Biannual publication of the Society of Ohio Archivists available at OhioArchivists.org Spring 2025
2025 ANNUAL MEETING
Show Me the Money:
Sustaining Archives and Archival Programs Sara Mouch, University of Toledo, and Michelle Sweetser, Bowling Green State University, Educational Programming Committee Co-Chairs
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his May, the Society of Ohio Archivists Annual Meeting will be traveling to Toledo, Ohio! You are invited to join us on Thursday, May 15 (virtual) and Friday, May 16 (hybrid) at the University of Toledo. Day one (Thursday) consists entirely of virtual sessions, available to all registrants. Day two (Friday) is a full day (8:30 a.m. - 4:30
p.m.) of presentations, networking, and exciting featured speakers, with one session in each time block live-streamed for virtual attendees. This year’s meeting theme is Show Me the Money: Sustaining Archives and Archival Programs. For the latest information about the meeting as it develops, visit the conference page on the SOA website.
P LE N ARI ES We are excited to announce Patricia Hswe as our morning keynote speaker. Patricia is the program director for Public Knowledge at The Mellon Foundation. As the Foundation’s program area that supports libraries and archives, Public Knowledge makes grants that strive to increase equitable access to—and activation of—recorded knowledge that helps to build an informed, heterogeneous, and civically engaged society. Previously, Patricia worked in the
libraries at Penn State University, where she co-founded the department of publishing and curation services (now the department of research informatics and publishing) and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was program manager for a set of grant initiatives funded by the Library of Congress and by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Originally a Russian literature scholar, Patricia (continued on page 3)
Inside This Issue
1......... Annual Spring Meeting 2........ The President’s Message 5........ Fall Meeting Recap 6....... Archivist As Collector
10..... DEIA: Archival Trauma 12......Meet the Election Candidates 17......News & Notes 19..... Connect with SOA
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