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"A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together."
 —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Learning to become a leader is a life long skill that can be applied in many different stages of your professional career. This workshop, led by instructor Maria Bernier, will guide new managers through the management of people and problems. You’ll talk about the role of the manager, managing up as well as down, hiring, performance management, evaluation, letting someone go, and managing yourself. The workshop will also cover methods for dealing with non-personnel problems.

You can register for Becoming a Better Manager workshop on the NEA website.

Title: Becoming a Better Manager
Instructor: Maria Bernier, Connecticut State Library
Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Time: 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Location: Trinity College, Hartford, CT
Raether Library and Information Technology Center
Joslin Family 1823 Room (LITC 206/207)
Parking: TBD
Refreshments: A continental breakfast and sandwiches for lunch will be provided as part of your registration fee. Please inform us of any food allergies you have.

Please come to the workshop with your questions, and be ready to share scenarios and experiences with the best and worst bosses you’ve had, observed or heard about. Often discussing real life examples leads to solutions for others!

About the Instructor:
Maria Bernier earned her MBA while working as the University Archivist at Salve Regina University in Newport, RI, and later served as the Assistant Director of the Redwood Library & Athenaeum in Newport where she directly and indirectly supervised 16 employees. She now works for the Connecticut State Library as a grant administrator.

Rates (open until May 31st):
Members: $105.00
Non-Members: $120.00
Students: $62.50

Register on the NEA website today.

Are you an archivist in New England? NEA wants to hear about your experience.

Please take our annual membership survey to help New England Archivists better serve the profession and your needs. We are interested in feedback from current members and/or members whose membership has lapsed. Your responses will be completely anonymous.

The survey includes questions about general membership, meeting structure, education/training, NEA's strategic plan, NEA roundtable activities, and how NEA communicates with members. The survey, which takes only about 15 minutes to complete, includes 44 questions.

At the end of the survey, current NEA members can enter to win our prize: a free year of membership in NEA!

The survey will open Friday, May 15 at 8:00 am and close on Friday, May 29 at 11:50 pm.

The NEA Membership Committee thanks you for your participation!

New England Archivists is a sponsor of the upcoming Mass History Conference:

CHEW ON THIS: PRESENTING THE HISTORY OF FOOD IN MASSACHUSETTS
A Conference for Massachusetts History Organizations

Monday, June 1st, 2015 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Hogan Campus Center, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA

You are what you eat! Or are you? At this year’s conference, we will explore the meaning and availability of food in Massachusetts History: what we grow, what we eat, food and identity, scarcity and quality.

Registration is now open -- Workshops will fill quickly, so register today!

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Ian Cheney, Documentary Filmmaker (The Search for General Tso and King Corn), and co-founder of Food Corps

ELEVEN SESSIONS INCLUDING:

• Food in Massachusetts Archives (sponsored by New England Archivists)
• Chocolate, Culture, and the Politics of Food in Massachusetts
• No Food in the Archives: Pest Control and Other Issues in Archival Preservation (an MA SHRAB Forum session)
  
• Molasses and Marshmallow: Food and Trading in New England Account Books
• Beyond the Butter Churn: History, Food, and Social Activism

TWO WORKSHOPS:

• You Don’t Know Beans…’Til You Ask Someone: Oral History & Community
  
• Creating Food Demonstration Programs at Your Historic Site

SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS
Mass Humanities  •  New England Archivists  •  Massachusetts Historical Society  •  Colonial Society of Massachusetts  •  University of Massachusetts Amherst Program in Public History  •  Massachusetts State Historical Records Advisory Board (MA SHRAB)  •  University of Massachusetts Boston Public History and Archives Tracks and the Joseph P. Healey Library

PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS
Brown University  •  Concord Museum  •  Freedom’s Way Heritage Association, Inc.  •  Gaining Ground  •  Harvard University  •  Historic Deerfield  •  Historic New England  •  Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners  •  Massachusetts Historical Society  •  New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center  •  New Bedford Whaling Museum  •  New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library  •  Northeast Document Conservation Center  •  Oakfield Research  •  Old Sturbridge Village  •  Red Tomato  •  The Old Manse  •  Tomaquag Museum  •  Tufts University  •  University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries  •  University of Massachusetts Amherst  •  Worcester Historical Museum  •  World Farmers, Inc.

We are happy to welcome the 2015 MA SHRAB Forum to the Mass History Conference! MA SHRAB is holding two free sessions in the afternoon to which any Mass History Conference participant may attend. If you would like to ONLY attend these two SHRAB sessions, register for free on MA SHRAB Forum registration page.

