Category Archives: Announcements

Houston History Alliance Symposium Theme Announced

The sixth annual HHA Symposium will be held Saturday October 1, 2016 at MATCH, 3400 Main St., Houston.  The conference will celebrate the long and diverse musical history of Houston ranging from Zydeco to Blues to Country and Tejano.

HHA is proud to partner with The Jung Center, The Houston Blues Museum, Houston Arts Alliance, and The Continental Club for the 2016 Symposium and our program lineup is sure to appeal to a variety of interests.  Our program will include musical historians Joe Nick Patoski, Rick Mitchell, Dr. Robert Morgan, and Lizette Cobb as well as panels on Sugarhill Studios, onsite musical performances, and post-conference performances at the Continental Club.

For more information on the conference, please visit: Houston History Alliance.

SAA Spotlight Award 2016 Announcement

Dear Colleagues,

The SAA Spotlight Award Subcommittee invites nominations for the 2016 Spotlight Award.  This award “recognizes the contributions of individuals who work for the good of the archives profession and of archival collections, and whose work would not typically receive public recognition.”  Nominees do not have to be members of SAA.  Please share this message as you think appropriate.  I hope you will consider recognizing a colleague (or yourself!) in this way.  Additional information about the criteria and process is found below.

Purpose and Criteria for Selection: Established in 2005, the Spotlight Award recognizes the contributions of individuals who work for the good of the archives profession and of archival collections, and whose work would not typically receive public recognition. The nominee(s) should have achieved distinction in one or more of the following ways:

*   Participating in special projects.
*   Exhibiting tireless committee or advocacy work.
*   Responding effectively to an unforeseen or pressing need or emergency.
*   Contributing innovative or creative ideas to the profession.
*   Performing extraordinary volunteerism.
*   Quietly but effectively promoting the profession.

Eligibility:  Awarded to an individual archivist or a group of up to five archivists who have collaborated on a project. Preference is given to archivists working in smaller repositories, especially those without institutional support for professional activities.

Nomination Requirements:  A completed nomination form, downloadable at http://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-spotlight.

Sponsor and Funding:  The Society of American Archivists Foundation.

Prize:  A certificate and complimentary registration for the individual recipient or group (of up to five individuals) to the SAA Annual Meeting occurring in the year in which the award is presented.

Submission Deadline and Nomination Form:  Deadline: February 28, 2015.  Please complete the nomination form (http://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/Spotlight-Award-Form-093015.docx) and email it along with any applicable supporting documentation to awards[at]archivists.org with the subject line “Spotlight Award.”  Attachments should not exceed 5MB.

Alternatively, nominations may be mailed.  Materials must be postmarked by February 28, 2015, and should be sent to:

Spotlight Award Committee
Society of American Archivists
17 North State Street, Suite 1425
Chicago, IL 60602-3315

Please visit http://www2.archivists.org/recognition for a list and explanation of all of the awards offered by SAA.  The above information and a list of past recipients is available at http://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-spotlight.

AHA! Executive Meeting

The first Executive Meeting of 2016 will be next week!

February 18, 2016 at 6 p.m.
Black Walnut Cafe, Rice Village Location
5510 Morningside Dr, Houston, TX

Topics will include:

  • Theme for this year — “Archives and Community Outreach”?
  • Archives Month activities
  • Website updates
  • Other organizational activities

SSA 2016 Registration is Live!

Register now for the Society of Southwest Archivists 2016 Annual Meeting in Oklahoma City, OK, May 18-21, 2016! The meeting’s theme is Native Routes and promises to be one of our best. In addition to the repository tours, receptions, and stellar educational sessions, we also have a wonderful plenary speaker and special Saturday afternoon programming sure to reinvigorate your mission.

Info about the meeting:  http://societyofsouthwestarchivists.wildapricot.org/annualmeeting

Or go directly to the registration page: http://societyofsouthwestarchivists.wildapricot.org/event-2019063

Questions? Contact Christina Wolf <cwolf@okcu.edu>

Special Talk: Silvio Torres-Saillant, UH Special Collections

All are invited to the upcoming talk with Silvio Torres-Saillant, at University of Houston’s Special Collections
Date: Feb. 10th, 2016
Time: 10 am-11:30 am
Location: University of Houston, Special Collections

Silvio Torres-Saillant is a Professor in the English Department at Syracuse University. He co-founded La Casita Cultural Center, an organization with the mission to create bridges of communication, collaboration and exchange linking Syracuse University with the Latino population of the city and promoting the Hispanic heritages of Central New York. He serves on the core team of Democratizing Knowledge, an initiative that promotes strategies for decolonizing the academy, and in the Syracuse University chapter of The Future of Minority Studies, a nationwide consortium of scholars working on efforts to foreground the ways of knowing and bodies of knowledge subjugated by the colonial transaction.

