Society of Mississippi Archivists Conference Lectures

Thursday April 18th (All events will be held in the Charles W. Capps, Jr. Archives and Museum seminar room on the 1st floor unless noted otherwise.) 8:30-9:00 Registration and poster session 9:00-9:45 Visual Literary and Archivists: How Much Metadata is Enough? Gerald Chaudron, Archivist, Mississippi State University 10:00-10:45 Shooting the Messenger:Creating Videos to Enhance Online Distance Education Jennifer Brannock, Curator of Rare Books and Mississippiana, University of Southern Mississippi;Cole Smith, Graduate Assistant SLIS Program, University of Southern Mississippi 11:00-11:45 Designing a Public History Exhibition: The Difficulties in Displaying Genocide Whitney Russell, Intern, Billups-Garth Archive, Columbus-Lowndes Public Library 12:00-2:00 Mississippi Historical Records Advisory Board Awards Luncheon Speaker: Lisa Miller, Director, Martin and Sue King Railroad Heritage Museum, Cleveland. Our Disappearing Delta Towns H. L. Nowell Union, Room 306 2:15-3:15 Historically Black Colleges and Universities’ Archives: A Discussion Angela Stewart, Archivist, Margaret Alexander Walker Center, Jackson State University; Mantra Henderson, Director of Library Services, James H. White Library, Mississippi Valley State University; Blanche Sanders, Dean of University Libraries, Alcorn State University 3:30-4:15 Oral History Projects: From Interview to YouTube Laura Anne Heller, Electronic Archivist, Dickinson Research Center, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma 4:30-5:15 Appraising Religious Records in Practice and Theory Chloe Edwards, Archivist, Mississippi Department of Archives and History Friday April 19th 8:30-9:00 Poster session 9:00-9:45 Study of Civil Rights in Aberdeen Miranda Vaughn, Intern, Billups-Garth Archive, Columbus-Lowndes Public Library 10:00-10:45 History Out of the Classroom: The Promise and Perils of Undergraduate Archival Research Erin Kempker, Assistant Professor of History, Mississippi University for Women; Derek Webb, University Archivist, Mississippi University for Women; Mona Vance, Archivist, Columbus-Lowndes Public Library 11:00-11:30 SMA Business meeting 11:30-12:30 SMA Board meeting.