Join the Society of American Archivists in Chicago and online August 14 – 17 for ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2024. Connect with peers, acquire essential skills, and broaden your perspectives at this year’s hybrid Annual Meeting.
Pre-Conference Programs: August 14, 2024
Conference Dates: August 15 – 17, 2024
Exposition Dates: August 15 – 16, 2024
Format: In person and virtual
Location: Hilton Chicago and Zoom
88th Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists
Program Highlights
Venturing into the AI Frontier: Opportunities and Ethical Challenges for Archives
AI tools may support our work but also test accountability, bias, privacy, and our core values. Over the last year, Baker Library staff tested several AI tools for validity and usefulness, exploring the pros and cons of human vs. AI tasks and examining our skepticism of the tools. This presentation aims to start a strategic dialogue on key questions to ensure archivists guide AI development and applications responsibly for users.
Archives and Making: Empowering Learning through Hands-On Engagement and Creative Exploration
This panel brings together archives professionals who have implemented strategies for instruction and community outreach that introduce archival users to historical materials and empower them to craft objects or creatively explore historical topics through making. More specifically, our presentation aims to showcase a paradigm shift in archival education, focusing on active user engagement with historical materials to create objects, conduct workshops, produce zines, and enrich communities.
Accessibility Accommodations: A Common Sense Approach
This panel is designed for archivists who are looking to expand their understanding of accommodations in archives, both for archivists and patrons alike. Panelists will share how the majority of accommodations can be implemented at little to no financial cost, as well as how a staff member might approach their supervisor or human resources to request accommodations.
Collections that Grow: Managing Accruals in Our Capacity Crisis
Archivists recognize our crunched resources-there is not enough time, space, staff, or money. But many of us also have mission-critical commitments to organizations that continue to create records. This session will share five perspectives on accruals as they relate to records management (paper and digital), community collecting, and donor relationships. Attendees can expect to hear, and have the opportunity to share, concrete workflows that improve accrual management in a variety of contexts.
This is just a small sample of the 46 education sessions taking place over the course of the event. Registration also includes access to the Open Forums, Expo Hall, two plenaries, vendor presentations, career center services, and multiple networking events.
