February 2012 Meeting

Mark your calendars! Our next meeting will be held in conjunction with Ohio’s Heritage Northeast (formerly the Greater Cleveland History Digital Library Consortium) on February 23, 2012 at 6:00 pm at the Cleveland Clinic Chagrin Highlands corporate auditorium in Beachwood.

Join us for a presentation by Dr. Karen Gracy of KSU on film preservation. Dr. Gracy is the author of Film Preservation: Competing Definitions of Value, Use and Practice published by SAA.

Details will follow later this month!

August Meeting Announcement

Cleveland archivists, please join us for our upcoming meeting.  See details below and don’t forget to RSVP!

What: A Presentation by Christina Vernon, AIA, LEED, AP, Director of the Cleveland Clinic’s Office for a Healthy Environment.  Christina will address organizational sustainability and “green” archives.

When: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 “social hour” at 6pm, presentation at 6:30pm

Where: In the Auditorium, Cleveland Clinic Administrative Campus Bldg. 3, 3050 Science Park Drive, Beachwood 44122

Directions: Building 3 is the northern one closest to South Woodland.  From S. Woodland, take first right and go around building to parking lot and entrance (in the crook of the L).  Security will let you in.  Go down stairs or elevator one level to Ground floor/G.  Facing away from stairs, take corridor to right.

RSVP: To Fred Lautzenheiser, tel: 216/448-2929 or lautzef [at] ccf.org by August 26th so we know how many to plan for

Cool Cleveland Memory Project Video

Check out this great video from Cool Cleveland featuring our own Bill Barrow. In the video Bill describes Cleveland State University’s Special Collections, and tells us why the Cleveland Memory Project (http://www.clevelandmemory.org/) is so cool.  Watch the embedded video or click the link below the video to watch from the Cool Cleveland website.

http://www2.coolcleveland.com/blog/2011/04/video-cool-cleveland-memory/

Spring meeting recap

If you didn’t make it out to the Cleveland Museum of Art for CAR’s March 23 meeting you missed a great time!

After an informal meet and greet, Historian Mary Hoerner gave a fabulous presentation on landscape architecture with an emphasis on the Fine Arts Garden, which serves as the front yard of the Cleveland Museum of Art.  To see larger images, click the thumbnails below.

Mary Hoerner giving her presentation

Jill Tatem presenting Bill Barrow with his award

Bill Barrow, award in hand

Then Jill Tatem presented Bill Barrow with the 2010 Ohio Historical Records Advisory Board’s Achievement Award.

And in related news I created a Flickr feed for CAR.  You can see all the pictures from the meeting here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/clevelandarchivalroundtable/

We’ll keep you posted on plans for our next meeting.

Upcoming Events at the Dittrick and CPL

Obscura Day: Rare Books and Medical Photography at the Dittrick Medical Museum

Saturday, April 9, 2011 from 7-9pm

http://obscuraday-dittrick.eventbrite.com/?ref=etckt

April 2011 Audubon programs at the Cleveland Public Library

http://cpl.org/BooksMoviesMore/CollectionHighlights/tabid/94/EntryId/648/Experience-Audubons-Birds-of-America-A-Month-long-celebration-of-art-wildlife-and-conservation.aspx

Survey of Educational Programming

In order to plan for future educational programming please participate in a very short survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WCNRTT8. Your input will aid in planning local events of interest to you.  Thank you!

March Meeting

Cleveland Archival Roundtable Meeting

Wednesday March 23, 2011

6:00-8:00 pm

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Classrooms E & F

11150 East Boulevard

Cleveland 44106

http://www.clevelandart.org/

Please join us in welcoming spring at the Cleveland Museum of Art with a special presentation on Cleveland’s Fine Arts Garden by local attorney and horticultural historian Mary Hoerner.  Mary conducted her research in a number of local archives and this engaging presentation is the fruit of her labors.

Refreshments begin at 6:00 pm with Mary’s presentation at 6:30 followed by a brief business meeting.  Please come early or stay late to enjoy the museum galleries on what we all hope will be a fine spring evening.

RSVP to Leslie Cade at 216-707-2492 or lcade@clevelandart.org by March 18^th.

Ohio Archives Grant Announcement

The Ohio Historical Records Advisory Board (OHRAB) announces the availability of grants between $500 and $3,500 to archival institutions to fund projects to preserve and/or provide access to records created by Ohio’s state and local governments.  Proposals must be received by February 28, 2011.  Awards will be announced March 15, and projects must be completed by December 31, 2011.

