Western Archivists Meeting 2020 (Cancelled due to COVID-19) has ended

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Western Archivists Meeting 2020 (Cancelled due to COVID-19)

9:00am PDT

SAA DAS Workshop: Email Archiving

8:00am PDT

Workshop: Protocols for Native American Archival Materials InterContinental San Francisco: Cathedral HillLiza Posas

9:00am PDT

Workshop: What Can I Do With This? : Enabling Ethical Re-Use of your Content InterContinental San Francisco: TBD The Community Archiving Workshop: Audiovisual Collections Care and Management InterContinental San Francisco: Nob HillPamela Vadakan

10:00am PDT

Tour of Levi Strauss & Co. Archives- CANCELLED Levi Strauss & Co. Archives Tour of Maritime Research Center of San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Tour of Sutro Library Sutro Library

11:00am PDT

Tour of Special Collections & Archives, San Francisco State University

12:00pm PDT

Tour of Mechanics Institute Library and Archives Mechanics Institute Library and Archives

1:00pm PDT

Tour of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area Park Archives and Records Center GGNRA Park Archives and Records Center Tour of GLBT Historical Society Archives GLBT Historical Society Archives SCA Board Meeting InterContinental San Francisco: Union Square

1:30pm PDT

Tour of University of San Francisco Archives University of San Francisco Archives

1:45pm PDT

Tour of San Francisco Symphony Archives San Francisco Symphony Archives

2:00pm PDT

Tour of California Academy of Sciences Archives California Academy of Sciences Archives

3:00pm PDT

Tour of San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Photo Archives San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency

4:00pm PDT

SCA Leadership Meeting InterContinental San Francisco: Union Square

8:00am PDT

SCA Silent Auction InterContinental San Francisco: Foyer Vendor Exhibitions InterContinental San Francisco: Foyer Poster Session: Analyze This: Assessment in Born-Digital Processing InterContinental San Francisco: FoyerKarla Irwin Poster Session: Anti-Eviction Mapping Project: Centering Community Histories as an Act of Resistance InterContinental San Francisco: FoyerAzatuhi Babayan Poster Session: Combining Primary Source Literacy and Visual Literacy for Teaching with Historic Photographs InterContinental San Francisco: Foyer Poster Session: Communities of Practice: Archivists Supporting Each Other InterContinental San Francisco: FoyerBerlin Loa • Pamela Kruger Poster Session: Exploring Historical Archives in Medicine and Health Sciences: An Intimate Relationship Between Imperial Knowledge and Medical Libraries InterContinental San Francisco: Foyer Poster Session: Humanizing the Name Behind the Collection: Reconstructing Caroline Boeing Poole InterContinental San Francisco: Foyer Poster Session: Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My! Processing an Archival Collection at the Oregon Zoo InterContinental San Francisco: Foyer Poster Session: Preserving the Past: digitization as a means of preservation InterContinental San Francisco: FoyerSarah Jones Poster Session: Recommendations for (Re)describing Japanese American Incarceration Archival Materials InterContinental San Francisco: Foyer Poster Session: San Dewayne Francisco Memorial Archives InterContinental San Francisco: Foyermrblackson Poster Session: The Means of Archival Production / Where Are We Now? InterContinental San Francisco: Foyer Poster Session: Who knew we had this stuff? : Collaborating to expose decades of hidden collections by cataloging before processing InterContinental San Francisco: Foyer

8:30am PDT

Welcome & Plenary Address InterContinental San Francisco: BallroomM.A. Matienzo

10:30am PDT

Session 1: Documenting the Colorado River Compact and its Influence on the West InterContinental San Francisco: Ballroom APeter Blodgett • Patricia Rettig • James Kichas • David Keller • Steve Hussman Session 2: Legal Access vs. Community Empowerment: Re-examining Privacy Restrictions for Under-Documented Histories InterContinental San Francisco: Ballroom BMegan K. Friedel • Ashlyn Velte • Jamie Marie Wagner Session 3: Paying Interns for Community Archives Work: The UCLA Community Archives/ Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Internship Program InterContinental San Francisco: Ballroom COraison Larmon • Michelle Caswell • Clancey Cornell Session 4: How Cool is That: Providing students with experiential learning opportunities in Special Collections InterContinental San Francisco: Union SquareGordon Daines • Christine Cheng • Tiah Edmunson-Morton • Maggie Gallup Kopp

