University of Washington Archives and Preservation Club

2005-2006 Events

Fall Quarter 2005

APC Planning Meeting, Sept. 19, 2005

iSchool New Student Orientation Social/Fair — APC Table, Sept. 26, 2005

iWelcome Week — APC Brown Bag Presentation, Sept. 26, 2005

APC Planning Meeting, Oct. 3, 2005

APC Event — Dr. Lorraine McConaghy, Oral Historian, Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI), October 13, 2005

Dr. McConaghy will discuss her research on the US Navy sloop-of-war Decatur's 1855-1856 visit to Seattle. Join Dr. Lorraine McConaghy for a presentation of her research on the 1855-56 visit to Seattle of the U.S. Navy sloop-of-war DECATUR. Supported by a Hooper Fellowship from the Naval Historical Center, McConaghy spent this summer in Washington, D.C. steeped in the documents at the National Archives and Records Administration and the Navy Department Library. There—in the rich collection of squadron correspondence, ship’s logbooks, medical logs, journals, and punishment records—she encountered a fascinating new narrative of encounters between the ship’s crew and Seattle’s settlers and native people.

Winner of the 2005 Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, Lorraine McConaghy is a celebrated historian whose research interests include the study of family and community in the Pacific Northwest. She received her doctorate at the University of Washington in 1993 and is currently the senior historian at Seattle’s Museum of History and Industry. An author of numerous books and articles, McConaghy is active in many national professional organizations, including the American Historical Association and the Urban History Association, as well as in regional and local heritage organizations, including the Northwest Oral History Association and the Pacific Northwest Historians Guild.
APC General Meeting, October 17, 2005

APC General Meeting, November 7, 2005

APC Event — Home Movie Night, November 10, 2005

APC Event — Modern Book Arts with Sandra Kroupa, Rare Books and Book Arts Librarian, November 18, 2005

Join Sandra Kroupa on an exciting journey into the world of modern book arts. Kroupa has spent over three decades building UW’s Book Arts Collection into one of the best known and most celebrated in the country. The over 11,000 pieces under her care meld innovation with tradition. A recurring theme in the collection is personal history—artists exploring their own lives and, by extension, the lives of us all.

Kroupa’s talk will be in a “show and tell” format where the audience will have the opportunity to view several works in the collection including examples featuring sculptural text, inventive binding techniques, and conceptual themes.

A past recipient of UW’s Distinguished Staff Award, Sandra Kroupa is Book Arts and Rare Books Curator for University Libraries. When she’s not in the library, Kroupa is often writing articles, curating exhibits, or sharing her insights, enthusiasm, and knowledge of books in UW classrooms and around the nation.

APC General Meeting, November 28, 2005

Winter Quarter 2006

APC General Meeting, January 9, 2006

iCareer Week — APC Panel: Careers in Archives and Preservation
Date: January 23, 2006
Time: 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
Place: Mary Gates Hall 420

Join UW's Archives and Preservation Club for a lively panel discussion featuring local practitioners in the fields of archives and preservation. Explore exciting career options, learn which skills are essential to success, and receive tips for how to land a job. Bring your lunch, bring your questions! This event is part of the Information School's iCareer Week.

Panelists:
- Mary Montgomery, Associate Curator/Librarian, Museum of History and Industry
- Sarah Nelson, Archivist, National Archives and Records Administration - Pacific Alaska Region
- Laurel Sercombe, Archivist, UW School of Music
- Amy Stevenson, Archives Manager, Microsoft Corporation

APC General Meeting, January 30, 2006
On the agenda:
- Rose McLendon (2nd year MLIS) will talk about her internship experience
- May 2006 -- Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Conference
- Upcoming APC events (planning)
- Spring Quarter – election of APC officers

APC General Meeting, February 27, 2006

APC Event: Seattle Municipal Archives Tour, February 27, 2006
Join us for a VIP tour of the Seattle Municipal Archives led by Scott Cline, City Archivist. The Seattle Municipal Archives supports the goals of the City of Seattle and the citizens of the City by identifying, acquiring, arranging, describing, preserving, and making accessible – for the use of City agencies, scholars, students, and the general public – the records of enduring value created or received by City agencies and elected officials. Its holdings include textual records, maps, drawings, audiotapes, videotapes, reels of motion picture film, and over 1.5 million photographic images of City projects and personnel.

The Archives is located on the third floor of Seattle's City Hall at 600 Fourth Avenue. Visitors should enter the building at the Fifth Avenue entrance.

Spring Quarter 2006

APC General Meeting, April 3, 2006

APC Event — Text: Concept, Image, and Content
Presentation by Sandra Kroupa, UW Rare Books and Book Arts Librarian
Date: April 7, 2006
Time: 3:00 pm
Place: UW Maps/Special Collections Classroom, Room B69, Suzzallo Library Basement

While most of the text we are surrounded by every day meets our traditional expectations of what text is and what it does, many modern artists working in the book form are manipulating texts in innovative ways to challenge our preconceptions. Forms once easy to define, defy categories. Sandra Kroupa, Book Arts and Rare Book Curator in Special Collections, explores these issues and illustrates with selected examples from the Book Arts Collection.
APC General Meeting, April 17, 2006

APC Panel Event — Digital Music Archives: A Song for Future Generations
Date: May 2, 2006
Time: 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Place: Mary Gates Hall 420

The Archives & Preservation Club presents an exciting panel focused on the current and future state of digital music archives. Three panelists representing distinct archives will speak on their careers, the field, and issues for digital music archives.

