Electronic Records Management Workshop
May 20-21, 2008
Instructors: Cindy C. Smolovik and Michael Baimbridge
The course is designed to provide the skills and knowledge needed to manage electronic records throughout the records lifecycle, and to take steps required to transition from a paper to an electronic records environment.
More information is available in the PDF document
This workshop during the SSA Annual Meeting is in conjunction with the National Archives and Records Administration Southwest Region

Implementing Minimal Processing
May 21, 2008, 8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library, Rice University
Instructors: John Slate and Lauren Kata [third instructor TBD]
This workshop will present practical strategies archivists can use to implement minimal processing standards. John, City Archivist, City of Dallas, will concentrate on government archives and photographic materials. Lauren, former archivist at Wayne State and Georgia State Universities, and a recent transplant to Central Texas, will speak from her experience employing minimal processing to manage large processing backlogs for archives and manuscript collections.

Creating and Managing Online Exhibits
May 21, 2008, 1:00 – 5:00 p.m.
1st floor training room, Fondren Library, Rice University
Instructor: Gina Costello
This workshop is a further expansion of Gina’s presentation about online exhibitions in last year's annual meeting session “Not So Virtual Reality: Archives, Community and Applied Digitization.” Participants will learn how to develop their own online exhibitions through a combination of lecture and hands-on experience. Participants will view successful online exhibitions and discuss different methods of organizing and arranging online content. Gina will discuss how to best utilize your institution's web sites and/or available software to create a variety of online exhibits. Participants should bring their ideas and plans for their own institutions’ online exhibitions. Prior web development experience is helpful, but not required.

Advanced Oral History Project Management
May 21, 2008, 1:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library, Rice University
Instructors: Dr. Jennifer Ross-Nazzal, Rebecca Wright and Sandra Johnson
Staff of the Johnson Space Center History Office will present a half-day workshop that goes beyond the basics of conducting oral histories to focus on various aspects of successfully managing an oral history project. Topics include handling budgets and necessary documentation, training staff and volunteers, etc. Staff of the NASA Johnson Space Center History Office will present a half-day workshop aimed at mid-level archivists discussing the management of an oral history project. The instructors will go beyond the basics, focusing less on getting out into the field to conduct interviews, and more about what needs to happen in the office from a project management perspective.
Topics to be covered will include:

• Setting up the project: mission, purpose, people, organization
• Training interviewers and volunteers
• Selecting appropriate recording equipment for the project
• Identifying and contacting interviewees
• Managing paperwork and task management
• Preservation and access, and the latest trends in capturing and storing audio
• Outreach, what to do with the interviews, end-products of the project