tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15459258183545396772024-03-13T19:55:57.976-07:00SAA RAO NEWSNews and Information by and for the Reference, Access and Outreach Section of the Society of American Archivists.RAO Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16289693369692078884noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1545925818354539677.post-39222358781491401652015-06-08T06:07:00.000-07:002015-06-08T06:07:20.062-07:00RAO Opportunity: Communications Liaison
The RAO Steering Committee is seeking applications for the RAO Communications
Liaison position. The position description is included below and details the
essential functions of this volunteer opportunity. To apply, please send a
resume/CV and a brief letter of interest that describes your skills and
experiences to Lisa Sjoberg (sjoberg@cord.edu) and Rachael Dreyer (rdreyer@uwyo.edu) by RAO Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16289693369692078884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1545925818354539677.post-63832661849554717602015-03-31T07:23:00.000-07:002015-03-31T07:24:09.616-07:00Wanted: Hot Topics and Cool Demos
The 2015 RAO Program Committee seeks Hot
Topics and Cool Demonstrations for provocative conversation and deep thinking
at the SAA Annual Meeting in Cleveland, OH. On Thursday, August 20, 2015 from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm, RAO will
host its fourth annual Marketplace of
Ideas and seeks purveyors of hot topics and cool demonstrations to sell their
wares to a savvy audience of RAO archivists.
RAO Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16289693369692078884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1545925818354539677.post-51686242808933386862015-03-25T12:48:00.001-07:002015-03-25T12:48:53.276-07:00RAO Hot Topics Blog Series: Exploring Solutions to Providing Access to Born Digital Materials
By: Mary Manning, University of Houston, SAA RAO Section Past Chair
While great attention has been placed on best practices
(although somewhat nascent) established for accessioning, processing, and
preserving electronic materials, it seems that comparatively very little
attention is given to how we provide access to these materials. Solutions for
access to born digital materials lag behind. RAO Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16289693369692078884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1545925818354539677.post-17735232929471570942015-02-25T05:51:00.002-08:002015-02-25T05:53:37.972-08:00RAO Hot Topics Blog Series: Michiana Memory
By: Alison Stankrauff, Indiana University South Bend, RAO Steering Committee Member
In May 2014, Indiana University South Bend Archivist and
Associate Librarian, Alison Stankrauff collaborated with Joe Sipocz, Manager of
Local & Family History Services at the St. Joseph County Public Library,
and George Garner, Tours and Collections Coordinator of the IU South Bend Civil
Rights Heritage RAO Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16289693369692078884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1545925818354539677.post-38170346273146096192015-01-28T06:04:00.000-08:002015-03-25T12:49:21.965-07:00RAO Hot Topics Blog Series: Using Assessment to Build Outcome-Based Information Literacy Sessions
RAO Hot Topics Blog Series
Using Assessment to Build Outcome-Based Information Literacy Sessions
Greg Kocken, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, SAA RAO Communications Liaison
I still remember my first
experience getting in front of a group of undergraduate students tasked with
helping them develop archival information literacy skills. In all honesty, I likely walked away from
RAO Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16289693369692078884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1545925818354539677.post-88967065883431517562015-01-20T06:07:00.001-08:002015-01-20T06:07:35.899-08:00Join the RAO Section Leadership Team!
The 2015 Nominations and Elections Committee for
SAA’s Reference Access and Outreach Section is accepting nominations for
candidates to run for Steering Committee membership (2 positions) and
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect. Nominees must be current members of the Society of
American Archivists and the Reference Access and Outreach Section to be
considered by the committee.
