Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, KY | May 25, 2018
The KCA will be having its spring meeting on May 25 at the Kentucky Historical Society in Frankfort, Kentucky. One of the most challenging issues in many archives is how to gain support and publicity within the institution. How do we engage those we work with and raise awareness of what we have to offer? It will be a time to get together and discuss our successes, as well as the challenges we have encountered. In addition to learning more about engagement, the Spring meeting is the time for the KCA business meeting, and we will be voting on four positions on the Board: Vice-Chair, Webmaster, and two Members-at-Large. We encourage all members to attend and participate in the election process.
Registration
Registration is closed.
Program Schedule
9:30a.m. On-site Registration
10:00a.m. Welcome by Edna Fugate, KCA Chair
10:10a.m. “Putnam County Preservation Week,” Megan Atkinson, Tennessee Tech University
10:30a.m. “What We Want,” Jacob Domalewski, Hanover College
11:00a.m. Break
11:10a.m. Business Meeting, Voting, and Open Discussion
12:00p.m. Lunch
1:00p.m. “Faculty and Archives: Creating a Bridge to Collaboration,” Amanda Jo Slone, University of Pikeville
2:00p.m. Break
2:15p.m. Tour of the Kentucky Historical Society
3:00p.m. Adjourn
Presentation Abstracts
“Putnam County Preservation Week” – 10:10am
Megan Atkinson, Tennessee Tech University
A presentation discussing the strategies and activities of the Preservation Week collaboration between Tennessee Tech University, the Cookeville History Museum, and the Putnam County Library. All three institutions are small-scale operations who operate for a smaller community with limited funding and personnel. The collaboration included workshops, presentations, literature, and a week-long memory lab all performed with a limited budget and personnel. The purpose of Preservation Week activities was public outreach, publicity for archives and special collections, advocating for preservation, and identifying potential donors to archives. The Memory Lab allowed for community members to digitize materials they have at home and formats including the digitization of VHS, VHSC, cassette tapes, slides, photographs, negatives, and paper. Successes, failures, and future activities will be presented.
“What We Want” – 10:30am
Jacob Domalewski, Hanover College
A presentation of what students want to see. It covers the work of Jacob Domalewski, a junior at Hanover College, and the tactics he has used to promote the Duggan Library Archives to the Hanover community. In a thirty minute session, Mr. Domalewski will cover the events he has led on campus to engage students and staff in history and will talk about the value of the campus archives in these projects. Examples included the yearly ghost tour (Haunted Hanover), his presentation over Greek life, and a walking tour of campus buildings. Mr. Domalewski is also President of the History Club at Hanover College and will talk about the club’s relationship with the archives.
“Faculty and Archives: Creating a Bridge to Collaboration” – 1:00p.m.
Amanda Jo Slone, University of Pikeville
This panel will address the needs of faculty in relation to Archives. The panel will consist of University faculty from across the curriculum, some of which have worked closely with the Archivist and Archives material, and some who have not. Panelists will discuss the ways Archives have been beneficial to their courses and brainstorm ways in which we can better utilize the Archives. We will discuss ways in which Archivists can reach out to faculty and ways in which faculty could be open to involving Archives material in the classroom. We will end with an interactive Q&A that will help participants generate ideas for communication and collaboration with faculty.
Election Slate
Vice Chair Nominees:
Rebecca Pattillo is the Metadata Librarian for Archives and Special Collections at the University of Louisville, where she maximizes discovery of the department’s digital materials via metadata creation, maintenance, and review, as well as implementation of policies and streamlined workflows. She is also a Consulting Research Associate for the Frederick Douglass Papers Edition at Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis (IUPUI). Prior, she worked in the Library and Archives Department of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Collections Department at the Indiana Historical Society, and at the National Council on Public History. She received an M.L.S. and an M.A. in Public History from IUPUI in 2016. Representative of her dual master’s in public history and library sciences, she is interested in community archives, accessible digital collections, and imparting the importance of multicultural collections to create a more accurate and inclusive historical record.
Member-at-Large Nominees:
Kevin Klesta currently manages the records and archive of Louisville Metro’s Air Pollution Control District which includes the environmental files for over 1,800 companies stretching back to the District’s inception in 1945. His priorities focus on the long-term preservation of electronic records, interpreting retention policies, and facilitating public access to the District’s records. Previously he worked at the State Archives of North Carolina as their Metadata Archivist, and at the University of Akron where he managed a World War II archive concentrated on the B-26 Marauder and the men who flew them. Kevin received his M.A. in History from the University of Akron in 2012.
Jennifer Patterson is the Archival Services Branch Manager at the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. In this position, she oversees the State Archives Center, where over 120,000 cubic feet of Kentucky’s permanent public records are stored, and the Archives Research Room, where the public can access those permanent records as well as over 60,000 rolls of microfilm. She also oversees a Special Format Archivist. She has been with KDLA for 14 and a half years, 13 of which were spent in the State Archives Center where she processed several collections of court cases while also providing daily research assistance to the public. She received her M.A. with honors in Military Studies from the American Military University in 2007.
Ida Lucille Sell is a Project Archivist at University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center. She is currently processing collections of Kentuckians who have served in the Federal Judiciary, in support of the Heyburn Initiative at UK. Ida has more than seven years experience working in archives and special collection libraries in Kentucky.
Webmaster Nominees:
Daniel Weddington currently serves as the Research Services Archivist at the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center (SCRC), where he leads research services and public access through supervision and management of day-to-day operations, workflow planning, and reference coordination for the Breckinridge Research Room. Daniel previously served as Digital Services Archivist at Berea College, Digital Archivist at the College of William & Mary, and as a Library Associate at Eastern Kentucky University Special Collections & Archives. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from Eastern Kentucky University and a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Kentucky. He is the outgoing Chair, ex-officio, of the Kentucky Council on Archives.