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"Welcome to the website of the Simmons College Student Chapter of the Society of American Archivists (SCoSAA)! We hope this website provides the information you're looking for: classes, events, volunteer opportunities, job openings, or links to repositories. Keep checking for updates to our site. Comments and suggestions are always welcome."
—Stephanie Call & Melissa Gonzales, SCoSAA Co-chairs

News and Events

Archives Job Shadow Program

Join NEA (New England Archivists) and SCoSAA for our first Archives Job Shadow Program! This program presents opportunities for students to visit a repository for a half or full day and experience a "day in the life" of an archivist or records manager. Any GSLIS student who wants to learn more about the archives profession can participate. Any interested archivist or records manager can host.

Invitations to host a student will go out in February 2009, but you can sign up earlier if you either want to host a student or visit a repository. Students will visit repositories in March and April.

How will it work?

Both hosts and students have to fill out information forms.
Students will be matched with a repository using the information provided.
Once a student has the contact information of their host, they are responsible for calling and scheduling a visit.
The host can set up a small project or activity for the student, or provide resume and career advice.
SCoSAA will ask hosts and students to evaluate their experiences.

What are the benefits?

Archivists and records managers have the opportunity to share their expertise with current students.
Students have the opportunity to experience the inner workings of an archives and learn more about the profession.

Interested? Download either the host form or student information form and email it to scosaa@simmons.edu.

Project Save and December SCoSAA Meeting

Ruth Thomasian, the founder and executive director of Project Save, will come to the Simmons campus on Tuesday, December 2nd, to present an interactive talk on reading photographs using examples from the Project Save Archives. The workshop begins at 6:00 in the Main Campus Building (MCB) Special Functions Room (first floor). Please RSVP for the Project Save presentation by December 1st.

"Headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts, Project SAVE's mission is to collect, document, preserve, and present the historic and modern photographic record of Armenians and Armenian heritage...." [More details]

SCoSAA will hold its December meeting right before the workshop from 5:30-5:55. As always, refreshments will be provided.

Boston Athenaeum Field Trip

SCoSAA has scheduled a tour of the The Boston Athenaeum on Wednesday, December 3rd at 3:00pm. You must RSVP for this field trip. Since we will need an exact headcount no later than November 24th, please email scosaa@simmons.edu as soon as possible if you want to attend. The Athenaeum is located at 10 1/2 Beacon St., close to the Statehouse. We will meet in the lobby of the Athenaeum at 2:50.

The Boston Athenaeum is an exclusive private library and art gallery, in operation since 1807.... [More details]

News From Prof. Bastian

"A second section of LIS440 will be offered at the Boston campus in Spring '09. It will be on Saturday mornings from 9:30-12:30 and will be taught by Kate Bowers, Collection Services Archivist at the Harvard University Archives.... [More details]
"In essence, if you are an Archives concentrator and have taken 438 and 440 (or if you will be taking 440 next semester), then you may take 442 (Establishing Archives Programs) as a substitute for 404 (Management).... [More details]
Prof. Bastian has released a revised statement of the Archives and Records Management Curriculum.
Prof. Bastian would like to encourage students to submit papers for the Housing Memory Graduate Student Conference at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, March 13-14, 2009. Abstracts must be submitted by December 21, 2008.... [More details]

Syllabi

To help you select your classes, we have asked the archives faculty to let us post their syllabi on the SCoSAA website. This list will be updated as more syllabi are sent to us.

Summer Internships

"The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University is offering an 8 week summer internship position that focuses on the museum's large holding of hand-drawn and annotated printed maps and oversize paper-based associated archaeological drawings from research expeditions dating as early as the 1840s.... A stipend of $4,000 is available." The internship is for the months of June and July. The application deadline is January 16, 2009. [See original announcement.]
Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of the American Indian Archives. "The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) Archives is pleased to offer a ten to twelve week Archive Internship for the spring and summer sessions at its Cultural Resources Center in Suitland, Maryland. The NMAI Archives preserves the history of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation (MAI), the predecessor of the NMAI, and special collections.... Internships are available in both the Paper Archives and Photo Archives." The internship begins during the first full week of June; the application deadline is February 6, 2008. [See full announcement from SAA's Archives and Archivists listserv.]

SCoSAA Archives

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