Montly Brown Bag

Bring your lunch and your brain!

Join your fellow archivists and librarians for a monthly, informal discussion of selected articles related to our profession. December’s Brown Bag discussion will be held on Wednesday December 9th at noon in the SLIS Commons (located on the fourth floor of Helen C. White building on the UW-Campus).

Jacqie Ferry,

Cataloging Archivist and EAD Coordinator at the

Wisconsin Historical Society

Will lead the discussion on the OCLC report:

The Metadata is the Interface:

Better Description for Better Discovery of Archives and Special Collections,

Synthesized from User Studies

Jennifer Schaffner, for OCLC Research

This report synthesizes evidence from archival user studies and specifies what descriptive information is needed for research. A copy of this report can be accessed online at

http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2009/2009-06.pdf

If you have any questions or have problems accessing the URL, feel free to contact either Abbie Norderhaug at abbie.norderhaug@wisconsinhistory.org or Jennifer Graham at jennifera.graham@wisconsinhistory.org.

Dane County Historical Society scrapbooks featured in Archives Month blog

Madison Metropolitan School District Scrapbooks-Dane County Historical Society featured in Archives Month blog. Located in the Lussier Family Heritage Center, the Otto Schroeder Records Center is home to the Dane County Historical Society library and archives collection. It includes historical documentation of the people, places, businesses, and organizations with ties to Dane County, including: books, periodicals, maps, photographs, diaries, scrapbooks, organizational records and other publications.


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The History Museum at the Castle featured in Archives Month blog

The Appleton Papermakers Scrapbooks-History Museum at the Castle featured in the Archives Month blog. These wooden-bound scrapbooks commemorate the first two seasons of Minor League Baseball in Appleton. Compiled in 1940 and 1941 by George Oudenhoven, the Papermakers’ vice-president, they contain photos of players both in uniform and at leisure.

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Wisconsin Veterans Museum featured in Archives Month blog

Today Wednesday, October 28, the Sterling W. Schallert WWII Propaganda Scrapbook-Wisconsin Veterans Museum Research Center is being featured in the Archives Month blog. Sterling Schallert, a Watertown, Wisconsin native, served as a supply officer on LST 465 during World War II, seeing action at New Britain, the Admiralty Islands, and Leyte. LSTs (Landing Ships- Tank) transported large vehicles, as well as troops, from island to island, including some Australian soldiers. It was probably from them that he acquired the colorful and fascinating propaganda that he put in today’s featured scrapbook.

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Nancy Truog scrapbook featured in Archives Month blog

Today Tuesday, October 27, the Nancy Truog Scrapbook is being featured in the Archives Month blog. Another of the many scrapbooks in the Wisconsin Historical Society’s expansive holdings, Nancy Troug’s scrapbook, kept from 1927 to 1939, is an intimate portrait of family life in Madison in the early 1900s. Presumably started as a baby book, it is also a journal detailing birthdays, holidays, and family vacations which Nancy was a part of. It contains many greeting cards, postcards, clippings, souvenirs, report cards, and other memorabilia, along with notes of people and places visited by the family.

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Badger History Group featured in Archives Month blog

Today Monday, October 26, the Badger History Group, Inc. scrapbooks are being featured in the Archives Month blog. The Badger History Group was organized in 1998 as a committee of the Sauk County Historical Society. In November 2007 it was incorporated as an affiliate of the Wisconsin Historical Society. To meets its mission “to collect, preserve and share the history of the Badger Army Ammunition Plant area,” the Badger History Group collects artifacts, archival materials and anything else that can be used to tell the story of the Badger Army Ammunition Plant Area.

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Albany Historical Society featured in Archives Month blog

Today Friday, October 23, the Albany Historical Society Museum home to the Wilbur Dehmer Collection and his personal scrapbook are being featured in the Archives Month blog. Dehmer, a local druggist (or pharmaceutist, in modern parlance), collector, outdoorsman, and musician, he ran Albany’s locally owned Dehmer Rexall Drugs from 1940 to 1973, and along with Wilbur’s personal scrapbook, the museum is also home to the soda fountain and decorations that were once used in Wilbur’s drug store.

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Dane County featured in Archives Month blog

Today Thursday, October 22, the Happy Wanderers 4H Club Scrapbooks-Dane County Historical Society are being featured in the Archives Month blog. 4-H is a national youth organization which is administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Cooperative Extension System, and through state and county branches on a more local level. 4-H seeks to empower youngsters, by encouraging them to “learn by doing.” While 4-H has its roots in agriculture, and is traditionally associated with rural topics, it has grown to encompass many other interests and hobbies of young people, such as computers, art, cooking, history, and photography. The group’s motto is "to make the best better,” and the 4 H’s in the name represent head, heart, hands, and health.

