The Museum Archives Section steering committee members and working group chairs will provide project updates with time for discussion and networking. The Standards and Best Practice Working Group 2019 Symposium will revisit the topic of work in progress allowing presenters to share current projects and highlight accomplishments.
Museum Archives “Updates from the Floor” Symposium Please join us! The Museum Archives Section’s Standards and Best Practices Working Group is holding its annual symposium at this year’s SAA Annual Meeting in Austin on
Saturday, August 3rd from 8:30am to 10:30am, followed by our Section’s business meeting.
This year our symposium will formalize the “Updates from the Floor” portion of the Section meeting and focus on projects currently underway or recently completed in museum archives. This symposium will provide a forum for sharing pilots, in-progress projects, and recently completed projects, initiatives, and activities at our repositories with our colleagues, and offers an opportunity for sharing ideas and assessing the current state of the museum archives field.
Schedule8:30-8:35: Symposium Introduction: Megan Schwenke, Harvard Art Museums
8:35-9:30: Panel 1Building a Museum Archives Program: A Game of Chutes & Ladders Katrina O'Brien, World of Speed
Back to Basics: Recent Projects in the Archives at The Henry FordBrian Wilson, The Henry Ford
American Museum of Natural History AuthoritiesRebecca Morgan, American Museum of Natural History
Moderator: Rachel Chatalbash, Yale Center for British Art
9:30 - 10:30: Panel 2ArchivesSpace at the Whitney Museum of American ArtTara Hart, Whitney Museum of American Art
Wrangling a Hybrid CollectionMalia Van Heukelem, University of Hawaii at Manoa
One Smithsonian, Many Libraries and ArchivesSharad J. Shah, Smithsonian Libraries
Moderator: Megan Schwenke, Harvard Art Museums
Questions? Please contact Working Group co-chairs Rachel Chatalbash (
rachel.chatalbash@yale.edu) and Megan Schwenke (
megan_schwenke@harvard.edu).