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Spring 2016 Meeting Photos

Photographs from the Spring 2016 Meeting in Portland, Maine at the Inn By the Bay, March 31-April 2, 2016

[all photos by Jessica Tanny unless otherwise noted]


71 photo(s) Updated on: 2016-04-21
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  • VivianLea Solek volunteers during the New England Archivist's 2016 Day of Service at the Maine Historical Society.
  • Jamie Kingman Rice of Maine Historical Society demonstrates how to construct a phase box, with Sarah Easton and Karen Canary.
  • Immediate Past President Jill Snyder loves making phase boxes during NEA’s 2016 Day of Service event at the Maine Historical Society
  • Heidi Benedict constructing a phase box during the New England Archivists 2016 Day of Service event at the Maine Historical Society
  • At NEA 2016 Day of Service event at the Maine Historical Society in Portland, Maine. From left to right: Jill Snyder, Megan Schwenke, Meghan Bailey, Sarah Easten, Jamie Kingman Rice, Karen Canary
  • Sarah Easton and Karen Canary constructing phase boxes for the Maine Historical Society during NEA’s 2016 Day of Service event
  • VivianLea Solek constructing phase boxes for one of the Maine Historical Society's rare books during the NEA 2016 Day of Service event
  • Jamie Kingman Rice of the Maine Historical Society helps out NEA member volunteers during the 2016 Day of Service event
  • Megan Schwenke, NEA Spring 2016 Meeting Program Committee Chair, dropping in on the Day of Service event at the Maine Historical Society
  • Jamie Kingman Rice of the Maine Historical Society helps out NEA member volunteers during the 2016 Day of Service event
  • One of the enclosures made for the Maine Historical Society’s rare books and manuscripts by volunteers at the NEA 2016 Day of Service event
  • An NEA volunteer measures one of the Maine Historical Society’s rare books while making a preservation enclosure during the NEA 2016 Day of Service event
  • An NEA volunteer uses a bone folder while making a preservation enclosure for one of the Maine Historical Society’s rare books during the NEA 2016 Day of Service event
  • An NEA volunteer measures one of the Maine Historical Society’s rare books while making a preservation enclosure during the NEA 2016 Day of Service event
  • A preservation enclosure made for a photograph album at the Maine Historical Society by an NEA member volunteer during the NEA 2016 Day of Service event
  • Several of Maine Historical Society’s rare books waiting to have enclosures made for them by NEA member volunteers during the NEA 2016 Day of Service event
  • A completed preservation enclosure made for one the Maine Historical Society’s rare bibles during the NEA 2016 Day of Service event
  • Morning shift member volunteers hard at work during the 2016 NEA Day of Service event at the Maine Historical Society
  • NEA volunteers making preservation enclosures for the Maine Historical Society’s rare books during the NEA 2016 Day of Service event
  • Rebecca Chandler, consultant at A/V Preserve, quizzes everyone during the session “What’s DAT? Identifying and Prioritizing Magnetic Media”
  • Identifying obsolete media during the break-out groups at the session “What’s DAT? Identifying and Prioritizing Magnetic Media”
  • Using modern media to identify obsolete media during the session “What’s DAT? Identifying and Prioritizing Magnetic Media”
  • Show and tell: obsolete media on display during the session “What’s DAT? Identifying and Prioritizing Magnetic Media”
  • Show and tell: obsolete media on display during the session “What’s DAT? Identifying and Prioritizing Magnetic Media”
  • Show and tell: obsolete media on display during the session “What’s DAT? Identifying and Prioritizing Magnetic Media”
  • On the media table at the session “What’s DAT? Identifying and Prioritizing Magnetic Media.” Who couldn’t identify an 8-track tape of Barry Manilow’s live DOUBLE album?
  • NEA Spring 2016 Meeting Program Committee member Matt Spry introduces the Friday plenary speaker.
  • Megan Schwenke, Chair of the NEA Spring 2016 Meeting, opens the meeting on Friday morning.
  • Friday Plenary speaker Caleb Neelon.
  • Friday Plenary speaker Caleb Neelon relating his role in the history of graffiti art.
  • Friday Plenary speaker Caleb Neelon relating his role in the history of graffiti art.
  • Suzy Taraba watches Friday’s plenary speaker, Caleb Neelon
  • NEA members watching Caleb Neelon
  • NEA members watching Caleb Neelon
  • NEA members watching Caleb Neelon
  • NEA Immediate Past President Jill Snyder served as emcee for the first NEA StorySLAM event on Friday evening
  • StorySLAM contestant #1: Marissa Hiller telling her story “Amulets and Propaganda”
  • StorySLAM contestant #2: Christina Zamon telling her story “Scanners”
  • StorySLAM contestant #3: Ed Desrochers telling his story “The Track Trophies”
  • StorySLAM contestant #4: Thomas Doyle telling his story “Archives, Mountain Climbing, and Beer”
  • StorySLAM contestant #5: Krista Ferrante telling her story “Interview Day”
  • StorySLAM contestant #6: Tom Blake telling his story “A Properly Whelming Kennedy Visit”
  • Storytellers Thomas Doyle and Marissa Hiller confer after the event.
  • StorySLAM contestant #7: Rebecca Fullerton telling her first-prizewinning story, “Donor Serendipity”
  • NEA President Colin Lukens emceed the NEA Awards Ceremony on Saturday afternoon.
  • Kim Brookes dedicates the Susan von Salis Meeting and Travel Scholarship, named in honor of her partner and prominent NEA member, Susan von Salis
  • Kim Brookes reads a dedication for the Susan von Salis Meeting and Travel Scholarship. Susan and Kim’s son, Gus, looks on
  • Meeting and travel scholarships. Back row (l-r): Rebecca Fullerton, Colin Lukens, Gus Brookes. Front row: Desiree Alaniz, Abby Cramer, Allyson Glazier, Kim Brookes
  • Kim Brookes with Gus, Kim's and Susan von Salis's son.
  • NEA President Colin Lukens (center) and Rep-at-large Jessica Sedgwick (right) with the winner of the A/V Professional Development Award, Adam Schutzman (left).
  • NEA President Colin Lukens (center) and Rep-at-large Jessica Sedgwick (right) with the winner of the Hale Professional Development Award, Nicole Topich (left)
  • Inclusion and Diversity Session and Travel Award. From left to right: Josue Sakata, Andrew Elder, Anna Clutterbuck-Cook, Colin Lukens, Julia Collins Howington, Patricia Reeve, Giordana Mecagni
  • NEA President Colin Lukens (left) and Immediate Past President Jill Snyder with the winner of the Archival Advocacy Award, Casey Davis, founder of ProjectARCC.
  • Presenting the Distinguished Service Award posthumously to Kathryn Hammond Baker are Jill Snyder, Elliot Wilczek, Olivia Baker, and Giordana Mecagni
  • Megan Schwenke, Chair of the NEA Spring 2016 Meeting, opens the Saturday portion of the meeting.
  • Wes Cowan and NEA Spring 2016 Meeting Program Committee member Olivia Mandica-Hart.
  • NEA Spring 2016 Meeting Program Committee member Olivia Mandica-Hart introduces the Saturday plenary speaker.
  • Wes Cowan, Saturday plenary speaker, chatting with attendees at the NEA Spring 2016 Meeting
  • NEA Incoming President Jennifer Gunter King during her inaugural address to the members
  • NEA Incoming President Jennifer Gunter King during her inaugural address to the members
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