Category Archives: Announcements

Rice’s LGBT oral history project to be celebrated Aug. 17

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.

Finale-“Year of Emma Richardson Cherry,” Saturday, August 3

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

Fine Tuning: Celebrating 100 years of the Houston Symphony, now on exhibit at the Houston Metropolitan Research Center

Now on display at the Julia Ideson Building of the Houston Public Library is an exhibit celebrating the one hundred year history of the Houston Symphony.   In addition to photographs, documents and other materials from the Houston Symphony Archives, the Library will present materials and oral histories from its collections which relate to the Symphony.  Extracts of interviews with Ima Hogg and others will be included.

Located on the second floor of the central library at 500 McKinney, the exhibit hall will be open during regular library
hours, 10 am – 8 pm Mondays through Thursdays, and 10 am – 5 pm on Fridays and Saturdays.  The exhibit will close October 19.

The Houston Area Digital Archives has created a wonderful timeline in conjunction with the exhibit. For more information, please visit their website: http://digital.houstonlibrary.org/timeline/houston-symphony.html

Fine Tuning: Celebrating 100 years of the Houston Symphony

Fine Tuning: Celebrating 100 years of the Houston Symphony

Preservation Week events for the public at Rice University

Do you need help managing your digital photos or videos?
Curious about ways to better organize your files? 

Please join us for the following events,
presented in honor of National Preservation Week.
No need to rsvp.

Preserving and Accessing Films and Videos
A presentation by the Texas Archive of the Moving Image
Tuesday, April 23rd at 10am I Farnsworth Pavilion | Rice Memorial Center / Ley Student Center
(building #43 on the campus map)
Light refreshments will be served.

Managing Your Digital Photos: Practical & Inspirational Tips
Brown Bag Event: Wednesday, April 24th at Noon
Digital Media Commons, Herring Hall, room 129
http://libguides.rice.edu/personal-archiving

Events are free and sponsored by Fondren Library

Parking:

The closest lot is the Central Campus Garage (building #51 on the campus map). Enter campus through Entrance 20 off of Rice Blvd, take a right at the second stop sign, and the underground lot entrance is the first left. Please note that all campus parking requires payment; a credit card is required.

Texas Medical Center Library Women’s History Project Reception

The Texas Medical Center Library invites you to a tea and reception to recognize the first five women who have contributed to the Texas Medical Center Women’s History Project. The reception will be held on Thursday, March 21, from 4:00-6:00 pm at the Texas Medical Center Library, located at 1133 John Freeman Blvd. For more information, please see the flyer below!

TXMedicalCenterWomensHistory

Association of Centers for the Study of Congress Award Nominations

The Association of Centers for the Study of Congress (ACSC) sponsors three awards each year. For more information about the following awards, or to download their applications, please visit the ACSC awards website.

The Richard A. Baker Graduate Student Travel Grant is awarded annually to support graduate-level research conducted at member repositories of the Association of Centers for the Study of Congress (ACSC). An award of up to $1000 may be used to underwrite travel, lodging, copying and other research expenses incurred from July 1- June 1 of the award year. Each application will be evaluated on its merits. Primary consideration will be given to projects involving the substantive study of issues related to the study of Congress. Each proposal should be aimed at a discrete end product such as a book, dissertation, thesis, article, documentary, film, exhibit, Web site or social networking site. Budgets may be approved in whole or in part. Each award recipient is required to acknowledge the award in any resulting published work(s) and donate a copy of the work(s) to ACSC and the sponsoring archival repository. The recipient may also be requested to submit a brief article summarizing their findings and research experience for publication by ACSC. The Baker Award honors ACSC founding member and U. S. Senate Historian Emeritus Richard A. Baker. Applications for the Baker Award will be accepted until March 11, 2013, and award notifications are generally made by early April.

The Raymond W. Smock Fellowship is awarded annually in the amount of $1000 to support an individual working in a congressional center to attend the ACSC Annual Meeting in May. The award is open to individuals that have not previously attended an ACSC annual meeting and whose organization is a member of the Association of Centers for the Study of Congress (ACSC). The Smock Fellowship honors ACSC founding member and first president, Raymond W. Smock, director of the Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies, Shepherd University. Applications for the Smock Fellowship will be accepted until March 11, 2013, and award notifications are generally made by early April.

The CPR Pre-Conference Scholarship is an annual award of $500 to provide financial assistance to an individual or individuals, attending the annual CPR pre-conference meeting at the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting. The award was created by the Association of Centers for the Study of Congress in 2011 to acknowledge the Congressional Papers Roundtable‘s role in promoting the preservation and use of congressional collections. Applications for the CPR Pre-Conference Scholarship will be accepted until May 1, 2013, and award notification will be made by early June.

International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries & Museums Preliminary Program Now Available

The preliminary program for the 2013 International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums is now available at www.atalm.org.  The program features 12 pre-conference workshops and tours, four evening events, over 80 concurrent sessions, 18 hands-on labs, and keynote presentations by notable people.

LaDonna Harris, founder and president of Americans for Indian Opportunity is the honorary chair and will provide the opening keynote.

Dates:  Scheduled from June 10 through June 13, the conference takes place at the Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort & Spa, Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico. Pre-conference workshops take place on Monday, June 10 and conference sessions are from Tuesday, June 11 through Thursday, June 13.

Registration:  Before May 1, 2013, registration is $250.  After May 1, registration increases to $300.  Registration includes a welcome reception, two breakfasts, and three luncheons.  Registration information is available at www.atalm.org

Hotel:  The conferencehotel is the Santa Ana-owned Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort and Spa situated halfway between Albuquerque and Santa Fe.  Subject to availability, the discounted rate for conference attendees is $119 a night for a king or two queen beds from June 7-14, 2013. Booking information is available at www.atalm.org. Deadline for booking rooms at the Conference Rate is May 20, 2013

Scholarships:  March 1 is the deadline for applying for scholarships.  To view the criteria and apply, please visit http://www.atalm.org/node/91

Airport: The closest airport is the Albuquerque International Airport (ABQ), located less than 30 miles from the resort. Discounted shuttle service is available. Please refer to the Hotel and Travel information on ATALM’s website.

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Questions?  Phone 405-522-3515 or email atalminfo@gmail.com

Call for Applications – Pinkett Minority Student Award

The application period for the 2013 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 SAA Annual Meeting in New
Orleans, Louisiana in August 2013. In addition, each recipient receives a complimentary one-year
membership in SAA.

Eligibility
The Pinkett Award 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.

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

Deadline
February 28, 2013