AERI Institute 2009

Last Updated July 3, 2009

Complete Conference Program(pdf)

Printable version of the schedule only (pdf)

Sunday, July 5

12:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Registration and Check-In

De Neve Lobby

Monday, July 6

7:00 am – 9:00 am

Breakfast

De Neve Dining Room

Breakfast vouchers must be used during this time frame for each day of the Institute, but no group breakfast is planned.

8:00 am – 5:00 pm

Registration

De Neve B – Foyer

9:00 am – 12:00 pm

Introductory and Plenary Session. Overview and goal setting for the Institute

De Neve Plaza Ballroom

Introductory Remarks. Dr. Anne Gilliland, UC Los Angeles, Department of Information Studies

Plenary Speaker. Dr. Terry Cook, U. of Manitoba, Department of History, Archival Studies Program

Discussion

10:00 am – 10:30 am

Coffee Break

De Neve A – Foyer

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Lunch

De Neve Dining Room

Lunch vouchers may be used during this time frame for each day of the Institute, but no group lunch is planned.

1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Mentoring Session A

De Neve A-3 Lounge

Mentoring Session B

De Neve B-2 Lounge

Mentoring Session C

De Neve B-3 Lounge

Mentoring Session D

De Neve Sycamore Room

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Coffee Break

De Neve A – Foyer

Tuesday, July 7

7:00 am – 9:00 am

Breakfast

De Neve Dining Room

8:00 am – 4:00 pm

Curriculum and Pedagogy Seminar A: Developing Culturally Sensitive Archival Curriculum.

De Neve A-3 Lounge

Chairs: Dr. Anne Gilliland, UC Los Angeles, Department of Information Studies and Dr. Tyrone Howard, UC Los Angeles, Department of Education

(Seminar Page)

Curriculum and Pedagogy Seminar B: Curriculum Development in Digital Humanities and Archival Studies.

De Neve B-3 Lounge

Chairs: Dr. Joshua Sternfeld, UC Los Angeles, Center for Information as Evidence, Dr. Johanna Drucker, UC Los Angeles, Department of Information Studies, and Stephen Davison, UC Los Angeles, Digital Library.

(Seminar Page)

Curriculum and Pedagogy Seminar C: Digital Curation Curriculum Development.

De Neve Sycamore Room

Chairs: Dr. Helen Tibbo and Dr. Cal Lee, UNC, Chapel Hill, School of Information and Library Science

(Seminar Page)

10:00 am – 10:30 am

Coffee Break

De Neve Plaza A – Foyer

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Lunch

De Neve Dining Room

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Coffee Break

De Neve Plaza A – Foyer

6:30 – 8:30 pm

Reports back about curriculum development from Tuesday sessions

Moore Hall – room 3340

Wednesday, July 8: Field Trips

GROUP A: Getty Museum

7:00 am – 8:30 am

Breakfast

De Neve Dining Room

8:30 am – 9:00 am

Public transportation to the Getty Research Institute

The group will be taking the Metro Rapid 761, which stops near De Neve at Sunset/Bellagio Dr, and going one stop to Getty Center Drive.

9:15 am – 9:30 am

Check-in

9:30 am – 12:15 am

Tours of the Getty Conservation Institute

The tour will occur in three shifts. Those not touring the Getty Conservation Institute will be free to view the museum.

9:30 am – 10:15 am: Group 1 at GCI, Groups 2 and 3 in museum

10:30 am – 11:15 am: Group 2 at GCI, Groups 1 and 3 in museum

11:30 am – 12:15 pm: Group 3 at GCI, Groups 1 and 2 in museum

12:30 – 1:45

Lunch

1:45 – 2:00

Division into two groups

2:00 – 2:45

Tours of Getty Research Institute Labs and Storage

Group 1 at labs, Group 2 at storage

3:00 – 3:45

Tours of Getty Research Institute Labs and Storage

Group 2 at labs, Group 1 at storage

3:45 – 4:30

Opportunity to view the grounds and gardens

4:30 – 5:00

Bus transportation

GROUP B: Ethnic and Community Archives

7:00 am – 8:00 am

Breakfast

De Neve Dining Room

8:00 am – 9:00 am

Bus transportation

9:00 am – 10:30 am

Braun Research Library

10:30 am – 11:00 am

Bus transportation

11:00 am – 12:30 pm

The ONE Archive

12:30 pm – 1:00 pm

Bus transportation

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Lunch at the historic Clifton’s Cafeteria

2:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Bus transportation

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Southern California Library

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Bus transportation

BOTH GROUPS: Dinner at the Mayme Clayton Library and Museum

5:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Social Hour, Dinner, Entertainment

9:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Bus transportation

FOR THOSE NOT ATTENDING:

Those not attending should be aware of the time frames for breakfast and lunch in De Neve Plaza.

7:00 am – 9:00 am

Breakfast

De Neve Dining Room

11:00 am – 1:00 pm

Lunch

De Neve Dining Room

Thursday, July 9

7:00 am – 9:00 am

Breakfast

De Neve Dining Room

9:00 am – 12:30 pm

Methodology Workshop A – Research Methodologies for Community Engagement: Disparate Ideas as Opportunities to Enhance Understanding.

De Neve A-3 Lounge

Dr. Joanne Evans, U. of Melbourne, eScholarship Research Centre (ESRC) / Monash U., Center for Organizational and Social Informatics (COSI); Shannon Faulkhead, Monash U.; School of Information Management and Systems; Frank Upward, Monash U., Center for Organizational and Social Informatics (COSI)

A discussion of interdisciplinary methods for engendering community engagement and participation in archival science and systems research.

(Workshop Page)

Methodology Workshop B – Ethnographic Methods.

De Neve B-2 Lounge

Dr. Ciaran B. Trace, U. of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Library & Information Sciences and Dr. Kalpana Shankar, Indiana U., School of Informatics.

(Workshop Page)

9:00 am – 10:30 am

Paper Session A. Faculty and Student Presentations

De Neve B-3 Lounge

Chair, Dr. Richard Cox, U. of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences

• Dr. Jeanette Bastian, Simmons College, Graduate School of Library and Information Science (Abstract)

• Dr. Elizabeth Shepherd, U. College London, Department of Information Studies. Research in Archives and Records Management (Abstract)

• Susan Soy, UT Austin. Reflective Practice: Its Role in Archives and Archival Education (Abstract) (Presentation Slides)

• Kimberly Anderson, UC Los Angeles. Appraisal in the “Real World”: Self-Teaching and Peer-Learning Amongst Practitioners (Abstract)

Paper Session B. Faculty and Student Presentations.

De Neve Sycamore Room

Chair, Dr. Joshua Sternfeld, UC Los Angeles, Center for Information as Evidence

• Dr. Steve Ricci, UC Los Angeles, Moving Image Archive Studies, Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media, Department of Information Studies. Saving, Rebuilding, or Making: Archival (Re) Constructions in Moving Image Archives

• Amelia Abreu, U. of Washington. Call and Response: Archives and Emerging Genres (Abstract)

• Dr. Karen Gracy, Kent State, School of Library and Information Science. De Facto Archiving: The Use of Social Networking Sites for Moving Image Collection Building and Preservation (Abstract)

• Snowden Becker, UT Austin. Watching the Detectives: Police Management of Audiovisual Evidence (Abstract)

• Jessie Lymn, University of Technology, Syndey. Challenging the Archive from the Inside and Out

10:00 am – 10:30 am

Coffee Break

De Neve Plaza A – Foyer

11:00 am – 12:30 pm

Paper Session C. Faculty and Student Presentations

De Neve B-3 Lounge

Chair, Lori Lindberg, UC Los Angeles / San Jose State University

• Kathleen Fear, U. of Michigan. User Evaluation of Dublin Core Metadata in Image Collections. (Abstract)

• Jennifer Bunn, U. College London. Multiple Narratives, Multiple Views: Exploring the Shift from Paper to Digital Archival Description (Abstract)

