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Student Poster Session: Society of American Archivists 2002 (Birmingham, Alabama, 19-25 August 2002)

• Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 12:05:18 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
• To: sthc-l@library.ucla.edu
• From: Russell A. Johnson <rjohnson@library.ucla.edu>
• Subject: Student Poster Session: Society of American Archivists 2002 (Birmingham, Alabama, 19-25 August 2002)
• Message-ID: SIMEON.10109231218.A@bio-s-his008.library.ucla.edu

Forwarded to STHC-L from ARCHIVES.

Questions may also be addressed to Kalpana Shankar [kshankar@ucla.edu], 
the Student Representative member of the STHC Steering Committee.

Aside:  An amply acknowledged attempt, the "WebAardvark sample poster", 
is a sample scientific poster created by D. and E. Gardner of Cornell's 
Aplysia Lab in 1989, used by the Society for Neuroscience, and linked 
from hundreds of science websites: 
http://physiology.med.cornell.edu/sfn/Aardvark.html

For the "Preparing Effective Posters" presentation tips that accompany 
this sample, go to page 71 of the following PDF file:
http://www.sfn.org/am98/pp/1998PrelProg.pdf

The search "How to do a scientific poster" on Google turns up some 
additional useful guidelines.

Cheers,

Russell Johnson


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Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 16:44:20 -0700
From: carol mead <cimead@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Student Poster Session 2002
Sender: Archives & Archivists <ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>

Fellow Archives Students,

I’m the President of the SAA-University of Texas at
Austin Student Chapter and a committee member of the
SAA 2002 Student Poster Session. In an effort to give
all archives students time to consider participating
in next year’s poster session, and to think about what
they would like to contribute, I’d like to briefly
introduce the topic to this listserv.

This was the first year of the Student Poster Session
at the annual SAA conference. Individuals and groups
of students from several archival programs submitted
posters which addressed archival issues of interest to
them, and which were displayed during the conference.
Along with investigating these topics, the primary
benefit to these students was the exposure they
received during an event attended by a large group of
professionals interested in the next generation of
archivists.

Therefore, I’d like to encourage both individual
students and chapters to begin thinking about ideas
for posters for the 2002 conference in Birmingham,
Alabama. We will send out the official call for
posters on Dec. 1, with a Feb. 14 proposal deadline
(note, the poster itself is NOT due at that point).
With this early notice we hope that more students will
be able to participate than in 2001.

We are working on guidelines for creating the posters,
and eventually we will put samples online from this
year’s session. We also will have a discussion board
where the students can post their questions.

Please feel free to contact me, or any of the other
members of the poster committee, with any questions
you have about the event.

Marisol Ramos-Lum: guariche@ucla.edu
Danielle DuMerer: dumerer@wam.umd.edu
Amity Smetzler: amityd@earthlink.net
Carol Mead: cimead@yahoo.com

Thank you!

Carol Mead
President, UT-SAA Student Chapter

[another posting amended this one]:

My apologies for crowding your mailboxes because of a
mistake in my previous posting.

I incorrectly stated that eventually we will have a
discussion board for questions about the poster
session. Rather, we will use the Student listserv,
YahooGroups, as the "discussion board." When the web
site is up, we will have a link to the listserv.

Thank you,

Carol Mead
President, UT-SAA Student Chapter
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