12:30pm PDT

CSU Archives & Archivists Roundtable InterContinental San Francisco: Ballroom BPamela Kruger NWA Native American Collections Roundtable Talk: The California Indian Museum and Cultural Center: A Decolonized Framework for Archives and Collections: Promoting Tribal Partnerships and Collaboration InterContinental San Francisco: Ballroom CSteven Bingo • Nicole Lim OAC/Calisphere Contributor Meeting InterContinental San Francisco: Ballroom AAdrian Turner • Christine Kim Small Archival Organization Needs Assessment Focus Group InterContinental San Francisco: Union SquareLeigh Grinstead

2:00pm PDT

Session 5: Implementing the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials Through Collaboration, Research, and Mukurtu CMS InterContinental San Francisco: Ballroom ATrevor James Bond, Ph.d. • Lotus Norton-Wisla • Nicole Lim Session 6: Reach Out for Diversity and Inclusion InterContinental San Francisco: Ballroom BSharon Mizota • Tyson Gaskill • Jessica Gengler • Rosemarie Knopka • Suzanne Im Session 7: The City Bus Scenario: Dealing with the Loss of Institutional Memory in the Archives InterContinental San Francisco: Ballroom CSteven Bingo • Anna E. Harbine • Brianna Webb • Nancy A Bunker Session 8: Slaying Goliath: Case Studies in Overcoming Challenges of Relocating One’s Repository, Renovations, and Space Planning InterContinental San Francisco: Union SquareSteve Hussman • mrblackson • Carlos Pelley • Julia Stringfellow

4:00pm PDT

CIMA Business Meeting InterContinental San Francisco: Ballroom A NWA Board / Business Meeting InterContinental San Francisco: Ballroom B SCA Members & Committees Meeting / Awards Ceremony InterContinental San Francisco: Ballroom C SRMA Business Meeting InterContinental San Francisco: Union Square

6:00pm PDT

Opening Reception InterContinental San Francisco: Pacific Terrace

8:00am PDT

Silent Auction InterContinental San Francisco: Foyer Vendor Exhibitions InterContinental San Francisco: Foyer

8:30am PDT

Session 10: Archivists as Activists: Balancing Archival Autonomy with the Community InterContinental San Francisco: Ballroom BStef Baldivia • Louis Knecht • Cheryl Watson • Randy Williams Session 11: From Evidence to Archives: Archival Labor and the Afterlife of Crime InterContinental San Francisco: Ballroom CLara Michels • Kim Hayden Session 12: The Archivist is the Professor: Teaching a Course on Archives to Undergraduates and Lessons Learned InterContinental San Francisco: Union SquareJulia Stringfellow • Sarah Langsdon • Clint Pumphrey • Gwyn Hervochon Session 9: Unintended Consequences: Trauma in the Archive InterContinental San Francisco: Ballroom AKatherine Schlesinger • Isaac R. Fellman • Carli V. Lowe • Joseph Quintana • Katie Sloan

10:30am PDT

Session 13: Pacific Northwest Native American Cylinder and Disc Digitization Project InterContinental San Francisco: Ballroom AJohn Vallier • Andrew Weaver Session 14: Little Big Stories: creating community oral history programs InterContinental San Francisco: Ballroom BBeth McDonald • Kurtis Bullchild • Natalia Fernández • Heather Lanctot Session 15: Tip of the iceberg: visualizing the depths of systems, born-digital, and collections management work InterContinental San Francisco: Ballroom CElvia Arroyo-Ramírez • Charlie Macquarie • M.A. Matienzo • Shira Peltzman • Chela Scott Weber Session 16: “Building Bridges*: Archives as Labor/Labor in Archives - Results of the SCA Labor Task Force Survey InterContinental San Francisco: Union SquareGeorge Thompson • Courtney Dean

