Events of 2005-2006:

SUMMER 2005:

July 15: Tour of Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research  

FALL QUARTER:

October 13: Bake Sale held.

November 4: Tour of YRL Special Collections

Please join the UCLA Chapter of the SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARCHIVISTS to welcome:
CHARLOTTE BROWN - UCLA University Archivist
First in the 2005-2006 SAA Lunch Speaker Series
Tuesday November 29th, 12:30-1:45 pm
GSE&IS Room 121
Please join us for FREE pizza and soda as Charlotte Brown talks about her archiving experiences. 
As University Archivist, Ms. Brown is responsible for all "non-current University records having permanent historical, legal, fiscal, or administrative value." Come find out what a University Archivist does on a day-to-day basis.  There will also be a question & answer session following the talk.

Nov. 30, 2005: Please join the student chapter of the Society of American Archivists in supporting the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank this holiday season.  The Foodbank is a non-profit organization that serves as a clearinghouse by receiving and storing donated food and personal products.  They distribute items to nearly 1,000 charitable agencies that help people in need throughout Los Angeles County.  The Foodbank has distributed over 500 million pounds of food during 30 years of service.  Last year more than 44 million pounds of food were distributed, providing 686,000 meals for those in need.
From Monday, December 5th to Thursday, December 15th containers will be available in the IS Commons for any items you may wish to donate or, if you prefer, you can contribute funds online at www.lafightshunger.org.
The Foodbank has a "most wanted" list to help guide donations; items are listed below. Your donations are tax-deductible and receipts are available.
Thanks for sharing this holiday season!
Canned Goods:
Beef Stew, Ravioli, Cannelloni, Canned Tuna, Peanut Butter, Yams, Canned Chicken, Canned Beef, Assorted Canned Fruits, Assorted Canned Vegetables.
Packaged Items:
Hot Cereal (Grits, Oatmeal, Malt-O-Meal, etc.), Mashed Potatoes, Stuffing Mix, Powdered Eggs.
Drinks:
Coffee, Juices in non-breakable containers, Ensure (or other supplemental drinks), Baby Formula.
Personal Products: Bar and Liquid Soap, Toothbrushes and Toothpaste, Laundry Detergent, Shaving Supplies, Feminine Hygiene Products, Deodorant and Perfume, Toilet/Facial Tissue, Assorted Cosmetics.

WINTER QUARTER:

Start off the Winter Quarter with the Society of American Archivists!
Join Anne Van Camp, Manager of Member Programs at RLG, and her colleague Merrilee Proffitt to discuss the frontiers of information access and management. RLG is an international, not-for-profit membership organization of libraries, archives, and museums, working together to create solutions to the challenges of information access and management.
Tuesday, January 10, 12:30 pm
Information Studies "Salon" (Upstairs)
Bring questions - we'll provide pizza and soda!

Getty Conservation Matters lecture: Preservation Strategies in a World of Access
Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2006, 7:00 p.m
Location: Getty Center, Museum Lecture Hall
The SAA chapter has reserved some seats for this Getty lecture, Tuesday, January 24th at 7pm. Parking is $7.00, so we're arranging carpools ~~
To learn more about the lecture, read the blurb below or visit their site: http://www.getty.edu/visit/events/bresson_lecture.html.
"The museums, libraries, and archives of Paris house thousands of irreplaceable photographs and negatives documenting the architecture, history, and inhabitants of Paris, as well as the history of photography itself.
Hear about current efforts to preserve this vast and important photographic heritage from Anne Cartier-Bresson, chief curator and director of the Atelier de Restauration et de Conservation des Photographies de la Ville de Paris (ARCP), a public agency responsible for helping Paris's public collections restore and conserve photographs and negatives, while still making them accessible to the public.
About Anne Cartier-Bresson: Anne Cartier-Bresson studied history, archaeology, and conservation of works of art at the Sorbonne and holds a Ph.D. in the history of contemporary art with a specialization in photographic conservation. She teaches at the École du Louvre for the Institut National du Patrimoine in Paris.
Cartier-Bresson has been the director of the ARCP since 1983. She and her staff have worked with public collections in Paris on numerous conservation and restoration projects. Cartier-Bresson also organized Objectif Paris and Objectif Paris 2, exhibitions of photographic views of Paris drawn from five of the city's collections."

The UCLA Student Chapter of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) is having a lunch time fundraiser!
We are selling frozen:
Chicken Chimichangas - $1.50
Ice Cream Sandwiches - $1.00
Beginning Tuesday, Feburary 6, find these treats in the lounge freezer and leave your money in the SAA collection box.

Getty Lecture: The National Archives - Preserving America's History
Thursday February 16, 2006 7 pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
The SAA has a block of seats reserved for Getty event, The National Archives: Preserving America's History, on February 16th.
Doris A. Hamburg, director of preservation programs at the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C., discusses the recent monumental and complex project to conserve the nation's cherished charters of freedom—the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. Presented by the Getty Conservation Institute
as part of its Conservation Matters lecture series.

