Archives Week 2008

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This year, Archives Week 2008, will focus on music, sound, and pop culture archives, being titled "Archives City Limits". Events will be held October 27-November 1, with a pre-Archives Week fundraising concert. We encourage involvement and suggestions for specific events from all our members!

Theme

In April 2008, we held a vote for three possible topics for this year's Archives Week program. The winner was...

"Archives City Limits" - Music, Sound, and Pop Culture Archives

In August 2009, hundreds of archivists will arrive in Austin for the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists greeted by signs declaring Austin the "Live Music Capitol of the World." By pursuing an Archives Week focused on music and popular culture in archives, we will be able to highlight Austin's two greatest assets: our music scene and UT's #1 ranked Archives program! "Archives City Limits" would explore an aspect of archival repositories not frequently remembered in the publicity efforts of the archives community. This theme has the potential to go beyond the bounds of recorded music and touch on related aspects, such as liner notes, ephemera, moving image, and the papers of prominent figures in music, popular art, or even fashion. We would be able to draw speakers from places like the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Seattle Experience Music Project, our great repositories right here at UT, and the Austin music scene itself. Archives week was first conceived as a way to reach out beyond our small community of iSchool archivists and inform the public at large about our profession. "Archives City Limits" would produce events with a wide range of topics that would interest the Austin music community, and even reach out to undergraduate students and others who might not otherwise learn about our profession or our program. Potential cross-programming with the Radio, Television, Film department and the School of Music would increase our visibility across campus and beyond our usual associations with history and political science. A popular culture theme would also come complete with a wealth of sources for creative publicity and exciting fundraising events.

Dates and events

Archives Week 2008 will be held Monday, October 27 through Saturday, November 1.

Fundraising concert

When: Thursday, October 23rd at 7pm
Where: Austin City Limits Studio - 6th floor of U.T. Communications Building B (corner of Dean Keeton & Guadalupe)
Because of our focus on music archivism, this year the SAA-UT will host a concert (hopefully) featuring iSchool bands in order to raise money and provide awareness of archives within the greater Austin community.

Panel discussion (evening during AW)

Panelist will discuss their work with music and related archives, including examples of recordings and issues they face.

Keynote speaker (evening during AW)

Speaker will discuss their specific work in the field.

Archives Clinic

When: November 1
The Austin History Center will host its yearly clinic for helping and teaching the public about preserving their papers and heirlooms.

Call for volunteers and suggestions

Although the board is currently contacting potential speakers for this year's events, any ideas you may have are always welcome. Please email us with suggestions.

We will also be needing volunteers to help with contacting people and places, as well as dealing with tasks related to events, specifically the fundraising concert. Email us, or contact Alta Valliant at avalliant [at] mail.utexas.edu or Fundraising Committee chairperson Simon Staats (email available through the UT Directory)!

Contacts

• Website: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~archweek
• Email: archweek [at] ischool.utexas.edu
• Physical: SAA mailbox on 4th floor of Sanchez Building