MAC 2022 Session Brainstorming

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1	This spreadsheet is provided as an informal tool to connect individuals who are seeking ideas and/or collaboration on session proposals for MAC 2022. It is not monitored by MAC or the 2022 Program Committee and is not part of the official submission process. Read the full Call for Program Proposals:https://www.midwestarchives.org/2022-call-for-session-proposals CFP deadline extended to September 15
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3	Digital preservation workflow process improvement and/or organizational prioritization processes	Dan Noonan noonan.37@osu.edu	Panel presentation	Amy Moorman (amy.moorman@avila.edu); currently implementing digipres program in 2nd lone arranger position; also attended Digital POWRR institute so this is a timely issue for me :)	Daniel Hartwig (dhartwig@iastate.edu): Head, SCUA; currently developing digital presevation committment levels matrix on heels of digital preservation policy and digital stewardship committee.
4	High impact educational practices for undergraduates in university archives and special collections. Let's discuss beyond the one-shot and how we engage in high impact practices with archival collections	Carol Street carolstreet@uky.edu	Panel presentation or lightning round	April Anderson-Zorn, aander2@ilstu.edu	Brittan Nannenga, brittan.nannenga@depaul.edu		Sally Childs-Helton schildsh@butler.edu
5	Primary sources as open access/OER's in instruction	Carrie Schwier	panel or lightning
6	Digital preservation assessments/advocating for digital preservation resources	Larissa Krayer larissa.krayer@unmc.edu	panel or lightning	Kyna: kyna.herzinger@louisville.edu	Joan Curbow curbowj@bvu.edu (I've successfully advocated for Preservica Starter and the response was really gratifying)
7	Unforeseen consequences: MPLP and the Pandemic	Lori N. Curtis lcurtis@hillsdale.edu	panel or lightning	Lina Rosenberg Foley (lina.b.rosenbergfoley@lawrence.edu)	Benn Joseph (benn.joseph@northwestern.edu)
8	Successful or pilot projects for preserving and describing social media accounts as part of archival collections. Could be from an organizational records or personal papers perspective. More and more individuals, governments, educational institutions, and non-profit organizations are distributing information, organizing people, or sharing thoughts and opinions through social media. But, social media is challenging to preserve and describe and there are privacy issues, as well. What platforms, methodologies, procedures, workflows, etc., are you testing or have you been successful with?	Ruth Bryan, ruth.bryan@uky.edu	presentation, discussion, or lightning	Colleen Theisen, Lecturer, School of Library and Information Science, University of Iowa colleen-theisen@uiowa.edu (Not currently doing this myself, but I have book chapter on related issues, and many years experience running social media for special collections, if we can find a compatible angle I'm happy to contribute. )
9	Digitization and outreach: Reaching new audiences, primary source guides, incorporating students, etc.	Kristina Warner, warner3@stolaf.edu	panel or lightning	Laurinda Weisse, weissell@unk.edu	Jaycie Vos (jaycie.vos@uni.edu)	Tessa Wakefield (tessa.wakefield@uni.edu)	Alia Wegner (wegnera3@miamioh.edu)
10	Alternative and unexpected uses of archival collections outside of academia, for non-traditional purposes. In 2019 one of our collections was researched for a Levi's vintage clothing collection and ad campaign	Elizabeth Reilly, elizabeth.reilly@louisville.edu	panel or lightning	Mary Wallace, AV Archivist, Walter P. Reuther Library,maryjwallace@wayne.edu
11	Archivists as archives users / "The Other Side of the Desk", Deirdre Scaggs to discuss her experience as a researcher for her book, The Historic Kentucky Kitchen.	griffins@denison.edu, deirdre@uky.edu	panel or lightning	Dara Baker (NARA and Salve Regina University) dabaker.research@gmail.com	sarah demb	Kristen Whitson, whitson2@wisc.edu
12	Demystifying research. Based on our own challenges with survey design, distribution, and data analysis. Have you had similar challenges or questions? Potential topics: IRB process, survey design issues, data analysis tips or learning curves, how to best present data, publishing difficulties, or decisions on where to keep your data (is it public and where, or why is it not available)? Can we learn from each other and make the process easier/more understandable for those of us who are interested in research projects, but who do not have strong backgrounds in this area?	Jennifer Johnson, jennifer_i_johnson@cargill.com, Alexis Braun Marks, alexisbraunmarks@gmail.com, Rachael Dreyer, rachael.dreyer@gmail.com, Michelle Sweeter, msweets@bgsu.edu	panel or lightning round or discussion