The Recovering the U. S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project is an international project to locate, preserve and disseminate Hispanic culture of the United States in its written form since colonial times until 1960. The project has compiled a comprehensive bibliography of thousands of books, pamphlets, manuscripts and ephemera produced by Latinos and Latinas in the United States.

For questions or more details, please contact Carolina Villarroel at carolina@uh.edu, or Lisa Cruces at ecruces@uh.edu or 713-743-9903.

Texas Digital Library Award Nominations Deadline EXTENDED

Texas Digital Library (TDL) Awards acknowledge outstanding digital library work at academic libraries in Texas. The TDL Awards Committee encourages individuals to nominate themselves, as well as other individuals and groups, for recognition of the innovative and important work happening across the state in digital libraries.

Award recipients will receive one complimentary registration per group/awardee for the 2016 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL) in Austin, May 24-26, 2016, and be honored at the TCDL Conference Reception.

Please review the full set of criteria for each award before submitting. For questions about the criteria or processes for awards selection, please email: info@tdl.org.

To learn more about the different awards and nomination process, check out the Texas Digital Library website here: http://tdl.org/awards.

Nomination Instructions

You may nominate yourself or someone else for these awards. To submit a nomination, download and complete the appropriate form provided below and email it along with any supporting documentation to: tdlawards@utlists.utexas.edu

Important Dates

February 12, 2016: Deadline for submissions
March 18, 2016: Notification of award recipients
May 24-26, 2016: Dates for the 2016 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL), at which awards will be distributed. (Attendance at the conference is not required to receive an award.)

Congratulations Lisa Cruces, Winner of the IMLS RBS Fellowship for Early-Career Librarians!

Lisa Cruces, Hispanic Collections archivist at the University of Houston Libraries Special Collections, has been awarded an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Rare Book School (RBS) Fellowship for Early-Career Librarians.

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To read more about this wonderful opportunity, visit the University of Houston Library website at: http://weblogs.lib.uh.edu/blog/2016/01/20/cruces-awarded-imls-rbs-fellowship/#sthash.QpLuoqNB.dpuf

Harold T. Pinkett Minority Student Award Nominations

The application period for the 2016 Harold T. Pinkett Minority Student Award is now open!

The Pinkett Award was established in 1993 and recognizes and acknowledges minority graduate students, such as those of African, Asian, Latino or Native American descent, who, through scholastic and personal achievement, manifest an interest in becoming professional archivists and active members of the Society of American Archivists.

The recipients of the award will receive full complimentary registration to the SAA Annual Meeting and related expenses for hotel and travel for attending the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists on July 31, 2016 – August 6, 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia. In addition, each recipient receives a complimentary one-year membership in SAA.

Eligibility: The Pinkett is awarded to minority students, with preference given to full-time students possessing a minimum scholastic grade point average of 3.5 while enrolled in a graduate program focusing on archival management during the academic year proceeding the date on which the award is given.

For more details or to download the application form please visit:

http://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-pinkett

The deadline to apply is February 28, 2016.

We wish you the best of luck!

Sincerely,

The Harold T. Pinkett Minority Student Award Committee

Part-Time Archivist Position

Jim Windham is seek an archivist assist part-time with two projects.

The position requires two major elements:

  1. The cataloging and organizing of Mr. Windham’s personal archives involving extensive professional, civic, and political affairs dating from the mid-1960s, with the objective of preparing them for storage and/or possible transmittal to a museum or library.
  2. The cataloging and organizing of digital archives encompassing the online publication of The Texas Pilgrim, a monthly letter of commentary on public affairs, policy, books, and American culture, now in its 16th year.

Compensation to be determined by scope and time on task.

Contact Jim Windham at txpilgrim@comcast.net or by phone at 281-589-7055.