On-Demand Webcasts: MARA Lecture
I Love IG
Mara Guest Lecture
This MARA Guest Lecture features Andrew Ysasi as our guest speaker. Since 2020, Ysasi has taught records management, information governance (IG), and information assurance at the iSchool. Hear all about his love for IG and why he loves teaching in the MARA program. He’ll discuss emerging technologies, challenging projects, how the MLIS and MARA degree programs overlap, and career advice.
The recording will be posted here as soon as it is available.
Applying Archival Knowledge to Born-Digital Cultures
MARA Guest Lecture
This talk will examine the value of archival knowledge in crafting research methodologies for the study of digital cultures. By bringing archival preservation and historical analysis into closer conversation with one another, James Hodges highlights new media formats of growing concern to practitioners, as well as methods for analysis with underutilized value to researchers. Case studies are drawn from several overlapping projects, including Hodges’ work on computer history, algorithmic accountability, and public health.
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The New Archival History: An Overview
MARA Guest Lecture
Join the San José State University School of Information as we welcome Isabel Taylor, Archivist, State Archives of Schleswig-Holstein. This presentation provides an introduction to the most recent discoveries in the field of early modern European archival history. These new studies radically challenge the popular perception of archives as dusty, liminal, and obscure. They re-situate early modern archives as complex sites of dissent and resistance as well as repression, and reveal their keepers as important political players.
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Diversity for Representation
MARA Guest Lecture
Students, alumni and guests are invited to attend this joint webinar with MARA and the CPGE Academic EDI Committee, featuring Dr. Aisha Johnson.
Leveraging Your RIM Education and Certification in the Zoological Registrar Profession
MARA Guest Lecture
The zoological profession offers many job opportunities including those in Records and Information Management. This presentation will review in-depth information on the zoological registrar position including how your education and your ICRM certification will streamline the path to a successful career in a wonderful profession dedicated to animal conservation, research, education and entertainment. Zoological institutions are everywhere!
Building a Digital-First Archive (How Hard Could that Be?)
MARA Guest Lecture
The Harvard University Archives has announced an ambitious goal to transition to a “digital-first” records management program by 2026. This presentation focuses on issues surrounding the long-term preservation of digital records, looking first at the technical and social infrastructure necessary to ensure effective and sustainable persistence of record accessibility, integrity, authenticity, and usability, and then, discussing how we can know whether those goals have been achieved.
Boundaryless Global Careers for Archives and Records Management Professionals
MARA Guest Lecture
In this lecture, Dr. Shadrack Katuu will reflect on the truly global nature of the Archives and Records Management (ARM) profession drawing on his experience.
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