Panelists include:
- Eric Carnell, General Counsel, Digital Media Archives, Loudeye Corporation
  Loudeye Corporation is a worldwide leader in digital media solutions and possesses the world's largest commercial music archive in .WAV format (over 4.6M songs). Mr. Carnell is responsible for overseeing all copyright aspects of Loudeye's digital media archive.
- John Gibbs, Assistant Head Librarian, Music Library, University of Washington
  John Gibbs has thirty years experience as a music reference librarian. His areas of interest include medieval and renaissance music, discography, and audio preservation and restoration. He was instrumental in a pilot project in streaming audio for listening reserves as well as the library's sound restoration program.
- John Seman, Collections Manager, Experience Music Project
  John has been an integral member of the Collections & Curatorial team at EMP for the last 7 years. As Audiovisual Preservation Specialist he managed the restoration and digitization of the world’s largest collection of Jimi Hendrix recordings and cataloged the massive Northwest Music Archive. As Collections Manager, John’s domain includes the care and maintenance of every artifact on exhibit and held within EMP’s vault.
The following resources were mentioned during this panel discussion:
Election of APC Officers
Nominations: April 18 - 26
Voting: May 1 - 5, 2006

We invite you to become an Archives and Preservation Club (APC) officer. Formed in 2002, APC is dedicated to fostering discussion and exploration of issues related to the archives and preservation profession. APC meets monthly and organizes events featuring leading scholars and practitioners in the field. Recent events have included a tour of the Seattle Municipal Archives, a book arts talk by Sandra Kroupa, and an iCareer Week panel discussion. Officers may be registered University of Washington students from any department.

A description of APC Officer positions can be found here.
APC Election Results

Congratulations to our new APC Officers!
- Co-Chairs: Melinda Snarr and Michelle Vallance
- Marketing/Publicity Officer: Colleen Stevenson
- Secretary: Abigail Bass
- Webmaster: Spencer Lamm
- Distance Liaison: David Junius

APC General Meeting, May 8, 2006

APC Event — The Why and Now of Archives, a discussion with Randall Jimerson and Sarah Nelson [audio]
Date: May 8, 2006
Time: 5:30 pm - 7 pm
Place: Mary Gates Hall, Room 420

Don't miss this rare opportunity to hear Randall Jimerson, former president of the Society of American Archivists and Sarah Nelson,Archivist, National Archives and Records Administration (Pacific Alaska Region), discuss the past, present, and future of the archives profession. Jimerson will discuss the importance of archives and their advocacy, his archives program at Western Washington University, and the archives profession in general, including his perspectives on the future of the profession, graduate archival education, and what qualifications are needed to become a professional archivist. Nelson will discuss her work at the National Archives and Records Administration and share her perspective of the archives profession.

APC Event — What Goes Around has Come Around: New policies, practices, and trends in audio preservation
Samuel Brylawski, First Vice-President/President Elect of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC)
Date: May 16, 2006
Time: 2:00 pm - 3 pm
Place: Mary Gates Hall, Room 420

In the past few years, historical recordings, sound archives, and audio preservation have received unprecedented support and interest from Congress, endowments, and private foundations. The National Recording Preservation Act of 2000 will result in a national plan for the preservation of sound recordings and a foundation to support preservation work. In 2007, the Library of Congress will open its National Audio Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Virginia. Both the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities have recently funded historical audio projects.

Sam Brylawski, editor of the University of California Santa Barbara Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings, and former head of the Library of Congress Recorded Sound Section, will present an overview of many promising developments in audio archiving, offer his view of what the future holds for audio archives in the United States, and point out some the existing impediments to ensuring the preservation of our audio heritage and wide access to the hundreds of thousands of historical recordings held by public archives.

Samuel Brylawski is the former head of the Library of Congress' Recorded Sound Division, and an active speaker and writer about the issues of digital preservation. He is currently the First Vice-President/President Elect of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC).

Sam discussed the following resources during his talk:

Reports published by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR):
Other published resources:
Discussion lists:
Additional links from the Webmaster:

Sam discussed the work of Carl Haber and Vitaliy Fadeyev, Physicists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, who have developed a method to digitally restore and preserve audio recordings:
The National Audio-Visual Conservation Center (NAVCC) of the Library of Congress, in Culpeper, Virginia, will be "the first centralized facility in America especially planned and designed for the acquisition, cataloging, storage and preservation of the nation’s heritage collections of moving images and recorded sounds" (MIC).

40th Annual Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Conference
Date: May 17-20, 2006
Place: Red Lion Hotel, downtown Seattle, Washington.

APC Meeting — Transitional meeting for new APC Officers
Date: June 5, 2006
Time: 11:00 am
Place: MGH 310D

July 11-16, 2006 — Summer Educational Institute (SEI) for Visual Resources and Image Management
A joint program of the Art Libraries Society/North America (ARLIS/NA) and the Visual Resources Association (VRA)
Place: Reed College, Portland, Oregon.
Registration: February 1 - May 1, 2006