MAA 2023 Virtual Meeting Registration Now Open!

Registration is now open for our 2023 Annual Meeting! This year our meeting will be held virtually and we hope you are able to join us!

We have a great lineup of informational and educational sessions including topics such as: primary sources, crowdsourcing, digital initiatives at the Ilitch Holdings, Inc. Archives, using Story Maps for outreach, and lessons from the first year of the UPLINK (Upper Peninsula Digital Network) project.

Our Keynote speaker this year is Sheila L. Chingwa, Archivist of the Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians.  She will introduce us to the life of a Tribal Archivist and share the story of Julius and Judith Keywaygoshkum and the intriguing rescue mission to save their records.

Also included with registration is a Digital Preservation Policy Workshop taught by Michigan Digital Preservation Network’s Coordinator Chelsea Denault, Ph.D.  Attendees will emerge from the workshop with a draft policy and helpful roadmap for continuing development, including building a digital preservation team in their organization.  

The MAA business meeting is free to MAA members and access to the recorded sessions will be provided once the conference has concluded.

You can view the Annual Meeting Schedule and Session Descriptions Here:

MAA 2023 Conference PacketDownload

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Open Entry Spring Deadline!

A friendly reminder that the deadline for submissions to the Open Entry Spring 2023 newsletter is SOON—Tuesday, February 28 end of the day.

You do not need to be a member of MAA to send your articles, news, announcements and photos.

We are looking for the following:

• Mystery Photo from your repository.
• Michigan Repository news and announcements.
• Archivists in the News: the arrivals, departures, and achievements of Michigan archivists.
• Internship articles by Michigan students or interns in Michigan.
• Articles related to archival work that you would like to write.

If you have questions about what to write, or how to write it, we are happy to work with you. 

Please email submissions to openentry.editors@gmail.com. 

Again, that deadline is Tuesday, February 28 end of the day.

Thanks and best regards,

Open Entry Editors, Michigan Archival Association
Cynthia Read Miller
Troy Eller English
Leigh Rupinski

SAA Writing & Publishing Award Nominations

The Society of American Archivists is soliciting recommendations for writing and publishing awards for excellence. There are five awards up for grabs with varying prize amounts. All submissions must have been produced during 2022.

• C.F.W. Coker Award for Description for finding aids and descriptive tools. There are no format restrictions. More information and the nomination form can be found at: https://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-coker
• Waldo Gifford Leland Award for print or digital monographs in archival history, theory or practice. More information and the nomination form can be found at: https://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-leland
• Preservation Publication Award in varied formats about archival preservation. More information and the nomination form can be found at: https://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-preservation
• Fellows’ Ernst Posner Award for essays published in The American Archivist. More information and the nomination form can be found at: https://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-posner
• Theodore Calvin Pease Award recognizes unpublished manuscripts by archival studies students. More information and the nomination form can be found at: https://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-pease

Note that you can apply or be nominated for multiple awards in a single cycle, but will only receive one. The deadline for nominations is February 28, 2023.

Open Entry Spring 2023 Submissions

Hello, everyone!

The editors of Open Entry are now seeking submissions for our Spring 2023 issue.  The deadline is Tuesday, February 28.

We are looking for the following:

• Michigan Repository news and announcements.
• Archivists in the News: the arrivals, departures, and achievements of Michigan archivists.
• Internship articles by Michigan students or by interns in Michigan.
• Articles related to archival work that you would like to write.
• Mystery Photos.

Submissions can be text within your email message or as attachments.

Typical article length ranges from 200 to 1,200 words.  If you have questions about what to write, or how to write it, we are happy to work with you. 

Please email your articles and photos to openentry.editors@gmail.com. 

Thank you so much!

Open Entry Editors, Michigan Archival Association

Cynthia Read Miller

Troy Eller English

Leigh Rupinski

MAA 2023 Call for Proposals

The Michigan Archival Association Program Committee is seeking session proposals for the 2023 Virtual Conference on Monday, June 19 – Tuesday, June 20, 2023.  You do not need to be an MAA member to present and we are also happy to contact people to fill in our program. So if you know someone working on an interesting project, please let us know!  

Possible session topics include, but are not limited to:

• All things digital (access, preservation, new technologies, etc.)
• Archivists in non-traditional settings (e.g., private archives, consultants, corporate)
• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
• Career planning/advice
• Cataloging and metadata
• Collections management
• Conservation
• Donor relations/cultivation
• Exhibits on a budget
• Fostering a diverse and inclusive profession
• Fundraising and grant writing
• Invisible labor
• Processing
• Promoting collections
• Records Management
• Reference
• Repository round-up (short updates on projects presented at past conferences)
• Web archiving, preserving social media

Please consider using the MAA 2023 Session Proposal Collaboration spreadsheet to find others interested in your topic. 

