Special Collections Roundtable
News and Notes
October 2018
A newsletter for members of the RI library community who have responsibility for the care and access of unique or rare manuscripts, records, books, audio and/or visual materials, local history and other special collections.
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Greetings! Fall is off to a soggy start in Rhode Island, but that won’t stop our state’s annual fall festivals and an abundance of fresh apple pies. My favorite places for pies are Pippin Orchard in Cranston, Phantom Farms in Cumberland, and Johnson’s Roadside Farm Market in Swansea. As you can see, I’m not opposed to traveling for good pies!
Eleven people attended the September SCRT meeting. Richard Ring, RI Historical Society, filled us in on how to connect youth with Rhode Island History Day by sponsoring projects and promoting collections. If you couldn’t make the meeting but want to know about RI History Day, you can connect with Rick and he’ll fill you in. Some participants reported on sessions from the recent ALA and SAA conferences and we had time for networking.
The next SCRT meeting is on October 18 at the Redwood Library and Athenaeum.
Donna Longo DiMichele, OLIS
October Special Collections Roundtable
On the agenda: Kate Wells, PPL, on developing a success volunteer/intern team; then networking opportunities and a special tour of the Redwood. Get the meeting details and please register.
Parking: you can park in the Redwood's lot across the street and plenty of street parking is available. The city does not ticket or require that you use meters after October 1, but check the signs on the streets where you park.
There is an opportunity for a dine-out after the meeting. If at least six people sign up, we’ll make more detailed plans including a reservation. Please sign up for the dine-out online here (a Google Sheet). The dine-out sign up is separate from the program registration.
Thursday, Oct 18, 2018, 02:00 PM
Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Bellevue Avenue, Newport, RI, USA
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Events, Workshops & Training from Around the Region
New England Archivists Fall Meeting
When: October 26
Where: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston Website
SAA/COSA Call for Proposals
The 2019 Joint Annual Meeting of the Council of State Archivists (COSA) and the Society of American Archivists (SAA)—ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2019: TRANSFORMATIVE!—will take place July 29 – August 3 at the JW Marriott in downtown Austin.
The 2019 Program Committee seeks session proposals that address how the archives, records, and information management community is working across, between, and through boundaries to navigate archives and the ever-evolving societies in which we live and engage. Read all the details in the full announcement. Proposals are due by November 16, 2018.
News from Beyond the State
Archive with Care, at Escondido Public Library, a participatory archive gives immigrants a voice, American Libraries, October 1
Amnesty International to Create Human Rights Archive, Library Journal, October 1
Creating the P. T. Barnum Digital Collection, NEDCC
NYPL to Create Permanent Exhibit with $12M Gift, Library Journal, September 21
(You won’t believe what’s in the collections of the NYPL’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street.)
For Museums, Augmented Reality is the Next Frontier, Wired, September 21
Connect with the RI Special Collections Community
- Join the RISpecialCollections@googlegroups.com discussion forum! It's a convenient way to communicate with others who work with special collections and archives in Rhode Island libraries, historical societies, museums, and cultural heritage organizations. Use the link above to subscribe. It's your list, so use it to share what matters to you in the field of special collections and archives!
- To subscribe to Special Collections Roundtable News and Notes newsletter, send an email to Donna Longo DiMichele
RI Office of Library and Information Services
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