Registration for the International Council on Archives Section on
University and Research Institution Archives will be closing soon. The
finalised programme is available below and the sessions will focus on
challenges for the record keeping profession in general, not just those
in the University sector. It is possible to register for single days as
well as for the whole conference. 

Please note a limited number of bursaries are still available. For
further details and a registration form please see
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/archives/SUV2007/ or contact
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Caroline Brown
University of Dundee Archive Services


SUV 2007.  Archives, Records and the User: The Changing Nature of
University and Scientific Archives in the 21st Century

Tuesday 14 August

9.00-9.15  Welcome
                  Dr David Duncan, University Secretary, University of
Dundee

Session 1: The nature of archives in the 21st century: changes and
challenges

Chair: Pat Whatley, University of Dundee

Keynote Speakers:
9.15-10.00 George McKenzie, Keeper, National Archives of Scotland
                    Archives in Scotland and the World: An
International Perspective

10.00-10.45 Megan Sniffin-Marinoff, Harvard University
                    The 'Scope and Content' of today's universities:
what 21st century archivists should expect

10.45-11.15 Coffee

Panels: 
11.15-12.15 Chair: Susanne Belovari, Tufts University, Boston
                     Speakers: Gatis Karlsons, University of Lativia;
Juliane Mikoletzky, Vienna University of Technology; Lucia Maria        
    Vellosos de Oliveira, House of Rui Barbosa Foundation, Brazil, Samar
Mikati Kaissi, Archives & Special Collections, American  University of
Beirut/Jafet Library, Lebanon
Do We Know How We Differ?: University / Science Archives Across the
Nations

12.15 – 1.00 Marion Matyn, Central Michigan University; Maria José
Justo, Santiago de Compostela
	      The Changing Nature of University Archives

1.00-2.00   Lunch

Session 2: Culture and Evidence: Identifying and Understanding
Differing User Needs

Chair: Caroline Brown, University of Dundee

Keynote Speaker:

2.00-2.45 Maygene Daniels, National Galleries, Washington DC
                Identifying and Understanding Differing User Needs

Panels:
2.45-3.45 Rachel Hart and Norman Reid, University of St Andrews; Portia
Vescio, Michigan State University;  Ellen Swain,  University of
Illinois
	Identifying and Serving Users

3.45-4.15 Coffee

4.15-5.00 Lucia Maria Velloso de Oliveira, House of Rui Barbosa
Foundation; Christopher Prom, University of Illinois
	Users and the Internet

Evening event:
6.00	Visit to St Andrews
7.30-9.00 Wine reception, buffet and music
	Hosted by University of St Andrews, Lower College Hall

Wednesday 15 August

Session 3: The archival workforce: new users, stakeholders and skills

Chair: Peter Anderson, National Archives of Scotland

Keynote Speaker: 

9.00-9.45 Nick Barratt, Historian, Writer, Broadcaster

Panels:

9.45-10.30  Siobhan Convery, Aberdeen University; Norman Reid,
University of St Andrews
                    Who are 21st century archivists? Managers,
promoters, diplomats or technicians? 

10.30-11.00 Coffee

11.00-12.00 Elaine Penn, University of Westminster; Jane Stevenson,
Archives Hub; Sonia Yaco, Wisconsin Historical Society 
                	New users, stakeholders and skills

12.00-12.45 Anne Barrett, Imperial College; Richard Szary, North
Carolina University; Gatis Karlsons, University of Latvia; Magnús
Guðmundsson, University of Iceland.
                    Staffing archives: the international perspective

12.45-1.45 Lunch

Afternoon excursion:

1.45-5.30 Dunkeld and Edradour Distillery, Pitlochry

Conference dinner and dance:
6.45-late	Fingask Castle, Rait, Carse of Gowrie, Perthshire
	After dinner speaker: Professor Tom Devine, University of
Edinburgh
	Scotland’s Tartan Identity: Myth or Real
ity
		
Thursday 16 August

Session 4: Society, memories and histories 

Chair: Ann Jones, Heriot-Watt University

Keynote Speaker:  

9.30-10.30 Randall Jimerson, Western Washington University
	Orwell in the Archives: Memory, Politics, and Records

10.30-11.00 Coffee

Panel:

11.00-12.00 John Benson, queerupnorth Festival Archives; Dr Allan
Beveridge, Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline
	Memory and History

SUV Annual General Meeting
12.00-1.15 SUV General Meeting and presentation by David Leitch, Senior
Programme Manager, International Council on Archives, Paris

1.15-2.15 Lunch

Session 5: The impact of new technologies on record keeping

Chair: Helen McLaughlin, University of Melbourne

Panel:
2.15-3.30 Victoria Peters, University of Glasgow; Rebecca Schulte,
University of Kansas, Alan Bell, University of Dundee
	New technologies and standards

Session 6: Archivists and Public Affairs

Keynote Speaker:

3.30-4.15 Tom Nesmith, University of Manitoba
	University Archivists and Public Affairs:
                Toward a new Archival Public Programming

Closing remarks: 

4.15-4.30 William Maher, University of Illinois

Evening event:
6.30-9.30 Wine reception, Discovery Point Antarctic Museum, Dundee
                 Professor Charles McKean, University of Dundee
                The forgotten seaport: using archives to change
perceptions of Dundee

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