Learning to become a better manager is a life long skill that can be applied in many different stages of your professional career. Register for Becoming a Better Manager workshop on the NEA website today.

Title: Becoming a Better Manager

Instructor: Maria Bernier, Connecticut State Library

Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Time: 9:30AM-4:30PM

Location: Trinity College, Hartford, CT

Raether Library and Information Technology Center

Joslin Family 1823 Room (LITC 206/207)

Parking: TBD

Refreshments: A continental breakfast and sandwiches for lunch will be provided as part of your registration fee. Please inform us of any food allergies you have.

Max Registration Number: 20

Description:

Designed for the new manager, this workshop will focus on the management of people and problems. We’ll talk about the role of the manager, managing up as well as down, hiring, performance management, evaluation, letting someone go, and managing yourself. The workshop will also cover methods for dealing with non-personnel problems.

Please come to the workshop with your questions, and be ready to share scenarios and experiences with the best and worst bosses you’ve had, observed or heard about. Often discussing real life examples leads to solutions for others!

About the Instructor:

Maria Bernier earned her MBA while working as the University Archivist at Salve Regina University in Newport, RI, and later served as the Assistant Director of the Redwood Library & Athenaeum in Newport where she directly and indirectly supervised 16 employees. She now works for the Connecticut State Library as a grant administrator.

RATES:

Early bird (April 8-April 29th)
Members: $85.00
Non-Members: $100.00
Students: $42.50

Advanced (April 30-May 31)
Members: $105.00
Non-Members: $120.00
Students: $62.50

Register on the NEA website today.

Saturday May 16th will be our inaugural TourFest -- where we mix archives and music for a really fun day. And best of all -- everyone is invited to attend: NEA members -- REPS members and advocates.

Participants get two in-depth, behind-the-scenes repository tours of some of Boston’s most interesting archival repositories. After the tours, we'll meet in Davis Square for Somerville's PorchFest: where musicians and bands throughout Somerville play music for the community from their front porches. This informal event is perfect for anyone who wants to hear a wide sampling of local music or anyone who just wants to stroll the neighborhood with friends.

Join us for the tours... stay for the music.

Register for TourFest 2015 by signing up for one of three groups

TourFest 2015 is organized by the NEA Roundtable for Early Professional and Students (REPS). Everyone is invited to join us at PorchFest, but it is not a requirement of the event. And all are welcome to meet up with us at PorchFest even if you did not attend a tour. We'll meet at Davis Square Park (near the T station) at 4pm. Contact Casey Davis (casey_davis@wgbh.org) for more information.

Can't make a decision? ​

Join GROUP THREE to visit the

BOSTONIAN SOCIETY LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES: A visit to the Bostonian Society Library and Archives will include an overview of the facility, a behind-the-scenes tour into collections storage, and an opportunity to see highlights from their 18th century collection, including materials related to John Hancock and the Hancock family, Paul Revere, and Boston daily life during the American Revolution.

Last fall, the Bostonian Society also discovered a time capsule from 1901 in the lion statue that sits atop the Old State House, so there will also be an opportunity to look at some of the items that were found in the time capsule.

BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ARCHIVES: The Boston Symphony Orchestra Archives houses printed programs, press clippings, posters, photographs, administrative files, and an extensive collection of radio broadcast tapes of concerts, and commercial recordings. Visitors can expect to see a representative sample of these collections as well as tour the newly renovated archives space which opened in October 2014. The audio/visual collection makes up about one-third of the Archives’ entire holdings and contains commercial recordings and radio broadcast master tapes of the BSO, the Pops, and the Boston Symphony Chamber Players.

Hope to see you there!

Did you ever wonder how NEA's organizational records are managed? As archivists ourselves, we wanted to create an effective and efficient system to ensure the appropriate disposition of our records. 

On March 4th, the NEA Board approved a new records schedule for the organization. The schedule is media neutral and applies to all records created and received during the process of conducting the business of NEA. You will find a PDF of the records schedule on the NEA website (under the "About NEA" side navigation).

Thank you to Abby Cramer, Joanie Gearin, Juliana Kuipers, Veronica Martzahl, Adrienne Pruitt, and Jill Snyder who worked hard to put this all together. To insure that the new schedule is smoothly implemented, we have established a Records Schedule Implementation Task Force.

Any questions? Contact Immediate Past President, Jill Snyder (jillannsnyder@gmail.com).

A unique opportunity!

