interest in archives, records management, and related fields to meet with each other. The board also has a lot of great plans for this year, and we'd like to have everyone's input! So come to drink, eat, talk, and be merry!

When: Tues., Feb. 12 at 5.30pm
Where: Scholz Biergarten at 16th & San Jacinto

Next Meeting - Mar. 5th at 5pm in SZB 556
Please, join us! We will discuss several topics:

  • update on the Mexico trip
  • topic ideas for Archives Week
  • creation of a fundraising committee under Simon Staats
  • collection of $5/semester membership dues

Also, Olga G. Leontieva will be speaking to us about her experience with archives in Russia. Click here for her bio.

Post-March 5th General Meeting Information:

If you could not come, Olga Leontieva gave a wonderful talk on the archival system in Russia and described the differences between the system under the Soviet Union and now under the Russian Federation.

We also discussed ideas about Archives Week (all ideas welcome!) and the new Fundraising Committee that Treasurer Simon Staats will be heading (please join!).

Information on the Mexico Trip is also available now (see below), as well as how to join the National SAA's Student Discussion list on the Listserv page.

Meeting minutes for this meeting are available in Microsoft Word .doc format.; also February 21st board meeting minutes are now available.

Mexico Trip Information from VP Caitlin Bumford:

Greetings from the Frigid North, Fellow Archivists!

For those of you who weren't able to make it to SAA's first chapter meeting of the semester, we are planning on taking a weekend road trip to archives on the Texas-Mexico border this coming May. At Wednesday's meeting, we briefly introduced our rough idea of the trip, and I passed around handouts with what basic information we currently have. The handout I made up containing the very rough details we have at this point in time is available in Microsoft Word (.doc) format. Please take some time to consider this fun way to expand your professional horizons in the world of archival enterprise. After looking over the handout, please be sure to fill out this brief survey on surveymonkey.com about your level of interest and which possible weekend you can/would prefer to travel.

Thanks,
Caitlin

Next Chapter Meeting:

  • When: Wed., April 2nd at 5pm in Sanchez 556
  • Topic: A prime time to discuss the Mexico trip (May 9-11) and Archives Week.
Next Happy Hour:
  • When: Fri., April 11th at 5pm at the Dog & Duck Pub (at 17th & Guadalupe)
  • Topic: Discussion about Archives Week; deposit due $50 for the Mexico trip.
"Music Archivism" Lecture:
  • When: Wed., April 16th, 4pm, at the Center for American History
  • Topic: John Wheat, Sound Archivist and Spanish Translator for the CAH will use examples from Texas music archivism to discuss the difference between music archivism and "typical" archivism, how to acquire donations and develop good donor relations, and how to use the material and the information you can learn from it.

Mexico Trip:

We will have a final meeting about the trip on Wed., April 30 at 5pm in SZB 556. There are three cars and ten spots, so a few spots remain for anyone interested.

The $50 deposit deadline was April 11, but if you'd like to go, let us know! Please contact Caitlin Bumford with any questions (her email is available on the UT Directory). A tentative schedule is available thru Fiona's powerpoint, and read the meeting minutes from April 2, where we discussed the trip. There is also an article by Caitlin in the April issue of the SASI Librarian.

Our trip to the Texas-Mexico border is scheduled for May 9-11. The tentative schedule is as follows:

  • Fri., May 9:
    - leave Austin in the early morning
    - tour UT Pan America in Edinburg, TX
    - spend the night in Edinburg
  • Sat., May 10:
    - enter Mexico
    - tour the municipal archives of Reynosa, Tamaulipas
    - tour the Casamata Museum in Matamoros, Tamaulipas
    - tour Matamoros
    - spend the night in Matamoros
  • Sun., May 11:
    - beach fun at South Padre Island, TX
    - return to Austin

Archives Week Meeting:

Monday, May 5th at 5pm in SZB 556, we will gather to discuss ideas for this year's Archives Week. The winning theme is "Archives City Limits" - Music and Pop Culture Archives.

You can also learn more about previous Archives Weeks at http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~archweek. (NB: There is a typo - Univ. of Tennessee is written instead Univ. of Texas - and I am in the process of correcting it. Thanks to all who informed this former Vol!)

Mexico Trip!
May 9-11, several SAA-UT students traveled to the Rio Grande River Valley to visit archives on both sides of the border. For information and photos from our trip check out the SAA-UT wiki's trip page!