National Archives Conference for Fraternities and Sororities, 2018
Optional: Thursday, May 3
- 3:00 – 5:00 pm Archives Basics Noraleen A. Young CA, Staff Archivist, Kappa Alpha Theta
- 5:30 – 6:30 pm Reception at Kappa Alpha Theta
Friday, May 4, 2018 – Zeta Tau Alpha HQ
- 8:30 am Welcome and introductions
- 9:00 -10:15 am Moving Collections/Planning Museum Spaces – Patti Cords Levitte, Director of Archives & Historical Education, Zeta Tau Alpha
- 10:15 – 10:30 Break
- 10:30 – 11:30 am Managing our digital collections: photographs and everything else– group discussion led by Noraleen A. Young, Staff archivist, Kappa Alpha Theta
- 11:30 – 1 pm Lunch (on your own)
- 1:00 – 3:45 pm Photo preservation and identification, Jennifer Hain Teper, Preservation and Conservation, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
- 3:45 – 4:00 pm Break
- 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Trends in Social Media Lauren Palmer, Digital Media Manager, Kappa Alpha Theta
- Dinner on your own (we can arrange some dinner groups if interested)
Saturday, May 5 – Zeta Tau Alpha HQ
- 9:00 am – 10:30 am Difficult History – Jessica Ballard, Visiting Faculty Archives Resident at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign will speak briefly about housing discrimination and the role of fraternities and sororities – in a way to make a negative a positive. We will continue with a broader discussion about how we address topics that may be challenging to share.
- 10:30 – 10:45 am Break
- 10:45 – 12:00 pm Oral History Best Practices – Barbara Truesdell, assistant director, Center for Documentary Research and Practice, Indiana University
- 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Wrap up/plans for future conferences. For those remaining, we can go to lunch.
Thursday events are held at Kappa Alpha Theta Fraternity, 8740 Founders Road Indianapolis, IN.
Friday and Saturday events are held at Zeta Tau Alpha, 1036 S. Rangeline Road Carmel, IN.
