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Post-Mortem

Racing Toward the Future (While Distilling the Past)

Presentations

Presentations and papers delivered at the 2008 Midwest Archives Conference Annual Meeting available for viewing.

Plenary Session: The Future Belongs to Archivists

• Opening Remarks: Mark A. Greene, President, Society of American Archivists: "MPLP: It’s Not Just for Processing Anymore" read by Dennis Meissner (Word 50kb)
  
• Plenary Speaker: Jennifer Schaffner, Program Officer, OCLC Programs and Research: "The Future Belongs to Archivists" (PowerPoint 4.35mb)
  

So You've Got a Collecting Policy - Now What?

• Roland Baumann, Oberlin College, Ohio: "So You've Got Accession and Collection Management Records--Now What?" (Word 20kb)
  

Changing for the Better

• Kris Kiesling, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis: "Changing for the Better" (PowerPoint 1.10mb)
  
• Dennis Meissner, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul: "Changing for the Better: A midstream look at an ongoing effort to transform collections processing at the Minnesota Historical Society" (PowerPoint 337kb)
  

Electronic Document Discovery: The Rules Have Changed

• Jim Cundy, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort: "Changes to the Federal Rules:A Records Manager’s Perspective" (PowerPoint 36kb)
  
• Paul Engel, VeBridge, Lexington, Kentucky: "EDD Gotchas: Avoiding Electronic Document Discovery Pitfalls" (PowerPoint 421kb)
  
• Robert C. Webb, Frost, Brown, Todd, LLC, Louisville, Kentucky: "Limits on E-Discovery" (PowerPoint 128kb)
  

Good Breeding or an Accident of Birth? Shaping Archives and Special Collections in This Digital World

• Meg Miner, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois: "Breakout Questions" (PDF 38kb)
  
• Bill Barrow, Cleveland State University, Ohio: "Some observations about digitizing our collections" (PowerPoint 137kb)
  
• Jamie Nelson, Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois: "Upper Mississippi Valley Digital Image Archive" (PowerPoint 1.30mb); Text (Word 21kb)
  
• Irene Van Bavel, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul: "Digitization Program" (PowerPoint 1007kb)
  

Best Practices for Audio Preservation

• Harry Rice, Berea College, Kentucky: "Implementing Audio Preservation Best Practices" (PowerPoint 3.71mb)
  

Put the "Chi" in Your Archives: Eastern Traditions for Wellness at Work

• Brenda Burk, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis & Colleen McFarland, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire: "Put the "Chi" in Your Archives: Eastern Traditions for Wellness at Work" (PowerPoint 1.23mb)
  

More Than One Way to Meet the Challenge: Systematic Approaches to the Capture and Preservation of Complex Digital Artifacts

• Steve Burbeck, Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow, New York: "Lessons Learned: Archiving E-Mail" (PowerPoint 179kb)
  
• Kelly Eubank, North Carolina State Archives: "Electronic Mail Capture and Preservation tool - EMCAP" given by Glen McAninch, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives (PowerPoint 1.74mb)
  
• Mike Smorul, University of Maryland, College Park: "Archival Prototypes and Lessons Learned" (PowerPoint 174kb)
  

Engaging NexGen: Providing Access to Digital Primary Source Material On-line and in the Classroom

• Alexis Braun Marks, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, Michigan: "Knowing NetGen Users (and their educators): A Study of an Online Survey" (PowerPoint 619kb)
  
• Doris Malkmus, Penn State University, University Park: "NextGen and Archives" (PowerPoint 2.07mb)
  

From Student to Professional: What Schools Can Do to Prepare Future Archivists

• Deborah Torres, College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, Minnesota: "ELITE Grant: Weaving a New Curriculum" (PowerPoint 531kb)
  
• Noah Lenstra, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: "Service learning & archives education" (PowerPoint 2.24mb)
  

Cleaning the Cobwebs: Studies in Archiving Web-Based Records

• Mark J. Myers, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort: "Managing & Archiving Web-based Records in Kentucky" (PowerPoint 2.09mb)
  

Implementing and Improving Access Systems: Stories From the Field

• Leah Broaddus, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale: "The structure of Special Collections at SIUC" (PowerPoint 1.48mb)
  
• Christopher Prom, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: "Improving On-line Archival Access: Preliminary Results from a Case Study" (PowerPoint 2.40mb)
  

Copyright and Digital Projects: Stuck in the Post?

• Dwayne K. Buttler, University of Louisville, Kentucky: "Copyright and Digital Projects: Stuck in the Post?" (PowerPoint 87kb)
  
• Rachel I. Howard, University of Louisville, Kentucky: "Copyright clearances for digital projects: Real-world examples" (PowerPoint 108kb)
  

Strength in Numbers: Cooperative Disaster Planning and Resources

• Susan Knoer, Ohio University, Athens & Betty Lyn Parker, The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky: "Strength In Numbers: Co-operative Disaster Planning" (PowerPoint 2.55mb); FEMA (PowerPoint 946kb)
  

Racing Headlong Into Archives 2.0: Connecting Collections and Communities

• Kevin Leonard, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (YouTube video)
  

• Kevin Schlesier, North Carolina State University, Raleigh: "Connecting Collections and Communities" (PowerPoint 73kb)
  
• Elizabeth Yakel, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: "Polar Bear Expedition Digital Collections: Connecting Communities and Collections" (PowerPoint 437kb)