ANNUAL MEETING 2018
Join us for the 2018
Northwest Archivists Annual Meeting
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This will be the first conference in recent years held in a federally-recognized Tribal nation. This year’s conference theme, Stewarding Collections, Engaging Communities, speaks to the role of archives within the larger ecosystem of cultural resource management. On a broader level, the theme asks us to consider how we, as archivists, care for collections to the benefit of present and future generations.
Location: Warm Springs, OR
Dates: April 25-27, 2018
Registration: Register for the conference here!
Conference Hotel & Venue: The Kah-Nee-Ta Resort and Spa (Note: Kah-Nee-Ta's online reservation site is experiencing technical issues so calling is the best way to reserve rooms at the moment. Phone is 541-553-1112).
Promotional Code: NW Archivists
Conference Workshops: Pre-conference workshop - April 25, 2018
Post-conference workshop - April 28-29, 2018
Program: Complete Program |
Reception: The reception will be held on April 26, 2018 at The Museum at Warm Springs from 7:00-9:00. Shuttles to and from conference hotel will be provided by Kah-Nee-Ta.
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Special Thanks
Brigette McConville, Caterer, Salmon King Fisheries
Program Committee Chair:
Steve Bingo, Eastern Washington University
Local Arrangements Committee Chair:
Andrew Needham, Oregon State Archives
Preliminary Program for Northwest Archivists Conference, Warm Springs, Oregon, April 25-27, 2018
Click here for the complete NWA Conference Program
Schedule at a Glance (below)
Wednesday, April 25
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Registration |
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9:00-5:00 |
Workshop: Copyright Issues in Digital Collections, Jean Dryden, Society of American Archivists |
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8:00-12:00 |
Workshop: Conservation Basics, Linnea Rash, Sustainable Heritage Network |
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8:00-12:00 |
Workshop: Going from Zero to Winning with Grants, Rachael Woody, Rachael Christine Consulting |
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1:00-5:00 |
Workshop: Mukurtu CMS, Lotus Norton-Wisla, Michael Wynne, Alex Merrill, Sustainable Heritage |
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8:00-9:00 |
Movie Night with MIPoPS |
Thursday, April 26
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7:30-5:00 |
Registration |
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8:30-10:00 |
Plenary Session Oregon Poet Laureate Elizabeth Woody |
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10:00-10:30 |
Coffee Break |
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10:30-12:00 |
Community Engagement & Professional FOMO Rachael Cristine Woody, Conor Casey, Alisha Babbstein, Rich Schmidt, Crystal Rodgers |
Internships 2.0 Todd Shaffer, Adriana Flores, Meg Tuomala, Rachel Thomas |
A Platform for Community Archiving: Mukurtu Hubs and Spokes Bodeene Amyot, Jennifer O’Neal, Elizabeth Kallenbach |
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12:00-1:30 |
Lunch and Learn Get Certified! Leveraging Organizational Resources for Professional Gain Bryce Henry, Max Johnson, Rachel Thomas |
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1:30-2:30 |
We Are History Keepers! An Inclusive Approach to Archiving our Regional History Anne Jenner, Conor M. Casey, Crystal Rodgers, John Bolcer, Emily Dominick |
Challenges of Bureau of Indian Affairs Records and Maintaining them for the Community Charliann Cross, Marie Brindo-Vas |
Smokejumper History: A Collaborative Approach to Preserving A Unique History, Charles V. Mutschler, Robert Bartlett, Stan Collins |
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2:30-3:30 |
Posters |
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3:30-5:00 |
Community Documentation Projects: The Power and Possibility of the National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage Program Maureen Flanagan Battistella, Mary Jane Cedar Face, Devin Becker, Maurice Blackson, Molly Kruckenberg |
Transitioning to ArchivesSpace: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Amber D'Ambrosio, Jodi Allison-Bunnell, Emily Hughes Dominick, Steven Bingo |
Ichishkín Language Documenting for the Common Person Jefferson Greene, Arlita Rhoan, Suzie Slockish, Orthelia Patt, Viola Governor |
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5:30-7:00 |
Native American Roundtable |
NWA Board Meeting |
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7:00-9:00 |
Reception at The Museum at Warm Springs. Shuttles to and from the conference hotel will be provided by Kah-Nee-Ta. |
Friday, April 27
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8:00-9:30 |
Breakfast and Business Meeting |
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9:45-10:45 |
Beyond Pressing Play: Tools and Strategies for High Quality Reformatting of Field Recorded Materials Andrew Weaver, Libby Savage Hopfauf |
Language Revival & Maintenance - Warm Springs Culture & Heritage Department Deanie R. Smith, Warm Spring Culture & Heritage Department Staff and Elders |
Lightning Session 1 |
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10:45-11:00 |
Break |
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11:00-12:00 |
