Dear Colleagues, Richard Cox (University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences) will be on campus Wednesday May 18th, and will deliver a lecture in RO300i at 7pm. There will be a lunch at the Faculty & Staff Club at around 12:30 or 1pm and light dinner ordered in at around 5:00-5:30pm. You are all welcome to participate in any and all of the events of the afternoon/evening! This is part of our ongoing collaboration with Robert Shaddy's Department of Special Collections and Archives and the Pine Tree Foundation. Johnathan Thayer Visiting Lecturer Coordinator of the Archives and Preservation of Cultural Materials Certificate Graduate School of Library and Information Studies Queens College, CUNY 718 997 3757 ________________________________ From: Johnathan Thayer Sent: Monday, May 9, 2016 9:41 AM To: saaqcny@googlegroups.com; glisann@lists.qc.cuny.edu Cc: Robert Shaddy Subject: May 18 7pm: Dr. Richard Cox lecture @ Queens College Hope to see you there for this event! -Prof. Thayer The Pine Tree Foundation Lecture Series in Archives and Special Collections Presents: "A Very Short Introduction to Archives" Dr. Richard J. ?Cox, University of Pittsburgh [X] A Collaborative Series Presented by the Queens College Libraries Department of Special Collections and Archives, the Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, and the Pine Tree Foundation Date/Time: Wednesday May 18, 2016 at 7pm Location: Rosenthal Library, Charles J. Tanenbaum Memorial Classroom (300i) Richard J. Cox is Professor, Archival Studies, in Library and Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences. He has written extensively on archival, records management and historical topics. Dr. Cox was elected a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists in 1989 and has won the Waldo G. Leland Award for the best book on an archival topic in a given year three times. Recently he was named Chair of a new Department, the Department of Information Culture and Data Stewardship, duties he will undertake in mid-Summer. "A Very Short Introduction to Archives" For years, Oxford University Press has been publishing a series, Very Short Introductions, offering concise descriptions of a variety of fields and topics intended to be "trenchant and provocative" and "balanced and complete." Many of these brief volumes have reading guides to facilitate discussion. The series lacks a volume on Archives, the Archive, or Archiving, even though it has a number of titles closely related to this topic (including ones on museums and various documentary forms such as photography and film). What would such a volume include? What value would it have for the archival community? How could such a volume be used? This lecture considers these questions in the context of decades of archival advocacy efforts, major transformations from an analog to digital documentary world, a diversifying archival scholarship, intense debates about the archival mission, and a strengthened graduate education. The lecture also will reflect on why there is no volume on archives in this series. The Pine Tree Lecture Series takes up the archive as a central site of interdisciplinary intersections across academic communities and society. In response to the ever-expanding range of stakeholders in the fate and future of archives, this inaugural lecture is intended to be the first in a series of events that bring disparate individuals and departments together to discuss and reflect upon the impacts of archives on culture, society, and history.