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2007 Reception and brainstorming session with the American Anthropological Association and the American Sociological Association
2007 Program: "Native American Heritage in the
Nation's Capital: Representation, Repatriation, and Resilience"
2006 Program: "Drug Foods, Fast
Foods, and Feasts: The Social Science of Eating"
2005 Program: "Are Subject
Librarians An Endangered Species?"
2004 Program: "Her
Eyes Were Watching Humanity: Zora Neale Hurston as Ethnographer, Novelist,
and Feminist"
2003 Program: "Oral Tradition, Copyright, and the Internet:
Aboriginal Canada in the 21st Century"
This program features Dr. Winona Wheeler, Dean of the SIFC Saskatoon
Campus and Associate Professor of Indian Studies, Saskatchewan Indian
Federated College and Patrick Boucher, Strategic and Policy Officer
and Aboriginal Canada Portal Manager, Strategic Planning, Information
Management Branch, Indian and Northern Affairs, Canada. The speakers
will describe new initiatives and projects designed to help aboriginal
peoples find necessary information and defend their cultural heritage
in the new Web world. Mr. Boucher will describe Canada's Aboriginal
Portal Project, with links to help peoples of the First Nations find
information locally and globally. Dr. Wheeler will review how the new
copyright laws affect aboriginal peoples in Canada and how these laws
may be used to protect their cultural traditions.
2002 Program: "Shamanism: Implications for Revisioning Librarianship."
Examined shamanism from three different perspectives. A cultural anthropologist
and professor of religion defined the term, looked at its historical
development in American culture, and commented on modern-day applications
in contemporary societies. A medical anthropologist examined the healing
aspects of shamanism in earlier eras and today. A sociologist and professor
of library science offered a sociological perspective on shamanism and
why it appeals to high-tech information-driven cultures like our own.
Speakers: Dr. Delia Easton, Center for Disease Control and Prevention;
Gary M. Laderman, Dept. of Religion, Emory Univeristy; Sydney J. Pierce,
School of Library Science, Catholic University. Tour: The Jimmy Carter
Library and Museum. (Atlanta)
2002 Criminal Justice/Criminology Librarians' Discussion Group
meets for the first time
2002 Subject and Bibliographic Access Committee meets for the
first time
2001 Program: "Social Movements, Marginalized Groups and
the Internet: Issues for Librarians and Researchers."
This program discussed some of the implications and effects of using
the Internet as a tool for social movements and for increasing visibility
of marginalized or indigenous groups. The Internet has become an important
tool for disseminating information and organizing support on an international
level. Researchers and scholars are working with many marginalized populations
and indigenous groups to establish Internet access, digitize resources,
and help create web pages. The panel highlighted several projects and
what librarians need to know to reach the evolving needs of information
seekers in the rapidly changing online environment. Panelists: Dr. Marc
Becker, Truman State University; Dr. Harry Cleaver, University of Austin
Texas; Ms. Patti Mallin, Institute of Global Communications (IGC); Mr.
Itibari Zulu, UCLA Center for African American Studies. Tour: Mission
Trail Murals. (San Francisco)
2000 Program: "Sociological and Anthropological Research
in Transition: Transdisciplinary Collaboration, Qualitative/quantitative
Rapprochement."
Social scientists seem to be rediscovering each other through cooperative
research, work in common research arenas, and use of similar data now
almost ubiquitously available. At the same time, most are rediscovering
the interconnectedness of research on the populations they study. The
panel explored whether this will be a persistent pattern and what librarians
need to know as facilitators. Panelists discussed what kinds of cooperative
bonds have been, are, and can be formed between librarians and researchers
in our increasingly electronically complex information and data-full
world. Panelists included: Kathleen Parks Assistant Director, Center
on Demography and Economics of Aging, National Opinion Research Center
(topic: "Research Centers as Research Facilitators"); Tom
W. Smith, Director, General Social Survey, National Opinion Research
Center ("The International Social Survey Program: Cross-National
Research Developments and Opportunities"); Jennifer Hisselman,
Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority ("Using State Data
for Research"); Jocelyn Tipton, Data and Electronic Services Librarian
and Will Wheeler, Coordinator of Collection Development, Yale University
Social Science Library ("Data in Libraries: Collections and Access").
Tour: Jane Addams' Hull-House Museum. (Chicago)
1999 Program: "Preserving Social History: The Leadership
Role of Librarians & Scholars in Building Locally Based Collections."
The program focuses on the creative efforts of librarians and scholars
who seek to preserve community social history for the use of library
users. The program will consist of presentations by four panelists who
exemplify leadership at universities and in communities by virtue of
their endeavor to preserve information about their communities for scholarly
investigations and general library patron use. Panelists include: Dr.
