Program Schedule
9:30 – 10:00 Coffee & Registration
10:00 – 10:10 Welcome
10:10 – 10:50 Demystifying Grants: The Whats, Whys, and Hows
Sarah Dorpinghaus, University of Kentucky
Carrie Daniels, University of Louisville
Deana Thomas, Kentucky Historical Society
Mandy Higgins, Kentucky Historical Society
Neil Kasiak, Eastern Kentucky University
Megan Mummey, University of Kentucky
This panel of six archivists and special collections administrators will discuss the ins and outs of securing funding through grant opportunities. They will discuss common types of grant-funded projects; national, regional, or local grant opportunities; how to know when a grant is a good fit for your project; recommendations for writing a successful grant application, including timeline, project plan, significance, letters of support, technology, and budgeting; the grant review; and ethical considerations when hiring grant-funded or temporary workers for grant projects.
10:50 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 11:20 Born Digital Workflows at the Rose Library
Brenna Edwards, Emory University
Creating workflows for preserving born-digital materials is a challenge as technology and tools are continually introduced or updated. At the Rose Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University, the BitCurator environment has been adapted to create more efficient workflows for preserving born-digital media. This talk will focus on the most useful tools for newly accessioned born-digital materials: FSLint, Bagger, BulkExtractor, Brunnhilde, and a toolset called CCA (Canadian Center for Architecture) Tools. Through experimentation and documentation, these tools have improved workflows and made born-digital holdings more accessible.
11:20 – 11: 40 The Online, Interactive Exhibit Book: Using Scalar to Highlight Faculty Content in the Archives
Beth South, Indiana University East
Scalar, a project of the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture (ANVC), is an open source authoring and publishing platform that allows archives, museums, and libraries to bring media from multiple sources together to create long-form, born-digital content. As part of the Indiana University Bicentennial, the IU East Archives sought a way to showcase content so that it could be accessible to online students and researchers. Scalar allowed the archivist to create a digital book containing photos, oral histories, news articles, and research. This talk will provide an overview of Scalar, a rationale for the project, and the challenges and benefits of using the platform.
11:40 – 12:00 Q & A Panel Forum
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch & member voting
1:00 – 1:30 Networking Activity
1:30 – 2:10 A Look Behind the Curtain: Corporate Collections Management
Madison Sevilla, Sazerac Company Archive
Stephanie Kelley, Sazerac Company Archive
Bailey Mazik, Louisville Slugger Museum
Jessica Kincaid, 21c Museum Hotel
This roundtable discussion offers an inside look at corporate archives and how they are used to grow brand awareness and the visitor experience. Professionals from Sazerac Company, the Louisville Slugger Museum, and 21c Museum Hotel will talk about the inner working of their collections and how they work to meet industry standards.
2: 10 – 2: 30 Collaboration between a University Archives and Historical Society: Establishing an Archives on a Budget
Joseph Coates, Purdue University Northwest
In 2017, Purdue University Northwest and The Barker Mansion formed a partnership in order to establish an archives for the Barker Mansion. This talk will walk through the 18-month project and discuss the elements that went into making it a success. Topics will include grant writing, technology assistance, coordinating student workers, and how the university archives’ guidance to support this local museum has opened an opportunity to collaborate with another group in the future.
2:30 – 2:50 “This May Sound Crazy, But Hear Me Out…”:Collaborating with Church Musicians to Expose and Promote a Hidden Collection in the Mount Saint Joseph Archives
Heidi Taylor-Caudill, Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph Archives
In 2018, the director of music for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Owensboro approached archivist Heidi Taylor-Caudill about collaborating on a concert to commemorate the missionary travels of Father Paul Joseph Volk (1841-1919), a German-born Catholic priest who served as a missionary in Kentucky and Latin America. Heidi worked with the director of music and musicians from Holy Spirit Parish in Bowling Green to develop a concert program that incorporated readings from the letters of Father Volk with Catholic hymn music. This talk will use this concert as a case study for how archivists can work creatively with musicians to draw attention to hidden collections and coordinating events on a limited budget with a limited time frame.
3:00 – 3:20 Q & A Panel Forum
3:20 – 3:30 Break
3:30 – 4:30 Buffalo Trace Tour