13	Perspectives on Local History Collections in Public Libraries: Three Digital Stories 1) A lone arrangers perspective, from a public library local history collection, about new digital projects for a local history collection. Three projects were developed to come up with new ways to collect local history and make it digitally accessible. In July 2021 a $44,000 two year grant was secured from the Illinois State Library for a second digitization project on the Illinois Digital Archives that includes use of LHMS software for the audio oral history collection from the 1970s. Also rolling out is a new digital oral history project, and acceptance into the Community Webs Project by Archive-It. Each project has technical challenges and lots of learning but the goal has remained the same in terms of expanding access and building new bridges to connect with the community of Bensenville on digital platforms. 2) and 3)	Elizabeth Morris --- emorris@benlib.org	Presentation or discussion	Johanna Russ, Chicago Public Library, jruss@chipublib.org	Kristen Whitson, kristen@wils.org	Maybe a discussion on the evolving paradigm of archives in public libraries or other municipal collections? Is it local history or cultural heritage? Is it time to advocate a different label? Is the local history label an impediment? How do archivists and curates navigate and articulate in a world based on secondary sources. Maybe ask Kathy Marquis to chair? Nancy Webster archives@highlandparkhistory.org	Stevie Gunter, sgunter@denverlibrary.org
14	Creating structure and support for initiatives during institutional transition. Has your institution launched major initiatives during times of great change, such as staffing turnover, pandemic environmental shifts, budgetary challenges, etc.? How did you maintain or grown policies and procedures during that time? Did your practices change? What impact did the transition have on your initiative?	DiAnna Hemsath, dianna.hemsath@unmc.edu	panel or lightning	Bethany Davis, University of Iowa Libraries, bethany-davis@uiowa.edu	Dave Lewis, Bowling Green State University, drlewis@bgsu.edu
15	Documenting historically underrepresented or marginalized groups. Are you undergoing a project that intends to bring an underrepressent group back into the archives? For example I am searching all our materials to build a Indigenous student/staff history. We have no record of who our early native students were nor do we have records of the affinity groups.	Audrey Swartz aeswartz@ksu.edu	panel or lightning	Heather Stecklein, UW-Stout steckleinh@uwstout.edu (Project to increase colleciton representation of individuals with disabilities)	Jennifer Ho, CSU San Marcos, jho@csusm.edu. My project is focused on archivists who are first-generation Americans. See abstract here.
16	Archival educators in the Midwest. What do you see as the skills archives students need? What archival concepts should they understand? This would also be a great chance for a dialog with practicing archivists about what they seek in new professionals.	Shaun Hayes hayes29@uwm.edu	lightning or open forum	Colleen Theisen, I teach in the certificate for Special Collections (and Archives) in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa colleen-theisen@uiowa.edu
17	Have special collections/archives managers & admin at ideally different types of orgs. and at different levels in their career describe their path to their current positions, what they learned, what they wish they had known beforehand, and other questions by faciliator, ending with Q&A with audience.	Rachel Seale, rmseale@iastate.edu	panel, 90 min., I am submitting this proposal tomorrow even if I don't have panelists lined up so if you see this after the deadline and want to participate or recommend someone, please shoot me an email in the event proposal gets accepted.
18	Encouraging diverse students to access and use collections in new ways through collaboration with academic departments	Anne Marie Hamilton-Brehm, annemarie.hamiltonbrehm@siu.edu	panel or lightning round or discussion; please let me know if you are interested in case the panel is accepted or you'd like to propose this or a similar topic elsewhere
19	Field notes as environmental documentation in the Archives. At Oberlin we hold a diary of a botanist on the Hayden Survey of 1871, climate notes by the first ecology course professor, and student field albums created for his summer field courses in the West with photographs in the early 20th century. One of the latter includes photographs of Native American guides and tribal members. Do other archives hold material that could be studied for environmental and Native American documentation?	Anne Salsich, asalsich@oberlin.edu	panel, 90 min.
20	Using digital exhibitions for outreach and/or effective promotion of large-scale digitization projects. Effectively promoting comprehensive digitization projects (especially of A/V materials) can be challenging because the amount of content can be overwhelming. We've recently use digital exhibitions to promote projects so we can draw users in with more digestable highlights. This session could either be about promoting large-scal digitization projects OR using digital exhibitions for outreach/promoational efforts.	Joy Novak, jnovak@wustl.edu	panel
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