Barry Ancelet, Head of the Department of Modern Languages and Director
of the Center for Acadian and Creole Folklore, University of Southwestern
Louisiana; Roberts Batson, President and Co-Founder of The Bienville
Foundation and New Orleans community activist; Anne Frank, Head of the
Southeast Asian Archive, University of California, Irvine; and Bruce
Raeburn, Director of the Hogan Jazz Archive, Tulane University Library.
Tour: Middle American Research Institute and the Tulane University Special
Collections, which include the Jazz Archives and the Southeast Architectural
Archive. (New Orleans)
1998 Program: "Research 2001: Learned Societies Facilitating
Information Awareness and Dissemination in Sociology and Anthropology."
Updating a program offered in 1987, prominent association leaders offered
their visions of the role of learned societies in meeting the information
needs of their membership in a changing environment. Speakers were:
Felice Levine (American Sociological Association); Rick Custer (American
Anthropological Association); and Tobi A. Brimsek (Society for American
Archaeology). Tour: Smithsonian Institution libraries, including the
John Wesley Powell Library of Anthropology and the National Anthropological
Archives. (Washington DC)
1997 Program: "Cold War Ideologies and Information Age Technologies."
An exploration of the interplays between Cold War Politics and culture,
social science research, and scholarly communication, this program featured
preeminent scholars, including Berkeley Professor of Anthropology, Laura
Nader, speaking on her recent work, Anthropology and the Cold War:
the Phantom Factor, Univ. of Calif. at San Diego visiting Professor
Rebecca Lowen on the influence of the cold war on the growth of Stanford
University, and UC-Berkeley University Librarian Peter Lyman on the
interweaving of Cold War technologies into research librarians and its
impacts on scholarly communication. Tour: California Academy of Sciences.
(San Francisco)
1996 ANSS turns 25 - party and reception held at John Jay College
of Criminal Justice.
1996 Web page (ANSSWeb) first published.
1996 Program: "Anthropological Documentation and Research
in the New York Area: The Intersection of Archives, Libraries, and Museums."
Speakers include Melvin Ember, Human Relations Area Files; Deidre Lawrence,
Brooklyn Museum; Barbara Mathe, Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Valerie
Wheat, American Museum of Natural History. (New York) Tour: American
Museum of Natural History library. Publication: Ember, Melvin. (1997)
Evolution of the Human Relations Area Files. Cross-Cultural Research
31(1): 3-15.
1995 Program: "Publishing the Social Text: Issues in Sociology
and Anthropology Publication and Reviewing."
Speakers were Edward O. Laumann, University of Chicago; Penelope Kaiserlian,
University of Chicago Press; Martha Peacock, Lynne Reinner Publishers;
and David Henige, University of Wisconsin at Madison. (Chicago)
1994 Program: "Cultures of the Caribbean: Diversity and Transformation,
Research and Resources,"
Cosponsored by the ACRL Afro-American Studies Librarians Section. Speakers:
Fred J. Hay, Tozzer Library, Harvard University; Thomas Boswell, Department
of Geography, University of Miami; Richard Phillips, Latin American
Collection, University of Florida Libraries; Marian Goslinga, Latin
American and Caribbean Studies, Florida International University Library.
(Miami)
1993 Program: "Portraits of Louisiana: Empowering Communities
Through Diversity."
Speakers were Florence E. Borders, Southern University at New Orleans;
Irvan J. Perez, St. Bernard Parish, LA; Ulysses S. Ricard, Jr., Amistad
Research Center, New Orleans; and Marcia Gaudet, Univ. of Southwestern
Louisiana. (New Orleans)
1992 Program: "Medical Anthropology: Choices and Challenges."
Speakers included Margaret Clark, Univ. of California, San Francisco;
Daniel Richards, Dartmouth College; Barbara Koenig, Univ. of California,
San Francisco; and Stephen Eyre, Univ. of California, San Francisco.
(San Francisco)
1991 Program: "Folk Cultures of the Modern South: Documentation
of Living Traditions."
Speakers were Daniel and Beverly Patterson, Univ. of North Carolina;
Elizabeth Rauh Bethel, Lander College; and Nancy Martin-Perdue and Charles
Perdue, Univ. of Virginia. Tour: Georgia State University Special Collections.
(Atlanta)
1990 Program: "Profiles of the City: Using Ethnic Collections
and Archives for Social Science Research."
Speakers were Kathryn DeGraff, DePaul; Janice McNeill, Chicago Historical
Society; Robert Miller, Chicago P.L.; Robbin Katzin, Asher Library;
Timothy Johnson, Swedish-American Historical Society; and Daniel Meyers,
Univ. of Chicago. (Chicago)
1989 Program: "Access to Anthropological Field Notes: Preservation,
Collection and Ethical Issues."
Speakers were Anthony Seeger, Folkways Collection, Smithsonian; Mary
Elizabeth Ruwell, Northwest Document Conservation Center; Kathleen Baxter,
National Anthropological Archives; and Mark Handler, Stanford Law Library.
