MARAC Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference

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    Session 8: Taking a Leap: Cultivating Dynamic Skillsets in New Roles
    (2023-10-20) Dreyer, Rachael; Scherry, Rejoice E.; Melbourne, Laura; Wick, Harrison
    Join us for an interactive session discussing the everexpanding and ever-changing skillsets needed to navigate gallery, library, archives, and museum (GLAM) career paths. The panelists will explore the skills and experiences that helped them transition into and out of archival positions. How can professionals fill gaps in their knowledge when starting new positions or assuming additional responsibilities? What training and experiences can be brought into GLAMs from other careers? Why is the profession changing and how have professionals adapted? Panelists will speak to the personal satisfaction derived from taking the leap to new paths, and invite attendees to join in a lively exchange of ideas about the uncertainty and challenges involved in the evolution of contemporary career paths.
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    Session 15: Finding New Methods of Making Legacy Collections Relevant to Students and Researchers in a Digital World
    (2023-04-28) Wick, Harrison; Vetter, Laura
    Learn how archivists at two different types of educational institutions are helping students and researchers navigate new and old archival resources. At Indiana University of Pennsylvania, the Special Collections and University Archives is building new opportunities for student-faculty collaboration and comparative research using oral history interviews and digitized archival collections, including rare books and primary source materials related to pandemics. At the Episcopal High School, a private boarding school established in 1839, students are using primary source materials within the school's archival holdings for research projects and adding to the historical record by conducting interviews with alumni.
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    Rediscovering Community Cemeteries: Identifying Gravesites
    (2022-03-25) Wick, Harrison; Colton, Chuck; Weaver, Savannah
    Cemetery gravesite identification is often taken for granted, but what happens when individual graves are not well identified, or their location has become obscure? A project conducted in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, will offer insight into cemetery and grave identification, and feature techniques that have enabled a community to remember their past. Presentations will focus on collaborative efforts between a community and the nearby university archives that highlight discovery of the stories of Civil War veterans and Chinese Americans; how members of the local historical society engaged the community to document and preserve cemeteries in their area; and applied archaeology techniques and analysis of headstones and geophysical methods to examine changes in the development of a cemetery. Participants will be engaged to explore how their communities can benefit from a discussion about these special projects.
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    Putting Out Fire and Sucking Up the Water
    (2019-11-08) Wick, Harrison; Feige, Dyani; Montori, Carla; Van Osten, Kayla; Borin, Jill
    This presentation will focus on the best practices for creating effective disaster response manuals and how each institution has developed policies to protect their collections and respond to disasters, including the outbreak of mold. Panelists will discuss their experiences and how creating response plans has changed the outcome of disasters – from working with a variety of different types of institutions to create emergency plans, to dealing with mold outbreaks (whether recurrent or discovered in a recent donation), to adapting an institution’s disaster response manual to address new concerns about collection storage and technology. How has your institution responded to the threat of disaster and what challenges have you encountered? The presenters encourage the audience to share their experiences.
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    Fall 2017 MARAC Session 1: Reviving Forgotten Collections
    (2017-10-27) Howe, Cara; Parme, Sara; Wick, Harrison
    Learn about the success stories of utilizing historical resources from forgotten and often neglected collections. Join us for an informative session that will showcase the reinvention of the Historical Collections at the SUNY Upstate Medical University, and the advent of new technologies that are transforming legacy collections and leading to new opportunities for researchers visiting the University Libraries and the IUP Special Collections & University Archives at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). The session will discuss new avenues that have re-discovered archival collections and other resources that include diverse populations. Presenters will discuss the challenges that their departments have overcome to bring these hidden treasures to light.