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Caledonia Historical Society scrapbook featured in Archives Month blog

Today Wednesday, October 21, the Scrapbook of Mrs. Margaret Ellis-Caledonia Historical Society is being featured in the Archives Month blog. This beautiful scrapbook dates from December 25, 1886. It was created by Mrs. Margaret Ellis, who came to America in 1854 as part of the Potter Immigration Society.

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Albums from the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections are being featured in the Archives Month blog

Today Tuesday, October 20, Albums from the Aldo Leopold Archives and the William J. Meuer Photoart Collection-University of Wisconsin Digital Collections are being featured in the Archives Month blog. In early 2000, the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections was founded with the intent to provide access to digital resources that support research and educational needs, document the university, and explore Wisconsin heritage and history. All resources are free and publically accessible online.

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Wisconsin Veterans Museum featured in Archives Month blog

Today Monday, October 19, the Helen C. Bulovsky Papers and Photographs, 1914-2001-Wisconsin Veterans Museum Research Center is being feature in the Archives Month blog. Some of the scrapbooks at the Research Center give a glimpse in to the lives of these men and women before they entered service. Helen Bulovsky was a Madison native who served in the Army Nurse Corps during World War I and provided medical care to injured soldiers in field and evacuation hospitals that were often very near the front lines. Her letters home and diary entries describe the horrendous conditions she faced and the intense nature of life near the front lines.

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Lodi Woman's Club featured in Archives Month blog

Today Friday, October 16, the Lodi Woman's Club Scrapbooks-Lodi Public Library is being featured in the Archives Month blog. The Lodi Public Library houses a collection of scrapbooks of the Lodi Woman’s Club. The Woman’s Club collected many scrapbooks until the early 1990s. During the library’s remodeling in 1990, volunteers assisted in moving the scrapbooks--person to person--from the old building to the new. There are also scrapbooks showing Summer Library Programs starting in 1961.

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Rusk county featured in Archives Month blog

Today Thursday, October 15, the World War II Scrapbook-Rusk County Historical Society is being featured in the Archives Month blog. The World War II scrapbook includes local newspaper articles concerning Rusk County soldiers who were serving in the war during 1943-1944. Also included are newspapers clippings of national news as the war was won.

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Sheboygan county scrapbook featured in Archives Month blog

Today Wednesday, October 14, the Poster Stamp Book-Sheboygan County Historical Research Center is being featured in the Archives Month blog. Highlighted in the scrapbook pages are colorful stamps from Sheboygan County businesses. Poster stamps were particularly popular just before World War I, and were stamp-sized adhesive posters that served as advertisements for businesses.

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Prairie du Sac scrapbook featured in Archives Month blog

Today Tuesday, October 13, the Historic Businesses of Prairie du Sac Scrapbook-Sauk Prairie Area Historical Society is being featured in the Archives Month blog. The scrapbook is a collection of photos & post cards of businesses in the downtown shopping district of Prairie du Sac as they were built up to the present late 1990’s. Many of the buildings have history dating back to the later 1800’s.


Visit the blog to learn more about the scrapbook and the Sauk Prairie Area Historical Society.

Walworth County scrapbook featured in Archives Month blog

Today Monday, October 12, the S.F. Bennett-Walworth County Historical Society Scrapbook is being featured in the Archives Month blog. S.F. Bennett born in New York moved to Elkhorn, Wisconsin, in 1861. The scrapbook contains hundreds of clippings documenting Dr. Bennett’s writing and editorial career. Though the scrapbook is in a fragile state, it represents a prolific poet, lyricist, doctor, and citizen of Wisconsin and showcases a period of history via a journalistic medium.

Visit the Archives Month blog to learn more about the S.F. Bennett scrapbook.

Richland County scrapbooks featured in Archives Month blog

Today Friday, October 9, the Norman Family and Miscellaneous Greeting Cards Scrapbooks-Richland County are being featured in the Archives Month blog. The Norman Family Scrapbook was a gift by Elmer to his mother Mrs. James Norman on December 1903 and includes clippings about marriages and obituaries for many early Richland County pioneers. And the Greeting Cards scrapbook includes advertising cards, religious cards, programs, merit cards and valentines.

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October Library-Archives Brown Bag

Bring your lunch and your brain!

Join your fellow archivists and librarians for a monthly, informal discussion of selected articles related to our profession. October’s Brown Bag discussion will be held Thursday October 22nd at noon in the Murphy Board Room at the Wisconsin Historical Society (located on the third floor on the north side of the WHS headquarters building).

