The first day of the 2011 Meeting of the Society of American Archivists is officially over. Technically speaking the conference itself has been going on since Monday, however the SCSAA officers did not arrive in Chicago until this morning. Monday and Tuesday consisted of various council and committee meetings. There was also the 2011 SAA Research Forum which consisted of presentations of current and ongoing research. This was yesterday and included presentations by UAlbany Professor Donghee Sinn and past webmaster Eugenia Kim.
The program for today was mostly roundtable meetings. Unfortunately we were not able to attend many of these since our train did not arrive until 11 AM Central Standard Time. The one that I went to was for the Visual Materials Cataloging and Access roundtable. There were two presentations. The first was on visual literacy, which is the ability to understand and interpret visual images. The presentation focused in where it has been, what the current state of visual literacy is, and speculations about future developments. The second was about the upcoming Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Graphics) standard for describing visual materials such as photographs. Tomorrow there will be a number of panels and a UAlbany Alumni mixer.
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