2 Reminders

MayDay - Saving Our Archives - is Saturday, May 1, 2010. What are you doing this year? For more information on MayDay and ideas for activities, see the SAA MayDay webpage.




Preservation Week - Pass it on: Saving Heritage and Memories - is May 9-15, 2010. To learn more about this new annual event, visit the Preservation Week webpage of the American Library Association (ALA). ALA encourages libraries and other institutions to use Preservation Week to connect our communities through events, activities, and resources that highlight what we can do, individually and together, to preserve our personal and shared collections.

CARA members, let us know what you are doing for these 2 events and we will share your story here.

Graduation Announcement

Congratulations to CARA Member, Merle Branner!

Merle is graduating from Dominican University, May 8, 2010 from the School of Library and Information Science with a MLIS degree with a focus in archival studies.

Merle interned with Marcia Stein at the Robert M. Myers Archives, Society of the Divine Word and is currently interning at Media Burn, an independent video archives in Chicago.

Merle intends to stay in the area and continue to be the archivist at North Shore Congregation Israel. She is also looking for a paid informational professional position. Merle hopes to utilize her diverse talents in photography, multi media, technology, and education in an academic, corporate, non-profit and/or museum repository. Check out her e-portfolio here!

In addition, Merle will be presenting her paper, The Servant Leadership Dynamic between Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson: How They Changed Baseball and Our Country, at the 22nd Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, in June 2010 at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

Good luck and congrats, Merle!

Malachy and Diane at MAC

Malachy McCarthy, CARA President, was a speaker at MAC 2010 today, Thursday, April 22nd and did our group proud! The 3:30-5:00 pm well-attended session was called
"Special Interest Groups: Surviving with the Three C's: Collaboration, Continuing Education and Cost Savings." Malachy discussed the beginnings of CARA, what we do to support each other, programs we have held and hopes for the future, including a special interest sub-group for Archon users.

Diane Pugh, CARA Vice-President, graciously chaired the session which included two other speakers from similar local specialty groups. Susan Rishworth, American College of Surgeons, represented and discussed the Chicago Area Medical Archivists (CAMA). David Malone, Wheaton College, represented and discussed the Archives Special Interest Group (SIG) of LIBRAS , a consortium of private liberal-arts colleges and universities in the Chicago area.

Great ideas were shared on what made these groups succesful - a number of which CARA might initiate! The session attendees can now take these ideas and establish similar groups in their locale!

Well done Diane and Malachy! CARA has a bright future thanks to your leadership!

Apologies for the lack of photos from the session - too engrossed in the discussion! :(