Steering RAO Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16289693369692078884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1545925818354539677.post-61077825268590091252014-12-30T12:26:00.001-08:002014-12-30T12:26:15.946-08:00RAO Hot Topics Blog Series: Reaching Out to Undergrads at UNCGRAO Hot Topics Blog Series:
Reaching Out to Undergrads at UNCG
Erin Lawrimore, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, SAA RAO Steering Committee Member
Current SAA President Kathleen Roe kicked off her "Year
of Living Dangerously with Archives" initiative at the 2014 annual meeting
in Washington, D.C., by strongly encouraging all archivists to take bold
actions in promoting the significance RAO Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16289693369692078884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1545925818354539677.post-88296058057138951262014-11-26T11:51:00.004-08:002014-11-26T11:51:55.917-08:00RAO Hot Topics Blog Series:
What's the Risk? Helping users understand real-life archives-and-copyright concerns
Matt Herbison, Drexel University College of Medicine, SAA RAO Steering Committee Member
As archivists, how can we truly help
users address copyright considerations when they are using material from our
collections? Most of us have Title 17
warnings (aka, "photocopy RAO Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16289693369692078884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1545925818354539677.post-73131944378269265862014-10-29T06:01:00.002-07:002015-01-28T06:00:32.982-08:00RAO Hot Topics Blog Series: Effective Press Releases and Media Relations
RAO Hot Topics Blog Series:
Effective Press Releases and Media Relations
Erin Lawrimore, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, SAA RAO Steering Committee Member
A key to gaining media attention for your archival work is
effective media relations. Inviting local reporters who cover education,
cultural heritage, or history-related topics for a meet-up or tour of the
archives is a great way RAO Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16289693369692078884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1545925818354539677.post-86859636917771228452014-10-10T05:34:00.001-07:002014-10-10T05:35:37.756-07:00
RAO Hot Topics Blog Series Special:
Happy Electronic Records Day!
Rachael Dreyer, SAA RAO Vice-Chair
RAO wishes you a very happy Electronic Records Day! This year, October 10th marks the
third year that this “holiday” has been observed; it emerged as a way to raise
awareness of the critical role that electronic records occupy in daily life, as
well as for archival RAO Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16289693369692078884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1545925818354539677.post-27471425946552295452014-09-11T12:26:00.004-07:002014-09-11T12:30:44.270-07:00Reference, Access, and Outreach Section Announces Internships<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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RAO Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16289693369692078884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1545925818354539677.post-44583332233842354592014-07-08T06:12:00.002-07:002014-07-08T06:17:27.718-07:00Don't forget, voting for next year's RAO leadership team will close in one week. Election information was distributed to members earlier this month via e-mail. To learn more about the candidates, and discover what's new with RAO, check out our Summer 2014 Newsletter (available online from our webpage):
http://www2.archivists.org/groups/reference-access-and-outreach-section
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Wanted:Hot Topics and Cool Demos
The 2014 RAO Program Committee seeks Hot
Topics and Cool Demonstrations for provocative conversation and deep thinking
at the SAA Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
On Thursday, August 14, 2014
from 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm, RAO will host its third annual Marketplace of Ideas and seeks
purveyors of hot topics and cool demonstrations to sell their wares to RAO Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16289693369692078884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1545925818354539677.post-69870904608096822652013-09-14T20:15:00.002-07:002013-09-14T20:15:38.164-07:002014 Session Proposals due by October 4th for Endorsement<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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RAO Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16289693369692078884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1545925818354539677.post-78196011309969212013-07-23T06:21:00.000-07:002013-07-23T06:21:11.140-07:00Results of the RAO Election
Greetings RAO Members,
I am delighted to announce the results of the recent SAA
Reference Access and Outreach Section 2013 Election.
Lisa Sjoberg will be the vice chair/chair-elect and Matt
Herbison and Jodi Allison-Bunnell will
be steering committee members for 2013-2015.
On behalf of the nominating and elections committee for
RAO I send heartfelt thanks the
wonderful RAO Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16289693369692078884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1545925818354539677.post-51329450373155195892013-07-09T07:42:00.001-07:002013-07-09T07:42:45.501-07:00Have You Voted Yet?
On July 1, 2013, you should have received an email from the RAO listserv giving the following information on the election:
Greetings RAO members.