The Journal for Contemporary Archival Studies (JCAS) announces a call for submissions on the topic of 19th-century photography collections and techniques. Working in collaboration with New England Archivists, the JCAS will select submissions for a special issue to be published online in conjunction with the NEA symposium focusing on 19th-century photography to be held in Providence, Rhode Island, on November 7, 2015.

Authors should submit original works of recent research on the following:
     -- the history of 19th-century photography collections
     -- management and descriptive projects involving these materials
     -- the use of 19th-century photo collections by researchers, artists, and staff in interesting projects and performances.

Original works by students, archivists, librarians, researchers, and artists will be accepted and reviewed according to the rules/parameters/criteria set by the JCAS: http://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/policies.html.

Timeline
8/1: Submissions due
8/1-9/15: Peer Review period
9/15-10/15: Revision period
11/7: Publication

Original works should be submitted to the JCAS through the journal website: http://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/

For more information on the Fall 2015 NEA Meeting, visit http://www.newenglandarchivists.org/meetings.

Early bird registration ends tomorrow, Wednesday, April 29th. Don't wait: Register on the NEA website today.

Title: Becoming a Better Manager

Instructor: Maria Bernier, Connecticut State Library

Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Time: 9:30AM-4:30PM

Location: Trinity College, Hartford, CT

Raether Library and Information Technology Center

Joslin Family 1823 Room (LITC 206/207)

Parking: TBD

Refreshments: A continental breakfast and sandwiches for lunch will be provided as part of your registration fee. Please inform us of any food allergies you have.

Max Registration Number: 20

Description:

Designed for the new manager, this workshop will focus on the management of people and problems. We’ll talk about the role of the manager, managing up as well as down, hiring, performance management, evaluation, letting someone go, and managing yourself. The workshop will also cover methods for dealing with non-personnel problems.

Please come to the workshop with your questions, and be ready to share scenarios and experiences with the best and worst bosses you’ve had, observed or heard about. Often discussing real life examples leads to solutions for others!

About the Instructor:

Maria Bernier earned her MBA while working as the University Archivist at Salve Regina University in Newport, RI, and later served as the Assistant Director of the Redwood Library & Athenaeum in Newport where she directly and indirectly supervised 16 employees. She now works for the Connecticut State Library as a grant administrator.

RATES:

Early bird (April 8-April 29th)
Members: $85.00
Non-Members: $100.00
Students: $42.50

Advanced (April 30-May 31)
Members: $105.00
Non-Members: $120.00
Students: $62.50

Register on the NEA website today.

NEA members -- REPS members and advocates -- you are all invited to join us for the first annual TourFest 2015 (#TourFest15)

Spend Saturday May 16th with REPS and NEA getting behind-the-scene tours of some of Boston’s most interesting archival repositories. TourFest 2015, organized by the NEA Roundtable for Early Professional and Students (REPS), starts the day off with everyone going on two in-depth, behind-the-scenes repository tours. We'll end the day by meeting in Davis Square for Somerville's PorchFest: where musicians and bands throughout Somerville play music for the community from their front porches. This informal event is perfect for anyone who wants to hear a wide sampling of local music or anyone who just wants to stroll the neighborhood with friends.

Register for TourFest 2015 by signing up for one of three groups:

GROUP 1 — REPS Coordinator: Casey Davis | Max capacity: 15
10am: Massachusetts Historical Society
Lunch
2pm: American Jewish Historical Society-New England Archives and New England Historic Genealogical Society

GROUP 2 — REPS Coordinator: Rose Oliveira | Max Capacity: 12
10am: Converse Archives
Lunch
2pm: USS Constitution Museum and Archives

GROUP 3 — REPS Coordinator: Chris Markman | Max Capacity: 10
10am: Bostonian Society
Lunch
2pm: Boston Symphony Orchestra Archives

ALL GROUPS + anyone else!
4pm: Somerville Porch Festival

Everyone is invited to join us at PorchFest. We'll meet at Davis Square Park (near the T station) at 4pm. Contact Casey Davis (casey_davis@wgbh.org) for more information.

Hope to see you there!

Representative-at-Large Tessa Cierny has accepted a position in Atlanta with Cadence Group as Records Analyst Team Lead and has vacated her seat on NEA's Executive Board this April. The Board would like to thank Tessa for all of her hard work over the past two years, and wishes her the best in new position!

President Colin Lukens has appointed Abigail Cramer to serve as Acting Representative-at-Large for the remainder of Tessa's term, which ends April 2, 2016.  The Board would like to thank Abby for her willingness to take on this role.