Tackling the Unfamiliar: Large Acquisitions Under the Gun Ashlyn Velte, Emily VIckers |
Culture & Heritage Archive Collection Preservation Creston D. Smith, Nathan Georgitis |
Lightning Session 2 |
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12:00-1:30 |
Lunch and Learn Rights in Digital Collections Jodi Allison-Bunnell |
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1:30-2:30 |
Opening doors: creating new connections through multilevel outreach Laura Buchholz, Maria Cunningham, Isabel Lyndon |
Community Engagement in the Digital Age Libby Savage Hopfauf, Ari Lavigne |
Campus Connections to White Supremacy: The Role of Archivists in Reconciliation through Community Engagement and Historical Research Natalia Fernández |
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2:30-3:00 |
Coffee Break |
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3:00-4:30 |
Strategic Planning, Program Prioritization and Leading from the Middle Donna McCrea, Erin Passehl-Stoddart, Mary McRobinson |
The Northern Paiute History Project: Decolonizing Archives and Research with Tribal Community Members Jennifer R. O'Neal, Kevin Hatfield, Clara Gorman, Myra Johnson-Orange |
Beyond the Interview: Oral History Curation and Project Management Conor Casey, Chris Petersen, Maurice Blackson, Maureen Flanagan Battistella |
Conference Workshops
See registration details with each workshop description
Pre-Conference Workshop
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Registration will open soon! Watch this space. As soon as registration opens, NWA members will receive an email announcement.
Copyright Issues for Digital Archives
Instructor: Dr. Jean E. Dryden
Wednesday, April 25 – 9:00 AM-5:00 PM
Registration is now open for the pre-conference workshop Copyright Issues for Digital Archives. Register soon to get the early bird rate!
Co-sponsored by Society of American Archivists
Registration for this workshop is separate from conference registration. The registration fee is $199 for SAA members registering by March 25. Enrollment is limited to 35 participants.
This course covers copyright legal issues specific to archives of digital material. You'll examine the impact of electronic technologies on the long-held law and tenets of copyright, including digital rights management and acquiring and advising on the use of rights in records. You'll look at the basic text of relevant federal statutes and significant case law as well as examine case studies. A very brief review of copyright essentials will be provided to ground the discussion. The focus of the day will be on how to think through and identify options for resolving the most commonly encountered copyright issues.
To obtain the A&D certificate, you must take either Copyright Issues for Digital Archives or Privacy and Confidentiality Issues in Digital Archives; this course also fulfills a Tactical and Strategic credit for the DAS certificate program.
Register Now! https://saa.archivists.org/events/copyright-issues-for-digital-archives-18a7/878/
Going from Zero to Winning with Grants
Instructor: Rachael Woody, Rachael Cristine Consulting
Wednesday, April 25 – 8:00 AM-Noon
Workshop registration fee is $5 and will be added to your conference registration fee. You must sign up when you register for the conference. Enrollment is limited to 32 participants.
The unfortunate reality of archives and special collections is that we often struggle to secure enough funding to function at our full capacity. This deficit emphasizes the need for grant funding to fill the gap in order to hire staff, buy supplies, and execute projects. This workshop is for anyone who is a part of under-funded or emerging archives, or who has a new program or project to launch. Rachael Woody has successfully worked with more than a dozen organizations on grant acquisition and management, and will teach participants how to confidently go from zero ideas to a winning proposal. The session will provide a sandbox for work shopping project ideas, a review of proposal sections and their pitfalls, and a template for creating a winning grant proposal. This workshop will be a half-day session.
Introduction to Mukurtu Content Management System (CMS): Providing Digital Access to Cultural Collections
Instructors: Lotus Norton-Wisla, Digital and Community Outreach Archivist, Washington State University Libraries; Michael Wynne, Digital Applications Librarian, Washington State University Libraries; Alex Merrill, Head of Systems, Washington State University Libraries
Wednesday, April 25 – 1:00 PM-5:00 PM
This workshop is free, but you must sign up when you register for the conference. Enrollment is limited to 20 participants.
Mukurtu CMS is a free content management system that allows communities to preserve, share, manage, license and curate their digital heritage and stories using their own cultural protocols, languages, and social values. In this SHN sponsored workshop, participants will be shown demonstrations and examples of all Mukurtu's core features and tools including a dictionary and mobile application, as well as examples of Mukurtu in use in communities and institutions, emphasizing preservation strategies, cultural protocols and the use of Traditional Knowledge (TK) Labels. Participants will take part in basic planning, description, and content creation activities. This workshop will be a half-day session, and is sponsored by the Sustainable Heritage Network.
