Biannual publication of the Society of Ohio Archivists available at OhioArchivists.org Spring 2024
2024 ANNUAL MEETING
Archives for All: Enhancing Accessibility and Inclusivity
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Sara Mouch, University of Toledo, and Michelle Sweetser, Bowling Green State University, Educational Programming Committee Co-Chairs
his M ay , the SOA Annual meeting will be traveling to Columbus, Ohio! You are invited to join us on Friday, May 17 from 8:30am - 4pm at Capital University in Bexley, Ohio for a full day of presentations, networking, and an exciting featured speaker. The theme of this year’s meeting is Archives for All: Enhancing Accessibility and Inclusivity. We are also continuing our hybrid option this year! If you can’t make it, you’ll be able to attend virtually which will provide you access to three virtual sessions (six concurrent) on Thursday, May 16 (also available to in-person attendees) and live streams of select sessions from the May 17 slate. This is our second attempt at a hybrid option, so we’re still working out the kinks and challenges. Bear with us! For the latest details about the meeting, visit the conference page on the SOA website.
Plenary Speaker
We are excited to announce Dr. Lydia Tang as our keynote speaker for this year’s conference. Dr. Tang is currently an Outreach and Engagement Coordinator for LYRASIS. Previously, she held archivist positions at Michigan State University, the Library of Congress, and numerous graduate positions at the University of Illinois, where she received her MLIS and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees. She served on the Task Force to Revise Best Practices on Accessible Archives for People with Disabilities and is a co-founder of the Society of American Archivists’ (SAA)
Accessibility & Disability Section. She is the 2020 recipient of SAA’s Mark A. Greene Emerging Leader Award and was recognized in three SAA Council resolutions as a co-founder of the Archival Workers Emergency Fund, for spearheading the Accessibility & Disability Section’s “Archivists at Home” document, and for her work revising the SAA “Guidelines for Accessible Archives for People with Disabilities.” She is a neurodiverse Chinese American woman. Dr. Tang and Gracen Brilmyer are co-editors of the book Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession.
Sessions This year’s meeting will feature a mix of presentations centered around the “Archives for All” theme and those of general interest. For our virtual-only sessions on Thursday we have among our presenters, Sidney Gao and James Van Mil presenting on “Principles and Practice for Accessible Digitization”; Dyani Feige, who will discuss her work with the Appalachian Regional Heritage Stewardship Program; Wendy Guerra and Amy Schindler, presenting from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, on “Flickr and Football: Creating Approachable Archives for Alumni”; as well as a few others. Included in the Friday slate is Michelle Ganz, who will talk (continued on page 3)
Inside this issue:
1......... Annual Meeting 2........President’s Message 4.......Slate of Candidates 8.......Feature Extra 11....... Digital Discussion
12......Features 13......News & Notes 14..... The HBCU Radio Preservation Project 15......DEIA 16..... Archives Month Poster | Connect with SOA
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