To submit a proposal, please complete the MAA 2023 Annual Meeting Session Proposal form.  Proposals are due by January 20, 2023.

There will be a separate call for poster session proposals in early 2023.

Thank you and please feel free to spread the word!  Let us know if you have any questions or concerns. We look forward to hearing from you!

Sincerely,

MAA Program Committee

Elizabeth Nicholson, Chair
elizabethanicholson at gmail dot com

Eli Landaverde
elandav at msu dot edu

2023 Summer Archiving & Preservation Fellowships

The Archiving and Preservation Division of Dance/USA has just opened the call for our summer fellowships. We are excited that once again, one of the four host organizations is located in Detroit, Michigan this year. We are thrilled to be able to extend this opportunity to aspiring library and archive professionals, and we are hoping you will share this call for applications with the Michigan Archival Association.

For a bit of background, we will be selecting four fellows currently enrolled in graduate-level Library and Information Sciences programs, or those in other relevant fields with archiving experience, to spend the summer working closely and intensively with a dance organization in need of archival services, as well as a professional archivist to serve as a mentor. Other benefits of the fellowship include attending Dance/USA convenings, attending the Society of American Archivists conference (or other SAA convenings), and a $10,000 stipend.

This year’s Fellowships will be located in Detroit, MI; Los Angeles, CA; Jersey City, NJ; and Denver, CO.

Though students are welcome to travel for the Fellowships, we want to make sure to reach emerging archivists within Michigan that may wish to stay close to home and work with the Detroit-based organization (Jennifer Harge/Harge Dance Stories). I would so appreciate if you would share this opportunity with your members in whatever way is appropriate. This link to our website has full information on the projects, requirements, and application materials.

Please let me know if you have any questions, and thank you! 

Hallie Chametzky hchametzky at danceusa dot org

Job Openings at Wayne State University

TWO JOB OPENINGS: The Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University is seeking candidates for two open positions. Please use the links below to apply.

Digital Preservation and Curation Archivist II/III: https://waynetalent.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/2/home/requisition/664?c=waynetalent&fbclid=IwAR2Q4zpptgVEhFiBUtpccdyPEcPWM9Gc54uKoJ8JjKkA94HjgSGu9I_y_sE

Processing Archivist I: https://waynetalent.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/2/home/requisition/635?c=waynetalent&fbclid=IwAR067ww8JJw-Jh95juGYWGuZBcWUkqyqzd8qTQr-N9FvNgJKi2kU4iybCP8

Hope College seeks a Collections Archivist

Hope College seeks a Collections Archivist who is passionate about the power of telling stories through institutional and historical records of the past. This position will work with the traditional processing of archival materials as well as exciting digital projects, and provide support for student and faculty research. The job is a full-time, faculty non-tenure track position with full benefits. Interested applicants should view the complete job posting and application. This posting will remain open until February 13, 2023, but review of applications will begin immediately.  

Need Articles for MAA Open Entry Fall 2022

Hello Everyone!

The editors of Open Entry are now seeking submissions for our Fall 2022 issue.  The deadline is Friday, September 30 end of the day.

We are looking for the following:

Articles related to archival work that you would like to write.

Archivists in the News: the arrivals, departures, and achievements of Michigan archivists.

Internship articles by Michigan students or interns in Michigan.

Michigan Repository news and announcements.

If you have questions about what to write, or how to write it, we are happy to work with you. 

Please email submissions to openentry.editors@gmail.com. 

Again, that deadline is Friday, September 30 end of the day.

Thanks and best regards,

Open Entry Editors, Michigan Archival Association

Cynthia Read Miller

Troy Eller English

Seeking Open Entry Submissions

Hello, everyone!

The editors of Open Entry are now seeking submissions for our Fall 2022 issue.  The deadline is Friday, September 30.

We are looking for the following:

• Michigan Repository news and announcements
• Archivists in the News: the arrivals, departures, and achievements of Michigan archivists
• Internship articles by Michigan students or interns in Michigan.
• Articles related to archival work that you would like to write
• Mystery photo suggestions

Submissions can be text within your email message or as attachments.

Typical article length ranges from 200 to 1,200 words.  If you have questions about what to write, or how to write it, we are happy to work with you. 

Please email your articles and photos to openentry.editors@gmail.com. 

Thanks and best regards,

Cynthia Read Miller

Troy Eller English
Editors, Open Entry 
Michigan Archival Association