POSTPONED: The UCLA Chapter of the Society of American Archivists welcomes you to:
An informal conversation with MacArthur "Genius" Award Winner Dr. Terry Belanger
Director of the Rare Book School, University of Virginia
Join us to learn more about:
• The Rare Book School
• Career strategies for special collections librarians
• The Rare Books School to open at UCLA
Friday, February 17
12:30 pm
GSE&IS Building, Room 121
Moderated by Beverly Lynch

Happy Hour with Bill Landis, Metadata Coordinator at the California Digital Library
February 23rd at 6 pm - Westwood Brewery

The SAA field trip to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is set for:
Saturday, March 4th, 10am
We will be meeting Diane Barrie, UCLA alum and archivist at the library, in the main lobby.  She will be giving us a free behind-the-scenes tour of the archives and afterwards we will be exploring the rest of the library, museum, and Air Force One exhibit ($12 admission fee).
We will meet at 8:30 in front of the GSEIS building.  Let us know if you would like to carpool.  If we need to, we can set up a separate carpool for people who want to leave immediately after the free tour with Diane.
Check out the website at http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/.

Richard Pearce-Moses, President of the Society of American Archivists to speak at UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies.
March 9th at 12:30pm in Room 111
Dr. Pearce-Moses is President of SAA and director of Digital Government Information at Arizona State Library, Archives & Public Records, and the public face of the archives profession in the United States. He will be speaking to students, practicing archivists, and all those interested in the preservation of history and cultural heritage. Please join us for a stimulating discussion of American archives and manuscripts, historical preservation, and the future of preserving America's past.
Pizza and beverages will be provided (first come first served!)

Brown Bag with MaryJo Pugh, editor of the American Archivist on Thursday, March 15th from noon-1pm in Room 111.   The event will focus on publishing issues and the Diversity Student Paper award. Bring your lunch and share your ideas!

SPRING QUARTER:

There will be a lunchtime resume workshop for all IS students April 6 in Room 111 from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm. Laurel McPhee, coordinator of the Center for Primary Research and Training at the Young Research Library and a UCLA IS graduate, will be speaking about what elements constitute a successful information professional's resume.  There is no cost for this lunchtime talk and it will be a great opportunity to start working on your resume for 2nd-year internships or that impending job hunt!  /  If you would like your resume included in the resume book for the event, please drop off your copy in the IS Lab no later than 12:00pm on Wednesday, April 19th.

The UCLA Department of Information Studies is pleased to give you two chances to meet Dr. TERRY BELANGER
Lunch and Conversation
Hosted by the UCLA Student Chapter of the Society of American Archivists
Thursday, April 13, 2006 at 12:30 pm
Pizza and soda will be provided
Lecture: "What is Bibliography?"
Thursday, April 13, 2006 at 3:00 p.m.
Room 111, GSE&IS Building
A reception will follow the lecture
IN SEPTEMBER 2005, TERRY BELANGER was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, one of the highest honors bestowed on an individual in the United States. The Foundations' citation states:
"Terry Belanger is a historian, collector, and protector of one of humankind's greatest inventions: the book. To support the study of the book's long history, Belanger created a teaching and archive facility, the Rare Book School (RBS), in 1983 as part of Columbia University's School of Library Service; in 1992, he moved it to its current home at the University of Virginia. The RBS functions as an independent, non-profit institute devoted to the histories of manuscripts, print, electronic text, and everything in between. It transcends the limitations of traditional degree programs by making its wide-ranging offerings available to a broad range of professionals interested in studying and preserving these cultural artifacts; historians, literary scholars, librarians, conservators, collectors, and book artists attend RBS courses each year. In the classroom, Belanger uses original tools and materials to provide students with hands-on experience and to emphasize the relationship between the physical and intellectual structure of the book. He assiduously collects items related to bookmaking, from the remains of incunabula (the first printed books of the fifteenth century) and their handwritten precursors to books demonstrating the range of bindings and structures, to samples of materials from which books have been constructed. With thousands of former students currently at work in the field an offshoots of his programs in California, France, Australia, and New Zealand, Belanger is making the world a more secure place for the irreplaceable legacy of the book."

Session on Tuesday, May 30, 2-3pm in GSEIS Building RM 121 with Dr. Allen Weinstein, the National Archivist.
We've been told that the sessions are to be more conversational in nature, as Dr. Weinstein is unlikely to have any sort of prepared presentation to give. We'd like to ask that you come prepared with questions to help facilitate the conversation. Please feel free to share your relevant archive related projects, thoughts on being an archival studies student, and impressions of the profession.  Also, please arrive promptly. We'll be starting and ending on time, as Dr. Weinstein has a full schedule for the day and has another session immediately after ours.

The SAA student chapter is working with the national organization's Director of Education to bring an Encoded Archival Description (EAD) workshop* to the UCLA campus during the Spring quarter.  Currently, SAA is only offering one EAD workshop this year, but it's in Philadelphia.  As familiarity with EAD is a highly significant and marketable skill for archival professionals, we'd like to see an opportunity for students and professionals on the West Coast to benefit from this workshop.  In order to gauge interest, we'd like to know:
1. Are you interested in attending a two-day EAD workshop in Los Angeles?
2. Would you be willing to pay the $310 SAA student members' fee?
The cost of this workshop is a bit higher than most SAA workshops, because it requires two instructors and technology stations for all attendees, but there is the significant cost benefit of not having to travel.
We've just heard back from SAA headquarters and the only days the instructors are available to teach this additional workshop are June 29-30 (Thursday and Friday).