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 Upcoming Meetings & Activities


Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - Program
Friday, July 18 - Brief program / Summer social
Wednesday October 1 - Program kicking off Archives Month
Thursday, December 4 - Holiday party / Elections

 Past Meetings & Activities

Thursday July 26, 2007 at 3pm
Hosted by: Bernard Forrester at Robert J. Terry Library Archives/Special Collections, Texas Southern University.
Agenda: Bernard gave a tour and spoke about the collections. 
Janice Carter from the Harris County Archives discussed minimal processing, and we had an update on the 2008 SSA Conference from Amanda Focke and Shelly Kelly.
Area and campus maps
 
 
Wednesday, April 18 at 6pm
Hosted by Incarnate Word Archives.
The guest speaker was Thomas McWhorter from the City of Houston Planning and Development / Historic Preservation Department.
 
AHA! Christmas Party and Elections
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2006, 6:30 PM
Woodson Research Center
Fondren Library, Rice University
 
Tour The Heritage Society storage facility
with Wally Saage, Curator
Thursday, Oct. 5, 3 pm
2200 Central Parkway, Suite C
(not downtown!)
Contact M.J. Figard with questions.
 
Dr. Joseph Pratt on
Houston history projects
 
Wednesday April 5, 2006
5:30 refreshments, 6 pm program
Special Collections of the University of Houston's MD Anderson Library.
 
Executive Committee meeting
Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2006, 6pm
 
AHA Elections / Holiday Party
Thursday December 8, 2005 @ 6:30pm
University of Houston Libraries,
Special Collections, Rockwell Pavilion
Directions and parking information
Parking requires $3 - bring 3 $1 bills per car please - no debit or credit cards are accepted.

AHA will provide wine and non-alcoholic drinks, as well as paper goods.

Members please bring your favorite potluck dish - MJ Figard, Program Chair, will coordinate the potluck.

Elections:
Take a leadership role in AHA!
Consider running for Secretary, Treasurer, or Vice Pres. / President Elect!
Contact Nominating Committee by Dec. 2:
Paul Scott, Lorraine Stuart, Amanda Focke
Archives Week 2005
Oct. 1-8, 2005
 
Archives Week Planning Meeting
Wednesday, August 3, 6pm
Home of Sarah Jackson - all members welcome.
Contact Lisa May for more information.
Volunteers sought for the following areas:
1.) Organizing an archives-related exhibit at one of the Harris County Libraries.
2.) Giving a brief presentation at one of the Harris County Libraries, probably on a Saturday any weekend in October.
Topics might include genealogy, local history, archives research skills, preservation, oral history, and so on.
3.) Participating in AHA's portion of the Houston Genealogical Forum program tentatively set for Oct. 8th.
 
AHA program event
"Reading Photographs : using clues to help date and place images"
A Presentation by AHA! member Joel Draut, Senior Communications Specialist and photography expert, Houston Metropolitan Research Center, on how to "read" photographs and coax out identifying details.
Date and time: July 21, 2005 at 6pm
Location: McGovern Research Center
 
A Presentation by AHA! member Joel Draut, Senior Communications Specialist and photography expert, Houston Metropolitan Research Center, on how to "read" photographs and coax out identifying details. July 21, 2005 at 6pm McGovern Research Center
March AHA program event
"Pena's Alamo: An Eyewitness's Account"
Date: Friday March 11, 2005 at 1pm
Location: St. Thomas University, Jerabeck Center,
Scanlan Room (upstairs)
Map and directions: http://stthom.edu/map/index.html

Brenda Gunn discussed the little diary that caused such a stink among Alamo idolators.
Does the stink still stick? AHA members and area students heard about the controversy surrounding Jose Enrique de la Pena's narrative of the Battle of the Alamo and the personalities that grew out of all the fuss.  

