MARA Blog

Scholarship Opportunity – Mosaic Scholarship

andrew.wiegert@sjsu.edu — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 16:12:00 +0000

Submission Deadline - February 28, 2024 at 11:59 PM CST (Midnight)

The Mosaic Scholarship provides financial and mentoring support to students of color 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 award 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. Established by the SAA Council in August 2008 to advance SAA’s Diversity Strategic Priority.

Scholarship Opportunity – F. Gerald Ham and Elsie Ham

andrew.wiegert@sjsu.edu — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 16:00:00 +0000

Submission Deadline - February 28, 2024 at 11:59 PM CST (Midnight)

In January 1998, SAA Fellow, past president, and long-time member F. Gerald Ham and his wife Elsie established the F. Gerald Ham and Elsie Ham Scholarship Fund. The purpose of the fund, endowed in 2008, is to provide financial support to graduate students in a professional archival studies program. Criteria for selection of the award recipient includes the applicant’s past performance in her/his graduate program in archival studies as well as a faculty member’s assessment of the student’s prospects for contributing to the archives profession. Selection will be made based on merit.

Josephine Forman Scholarship Opportunity

andrew.wiegert@sjsu.edu — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 14:54:00 +0000

Submission deadline - February 28, 2024 at 11:59 PM CST (Midnight)

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

melissa.kemp@sjsu.edu — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 15:58:00 +0000

Conference Highlights from Melissa Kemp and Junia Papas

Published: August 10, 2023 by Melissa Prunty Kemp

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Meet Our New Instructor – Rae Lynn Haliday, MBA, CRM/CIGO, FAI

melissa.kemp@sjsu.edu — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 23:12:00 +0000

Published: July 16, 2023 by Melissa Prunty Kemp

[image:20997, image left] 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!

melissa.kemp@sjsu.edu — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 13:10:00 +0000

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

melissa.kemp@sjsu.edu — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 21:55:00 +0000

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

melissa.kemp@sjsu.edu — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 15:22:00 +0000

Published: June 26, 2023 by Melissa Prunty Kemp

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Shore-up Your Professional Development Connections

melissa.kemp@sjsu.edu — Thu, 11 May 2023 20:59:00 +0000

Join the Society of American Archivist Professional Listings

Published: May 11, 2023 by Melissa Prunty Kemp

[image:20476, image right] 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

melissa.kemp@sjsu.edu — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 20:59:00 +0000

Take the InterPARES Trust AI Survey

Published: March 18, 2023 by Melissa Prunty Kemp

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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

melissa.kemp@sjsu.edu — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 00:02:00 +0000

Published: February 12, 2022 by Melissa Prunty Kemp

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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

melissa.kemp@sjsu.edu — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 02:32:00 +0000

Major research results prepared for InterPARES Trust AI

Published: February 11, 2023 by Melissa Prunty Kemp

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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

melissa.kemp@sjsu.edu — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 01:52:00 +0000

Spring 2023 University Scholar Series

Published: February 11, 2023 by Melissa Prunty Kemp

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SAA Archives – Records 2023

melissa.kemp@sjsu.edu — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 23:35:00 +0000

The Premiere Conference for Archives and Records Management

Published: January 15, 2023 by Melissa Prunty Kemp

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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

melissa.kemp@sjsu.edu — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 14:35:00 +0000

Published: November 9, 2022 by Melissa Prunty Kemp

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Join Angel Diaz, the curator of the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archive at UC Santa Barbsara, for her presentation titled Inside the Archive.

American Horror Story: Records Management

melissa.kemp@sjsu.edu — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 14:06:00 +0000

with Mia Steinberg

Published: November 9, 2022 by Melissa Prunty Kemp

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Bring your RIM coursework to life at Feith’s RMU

melissa.kemp@sjsu.edu — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 03:01:00 +0000

Published: September 13, 2022 by Melissa Prunty Kemp

Bring your RIM coursework to life at Feith’s RMU

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SAA Archives Records 2022 Redux

melissa.kemp@sjsu.edu — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 23:17:00 +0000

Let’s Do It Again!

Published: September 13, 2022 by Melissa Prunty Kemp

‘What I Did Last Summer’ – My Internship in Oral History at Swarthmore College

melissa.kemp@sjsu.edu — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 23:07:00 +0000

Published: August 18, 2022 by Melissa Prunty Kemp

[image:18412]Vacation days are over and the semester begins in a mere four days. Some were fortunate to take beach getaways, while others hiked the NE mountains with friends and family. I am hoping that after you read this summertime report, you will email me with your own stories and photos that I will share on this blog.

Welcome to MARA 2022 – 2023!

melissa.kemp@sjsu.edu — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 22:48:00 +0000

Published: August 18, 2022 by Melissa Prunty Kemp

Welcome new and continuing students to MARA 2022 -2023! We’re back for another exciting year of classes and professional activities. If this is your first semester, you may wonder where to get started in and outside of classes.