October is Archives Month!

Join your fellow archivists at activities throughout the month to celebrate and promote what we love! Glossy copies of this year’s poster will be available at these events, but feel free to print your own too.

Thursday, October 7, 2010, 6pm
Archivists Dinner
Café Express at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Audrey Jones Beck building (lower level)
5601 Main Street, Houston, 77005
See website for parking information.

Join fellow archivists for dinner and conversation in an artful setting. The MFAH is open late (till 9pm) and admission is free on Thursdays, so stay afterward (or come early) to view the collections and these special exhibitions: German Impressionist Landscape Painting: Liebermann–Corinth–Slevogt, Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria, and For the Love of Books: Celebrating the New Kitty King Powell Library and Study Center at Bayou Bend. And go home with copies of this year’s Archives Month poster and the much-anticipated, updated repository brochure! No RSVP required.

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Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 6pm
General Meeting
Rice University
Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library (3rd floor)
6100 Main Street, Houston, 77005
See website for parking information.
(Thank you to our friends at Rice for accommodating us at the last minute!)

Lorraine Stuart, archives director at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will talk to us about issues unique to museum archives and tell us about the progress she is making on her NHPRC-awarded electronic records archive grant project. No RSVP required.

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Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 9:30-11:30am
Information Session: Archivist’s Toolkit vs. Archon
Rice University
Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library (3rd floor)
6100 Main Street, Houston, 77005
See website for parking information.

Join staff members from the Woodson Research Center at Rice University (Archivist’s Toolkit users) and from the Special Collections Library at the University of Houston (Archon users) for an overview of these two archival management systems. They’ll discuss the features of each, the pros and the cons, and their experiences with implementing them in their own archives. Registration fee is $5, just to cover the cost of handouts and light refreshments.
Send checks and registration forms to Amy Mobley.

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Saturday, October 30, 2010, 10am
Glenwood Cemetery tour
2525 Washington Avenue, Houston, 77007
(south side of Washington, between Studemont and Sawyer)

What could be better on Halloween weekend than touring a graveyard? Glenwood Cemetery, established in 1871, is the burial place for many people prominent in Houston’s history, including Captain James Baker, Will Clayton, George Hermann, Caroline Wiess Law and William Ward Watkin. A Greater Houston Preservation Alliance docent will take us through the cemetery on a walk that covers about 1.5 miles and lasts 90 minutes. Cost is $10 per person (payable at the start of the tour) with proceeds benefiting the GHPA. Spouses and other guests are welcome. No costumes, please.
RSVP to Amy Mobley by October 23rd.