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Join SOA and the Ohio Local History Association for our joint fall meeting, October 1-3, 2020.

This is OLHA’s annual meeting with the addition of a SOA track on Thursday & Friday, serving as SOA’s fall conference. Come for SOA’s sessions or come for the entire conference! This year, registration covers the full conference including the keynote, “The Urgency of Now: Taking Risks to Serve Your Community” with Melanie Adams, Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

Registration:
– Register online through September 25 or download a form to print and mail.
– Fees: Member (SOA/OLHA) $40; Nonmember $50; Student/Unemployed/Furloughed $20.
– This year, all registrations are for the full conference.
– Cancellations for a full refund must be made before Sept 25, 5pm.

Access: All sessions will be held using the Zoom meeting and webinar platform. During the week prior to the meeting, all registered participants will be emailed a copy of the program which will include individual links for each session.

Program: For the full program see http://www.ohiolha.org/what-we-do/alliance-annual-meeting/ or download the program brochure.

Hashtag: SOA’s hashtag #soafm20 / OLHA hashtag #OLHAEmpowers

Questions? Contact the Committee Cochairs Rachael Bussert and William Modrow.

Seeing Editors: Metadata, Machine Learning, and the Shapes of Social Justice

Please join the NEH Division of Preservation and Access and the Serial and Government Publications Division at the Library of Congress for a very special event on September 15, 2020 1:00 to 2:45 PM ET.

Sponsored by the National Digital Newspaper Program, this panel discussion will present the efforts of a multi-disciplinary team to learn about the editors behind newspapers on Chronicling America. How do we locate the hidden labor of editors, especially in newspapers that fought for social justice?

Each panelist will share their complementary projects, taking the multiethnic press of Louisiana as a test case. Joshua Ortiz Baco will speak about his work with the title essays to illuminate women and people of color who worked as editors. Jim Casey and Sarah Salter will share an excerpt from their ongoing work to develop critical methods for reading the collaborative craft of editing as a language of its own. Benjamin Lee will present his recent Library of Congress Labs Innovator-in-Residence project, the Newspaper Navigator, as a way to explore the visual patterns of historical newspapers using machine learning. Across each presentation, uncovering the history of editors through Chronicling America offers a way to learn how people in the past used the press to wrestle with difficult political questions and to advocate for justice for their communities.

After the panelists’ presentation, we intend to open the event up to an approximately 40-minute Question and Answer segment. The moderator, NEH Senior Program Officer Molly Hardy, will take questions over the chat, and then will field them to the panelists who will then respond.

Please join us through the Library of Congress’s Webex using this link: https://tinyurl.com/y2jzmfem

There is no need to register for this event.


From Other Sources *Join SOA and the Ohio Local History Association for our joint fall meeting, October 1-3, 2020.* This is OLHA’s annual meeting with the addition of a SOA track on Thursday & Friday, serving as SOA’s fall conference. Come for SOA’s sessions or come for the entire conference! This year, registration covers the full conference including the keynote, “The Urgency of Now: Taking Risks to Serve Your Community” with Melanie Adams, Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Registration: – Register online through September 25 or download a form to print and mail. – Fees: Member (SOA/OLHA) $40; Nonmember $50; Student/Unemployed/Furloughed $20. – This year, all registrations are for the full conference. – Cancellations for a full refund must be made before Sept 25, 5pm. Access: All sessions will be held using the Zoom meeting and webinar platform. During the week prior to the meeting, all registered participants will be emailed a copy of the program which will include individual links for each session. Program: For the full program see http://www.ohiolha.org/what-we-do/alliance-annual-meeting/ or download the program brochure. Hashtag: SOA’s hashtag #soafm20 / OLHA hashtag #OLHAEmpowers Questions? Contact the Committee Cochairs Rachael Bussert and William Modrow. Seeing Editors: Metadata, Machine Learning, and the Shapes of Social Justice Please join the NEH Division of Preservation and Access and the Serial and Government Publications Division at the Library of Congress for a very special event on September 15, 2020 1:00 to 2:45 PM ET. Sponsored by the National Digital Newspaper Program, this panel discussion will present the efforts of a multi-disciplinary team to learn about the editors behind newspapers on Chronicling America. How do we locate the hidden labor of editors, especially in newspapers that fought for social justice? Each panelist will share their complementary projects, taking the multiethnic press of Louisiana as a test case. Joshua Ortiz Baco will speak about his work with the title essays to illuminate women and people of color who worked as editors. Jim Casey and Sarah Salter will share an excerpt from their ongoing work to develop critical methods for reading the collaborative craft of editing as a language of its own. Benjamin Lee will present his recent Library of Congress Labs Innovator-in-Residence project, the Newspaper Navigator, as a way to explore the visual patterns of historical newspapers using machine learning. Across each presentation, uncovering the history of editors through Chronicling America offers a way to learn how people in the past used the press to wrestle with difficult political questions and to advocate for justice for their communities. After the panelists’ presentation, we intend to open the event up to an approximately 40-minute Question and Answer segment. The moderator, NEH Senior Program Officer Molly Hardy, will take questions over the chat, and then will field them to the panelists who will then respond. Please join us through the Library of Congress’s Webex using this link: https://tinyurl.com/y2jzmfem There is no need to register for this event.
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