• Dr. Jean Dryden, U. of Maryland, College of Information Studies. Copyright in the Real World: Making Archival Material Available on the Internet (Abstract)

• Dharma Akmon, U. of Michigan. Copyright Clearance in the Digital Archive (Abstract)

• Morgan Daniels, U. of Michigan. Student Users of archives: An Analysis of Recent Survey Data (Abstract)

Paper Session D. Faculty and Student Presentations

De Neve Sycamore Room

Chair, Kimberly Anderson, UC Los Angeles

• Jan Fernhout, U. of Amsterdam. Archivists as Scientists? An Analysis of Archival Work in the 17th and 18th Century and its Significance for Archival Science and Scientific Thinking in the Period (Abstract)

• Laura Helton, New York U. Variations on – “Use”: The Archive in Imagination, Circulation, and Association in 1920s Harlem (Abstract)

• Dr. Eun Park, McGill U., School of Information Studies. Optimizing Digital Archives in the Social Contexts (Abstract)

• Kate Colligan, U. of Pittsburgh (Abstract)

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

Lunch

De Neve Dining Room

For those presenting posters: Bring your posters to the registration desk during the lunch hour.

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

General Session: Understanding the Changing Role and Nature of the University and Faculty Expectations

De Neve Plaza Ballroom

Dr. Richard Cox, U. of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Coffee Break

De Neve Plaza A – Foyer

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

General Session: Infrastructure Needs for Building Archival Research Within the Academy

De Neve Plaza Ballroom

Dr. Sue McKemmish, Monash U., Faculty of Information Technology

Topics for discussion to include ranking scholarly and professional journals; sustaining archival education programs; building new cohorts of educators and researchers; international collaboration

(Accompanying Document)

5:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Poster Session and Buffet Dinner

GSEIS Building – Salon

• #1: Dr. Bruce Ambacher, U. of Maryland, College of Information Studies. Developing Trusted Digital Repositories

• #2: Heather Bowden, UNC Chapel Hill. Assessing Need for an Automated File Format Obsolescence Notification System for Medium-sized Digital Archives

• #3: Sarah Buchanan, UC Los Angeles. The Bruin Archives Project: An Evaluation and Development Plan for Documenting Student Life (Abstract)

• #4: Janet Ceja, U. of Pittsburgh. Film Preservation Training in Cuba

• #5: Dr. Richard Cox, U. of Pittsburgh, School of Information Science. Lester J. Cappon and the Diary as Archives

• #6: Yanan Du, UC Los Angeles. Research and Practice in Electronic Records Management in China

• #8: Yang Hongyan, Renmin U. Functions of Catalog System in China‘s EGovernment

• #9: Trond Jacobsen and Ricardo Punzalan, U. of Michigan. Invoking ‘Collective Memory’: Mapping the Emergence of a Concept in Archival Science (Abstract)

• #10: Yang Jiekun, Renmin U. Enacted Government Information Openness Decree and Enacting Privacy Law in China

• #11: Allison B. Krebs, U. of Arizona. American Indian Records Repository: Linking Arms or Burying Evidence (Abstract)

• #12: Dr. Francesca Marini, U. of British Columbia, School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies. Documenting and Researching the Performing Arts

• #13: Helen McManus, UC Los Angeles. Recording Pregnancy in the United States

• #14: Sarah Ramdeen, UNC Chapel Hill. Qualitative Study of Data Preservation Practices at State Geological Surveys (Abstract)

• #15: Hea Lim Rhee, U. of Pittsburgh. Issues in Graduate Archival Education Programs in South Korea (Abstract)

• #16: Dr. Ciaran Trace, U. of Wisconsin, School of Library and Information Studies

• #17: Dr. Elizabeth Yakel, U. of Michigan, School of Information. Polar Bear Expedition Digital Collection

Friday, July 10

7:00 am – 9:00 am

Breakfast

De Neve Dining Room

9:00 am – 12:30 pm

Discussion Session A: Getting Published in Scholarly Journals

GSEIS Building – room 121

Chair, Dr.Elizabeth Yakel, U. of Michigan, School of Information

• Dr. Richard Cox, U. of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences

