SAA
Student Chapter Panel Session
ARCHIVES AND TERRORISM
September 20, 2002 |
 SPEAKERS:
Dr. Richard Cox - Professor, Archives
& Records Management, University of Pittsburgh
Tom Schienfeldt - Director, 9/11 Digital
Archive - http://911digitalarchive.org/
Barbara Black - Curator, Somerset Historical
Center - http://www.somersethistoricalcenter.org
Dr. A. J. Plotke - Electronic Archivist,
ATT/American Express
Panel speakers (L to R): Dr. A. J. Plotke, Tom Schienfeldt, Dr. Richard Cox, and Barbara Black. |
| What follows below are some of the key points of the panel session as presented by the different speakers. |
Dr. Cox:
- Handout: reading list re: Meaning of 9/11
- Technologies have yielded information abundance & loss
- Government restrictions on information access
- Communications used to document & memorialize personal events
- Archives are evidence not memorials, understanding the significance of the event
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Tom Schienfeldt:
- Collect information (e-mail, digital images, movies, voice mail, etc.) online commemorating 9/11
- Website serves as a "place of remembrance"
- Importance of appraisal and collection development policy issues
- Ensure that all information is saved in a persistent fashion
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Barbara Black:
- Handout: Flight 93 Memorial Collection - Policies & Procedures
for Collections Management
- Managing a new type of collection - the "memorial"
- Donated materials are "sacred"
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Dr. A. J. Plotke:
- Wide distribution of corporate technologies & networks
- Centralization of business information
- Importance of accuracy & currency of business transactions that need to be quickly disseminated for use
- Unification of technology & archives through "business continuation and disaster recovery" which provides the ability to reconstruct business information
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| The comments of the panel were
followed by a question and answer session from the audience members. |
