ASSOCIATION OF HAWAII ARCHIVISTS
ANNUAL MEETING/CONFERENCE
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2004
9:00 A.M. - 3:00 P.M.
BISHOP MUSEUM PAKI CONFERENCE ROOM
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
9:00 -
10:00
Welcome
<<Researching America's
Concentration Camps: Personal and Professional Reflections on the Archival
Experience>>
by Andrew
Wertheimer
10:00 -
11:00
<<Treasures
of Bishop Museum Archives>>
by DeSoto Brown
11:00 -
12:00
<<When 80
Percent Is Good Enough: The Preliminary Processing of the Kenneth P. Mortimer
Papers>>
by Jan Zastrow
12:00 -
1:30 Lunch
1:30 -
2:00 Meeting / election results
2:00
-
Tour Bishop
Museum (if desired)
Board meeting
with new members/officers (Board only)
COST(includes
lunch): $25 per person
Please pre-order your lunch sandwich (unless you choose to
bring your own lunch):
Roast beef,
ham, turkey, tuna, or egg. Sandwiches will come with lettuce, tomato,
onions, mayo. Chips and canned juice will be included.
After the
meeting, you may choose to tour the Bishop Museum exhibits. The cost will be
$5, payable at that time. Tour is free with Bishop Museum membership.
DIRECTIONS: As you enter the Bishop Museum
grounds, take an immediate right turn. Park there in the side parking lot, and
then enter the white concrete building (Paki) next to that lot. Get a pass at
guard's desk as you walk in, then come down the hall to your left.
INQUIRIES:
email DeSoto Brown or call 848-4183.
<<Treasures
of Bishop Museum Archives>>
DeSoto
Brown, CA
DeSoto Brown
is the Collection Manager of Bishop Museum Archives, where he has worked since
1987. He is the current president of the Association of Hawaii Archivists.
The collections in Bishop Museum Archives contain a wide
variety of materials: photos, manuscripts, artwork, maps, and film and
videotape. Over two centuries' worth of treasures are available for patron
research, and thousands of people make use of this resource every year for
projects, ranging from intermediate school History Day displays through Merrie Monarch
hula performances. This slide presentation will serve as a virtual tour through
some of the Archives' significant pieces, from the historically valuable and
culturally precious to occasionally Ð the strange or quirky.
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<<Researching
America's Concentration Camps:
Personal
and Professional Reflections on the Archival Experience>>
Andrew B.
Wertheimer is Assistant Professor in the Library & Information Science
Program, Information & Computer Sciences Department at the University of
Hawaii at Manoa. He was the Head of Acquisitions at the Chicago Jewish Archives
at the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, Chicago. He has an MLS from Indiana
University and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. More
information on him is available at http://www2.hawaii.edu/~wertheim/
Professor
Wertheimer's AHA presentation will be a combination of personal reflections as
a user of archives for his dissertation on the libraries in America's
concentration camps and his reading of user studies on archives. He will
conclude with some questions on the future directions in historiography and the
impact on archives.
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<<When
80 Percent Is Good Enough:
The
Preliminary Processing of the Kenneth P. Mortimer Papers>>
Jan Zastrow
In May 2001 Jan was brought in on a project to
"rescue" the heritage records of retiring UH president and chancellor
Kenneth P. Mortimer. Her job was to inventory the materials and make them
usable by both PR professionals and historical researchers--in only six weeks!
This presentation describes one innovative solution to the challenge of producing
a user-centric, archivally sound finding aid when there is neither time nor
staff to do so.
Jan Zastrow is
Archivist for the Hawaii Congressional Papers Collection at the University of
Hawaii at Manoa Library. In addition to program development, Jan oversees
acquisition, arrangement & description, and reference service to the papers
through finding aids. Jan is past president and longtime member of the
Association of Hawaii Archivists, the Society of American Archivists, the
Congressional Papers Roundtable, and the Academy of Certified Archivists.