Don’t forget to RSVP for the first event of Archives month!
October 2, 2013, 6.30 pm-Tour J.P. Bryan’s Vision of the West Collection, considered the world’s largest private collection of Texana. Torch Energy Advisors, Inc., 1331 Lamar Ave., Suite 1450. Map and parking information available to all who make reservations by Sept. 27. Contact Lee Pecht at pecht@rice.edu.
Check out some of the collection online: http://www.teai.com/page/gallery
In recognition of the Symphony’s Centennial Season, Rice University’s Glasscock School for Continuing Studies will offer a six session class on the cornerstone of Houston’s performing arts scene. Join several musicians from the Symphony and a panel of guest speakers as they explore different topics of the Symphony’s Centennial.
Topics include: the search process for the Symphony’s incoming Music Director, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, important moments in the Symphony’s 100 year history and the upcoming presentation of Mahler’s Symphony of a Thousand.
Join AHA! at the following events to celebrate the nationwide Archives Month in October.
October 2, 2013, 6.30 pm-Tour J.P. Bryan’s Vision of the West Collection, considered the world’s largest private collection of Texana. Torch Energy Advisors, Inc., 1331 Lamar Ave., Suite 1450. Map and parking information available to all who make reservations by Sept. 27. Contact Lee Pecht at pecht@rice.edu.
October 8, 2013, 6.00 pm-Dinner and brief meeting at Café Express, 1422 W. Gray. Meet with fellow AHA-ers and learn about upcoming events and opportunities.
October 10, 2013, 6.30 pm-Preserving Our History in the Archives, presentation on how archival repositories operate, how to preserve historical items, and what items repositories want donated. Bellaire Historical Society, Bellaire Civic Center, 7008 South Rice Ave. Contact Dara Flinn at dflinn@rice.edu.
October 15, 2013, 8.30 am – 3.00 pm-Parish Archives: Preserving Generations of Faith, a practical one-day workshop for those who work with historical records, but are not trained archivists. AHA members are encouraged to attend all or part of the day to support the lectures, discussions, hands-on activities and question period. Contact Sarah Jackson at sjxn@yahoo.com or Lisa May at lmay@archgh.org.
October 19, 2013, 10.30 am-Tour Fine Tuning: Celebrating 100 Years of the Houston Symphony, Julia Ideson Building, 550 McKinney. Hear and see how Miss Ima Hogg and local café orchestra leader Julien Paul Blitz developed a dream into reality for a symphony for Houston. Contact Terry Brown or Ginny Garrett at archives@houstonsymphony.org
AHA! is hosting “Parish Archives: Preserving Generations of Faith,” on Tuesday, October 15 from 8.30-3.00 at the Church of St. John the Divine.
The workshop will be an introduction to the basic elements of archives will assist attendees in gaining control over their parish records. Presented by St. John the Divine with support from the Archivists of the Houston Area and taught by professional archivists, the workshop will include lecture, discussion, hands-on activities, and the opportunity to ask questions of people who have experience with church records and archives.
The cost is $30 and includes all workshop materials and lunch. For more information please visit http://www.sjd.org/event/470975-2013-10-15-parish-archives-workshop/ and submit the registration form below! Contact: Sarah Canby Jackson at sjxn@yahoo.com or Lisa May at lmay@archgh.org
Rice University’s Fondren Library will host a foundational course in the Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) Curriculum and Certificate Program:
Thinking Digital: A Practical Session to Help You Get Started
Explore basic concepts, models, and workflows for creating and curating digital objects and collections.
Wednesday August 21
2:00 PM -3:30 PM
Kyle Morrow Room
3rd Floor, Fondren Library
Rice University
(Campus Map)
(Parking at Rice University)
If you intend to pursue the Certificate, you’ll need to pass the examination for this course. Please follow “Procedures for DAS webinars” to access the exam information. For more information on the DAS Curriculum and Certificate visit http://www2.archivists.org/prof-education/das
To register send your name and email address to Dara Flinn at dflinn@rice.edu
Additional webinars in the series will be offered by:
Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public Library
McGovern Historical Collections
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Archives
University of Houston Libraries, Special Collections
Rice University’s Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality (CSWGS) is collaborating with Houston Public Library (HPL) to host “Who Will Tell Our Stories? Celebrating Houston’s LGBTQI Oral Histories” from 10:30 a.m. to noon Aug. 17 at the downtown library’s Julia Ideson Building, 550 McKinney St.
The event celebrates a student-led CSWGS community research project that has been collecting the oral histories of Houston lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community members. Since the project’s inception in 2007, more than 100 oral histories have been recorded and are in the process of being archived in the Woodson Research Center at the university’s Fondren Library.
The program will consist of a reception and remarks by Caroline Castillo, oral history and outreach librarian with HPL’s Houston Metropolitan Research Center; Arden Eversmeyer, founder and director of the Houston-based Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project; Brian Riedel, Rice professor in the practice of humanities and CSWGS assistant director; and Rice junior Cristell Perez, a summer oral-history intern with the Houston Area Rainbow Collective History (ARCH) consortium, of which CSWGS is a founding member. Perez will show a short film she created this summer on the oral history project. The event will conclude with an audience discussion on the future of the project.
For more information about ARCH and CSWGS’s community research project, visit http://houstonarch.pbworks.com.
William Reaves Fine Art is hosting a Finale celebration of the “Year of Emma Richardson Cherry.” Join the celebration for a wrap-up of the year’s Cherry festivities featuring an exhibition and a panel discussion on Cherry, her students, and their impact on Houston and the art world. The panel includes curators of the Houston Public Library’s Cherry exhibit, historian Randy Tibbits and HPL Curator Danielle Burns; as well as the MFAH Archives Director Lorraine Stuart.
For more information please visit: http://reavesart.com/?page_id=3178
AHA! is hosting “Parish Archives: Preserving Generations of Faith,” on Thursday, Aug. 22 from 8.30-3.00 at the Church of St. John the Divine.
The workshop will be an introduction to the basic elements of archives will assist attendees in gaining control over their parish records. Taught by professional archivists with support from the Archivists of the Houston Area, the workshop will include lecture, discussion, hands-on activities, and the opportunity to ask questions of people who have experience with church records and archives.
The cost is $30 and includes lunch and all workshop materials and supplies. For more information and registration details please visit http://www.sjd.org/event/470975-2013-08-22-parish-archives-workshop/
AHA! announces its Disaster Preparedness Scholarship and Drawing. Please see the attached documents for more information.
Disaster Preparedness Scholarship Rules
Contribute your suggestions for items to include in a basic disaster supply kit! See the attached AHA! Basic Disaster Supply Kit document for more information.
The Summer meeting of the Archivists of the Houston Area will be held on Wednesday, July 10, at 6 pm, on the first floor of the Crooker (Student) Center at the University of St. Thomas.
The focus of the meeting will be on salvaging archival materials in the aftermath of a disaster. The Disaster Preparedness drawing and scholarship competition will be launched at this meeting, so please plan to attend! Light refreshments will be provided.
Please RSVP to Lee Pecht, by Wednesday, July 3. The Crooker Center is located on 3909 Graustark St.