Roundtable 3: Issues of Privacy and Confidentiality within Archival Settings

"Participant-driven, the Privacy and Confidentiality Roundtable will discuss, share experiences, and describe outcomes of members’ solutions to privacy and confidentiality issues within archives and archival-centric repositories. Topics may include legal and ethical issues and/or specific issues related to personnel files and material, medical and electronic records, and “grey” areas where privacy and confidentiality concerns may be unclear."

Join us for a roundtable discussion. The roundtables have no formal presenters. They are designed to provide time for fuller discussion, to allow attendees more input as to the direction the discussion will take, and time to share experiences with other attendees. Please comment below with questions or topics for this roundtable.

Roundtable 2: Never a Better Time to Start: Preparing for Disasters Now

"Join your colleagues for this roundtable to discuss institutional emergency planning. We’ll discuss risk assessment and mitigation, preparedness and training, response, and recovery. Key lessons from Hurricane Sandy disaster recovery efforts will be included. Becky Fifield, leader for collections emergency activities at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Chair of Alliance for Response NYC, will start and guide the conversation. Topics to explore: getting institutional buy-in, preparedness decision-making, collections risk assessment, establishment of plans and response teams, incident command system, business continuity,  health and safety, priority setting, and community outreach and resources."

Join us for a roundtable discussion. The roundtables have no formal presenters. They are designed to provide time for fuller discussion, to allow attendees more input as to the direction the discussion will take, and time to share experiences with other attendees. Please comment below with questions or topics for this roundtable.

Roundtable 1: Access Round Table: Issues, Ideas, and Visions

"Access policies and services are derived from an archives’ mission, and shaped by the resources available to meet user needs. Access depends on collection maintenance, metadata services, and  technical resources (all of which may be contributed by a single individual) to provide intellectual and electronic or physical access supporting collection use. Come and discuss roles and issues related to the discovery, access, and use of archival resources such as balancing security, preservation, and access; meeting consortial standards and user needs; using ‘non-archival’ access tools like Flickr.com and YouTube.com; user-enriched description and access; and breaking archival rules to better serve user needs. Bring your questions, ideas and your vision of a new access paradigm!"

Join us for a roundtable discussion. The roundtables have no formal presenters. They are designed to provide time for fuller discussion, to allow attendees more input as to the direction the discussion will take, and time to share experiences with other attendees. Please comment below with questions or topics for this roundtable.