SAA officers Liz Everson (left) and Sally Vermatten take their turn at the table.
You’ve still got time to get this year’s editions of apparel offered by the SI student chapter of the Society of American Archivists. T-shirts and sweatshirts are available on the third floor landing at West Hall during the lunch hour, through Wednesday, Nov. 25. The chapter will gladly take your order, if you can’t stop by in person.
The SI student chapter of the Society of American Archivists will host a panel of SI doctoral students speaking on their paths to the doctoral program, their research, and their future goals. The brown-bag program, from noon-1 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 18 in 311 West Hall, is open to everyone. Doctoral student panelists will be Magia Krause, Dharma Akmon, Ricky Punzalan, and Devan Donaldson.
Kathleen Fear, a spring graduate of the Master of Science in Information program at SI, will be honored in August at the annual conference of the Society of American Archivists with the Theodore Calvin Pease Award. The award recognizes “superior writing achievements by students of archival studies.”
Kathleen’s paper, “User Understanding of Metadata in Digital Image Collections,” was cited for its innovation, scholarship, pertinence, and clarity of writing. The SAA will publish it in the spring 2010 issue of American Archivist. Kathleen wrote the paper as part of her independent study work at SI.
In her paper, Kathleen examined the usefulness of Dublin Core metadata for nonexpert users searching in digitized image collections. She sought to gain insight into the kinds of information users rely on when searching for images and to identify the vocabulary that best expresses that information.