We have an excellent slate of candidates this year for the Vice
Chair/Chair-Elect and for two open Steering Committee positions. In addition, there is a ballot referendum on
the bylaws, which cleans up some typos and a few changes that RAO Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16289693369692078884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1545925818354539677.post-21549591198839938422013-06-12T07:28:00.000-07:002013-06-14T07:16:57.498-07:00RAO Steering Committee Nominations: Nora Murphy
Bio: Nora Murphy is the
Archivist for Reference, Outreach and Instruction at the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology Institute Archives and Special Collections. Since arriving
in 2000, Nora has overseen public service. She runs the reference services and
reading room, and has worked with many different types of researchers, from
National History Day high school students to RAO Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16289693369692078884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1545925818354539677.post-31885392728085211332013-06-08T07:23:00.000-07:002013-06-08T07:35:31.125-07:00RAO Vice Chair/Chair Elect Nominations: Lisa Sjoberg
Bio: My current position is the College
Archivist and Digital Collections Librarian at Concordia College in Moorhead,
Minnesota. Since I joined SAA in 2005 as a graduate student, I have been a member of the Reference, Access and Outreach Section. I have been fortunate to serve on RAO task forces (National History Day and currently as co-chair of the Teaching with Primary Sources RAO Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16289693369692078884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1545925818354539677.post-50856909964120729842013-06-07T09:31:00.000-07:002013-06-08T07:33:55.640-07:00RAO Vice Chair/Chair-Elect Nominations: Greg Kocken
Bio: Greg Kocken
is an assistant professor and Head of the Special Collections & Archives
Department at W.D. McIntyre Library, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Prior to joining the University of
Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Greg served as a reference archivist at the American
Heritage Center in Laramie, Wyoming and at the Wisconsin Historical Society
before that. He holds a RAO Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16289693369692078884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1545925818354539677.post-64052887419054993092013-06-04T11:25:00.003-07:002013-06-08T07:24:02.784-07:00RAO Steering Committee Nominations: Rebecca Bizonet
Bio: My job for the past five years as part of the Ford
Historical Resources Collaborative at The Henry Ford has been to provide research and reference services to my colleagues at the
Ford Motor Company Archives, drawing on the significant collection of historical
records and photographs that the company donated to us in 1964. I’ve also facilitated public access to our
collections RAO Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16289693369692078884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1545925818354539677.post-6952842509199650822013-06-03T07:11:00.001-07:002013-06-08T07:24:14.596-07:00RAO Steering Committee Nominations: Jodi Allison-Bunnell
Bio: Jodi Allison-Bunnell is the
Program Manager for Northwest Digital Archives at the Orbis Cascade Alliance,
where she has worked with archives and special collections repositories in
Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, and Alaska since 2007. Her prior positions
were at Oregon State University, the University of Montana, and the University
of Maryland. She holds an MA in American RAO Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16289693369692078884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1545925818354539677.post-10854189209704339762013-05-31T07:16:00.001-07:002013-06-08T08:32:14.068-07:00RAO Steering Committee Nominations: Matt Herbison
Bio: Matt Herbison is the
Reference& amp; Outreach Archivist at the LegacyCenter
of Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia. Matt writes, "I
enjoy advocating for the rights of archives users—and for the obligation and
right of archivists to actively cultivate and meaningfully engage as many new
archives users as possible. I have a particular interest in working with K-12
and RAO Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16289693369692078884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1545925818354539677.post-28223008528720907962013-05-17T06:48:00.000-07:002013-05-17T06:49:08.316-07:00<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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RAO Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16289693369692078884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1545925818354539677.post-63366741722131660262013-05-15T09:25:00.000-07:002013-05-15T09:25:44.898-07:00RAO Wants YOU!
Seeking a
few good members to run for the RAO Steering Committee!
Please
send us any nominations for Steering Committee for the Reference, Outreach, and
Access Section. And of course, you’re welcome to nominate yourself!
Here are the
(short) by-laws that explain the duties and terms of the officers: http://www.archivists.org/saagroups/rao/bylaws.asp
Serving as a
section leaderRAO Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16289693369692078884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1545925818354539677.post-28621618181794293682013-01-16T06:26:00.002-08:002013-01-16T06:28:31.409-08:00Teaching with Primary Sources Survey
RAO's Teaching with Primary Sources group has a survey they would like you to complete by Friday, January 25, 2013.
The goals for this survey are:
1) to obtain data on current instructional trends among archivists;
2) to identify successful methodologies and resources for instruction; and
3) to identify needs for tools and professional support for archives instruction.
By completing the RAO Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16289693369692078884noreply@blogger.com0