Outreach Event: Saturday, February 12, 2005
Trinity United Methodist Church
Genealogy and research menthods mini-seminars 

Thursday, January 13, 2005, 6pm
Executive Committee meeting -- all members welcome.
Amanda Focke's house
  • Set tentative calendar of meetings and programs for year
  • Picnic location and date - use our rained-out Brazoria County plan from last year
  • Committee reports & plans / searching for an Archives Week Chair!

Holiday party & Elections
Thursday, December 2, 6:30 pm
University of Houston Hospitality Industry Archive
Map, directions, and parking information
Potluck dining and fun! (and a quick business meeting)

ALSO: Vote on 2 pending issues:

1.) Purchasing centrally maintainable webspace & common e-mail for AHA for circa $100 per year (see more details) &
2.) Houston volunteering to host SSA annual meeting in 2008

 

 

 

 


Archives Week 2004 wrap-up meeting
Thursday October 28, 6 pm
South Texas College of Law, Conference Room

Agenda:

  • Post-mortem of recent Archive Week activities
  • Announcement of 2005 Nominating Committee and call for nominations
  • Commitment to holding SSA Annual Mtg. in Houston in 2008 -- AHA has been approached by SSA
  • Discussion of purchasing web domain name for AHA so that web name is easier/shorter & maintenance is centralized
  • Planning our Dec. meeting/elections/party

Archives Week Oct. 3-8, 2004

Program: 3 pm Friday, July 9, 2004
University of St. Thomas
Ahern Room, Crooker Center, 3909 Graustark
Photographic Collections - Best Practice for Preservation and Digitization
Special Guest Speaker: Linda Peterson, Photographs Archivist, Center for American History, Univ. of Texas at Austin.
Linda Peterson will provide a presentation on the care and feeding of archival photographic materials. She tends the famous Bailey Bros. Houston Photo Collection and will be willing to answer questions about the state of processing and possible access.
Our sincere thanks to the University of Thomas for hosting us.

Executive Meeting
Thursday, May 13th, 6pm

AHA! Picnic - Saturday, April 24, 2004
CANCELLED due to heavy rain ...

AHA Presentation to Houston Area Southern Historians (HASH)
March 10, 2004, 7-9 pm
Harris County Archives
Letting active local historians know what local records are in our collections and how to access them.
Get full details here.

Executive Board Meeting
Tuesday, February 24th, 2004
All AHA! members are welcome!!

Time: 3:00 pm

Location:
Woodson Research Center
First floor, Fondren Library
Rice University
Houston, Texas
713-348-2586
Directions and parking info

At the meeting we:

  • Prepared for the March 10 joint meeting with HASH and the archives presentations involved
  • Chose Varner-Hogg
    Plantation State Historic Site as picnic site
  • Proposed sending out a call for July AHA program topics
  • Discussed possible locations for future executive board meetings

 

Thursday, January 15th, 2004
Executive Board Meeting
Holocaust Museum

  • discussed schedule & content of general meetings
  • set picnic date and discussed place
  • discussed committee chairs (especially forming an Archives Week Program Committee, and a Local Thesaurus Committee)
  • alternative meeting times for both executive and general meetings

    Monday December 8, 2003
    Holiday party under the stars!
    Lunar and Planetary Institute, Clear Lake

  • AHA! Elections and General Business meeting
  • vote regarding Archives Week Celebration 2004
  • a general evaluation of 2003 activities and programs
  • and lots of holiday food and drink!!

    October 6, 2003
    Web Program & General meeting
    Program: "Developing Best Practice for Archives Websites"
    Web presentation by Pat Bozeman and Julie Grob, University of Houston, demonstrating changes made from their previous website to their new website.
    Presentation by Mandy York, Rice University, proposing a collaborative effort to create some "best practice guidelines" for archives websites. (PDF file of presentation available here.)
    More news soon on how AHA! might work together on developing this tool.

    See Secretary's notes for meeting minutes.

    Reception: 7 pm, M.D. Anderson Library, Special Collections & Archives
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