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 Coordinators Dr. Jessica Bushey and Dr. Patrick Hutchinson, this blog will keep you current with the MARA community and what’s happening in the profession.
Applications Open: Summer 2024 Preservation Institute Nantucket
Priority application deadline: March 1, 2024, Second deadline: April 30, 2024
Published: February 11, 2024 by Andy Wiegert
Summer 2024: Intangible Heritage at Risk
June 10 – August 9, 2024
February Indigenizing Archives through Digital Sovereignty, Digital Culture, and Language Preservation
MARA Webinar - Thurs Feb 1, 2024 12:00pm – 2:00pm (PST)
Published: January 22, 2024 by Andy Wiegert
Jerrid Lee Miller is a Cherokee Nation citizen, US Army veteran and the current Language Archivist for the Cherokee Nation Language Department. He is working in tandem with both the Cherokee Nation and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in developing a shared digital repository that will focus on language preservation and revitalization efforts for their shared digital materials.
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!
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?
“Forever or Five Years”: Record-keeping and Human Thriving
Spring 2023 University Scholar Series
Published: February 11, 2023 by Melissa Prunty Kemp
“Forever or Five Years”: Record-keeping and Human Thriving
Spring 2023 University Scholar Series
Published: February 11, 2023 by Melissa Prunty Kemp
SAA Archives – Records 2023
The Premiere Conference for Archives and Records Management
Published: January 15, 2023 by Melissa Prunty Kemp
Archivists and records managers wait each year for the announcement on the location of our esteemed and informative conference – the annual Society of American Archivists (SAA) Archives – Records Meeting. This year, the week – long meeting will be held in Washington DC, with the famed Washington Hilton slated as the conference host venue.
Inside the Archive: California Ethnic and Multicultural Archive with the curator of CEMA at UC Santa Barbara
Published: November 9, 2022 by Melissa Prunty Kemp
Join Angel Diaz, the curator of the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archive at UC Santa Barbsara, for her presentation titled Inside the Archive.