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Tuesday, August 6 • 10:30am - 11:30am
906 - Archival Value: Tales of Professional Advocacy

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How do you advocate for yourself, your staff, and your unit? Have you had to justify a change from staff to faculty rank? Have you had to advocate for yourself, student assistants, and colleagues? This session features professionals from academic, business, and government archival settings who took risks and advocated for the value of their expertise and gained administrative buy-in to assemble their work teams, enhance budget allocations, and build a community of support.

Megan Badgley-Malone: Bucking the Trend: The Case of Gaining Faculty Status for MSU Archivists
Elizabeth Beckman: Stuck in the Middle With You: Advocating for Students, Interns, and Wage Employees as a Middle Manager in University Special Collections
Catherine Bell: Creating Trust and Leadership Buy-In to Grow and Develop Archival Teams and Expertise
Jennifer Grant: Addressing Precarity and Inequity in Academic Libraries through Organized Labour
Meredith Rector: Advocating for Your Archives: How to Make the Case for the Resources You Need in a Business Archive Setting
Facilitators
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Lydia Tang

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Dr. Lydia Tang, Special Collections Archivist-Librarian, Michigan State University. She served on SAA?s Task Force to Revise Best Practices for Accessibility in Archives and spearheaded founding SAA?s Accessibility & Disability Section.

Speakers
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Meredith Rector

Senior Knowledge Management Specialist (AKA Archivist), Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Meredith Rector, CA, MLIS, heads the Archives of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Meredith grew up watching too much Star Trek, loves technology, and is excited by the future possibilities of AI and machine learning in the archives.
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Megan Badgley-Malone

Archivist, Michigan State University University Archives & Historical Collections
Megan Badgley-Malone is an archivist at Michigan State University Archives.  She has a MLIS and a certificate in Archival Administration from Wayne State University, and a BA in Secondary Education and History from Saginaw Valley State University.
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Elizabeth Beckman

Manuscripts and Archives Librarian, George Mason University
Elizabeth Beckman, MLIS, is the Manuscripts and Archives Librarian at George Mason University. Earlier, she was an intern at the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the American Association of University Women in Washington DC.
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Catherine Bell

Infrastructure Archivist, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Catherine Bell is an Archivist for the Infrastructure Division at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. She previously worked for the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. She obtained a MSIS from UT Austin in 2014.

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Tuesday August 6, 2019 10:30am - 11:30am CDT
Grand Salon 7, [Level 4]
  Education Session

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