Fall 2007 Meeting Minutes and Symposium Recap

The TCART fall meeting was held October 30th at the University of Minnesota's Elmer L. Andersen Library. Approximately 80 people attended the event which included a business meeting, a symposium on archival topics, and a tour of the library facilities.

The business meeting agenda included reports by the president, secretary, treasurer, and newsletter editor.

The symposium included two sessions focused on different archival topics. The first session focused on Legal, Privacy, & Proprietary Issues in Archives and included Charles Rodgers (MHS), David Klaassen (UMN), and Tony Jahn (Target Corp.) as the presenters. The second session, Technological Solutions to Archival Issues, had Shawn Rounds (MHS), Jason Roy (UMN), and Heather Lawton (MPL) as the speakers. A wrap up panel with Bruce Bruemmer (Cargill), Robert Horton (MHS), Kris Kiesling (UMN), David Klaassen (UMN), & Daardi Sizemore (Mankato) concluded the symposium.

The meeting concluded with a tour of the Andersen Library facilities.


The full minutes for the meeting and symposium recap are available for download.

Fall 2007 Meeting Minutes & Symposium Recap (2.95 MB)

MAC Presidents' Award

An announcement from the Midwest Archives Conference:

The Midwest Archives Conference Presidents' Award was established in 1986 as a way to recognize significant contributions to the archival profession by individuals, institutions, and/or organizations not directly involved in archival work, but who are knowledgeable about its purpose and intrinsic value. The success of archival work often depends on these supporters making outstanding contributions to the archival profession through such areas as legislation, publicity, advocacy, and/or long-term fiscal support.

Previous winners of the award with Minnesota ties have included :

• 2002: Prof. Clarke Chambers, Social Welfare History Archives
• 1997: 3M Corporation
• 1992: Minnesota State Senator Allan H. Spear and Representative Steve Trimble
• 1989: Minnesota Future Resources Commission

If you are familiar with an individual, group or corporation who you feel is deserving of this award, please consider nominating them. The nomination form can be found in the October 2007 MAC Newsletter or by contacting the Minnesota representative to the Presidents' Award committee, Ann Kenne at (651) 962-5461 or via email at: amkenne1@stthomas.edu.

The deadline for submission for consideration by the state committee is January 15, 2008.

Waldo Gifford Leland Award (SAA)

An announcement from the Society of American Archivists:

Call for Nominations: 2007 Waldo Gifford Leland Award

Have you read a great new book about archives? Have you come across an exceptional finding aid for a newly-processed archival or manuscript collection? Have you encountered a documentary publication that is head and shoulders above the rest?

If you have, why don’t you consider nominating it for the Waldo Gifford Leland Award?

The Leland Award subcommittee of the Society of American Archivists invites you to nominate a monograph, finding aid, or documentary publication published in North America in 2007 for the Waldo Gifford Leland Award. (Please note: periodicals are not eligible.) The prize is awarded each year to encourage and reward "writing of superior excellence and usefulness in the field of archival history, theory, and practice."

Established in 1959, the award honors American archival pioneer Waldo Gifford Leland, president of the Society of American Archivists in the 1940s and one of the driving forces behind the founding of the National Archives.

More information and nomination forms can be found at http://www.archivists.org/recognition/index.asp. The deadline for applications is February 28, 2008.

Please help us to recognize the best in our profession!