• Dr. Terry Cook, U. of Manitoba Archival Studies Program

• Sue McKemmish, Monash U., Faculty of Information Technology

• Andrew Lau, UC Los Angeles

Discussion Session B: Ethnic Studies and Archival Research: Voices and Footprints

GSEIS Building – room 111

Chair, Dr. Clara Chu, UC Los Angeles, Department of Information Studies

• Yolanda Alaniz, Los Angeles Public Library

• Eloisa Borah, UC Los Angeles, Rosenfeld Library

• Leah Kerr, Mayme Clayton Library and Archives

• Alejandro Lee, Central Washington University, Foreign Languages

• Marjorie Lee, UC Los Angeles, Asian American Studies Center Library

• Patrick Polk, UC Los Angeles, World Arts and Cultures

• Liza Posas, Autry National Center

• Dan Tsang, UC Irvine Library

• Zuoyue Wang, Cal Poly Pomona, History

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

Lunch

De Neve Dining Hall

1:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Methodology Workshop C: A Costing Model for Archives

De Neve A-3 Lounge

Dr. Robert M. Hayes, UC Los Angeles, Department of Information Studies

(Workshop Page)

Methodology Workshop D: Conducting and Archiving Oral Histories

De Neve B-2 Lounge

Dr. Teresa Barnett, UC Los Angeles, Center for Oral History Research

(Workshop Page)

1:30 – 3:00 pm:

Paper Session E. Faculty and Student Presentations

De Neve B3 – Lounge

Chair, Dr. Sue McKemmish, Monash U., Faculty of Information Technology

• Dr. Joanne Evans, Melbourne U., eScholarship Research Centre (ESRC) / Monash U., Center for Organizational and Social Informatics (COSI). Healthy Hothouses – Addressing Challenges and Creating Opportunities for Recordkeeping Research (Abstract)

• Richard Hollinger, U. of Amsterdam. Factors Affecting the Retention of Electronic Documents in the Workplace (Abstract)

• Frank Upward, Monash U. Community Research and the Flicker of the Continuum (Abstract)

• Dr. Ross Harvey, Simmons College, Graduate School of Library and Information Science. The DCC Curation Lifecycle as a Framework for Teaching Digital Preservation (Abstract)

• Andrew Lau, UC Los Angeles. Technologized Memories: Identity Formation, Migration Testimony and Psychic Stakes (Abstract)
  

Paper Session F. Faculty and Student Presentations

De Neve Sycamore Room

Chair, Dr. Wendy Duff, U. of Toronto, Faculty of Information

• Jane Zhang, Simmons College. The Dutch Manual & the Evolution/Revolution of Archival Theory and Practice (Abstract)

• Dr. Anne Gilliland, UC Los Angeles, Department of Information Studies. Reflections on Metadata in a Global, Digital World (Abstract)

• Eunha Youn, UC Los Angeles. Standardization of archival description in Korea: Examining the adoption of ISAD(G) (Abstract)

• Dr. Mirna Willer, U. of Zadar, Department of Library and Information Science. Teaching Metadata and Interoperability at the Department of Library and Information Sciences, University of Zadar, Croatia (Abstract)

• Lori Lindberg, UC Los Angeles / San Jose State University. Electronic Minds, Paper Records: Modifying and Extending Archival Descriptive Standards for Digital Records

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Coffee Break

De Neve Plaza A – Foyer

3:30 – 5:00 pm:

Paper Session G. Faculty and Student Presentations

De Neve B-3 Lounge

Chair, Andrew Lau, UC Los Angeles

• Amber Cushing, UNC Chapel Hill. How We See Ourselves in our Stuff: Sense of Self in Digital Objects and Personal Digital Archiving (Abstract)

• Sarah Kim, UT Austin. Personal Digital Archives and the Archival Profession (Abstract)

• Dr. Donghee Sinn, SUNY Albany, Department of Information Studies. Personal Records on the Web: Who‘s in charge of archiving? Me, Hotmail, or Archivists? (Abstract)

