Welcoming MAC to Michigan

MAC Annual Meeting, April 19-21, 2012 in Grand Rapids Michigan
Celebrating MAC’s 40th Anniversary

Dear Fellow MAA members,

The most memorable and enjoyable conferences are the ones where the local hosts really outdid themselves in showing their hospitality. The MAC Local Arrangements Committee is hoping for a sizeable Michigan showing at the meeting and 40th anniversary celebration, and hopes to see you all there. We are asking for your help to donate $5, $10, $25, or more to enable us to provide memorable hospitality to our fellow MAC members who will experience our unique area. As hosts to the MAC Annual Meeting, MAA members have a unique opportunity to show that we are proud of Grand Rapids and we are very glad to welcome attendees to our state.

An online donation is easy; simply follow this link:
https://midwestarc.memberclicks.net and donate as a MAC member or as a guest. If you wish to donate by mail, please contact Pam Berrington at pam.berrington@amway.com or 616-787-1422 for a donation form.

Thank you very much for your consideration. Let’s show the
MAC membership what great hosts WE are!

2012 Local Arrangements Committee co-chairs

Nancy Richard, Grand Valley State University
Portia Vescio, Michigan State University

Updates to Blog/ Facebook page

MAA is working to communicate with members in a variety of channels so that membership is aware of what is going on. We are also looking for ways for the membership to participate.

Thanks to the efforts of our treasurer Susan Panak we have compiled a list of member organizations who have blogs and facebooks pages and linked them down the right hand side of the Michigan Archival Association Blog. If you did not contact Susan and would like to be added to the list, please contact Melinda Isler.

Michigan Archival Association has also created a Facebook page as an additional means of communication. We encourage you to like us and participate. You should be able to find it by searching for Michigan Archival Association. If you have any trouble, please contact Melinda Isle

SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARCHIVISTS: 2012 Waldo Gifford Leland Award

Please help us to recognize the best in our profession!

Have you read a great new book about archives? Seen an exceptional new finding aid? Encountered a new documentary publication that is head and shoulders above the rest? Has a new web publication really stood out to you?

If you have, please consider nominating it for the Society of American Archivists Waldo Gifford Leland Award. Nomination forms, a list of previous winners, and more information are at http://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-leland. The deadline for nominations is February 28, 2012.

The annual Leland Award – a cash prize and certificate – recognizes “writing of superior excellence and usefulness in the field of archival history, theory, and practice.”

(Please note that periodicals are not eligible.)

Wanted: Vendor to convert floppies

Looking for a vendor to convert 5.25 floppy discs in the Holland, Michigan area. If you know of any, please contact Geoff Reynolds at the Joint Archives of Holland. He can be reached at reynoldsg@hope.edu

SAA: Student Awards (due February 28, 2012)

HEY! Do you need financial assistance to pursue graduate education in archival science? Or financial support to attend a professional conference? If so, then check out these opportunities from the Society of American Archivists . . .

Scholarships
F. GERALD HAM SCHOLARSHIP
$7,500 in financial support to graduate students in their second year of archival studies at a United States university. See http://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-ham

MOSAIC SCHOLARSHIP
$5,000 in financial support to minority students pursuing graduate education in archival science.
Must be citizen or permanent resident of the United States or Canada.
See http://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-mosaic

JOSEPHINE FORMAN SCHOLARSHIP
$10,000 in financial support to minority students pursuing graduate education in archival science.
Must be citizen or permanent resident of the United States.
See http://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-forman

Travel Awards
DONALD PETERSON STUDENT TRAVEL AWARD
$1,000 in support of registration, travel, and accommodation expenses to attend SAA Annual Meeting in San Diego in August 2012. Must be a SAA member who is currently enrolled in a North American archival education program or who graduated from an archival education program in the previous calendar year. See http://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-peterson

HAROLD T. PINKETT MINORITY STUDENT AWARD
Complimentary registration and related expenses for hotel and travel to attend SAA Annual Meet-ing in San Diego in August 2012. For minority undergraduate and graduate students.
See http://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-pinkett

Deadline for Applications: February 28, 2012
Get yours at http://www2.archivists.org/recognition

SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARCHIVISTS: Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award

The Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award Subcommittee of the Society of American Archivists seeks nominations for the 2012 award.