Richard Pearce-Moses,
Deputy Director for Technology and Information Resources, Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records and principal investigator on the Persistent Digital Archives and Library System (PeDALS) project, will be here to answer your questions regarding the work of a collaborative project, named PeDALS, to develop a trusted digital repository.

Information regarding the project can be found at the PeDALS website:
http://www.pedalspreservation.org/

A good introduction to the digital challenges archivists and other records custodians are facing is

FLATLAND TO VIRTUAL: TRANSCENDENCE & THE DIGITAL DIMENSION
Presented by Richard Pearce-Moses at the Digital Initiative (Dig In) Conference 2008, Abluquerque, NM on June 5, 2008

http://rpm.lib.az.us/pedals/presentations/NM_DigIn.pdf

Be sure to pass this e-mail along to any interested parties. If you have any questions or have problems accessing the URL, feel free to contact either Abbie Norderhaug at abbie.norderhaug@wisconsinhistory.org or Jennifer Graham at jennifera.graham@wisconsinhistory.org.

Vernon County scrapbooks featured in Archives Month blog

Today Thursday, October 8, the Vernon County Scrapbooks-Vernon County Museum is being featured in the Wisconsin Archives Month blog. The scrapbooks are a valuable resource for the Vernon County Museum and were donated to the museum by many different donors. The scrapbooks date from 1856 to the present and hold thousands of obituaries, marriages, family histories and other area history clippings collected from various area newspapers and magazines.

Visit the Archives Month blog to learn more about this collection of scrapbooks at the Vernon County Museum!

Madison Central High School scrapbook featured in Archives Month blog

Today Wednesday, October 7, the Madison Central High School World War II Scrapbook, 1941-1947-Wisconsin Historical Society is being featured is the Wisconsin Archives Month blog. The Madison Central High School WWII Scrapbook contains clippings and letters from former students serving in the armed forces between the years 1941-1947. To learn more visit the Archives Month blog.

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Today Tuesday, October 6, the Doctors of Iowa County-Iowa county Historical Society is being featured in the Wisconsin Archives Month Blog. The Doctors of Iowa County Scrapbook is a valuable resource for anyone interested in learning about the area's chiropractors, dentists, veterinarians, or medical doctors, visit the blog to get more details.

Archives Month Blog

Today Monday October 5, the Archives Month blog is featuring the Adams County Quilts and Quilters of the Adams County Historical Society. Today's post includes some pictures of locally made and historic quilts, a brief description of the quilt is also provided.

Don't forget to check back because every weekday a new historical society is featured.
The blog can be found here: Archives Month Blog

Second day of Archives Month!!!

If you haven't already visit the Archives Month blog to learn how the UW-Madison, Society of American Archivists-Student Chapter is celebrating Archives Month.

Today October 2, the Helena Shot Tower Log book-mid 19th century Scrapbook from the Sauk County Historical Society is being featured in the blog. Invite others to visit the blog and remember to go back because every weekday is something different.

October is Archives Month!!!

The Society of American Archivists-Student Chapter at the UW-Madison is celebrating Archives Month. Wisconsin's theme this year is "Scrapbook Wisconsin." Join the celebration by visiting the Archives Month blog and discover the hidden gems in the archives across Wisconsin. Each weekday a different historical society from Wisconsin will be featured.

Today October 1st, the Gerald Brooks Cruise Album Scrapbook is being featured and can be found at Monroe County Local History Room and Museum.

Visit the Archives Month blog to learn more!!! Archives Month 2009:Scrapbook Wisconsin

Monthly Brown Bag

The next monthly brown bag discussion is coming up!!!

Bring your lunch and your brain!

Join your fellow archivists and librarians for a monthly, informal discussion of selected articles related to our profession. June’s Brown Bag discussion will be held Thursday, June 25^th at noon in Room 126 at the UW Memorial Library (located on the first floor, west corridor—not in the actual library space).

Troy Reeves, Head of the Oral History Program at the UW, will lead the discussion on:

The Mosaic Narrative: Community Project Planning in Diverse Settings

by

Stephen Sloan

Director, Baylor University's Oral History Program

This talk was delivered at the 2009 Wisconsin Oral History Day • April 26-27, 2009 • Eau Claire, WI

As oral historians we seek to record, preserve, and present a chorus of voices and perspectives on the past in our efforts. By definition, oral history at its best is collaborative-holding the opportunities and challenges of shared authorship. This session will examine the dynamics of working with diverse communities to plan and execute oral history projects that produce positive outcomes for both researchers and our narrators.