12:15pm PDT

All-Attendee Luncheon InterContinental San Francisco: Pacific TerraceWendy Giddens Teeter • Liza Posas

2:00pm PDT

Session 17: Toward a National Archival Finding Aid Network - From Planning Initiative to Project and Program: An Action Plan InterContinental San Francisco: Ballroom AAdrian Turner • Elizabeth Dunham • Brian Tingle • Elizabeth Joffrion Session 18: Multicultural Archives: Collecting, Processing, and Access on a Global Scale InterContinental San Francisco: Ballroom BMichelle Sayers • Jeff Anderson • Mark Buchanan • Steven Hepworth Session 19: “Must be able to lift 40 pounds”: Physical Labor and Workplace Safety in the Archives InterContinental San Francisco: Ballroom CPeggy Tran-Le • Marjorie Bryer Session 20: Responding to ‘To Everything There is a Season’: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Archival Publishing and Beyond InterContinental San Francisco: Union SquareKatherine Crowe

3:45pm PDT

Session 21: Safeguarding Stories of the Human Health Legacy of the Hanford, Washington Nuclear Reservation InterContinental San Francisco: Ballroom ADebbie Bahn • Pennington Ahlstrand • Trisha T Pritikin Session 22: You are Welcome Here InterContinental San Francisco: Ballroom BRachel Vagts • Abby Hoverstock • Katie Rudolph • Jamie Seemiller Session 23: DV Rescue! Lessons Learned and Outcomes from Battling DV Obsolescence InterContinental San Francisco: Ballroom CLibby Savage Hopfauf • Dave Rice :p • Andrew Weaver Session 24: Radio Work as Archives Work InterContinental San Francisco: Union SquareDaisy Muralles Tour: San Francisco Labor Landmarks Off-SiteCatherine Powell

5:30pm PDT

NWA Board Meeting InterContinental San Francisco: Union Square SRMA Board Meeting InterContinental San Francisco: Ballroom A

8:30pm PDT

Film Night InterContinental San Francisco: BallroomPamela Vadakan • Libby Savage Hopfauf • Ari Lavigne

9:00am PDT

Session 25: Documenting Fire: the Challenges of Collecting Catastrophes InterContinental San Francisco: Ballroom AAnne Foster • Pamela Kruger • Eric Stanley Session 26: Power in the Archives: Hidden Voices of the Marginalized InterContinental San Francisco: Ballroom BAnne Frantilla • Conor M. Casey • Julie Kerssen • Catherine Powell Session 27: Unexpectedly In Charge InterContinental San Francisco: Ballroom CStephanie Milne-Lane • Azalea Camacho • Steve Duckworth • Lisa Mix

10:00am PDT

Tour of Mission Dolores Basilica and Misión San Francisco de Asís Mission Dolores Basilica

10:45am PDT

Session 28: Records in the time of climate change InterContinental San Francisco: Ballroom A Session 29: Community Archives At Risk: Endangered and Disappearing Collections InterContinental San Francisco: Ballroom BStella Castillo • Chris Doan • Thuy Vo Dang Session 30: From apprentice to master: MLIS graduate student labor in archives InterContinental San Francisco: Ballroom CAlexandra Bisio • Steve Duckworth • Helena Egbert • Anne Foster • Emily • Gayle O'Hara

11:00am PDT

Tour of the Museum of Performance + Design Museum of Performance + Design

12:15pm PDT

SCA Board Meeting and Wrap-up InterContinental San Francisco: TBD

1:00pm PDT

Tour of Golden Gate National Recreation Area Park Archives and Records Center Golden Gate National Recreation Area Tour of Prelinger Library Prelinger Library