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STHC at SAA/Washington DC 2001 

The Society of American Archivist's (SAA) 2001 Annual Meeting Program 
is now online at:  
http://www.archivists.org/conference/dc2001/index.html

STHC-Lers will be interested in the variety of STHC-sponsored 
or -related sessions.  Suzie Long  and I 
 are also putting together a program for the 
STHC Roundtable meeting on Saturday morning September 1 at 8 am (yes, 8 
AM), and would like to invite suggestions (for the program and for 
Roundtable activities) as well as welcome attendees (especially 
Sci-Tech-Healthcare archivists in the DC/MD/VA area)!

Cheers,

Russell Johnson
STHC co-chair



TUE 8/28	10:00am-5:00pm

The Smithsonian at Suitland Tour  ($10)
	- includes: National Museum of the American Indian's Cultural 
	   Resources Center ; National Anthropological Archives' new 
	   space; National Museum of Natural History's collections 
	   storage facility; Smithsonian Center for Materials Research 
	   and Education's paper lab; National Air and Space Museum's 
	   Garber Center


WED 8/29	9:00am-noon

Smithsonian Institution Archives Tour   ($10)
	- includes: Archives Division of the National Air and Space 
	   Museum


WED 8/29	10:00am-5:00pm

Historic Canals of the Federal District   ($47)
	- canal systems critical to the development of the Federal 
	   District in the 18th and 19th centuries


WED 8/29	8:00-10:00pm

U.S. Naval Observatory Tour
	- includes: Observe stars through a more than 100-year-old 
	   telescope; learn about official time; history of the USNO; 
	   library reading room will be open for viewing of rare 
	   celestial drawings


THU 8/30	10:30am-noon		Opening Plenary Session

"Following these opening remarks, there will be comments from the 
Archivist of the United States, John Carlin, and then Dr. Gene D. 
Cohen, director of the Center on Aging, Health, and Humanities at 
George Washington University.  Dr. Cohen will discuss, "When Biography 
is as Important as Biology in the Overall Approach to Alzheimer's 
Disease." Part of the double experiential tragedy of Alzheimer's 
disease is that patients lose touch with their own memories and, in 
the process, lose the ability to tell their own story. When 
individuals' histories are not known, knowledge and appreciation of 
them as persons in care settings are diminished. Two innovative studies 
designed to provide an Alzheimer patient's own story are being 
conducted through the Center on Aging, Health and Humanities at George 
Washington University. One approach uses video biographies and the 
other utilizes the first game (a personalized biography in the form of 
a game) developed  for Alzheimer patients and their families. Both 
approaches are intergenerational, where young people are involved in 
helping families create the products. The effects are to improve the 
quality of life for the patient, enhance communication during visits 
with family and significant others, and increase staff knowledge of the 
unique histories of the people they care for. In the end, individuals 
with Alzheimer's disease who are no longer able to provide their own 
story, become catalysts for the development of these poignant exit 
gifts of family biographies for their loved ones. Both projects 
demonstrate how biography can be as important as biology in the overall 
approach to the treatment of Alzheimer's disease."


THU 8/30	1:30-3:00pm

#9. Building Bridges Between Cultural Heritage Resources
	- Gavan McCarthy, Chair (Australian Science and Technology 	
		Heritage Centre)
		"Of Networks, Entities and Relationships: Utilizing the 
		Small World Effect in an Archival Setting"
	- Bruce Smith (RMiT University)
		"Tackling Takeovers, Titles and Transactions: 
		Australian Business Archives on the Web"
	

THU 8/30	3:30-5:00pm

#19. Ghosts in the Archival Closet: Controversial Data, Ethical 
   Quandaries
	- Jonathan D. Moreno, Chair (University of Virginia)
	- Martin L. Levitt (Temple University)
		"A Case Study in Ethics: Issues in Constructing a 
		Eugenics Web Site" 
	- Paul A. Lombardo (University of Virginia)
		"History's Dirty Words: Perils of Study in Eugenic 
		Archives"


FRI 8/31	1:30-3:00pm

#37.  After the Storm: Documenting Birmingham's Civil Rights History
	- Brenda Square, Chair  (Tulane University)
	- Tim L. Pennycuff  (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
		"Separate But Not Equal: Documenting Segregated Health 
		Care in Birmingham, Alabama" 	
	- James L. Baggett (Birmingham Public Library)
		"When We Arrived the Meeting was in Progress: The 
		Birmingham Police Department and Civil Rights 
		Documentation" 
	- Wayne Coleman (Birmingham Civil Rights Institute)
		"Seeing the Spoken Word: Birmingham's Civil Rights 
		Interviews on Computers"

	[N.B.: SAA 2002 will be held in Birmingham at the Sheraton 
	Hotel, August 19 - 25]


SAT 9/1		8:00-9:30am

Science, Technology, and Health Care Roundtable meeting


SAT 9/1		10:00-11:30am

#51. Extreme Science: Pushing the Archival Envelope on Land, on Sea, 
and in the Air
	- Russell A. Johnson, Chair  (UCLA)
	- Deborah Day  (University of California, San Diego)
		"Danger at Sea: Documentation of Oceanographic 
		Expeditions" 
	- Bradley D. Westbrook  (University of California, San Diego)
		"High Life: High Altitude Medicine and Physiology 
		Collections at UCSD" 
	- Katharine E.S. Donahue  (UCLA)
		"Life in the Field: How Do They Get That Data?"
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