Funding is made available by a Federal regrant opportunity from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), an arm of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

Full details of this grant opportunity are available at OHRAB’s website  http://ohsweb.ohiohistory.org/ohrab/index.php?title=Re-grants_SNAP_Grant_Committee.  (Information about how to acquire a hard copy is at the end of this post.)  Highlights include:

•       Eligible institutions may be public or private

•       At least a portion of the project must involve government records.

•       Any size institution may apply, but preference will be given to institutions with permanently valuable materials of 500 cubic feet or fewer.

•       Eligible projects include those involving physical access, arrangement, and description; preservation (including storage materials); and making catalog descriptions of records or digital images of records available on line.

•       Eligible expenses include supplies and storage materials, technical equipment, and contracted services.

If you have questions or require a hard copy of the application package, please contact Judith G. Cetina, Ph.D., County Archivist, 2905 Franklin Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44113; 216-443-7262; jcetina@cuyahogacounty.us.

OHRAB Grant Opportunity 2011FINAL (pdf file)

Regrant_Budget_Form_fillable_worksheetFINAL1 (Microsoft excel file)

Words of Thanks from Bill Barrow

We all greatly appreciate this important recognition from the Ohio Historic Records Advisory Board, in awarding us one of their two awards in kicking off their new achievement awards programs.

However formally awarded, this is an honor we all share.  The nomination stressed the multi-level community collaboration of CSU departments, KSU library practicum students, various partnering public libraries, historical societies and government agencies sharing resources and the partners in the Ohio’s Heritage NE, all collaborating to make information on the region’s history available to its citizens.  We felt the process by which Cleveland Memory (and OHNE) were built is as important as the digital content it provides.

Thank you all for your participation and I hope we can forge even closer relations in the coming months and years, especially as the economy challenges us all to find new sustainable models to achieve our goals.

Bill Barrow

And congratulations to the Montgomery County Records Center and Archives, too!

OHRAB Achievement Award Winner Announced

Congratulations to Bill Barrow and CSU for this wonderful and well deserved recognition!  See below for more information.

OHRAB Achievement Award Announced.

Winners of the 2010 Ohio Historical Records Advisory Board’s Achievement Awards are Cleveland State University’s Michael Schwartz Library Special Collections Department and Montgomery County Records Center and Archives.

Cleveland State’s Special Collections Department has led the Cleveland Memory Project since its beginning in 2002. Institutions as diverse as the Cuyahoga County Engineer’s Office, Berea Children’s Home, Rocky River Public Library, Hathaway Brown School, and Lakewood Historical Society have contributed materials from their collections to Cleveland Memory. Project partners have made more than 42,000 images and other historic items available online. Practicum and internship opportunities provide real world experience to students while bringing fresh from the classroom perspectives to practitioners. Cleveland Memory is a model of multi-institutional collaboration melding local collection knowledge, shared infrastructure, and professional development opportunities. OHRAB congratulates Cleveland State University and its partners for expanding access to Ohio’s historic resources. Cleveland Memory – http://www.clevelandmemory.org/

In 2006 the Montgomery County Records Center and Archives faced every archivist’s nightmare. Active mold, cracked spines on bound volumes, and inadequate storage threatened the existence of the county’s historic records. Through a systematic program of compliance with neglected records disposal schedules, environmental improvements and monitoring, and conservation treatment, Montgomery County Records Center and Archives staff have demonstrated that even monumental problems can be mitigated if approached with determination and creativity. The results of their efforts include reduced storage costs, improved access, and the confidence that the early records of Montgomery County will survive. OHRAB recognizes the Montgomery County Records Center and Archives for preserving Ohio’s public history records. Montgomery County Records Center and Archives  – http://www.mcohio.org/services/recordarchives/about.html

Nominees for the Achievement Award represented small towns and large cities; public and private institutions; universities, historical societies, and records centers; and a full range of historic records – maps, photographs, marriage, birth, death, and estate records, and more. Common to all their successes were collaboration, determination, creativity, and a passionate commitment to the preservation and expanded use of Ohio’s historic records. Clearly, Ohio’s historic records community is achieving admirable results.

For more information please contact awards committee chair Jill Tatum at 216-368-4106 or jill.tatem@case.edu.

The Ohio Historical Records Advisory Board is the central body for historical records planning in the Ohio. Board members represent Ohio’s public and private archives, records offices, and research institutions. http://ohsweb.ohiohistory.org/ohrab/