This is an audio file which can be listened to as streaming (I will try to send out some notes before we meet)

https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/xythoswfs/webui/_xy-27668633_1-t_XQy4Gr66

Be sure to pass this e-mail along to any interested parties. If you have any questions or have problems accessing the URL, feel free to contact either Abbie Norderhaug at abbie.norderhaug@wisconsinhistory.org or Jennifer Graham at jennifera.graham@wisconsinhistory.org.

Hope to see you there!

Monthly Brown Bag

The monthly brown bag for May will be next Wednesday at noon.

Join your fellow archivists and librarians for a monthly, informal discussion of selected articles related to our profession. May’s Brown Bag discussion will be held Wednesday, May 27^th at noon in the WHS Murphy Board Room (on the 3^rd floor of the HQ building).

David Benjamin, Visual Materials Archivist, Wisconsin Historical Society, will lead the discussion on:

Coming to Terms with Photographic Descriptive Standards, Linguistic ‘Othering,’ and the Margins of Archivy

Schwartz, J. 2002 Jan 1.

Coming to Terms with Photographs: Descriptive Standards, Linguistic "Othering," and the Margins of Archivy. Archivaria [Online] 1:54. Available: http://journals.sfu.ca/archivar/index.php/archivaria/article/view/12861/14092

If you have any questions or have problems accessing the URL, feel free to contact either Abbie Norderhaug at abbie.norderhaug@wisconsinhistory.org or Jennifer Graham at jennifera.graham@wisconsinhistory.org.

Hope to see you there!

Student Chapter Bake-Sale

I just wanted to let everyone know that the SAA student chapter is having a bake sale tomorrow (Wednesday, March 25) in the SLIS Commons from 9am to 2pm. We'll be offering a variety of sweets and coffee. Hope to see you there!

UW-Madison SAA student chapter featured in the January MAC Newsletter

In the most recent issue of the MAC Newsletter, there's an article titled, "Digging through the Archives: A Student Chapter's Heritage." The article describes the UW-Madison SAA student chapter's fundraising activities over the years, including the now famous "history of the paperclip" t-shirt, the Archivist Cookbook, and other t-shirt designs.

The article isn't available online, but you should find your copy (or a colleague's) and flip to pages 30-31 in the January issue to read a great article by Katie Scanlan and other past and present chapter leaders.

And look out for the second installment of the article, "Digging through the Archives: A Student Chapter's Bright Future."

Monthly Brown Bag

Every month, Madison archivists and librarians meet informally to discuss one or two scholarly works chosen by someone in the group. It has proven a great opportunity to exchange ideas about topics that affect libraries and archives and to get to know others in the profession. Everyone is welcome! We would like to expand the circle and encourage students and individuals from other disciplines to join in the discussion. So if you know anyone who might be interested, tell them to come! The discussion takes place as a Brown Bag, so bring your lunch!

This month’s Brown Bag will take place on Thursday January 29^th, from noon until 1 pm in the SLIS Commons.

Peter Gottlieb, Director of the Library-Archives Division at the Wisconsin Historical Society, will lead the discussion on:

“Protocols for Native American Archival Materials”

by the First Archivists Circle (a group of 18 archivists from across the U.S.)
http://www2.nau.edu/libnap-p/protocols.html

and

“Pluralizing the Archival Paradigm: Can Archival Education in
Pacific Rim Communities Address the Challenge?”

By: Anne Gilliland, Sue McKemmish, Kelvin White, Yang Lu, and Andrew Lau
American Archivist (Vol. 71, no. 1, Spring/Summer, 2008), pp. 87-117
(A copy of this should be available in the UW-Madison, School of Library and Information Studies Library)

If anyone has questions or needs directions, please contact either Abbie Norderhaug at abbie.norderhaug@wisconsinhistory.org or Jennifer Graham at jennifera.graham@wisconsinhistory.org

Welcome to Madison Archivists!

I've lived in Madison for a little over two years, and I'm continually amazed by the great group of archivists I've met here, and the many interesting things they're doing, both inside and outside of their work lives. Oddly enough, aside from the archivists and archives students with whom I work, I've met very few of the other archivists who work and live in the Madison area. And of the few I have met, I've met most of them at conferences outside of Madison. Surely, I thought, the archival community in Madison could be strengthened by creating a forum to meet other local archivists and to share information of interest to archivists in the Madison area.

This blog is a forum for all things of interest to archivists in Madison. It's a place to share information, new stories, post events, and to meet your neighbors and fellow archivists. This blog is whatever we decide to make it, and I welcome your contributions!

Note: This blog is not officially sanctioned by any archival organizations or institutions, in Madison or elsewhere. The information and opinions expressed herein are those of the individuals who make them, and not of any organizations to which they might be affiliated.