Events of 1999-2000:

FALL QUARTER:

Wednesday, September 29:
The UCLA Student Chapter of the Society of American Archivists staffed a stand to recruit members as part of student orientation during Convocation.

Monday, November 8:         
The UCLA Student Chapter of the Society of American Archivists paid a visit to the Southern Regional Library Facility. SRLF is a high-density shelving facility designed to alleviate space constraints in the southern University of California libraries (Irvine, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, and Santa Barbara). It provides low-cost housing with conservation-level environmental controls for library materials. Campus libraries deposit low-use materials, archives, manuscripts, and fragile materials in need of special handling. The 228,000 square-foot building includes a reading room, and space for processing, lending, and administrative staff, as well as a stack core with a capacity of approximately 7,000,000 volumes.

Tuesday November 23rd :
Student representatives of the UCLA Student Chapter of the Society of American Archivists staffed a table, with flyers and information about the archival profession, at an informal reception on professional organizations in the student commons. The stand was part of  Dr. Mary Maack’s  IS200 class on the Information Professions.

WINTER QUARTER:

List of Winter 2000 IS archival classes. PDF.

• On Friday, Feb. 4, Jeff Rothenberg from RAND will be giving a presentation in Dr. McKemmish' 282 class on emulation as a method for digital preservation.  Anyone who is interested is welcome to attend.  The class will meet in 111 GSE&IS at 12:30 p.m..

• Also, for anyone interested in metadata, Prof. McKemmish will be presenting recent Australian work in the development of metadata and associated metadata standards for recordkeeping.   Prof. McKemmish is director of the SPIRT Metadata Project.  Her presentation will be from 9:30-11 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 11 in 111 GSE&IS.

• Tour of the Japanese American National Museum: The Student Chapter of SAA will organize a behind-the-scenes tour of the
  Japanese American National Museum (JANM) either on Thursday, Feb 24 or Friday, Feb 25, depending on which day people indicate interest. The tour will be scheduled after Sue McKemmish clases end so will probably take place around 10:00 a.m.  This tour is open to everyone in the department. Highlights of the tour:
   - A curator will show archival materials from the collection used for museum
  exhibits and provide a brief tour of the collection storage facility
  - A UCLA graduate, now a practicing archivist, will talk about her current job at JANM and give practical tips about looking for an archival position
    - Hear about internship opportunities at JANM for upcoming digital imaging
  projects
   
  Please contact Rose Roberto via email at rroberto<at>ucla.edu if you are interested and specify which day would work out best for you.

SPRING QUARTER:

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