• Vivian Wong, UC Los Angeles. Documenting “Home” in the Diaspora: Memory, Records, and Identity (Abstract)

Paper Session H. Faculty and Student Presentations

De Neve Sycamore Room

Chair, Dr. Kelvin White, U. of Oklahoma, School of Library and Information Studies

• Rebecca Dean, UC Los Angeles. Archiving Resistance: Feminism and Postcoloniality (Abstract)

• Liladhar Pendse, UC Los Angeles. “Decolonizing” Colonial Periodicals: Preserving or Destroying the Information Past? (Abstract)

• Francesca Guerra, San Jose State U. Managing Human Rights Knowledge and the Politics of Archiving Global Conflicts (Abstract)

• Joel Blanco-Rivera, U. of Pittsburgh. From Truth Commissions to Transnational Trials: Archives and Transitional Justice in Latin America (Abstract)

• Trond Jacobsen, U. of Michigan. Evidence of Conquest: Archives and the Federal Acknowledgment Process

6:30 – 8:30 pm:

Mentoring Session for Junior Faculty

GSEIS Building – room 111

Saturday, July 11

7:00 am – 9:00 am

Breakfast

De Neve Dining Room

9:00 am—10:30 am

Grant-Writing Panel

De Neve Plaza A

Chair, Joel Wurl, National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Program Officer

• Dr. Wendy Duff, U. of Toronto, Faculty of Information

• Dr. Elizabeth Shepherd, College of London, Department of Information Studies

• Dr. Joanne Evans, U. of Melbourne, eScholarship Research Centre (ESRC) / Monash U., Center for Organizational and Social Informatics (COSI)

9:00 am—12:00 pm

Paper Session I. Faculty and Student Presentations

Sycamore Room

Chair: Rebecca Dean, UC Los Angeles

• Shannon Faulkhead, Monash U. Koorie Archiving: Community and Records Working Together (Abstract)

• Dr. Kelvin White, U. of Oklahoma, School of Library and Information Studies

• Dr. Sue McKemmish, Monash U., Faculty of Information Technology. Indigenous Knowledge and the Archives: Embracing Multiple Ways of Knowing and Keeping (Abstract) (Accompanying powerpoint)

• Ricardo Punzalan, U. of Michigan. “All Things We Cannot Articulate”: Archives and Commemoration in a Former Leper Colony in the Philippines (Abstract)

• Lori Eakin, UNC Chapel Hill. A Community Ecology Approach to Preservation Organizations: The Development of New Forms (Abstract)

• Michelle Caswell, U. of Wisconsin, Madison. The Preservation of Khmer Rouge Documents: Environment, Security, and International Cooperation

10:30 am – 10:45 am

Coffee Break

De Neve Plaza A – Foyer

10:45 – 12:00pm

Discussion on Ethics

De Neve Plaza A

Led by Dr. Richard Cox, U. of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences

Accompanying Powerpoint

[Open Meeting Space Available]

12:00 – 1 pm:

Lunch

De Neve Dining Room

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Closing Plenary Session

De Neve Plaza Ballroom

Dr. Terry Cook, U. of Manitoba Archival Studies Program

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Coffee Break

De Neve Plaza A – Foyer

3:30 – 5:00 pm

Concluding Remarks with Dr. Anne Gilliland and AERI Program Committee

De Neve Plaza Ballroom

• Kimberly Anderson, UC Los Angeles

• Ruth Bayhylle, UC Los Angeles

• Dr. Clara Chu, UC Los Angeles

• Dr. Richard Cox, U. of Pittsburgh

• Dr. Wendy Duff, U. of Toronto

• Andrew Lau, UC Los Angeles

• Lori Lindberg, UC Los Angeles

• Dr. Steve Ricci, UC Los Angeles

• Dr. Joshua Sternfeld, UC Los Angeles

• Dr. Helen Tibbo, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• Dr. Kelvin White, Oklahoma U.

• Dr. Tywanna Whorley, Simmons College

• Dr. Elizabeth Yakel, U. of Michigan