Tour: International Linguistics Center. (Dallas)
1988 Program: "Strangers in New Worlds: Migration Studies
in Europe and America."
Speakers included Dino Cinel, Tulane Univ.; Mark Miller, Univ. of Delaware;
Joel Wurl, Curator of Immigration History Research Center. Responses
were presented by Carol Armbruster, Library of Congress; Helen MacLam,
Assistant Editor of Choice and past president of the National Association
of Ethnic Studies; and Suzanne Roberts, Yale Univ. Tour: Amistad Research
Center and the Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University.
(New Orleans)
1987 Program: "The Future of Social Science Research and
Libraries: Toward the Year 2000."
Speakers included Bernard J. Siegel, Stanford Univ.; Neil J. Smelser,
Univ. of California, Berkeley; Barton M. Clark, Univ. of Illinois; and
Mark S. Sandler, Univ. of Michigan. Gregory Finnegan was moderator.
(San Francisco) Tour: Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology, University
of California, Berkeley. (San Francisco)
1986 Program: "Images and Views: Retrieving Information from
Photographs."
Speakers included Fred Miller, Temple Univ.; Debora Willis-Ryan, Schomburg
Center; and Richard Chalfen, Temple Univ. Jean Adelman was moderator.
Tour: Museum of the American Indian. (New York)
1986 The section newsletter, ANSS Currents, is launched.
1985 Program: "Machine-Readable Data Files for Social Science."
Speakers were Carolyn Geda, ICSPR; Larry Carbaugh, Data User Services
Division of the Bureau of the Census; Bliss Siman, Baruch College; and
Wittkopf, U. of Florida. Moderator was Greg Finnegan. Tour: Field Museum
of Natural History. (Chicago)
1984 Program: "Collection Management: Focus on the Social
Sciences."
Speakers were Jeffrey Gardner, ARL Office of Management Studies; and
Beth Shapiro, Michigan State Univ. Tour: Dallas Fine Arts Museum. (Dallas)
1983 Program: "Access Tools for Information in Anthropology
and Sociology: The Publishers Speak."
Lynne Schmelz-Keil moderated; speakers were Miriam and Leo Chall, Sociological
Abstracts; Judith Morris, Anthropological Index; Francis X. Grollig,
Library Anthropology Resources Group; and Kenyon Rosenberg, National
Technical Information Service. Sandra Kerbel, Chris Ferguson and Gregory
Finnegan served on a panel reacting to the presentations. Tour: LaBrea
Tar Pits. (Los Angeles)
1982 Program: "The Researcher and Resources: Strategies for
Straightened Circumstances."
Moderator was Jean Adelman. Speakers included Gregory Possehl, U. of
Pennsylvania Museum; David Feingold, Institute for the Study pof Human
Issues; and John Dennis Hyde, U. of Pennsylvania Libraries. Tour: University
of Pennsylvania Museum. (Philadelphia)
1980 The Section is officially changed to the Anthropology and
Sociology Section (ANSS) of ACRL.
1979 Program: "From Aztlan to Tierra del Fuego: The Benson
Latin American Collection."
Speaker was Laura Gutierrez-Witt, University of Texas, Austin. (Dallas)
1978 Sociology incorporated into the Section. Program: "A
Grand Dame as Midwife: Newberry Library's Center for the History of the
American Indian;"
Speakers were Peggy Richmond, John Aubrey, Lawona Tront, and Jackie
Peterson of the Newberry Library staff. Also speaking were Bart Clark,
"Computerized Anthropology Bibliography" and David McDonald,
"Masters Theses in Anthropology." (Chicago)
1977 Program: "The Other Fieldwork: Bibliographic Instruction
for Effective Library Research in Anthropology;"
Speakers were Anne Beaubien and Vern Carroll, Univ. of Michigan. (Detroit)
1976 Program: Sol Tax and Francis Grollig, representing the Library
Anthropology Resources Group, discussed the work of this organization.
Tour: Field Museum of Natural History. (Chicago)
1975 First Anthropology Section program given at the 94th Annual
Conference of ALA in San Francisco.
1975 Program: "Anthropology and the Library,"
Moderated by Elizabeth Krakauer; speakers were Alan Dundes, Philip
Onstott, Murray Martin, Antonio Rodriquez-Buckingham, and Robert Pfeiffer.
Tour: Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology, Univ. of California, Berkeley.
(San Francisco)
1972 Full Section status granted - the Anthropology Section (ANS)
to henceforth represent specialists in anthropology and related fields,
and to act for ACRL, in cooperation with other professional groups, in
those areas of library service that require knowledge of those fields.
1971 The Anthropology Subsection is designated within the Subject
Specialists Section of ACRL. Jeanne Henderson became the first chair.
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