Society of Indiana Archivists
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2025 Society of Indiana Archivists Annual Meeting

When Cloning Coworkers Isn't an Option (Yet): Practical Tips and Tricks in Archives

April 4, 2025 | Indianapolis, IN

Request for Proposals

The Society of Indiana Archivists (SIA) - in partnership with the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering at Indiana University Indianapolis–invites proposals for its 2025 Annual Meeting, When Cloning Coworkers Isn’t an Option (Yet): Practical Tips and Tricks in Archives in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Friday, April 4.

SIA has consistently received feedback from members for an emphasis on practical information that can be applied to our day-to-day work. With this year’s conference theme, we hope to provide a space for those within or adjacent to the archival profession to share practical, hands-on information, tips, and workflows that they’ve developed, implemented, and found useful in completing the myriad tasks required of those in our profession. We envision these sessions to be particularly helpful for institutions with less resources and those working in non-traditional archives. Topics of potential interest include but are not limited to:

    • Day-to-day processes
    • Documenting our decisions
    • Donor stewardship
    • Exhibition development
    • Processing collections
    • Grant writing
    • Working with non-traditional collections
    • Managing an archives
    • Records management
    • Successes and failures
    • Systems and databases
    • Tools and workflows
    • Workflows for born-digital vs digital collections
    • Surviving and (hopefully) thriving
    Proposals can be for individual speakers, co-presenters, and panels. Poster presentations will also be accepted. Speakers and presenters do not need to be SIA members. Students and new professionals are encouraged to submit proposals.

    Proposals can be submitted via the Google Forms link. Questions about the Annual Meeting can be sent to Katey Watson, SIA Vice President at watso217[at]purdue[dot]edu.

    Submission deadline: Friday, December 31, 2024.

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