Basics in Archival Conservation
Instructor: Linnea Rash, Conservator, Washington State University Libraries
Wednesday, April 25 – 8:00 AM-Noon
This workshop is free, but you must sign up when you register for the conference. Enrollment is limited to 12 participants.
This Sustainable Heritage Network sponsored workshop is directed towards those working in smaller institutions without a conservator. It covers how to run a collection condition survey and basic next steps for stabilizing collections. In addition to providing instructions on conducting the survey and addressing common preservation concerns such as mold, the workshop will also provide hands-on instruction on basic actions one can take to stabilize collection materials including encapsulation and creating custom boxes. The workshop will provide those working with limited resources practical steps for preserving collections. The workshop will be a half-day session and will be capped at 12.
Post-Conference Workshops
Saturday-Sunday, April 28-29, 2018
This course is free and open to the public. For information about registration, please visit the POWRR Institutes webpage. Applications due February 2.
Enrollment limited to 30.
The Digital POWRR team invites applications for the second of five 2-day institutes. Sponsored by the The Sustainable Heritage Network, the institute will be held on April 28-29, 2018 in Warm Springs, OR at the Kah-Nee-Ta Resort and Spa, in conjunction with the Northwest Archivists 2018 Annual Meeting. The institute is free to attend (no registration fee) and scholarships are available to help defray travel expenses, courtesy of IMLS grant funding.
Apply here: https://goo.gl/forms/Hhoux95wEfq2m0p22
(Note: we are collecting responses via Google Forms. Because we have the upload feature enabled, it will ask you to sign in to Google. If you do not have a Google account, please contact Stacey Erdman at stacey.erdman@gmail.com for a copy of the application)
Applicants will be notified of application status by the end of February 2018.
Tours
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
High Desert Museum Tour
59800 US-97, Bend, OR 97702
CONTACT: Laura Ferguson, lferguson@highdesertmuseum.org
11:00 am-12:30 pm
High Desert Museum Director, Dana Whitelaw, will lead an informal tour of an exhibit on Plateau Indians titled By Hand Through Memory followed by a tour of the vault led by Collections Manager & Exhibitions Coordinator, Cindy Bradley. The total experience will be roughly 90 minutes. Participants will need to provide their own transportation. Limit 20 people. If you are interested in carpooling, please click here.
Warm Springs Culture & Heritage Tour
1112 Wasco St, Madras, OR 997741
CONTACT: Dana Smith, danaman2013@gmail.com
2:00 pm
Limited to 12 people. Sign up in advance. The Culture & Heritage Department runs the archives and language and culture programs for the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. Learn about the historic building and the archival collections run by the department. To schedule a taxi, please contact Rez Rover Taxi Service, 541-553-3030.
Museum at Warm Spring Tour
2189 Highway 26, Warm Springs, OR 97761
CONTACT: Tamara Moody, tamera@museumatwarmsprings.org
2:00 pm
For groups of 18. Sign up in advance.
Twanant Trail: a self-guided stroll along a 1/4 mile trail on the Museum grounds is a nice chance to learn about the local plants, animals, and legacy of the grounds with information posts to tell the story along the way.
Changing Exhibit: The Changing Exhibit is rotated four times throughout the year. During your group visit you will be able to experience the 'Twant- Celebrate our Legacy' Exhibit. Exhibit description: this moving In House Exhibit will feature objects and archival images from the Museum's Permanent Collection. Archival images will include our way of life that were captured in our natural environment. Creating clothing, decorative gear and hand made items is an ancient process from our tribal members that transformed into artifacts. This exhibition will stir the spirit of our ancestors and elders who made the Museum possible.
Permanent Exhibit: self-guided or join a group to walk along with a Tour Guide to experience our Permanent Exhibit. Permanent Exhibit description: Once inside you'll discover traditional dwellings, including a plank house meticulously constructed to show life as it was long ago. Listen to ceremonial songs, witness a Warm Springs and Wasco wedding trade or watch yourself on camera as you try the hoop dance. Learn the terms for many plants, animals, and greetings, in all three languages. The Museum's short video, According to the Earth, provides Indian perspectives on the past and present.
Collections Tour: For a 10 minute tour experience a rare opportunity to walk into the vault of the collections and meet the Curator/Exhibits Coordinator.