STHC-L: The Science, Technology and Health Care Archives Forum

STHC meeting in Boston next week

• Date:   Thu, 29 Jul 2004 11:01:24 -0700
• To:   sthc-l@library.ucla.edu
• From:   Jean M. Deken <jmdeken@slac.stanford.edu>
• Subject:   STHC meeting in Boston next week
• Message-ID:   26E3EC48949D134C94A1574B2C894661041F2559@exchange2.slac.stanford.edu

Good Afternoon Everyone!
This is a reminder and an invitation to mark your calendars, your programs and your PDA's: 
the Science Technology and Health Care Roundtable will be meeting in Boston on Thursday, 
August 5 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. We have a great session put together again this year, 
and we look forward to seeing you there.


STHC Roundtable Agenda, August 5, 2004 

1. Welcome and introductions 
2. Council Representative - Megan Sniffin-Marinoff
3. Program Committee Representative

4. Program
Dr. Charles Weiner, Professor Emeritus in the Science, Technology, and Society Program 
at MIT, will talk about the need to document community grass roots organizations that 
develop in response to environmental, health or other issues, and how archivists can 
proactively ensure that such efforts are documented by oral histories projects and programs 
that actively seek such records.

Dr. Weiner was educated at Case Institute of Technology. He was Director of the Center for 
History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics from 1965 to 1974, when he joined 
the MIT faculty. His research and writing focus on the political, social and ethical 
dimensions of contemporary science and the response of scientists to public controversies 
arising from their work. He is currently completing a book on the history of social 
responsibility in science from the atomic bomb to contemporary genetic engineering. 

Also, Liz Andrews and Nora Murphy of the MIT Institute Archives and Special Collections 
will talk about the strengths of their collections and about their user communities. 

5. Business

-Review agenda 
-Introduction of the Steering Committee members 
-Report on 2003-2004 activities 
-Archival Elements Newsletter (Ewa Basinska) 
-Election of officers--new co-chair 
-Brainstorming program ideas for SAA 2005 
-Roundtable Round Robin: "Hot Topics" from Membership 
-Other new business

6. Adjournment 


See you next week!
Jean Deken and Joe Anderson
STHC Co-Chairs

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Jean Marie Deken
Archivist
SLAC Archives and History Office
2575 Sand Hill Road MS 82
Menlo Park CA 94025
jmdeken@slac.stanford.edu
650.926.3091 / fax 650.926.5371 
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/history
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