September 18, 2001
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Archives Week Event: Archives Clinic
Saturday, 20 October 2001, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Austin History Center, 810 Guadalupe Street, Austin
Contacts: Sue Soy, Austin History Center, 512-499-7388
Charles Hargrove, Society of American Archivists – UT Student Chapter, 512-478-3147
UT STUDENTS PROVIDE ADVICE ON PRESERVING FAMILY HISTORY
Documents, photos, and home movies represent your family’s history. Have you ever thought about how to best organize, store, and preserve these materials? Experts like those working at the Austin History Center and training at the University of Texas work to preserve items that document our society's heritage; would you like to know how they do it? Come to the Archives Clinic to find out!
The Society of American Archivists – UT Student Chapter and the Austin History Center invite you to bring your questions to a free Archives Clinic (October 20, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., at the Austin History Center, 810 Guadalupe Street). Students and faculty from the Archival and Records Enterprise program and the Preservation and Conservation Studies Program of The University of Texas at Austin Graduate School of Library and Information Science, along with staff archivists from the Austin History Center, will be available to share advice on organization, storage, decisions on what you need to keep, and archival preservation.
Everyone is welcome to bring in family photos, slides, scrapbooks, documents, and home movies to get specific answers to your questions. Staff and students will provide recommendations on how best to handle your special materials and will invite you to explore examples of potential deterioration and housing solutions. Free literature will be available.
The Society of American Archivists – UT-Austin Student Chapter is an organization of students in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science Archival and Records Enterprise program. Every year the Chapter hosts Archives Week as a way to promote awareness of the importance of archives and their use within society. For a complete list of the events hosted during this year’s Archives Week (October 14-20), please visit our website at www.gslis.utexas.edu/~archweek.