MARA Blog
MARA Blog
Students in the MARA program and those interested in archives and preservation, electronic records management, information governance, and related fields are highly encouraged to visit this blog often. Managed by MARA Program Coordinator Darra Hofman and written by a current MARA student, this blog will keep you current with the MARA community and what’s happening in the profession.
Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN) Summit 2024
November 7th and 8th, 2024
Published: November 6, 2024 by Andy Wiegert
Transformation: Leveraging Technology for Workforce Development and Social and Community Impact
The Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN) reimagines its annual convening and launches, PIT-UN Summit 2024, the marquee event for public interest technologists from across academia, government, civil society, and industry.
About PIT-UN
Data Feminism for AI: A Talk by Lauren Klein
On Campus - Thursday, October 17, 2024 3 pm to 5 pm
The MARA department is proud to co-sponsor an on campus event with Dr. Lauren Klein TOMORROW! Please join us for a conversation with Dr. Lauren Klein in the new SJSU Digital Humanities Center. The development and use of artificial intelligence has become a hot button topic all over the world. How we use and collect data becomes the foundation for data storytelling. But, is this all okay? What is data? How is it being collected? What can we do about this? Are there innovative and ethical ways to use our data within the development of artificial intelligence?
Electronic Records & Lifecycle Governance Intern
Summer 2025 June/July - Irving, Texas
Published: October 3, 2024 by Andy Wiegert
Our Base Pay Range for this position
$17.33 – $28.88
McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve – we care.
2024 National Cybersecurity Virtual Career Fair
Friday, September 27, 2024
Published: September 26, 2024 by Andy Wiegert
The National Cybersecurity Training and Education (NCyTE) Center and the Centers of Academic Excellence (CAE) in Cybersecurity Community are hosting the eighth annual National Cybersecurity Virtual Career Fair.
Making Access Happen: Subject Matter Experts Dig Deep Into History
National Archives News
Published: July 29, 2024 by Andy Wiegert
https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/subject-matter-experts
WASHINGTON, July 12, 2024 – Navigating billions of records at the National Archives can be daunting. Records are not organized by subject, like a library catalog. Material relating to a single topic can be spread over several “record groups” (the basic organizational unit of the National Archives, each comprising the records of a major government entity).
NARA eyes ‘zero click’ future for records management
AI and machine learning can help with records management in the digital era.
Published: July 29, 2024 by Andy Wiegert
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With agencies managing a growing mass of data, the National Archives and Records Management is examining how to do digital records management without human intervention.
2024 NAGARA Annual Conference – Now Accepting Travel Scholarship Applications
Applications are due by April 1, 2024
Published: February 20, 2024 by Andy Wiegert
The Travel Scholarship application is now open, and NAGARA is accepting applications through Monday, April 1, 2024. If you have never attended a NAGARA Annual Conference before, then don’t miss out on this opportunity to apply! Visit our Travel Scholarship web page to learn more, prepare your application materials, and apply! Travel Scholarship link: https://nagara.org/AC2024/travel-scholarships
Summer 2024 Internship, National Baseball Hall of Fame, (Cooperstown, NY)
APPLICATIONS DUE JANUARY 31st
Published: January 19, 2024 by Andy Wiegert
The National Baseball Hall of Fame is accepting applications for Summer 2024 internship positions!
For more than twenty years, the Frank and Peggy Steele Internship Program for Youth Leadership Development has provided undergraduate and graduate students with hands-on training in numerous professional careers. This 10-week program offers a bi-weekly stipend for all interns and can be completed for course credit. Scholarships are available!
Scholarship Opportunity – Mosaic Scholarship
Submission Deadline - February 28, 2024 at 11:59 PM CST (Midnight)
Published: January 15, 2024 by Andy Wiegert
Scholarship Opportunity – F. Gerald Ham and Elsie Ham
Submission Deadline - February 28, 2024 at 11:59 PM CST (Midnight)
Published: January 15, 2024 by Andy Wiegert
Josephine Forman Scholarship Opportunity
Submission deadline - February 28, 2024 at 11:59 PM CST (Midnight)
Published: January 15, 2024 by Andy Wiegert
The Josephine Forman Scholarship provides financial support to minority students pursuing graduate education in archival science, encourages students to pursue a career as an archivist, and promotes the diversification of the American archives profession. The scholarship is given to applicants who demonstrate excellent potential for scholastic and personal achievement and who manifest a commitment both to the archives profession and to advancing diversity concerns within it.
SAA / COsA 2023
Conference Highlights from Melissa Kemp and Junia Papas
Published: August 10, 2023 by Melissa Prunty Kemp
Meet Our New Instructor – Rae Lynn Haliday, MBA, CRM/CIGO, FAI
Published: July 16, 2023 by Melissa Prunty Kemp
Opportunities to perform records
management skills taught in our MARA courses have expanded into
all disciplines. Many of our past guest lecturers have
illustrated through their exciting career positions just how far
and wide a MARA degree can be used. The MARA program is
furthering that aim by adding to our faculty,
including an expert who spoke to us in September
2020. Welcome Rae Lynn Haliday, who brings decades of
records management experience in the field of Zoology.
A New Semester – Time To Try a New Class and Welcome Our New Faculty!
Published: July 13, 2023 by Melissa Prunty Kemp
As you are enjoying your summer break, MARA department leaders are hard at work bringing our incoming students the best, most innovative instruction on topics that face today’s archivists and records managers.
Fall course planning is underway with two new courses and new faculty members!
Meet Our New MARA Instructor Junia Papas
Published: July 1, 2023 by Melissa Prunty Kemp
The archives and records management profession continues to grow with creative innovations and so does our MARA faculty. One of our newest archives faculty members, Junia Papas, MARA, CA, brings to our department a uniquely useful set of professional experiences. Papas is an independent archivist in her own consulting firm, Junia Papas Archival Consulting, LLC., with extensive experience with government, academic, and religious archives.
Keeping Up With Career Development
Published: June 26, 2023 by Melissa Prunty Kemp
Shore-up Your Professional Development Connections
Join the Society of American Archivist Professional Listings
Published: May 11, 2023 by Melissa Prunty Kemp
With graduation around the
corner, MARA students are leaving their students routines of the
past three or more years and moving into professional
lives. Now is the perfect time to engage in professional
development organizations and activities if you have not already
done so.
Contribute to the Future of AI Research in Records and Information Management
Take the InterPARES Trust AI Survey
Published: March 18, 2023 by Melissa Prunty Kemp
Dr. Franks and her team are continuing their artificial intelligence (AI) research by gathering information on AI use in the field from current archivists and records managers.
Artificial Intelligence is Among Us!
A Preservica Professional Development Opportunity
Published: February 12, 2022 by Melissa Prunty Kemp
MARA 283 instructs students in vital software skills for archivists and records managers – working knowledge of Microsoft Sharepoint and Preservica. When I explored and priced Preservica three years ago for smaller institutions, who can also benefit from this superior archival management system, purchasing it was cost prohibitive. But no more.
Dr. Pat Franks Advances AI Research in Records and Information Management
Major research results prepared for InterPARES Trust AI
Published: February 11, 2023 by Melissa Prunty Kemp
AI is frequently featured in almost everything these days, especially in business technology. The promise of AI to aid in managing the big data that we create in the course of normal business operations is widely desired and widely advertised. The phone or chat bot are small examples of AI assistance in business functions. How could AI be used to perform archives and records management functions?