This award recognizes an archivist, editor, group of individuals, or institution that has increased public awareness of a specific body of documents through compilation, transcription, exhibition, or public presentation of archives or manuscript materials for educational, instructional, or other public purpose. Archives may include photographs, films, and visual archives. Publication may be in hard copy, microfilm, digital, or other circulating medium.

Recent winners include:
• 2011 University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee Libraries March On Milwaukee Civil Rights History Project Team
• 2010 The Giza Archives Project at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• 2009 Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections of the University of Toledo’s “From Institution to Independence”
• 2008 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the CBC Digital Archives (Les Archives de Radio-Canada)

Eligibility:
Individual archivists and editors, groups of individuals, organizations.

Application Deadline:
All nominations shall be submitted to the Awards Committee by February 28.

For more information on SAA awards and the nominations process, please go to http://www.archivists.org/recognition/index.asp

Seeking Nominations for MAC Presidents’ Award

The Midwest Archives Conference seeks nominations for the MAC Presidents’ Award submitted by committees in each of the 13 states in the MAC region. Each state committee may put forward only one nomination per year. As many as three awards may be presented each year. Recipients are invited to attend the members’ meeting held at MAC’s annual meeting to receive their award. The 2012 meeting takes place in Grand Rapids, MI on April 20, 2012.

To nominate someone, please complete the nomination form on the MAC Web site, and address it to your state chair: Amy Reimann, Starr Commonwealth, reimanna@starr.org. Go to MAC Web site, under MAC Presidents’ Award, to find nomination forms and a list of past recipients of the award: http://www.midwestarchives.org. For additional information about the award and guidelines, please contact Elisabeth Wittman at Elisabeth.Wittman@cityofchicago.org.

Call for MAA Board Members Nominations

Elections for new Board members will be held at the MAA Business Meeting on April 20, 2012, during this year’s MAC Conference in Grand Rapids. We will vote on the following Board positions:

Vice President/President-Elect (2 year term)
Secretary (2 year term)
Conference Coordinator (final year of a 2 year term)
Member-at- Large #5 (3 year term)
Member-at-Large # 6 (3 year term)

If you are interested in running for any of the above positions and would like your name to appear on the ballot, please email MAA Nominating Committee Chair Kristen Chinery (ac9538@wayne.edu) by January 24, 2012. Please identify which position you are interested in and include a short biography.

The membership can also nominate individuals for board positions until 3:30 p.m. Friday, April 20, 2012. The bylaws state that nominations must end two hours before the Business Meeting, which will commence at 5:30 p.m. that day. Also per MAA by-laws, a petition must be presented in support of such nominations and must include signatures from at least 10 current MAA members in good standing.

Please visit Board section of the blog for more information on the Michigan Archival Association Board.

Submitted by the 2012 MAA Nominating Committee:
Kristen Chinery, Elizabeth Clemens, and Courtney McAlpine

MEMBERSHIP UPDATE — 2011

Renewal reminders have been sent to all members whose membership is expiring this month.  In addition, if your membership is not up for renewal, a status email has been sent.

If you have not received an email or have any questions regarding your membership, please email Susan Panak at susan.panak@arbor.edu.

Call for Links

In accordance with the mission of the Michigan Archival Association to “encourage cooperation and exchange of information among individuals and institutions with archival and manuscript materials”, members are requested to send links to their blogs, either institutional or professionally-related, to be listed on the Michigan Archival Association’s MAA blog. Additionally, if your institution has an official Facebook page, you are welcome to send that link as well, especially if that is the institution’s *only* online “social” presence.
Please send links, with or without a short description, to susan.panak@arbor.edu.

Thank you.