Presentation given by Sarah McAfoose, Brianna Marshall, Taylor Greene, and Valerie Lazalier at the 2012 Society of Indiana Archivists Annual Meeting.

1. Outreach Initiatives by Graduate
Student Workers at IU-B Archives
and Special Collections
Sarah McAfoose, Brianna Marshall, Taylor Greene,
Valerie Lazalier, Indiana University Bloomington

2. Archives of Traditional Music

3. Record Sale
 Major Fundraiser for ATM (has no budget)
 Includes 33 1/3 rpm, 45 rpm, and 78 rpm
discs, Books, etc.
 Interact with Bloomington Community
 Radio, Television, Newspaper Advertisement
 Interact with IU-B Students
 Fliers, Listserv Posting, Word of Mouth

4. Outcome
 Stats from 2010 Sale
 Definition A
 Definition B
 Stats from 2012 Sale
 Definition

6. Tips for effective use of Twitter
 Identify your audience and purpose

7. Tips for effective use of Twitter
 Identify your audience and purpose
 Person responsible for tweeting should be
informed and passionate

8. Tips for effective use of Twitter
 Identify your audience and purpose
 Person responsible for tweeting should be
informed and passionate
 Maintain your Twitter presence

10. Archives Displays at the Kinsey Institute

11. Library Display Cabinet

12. Library Display Cabinet Continued

13. Letters from
“Dear Dr. Kinsey”
Dr. Kinsey Master’s and John Money
letters
Johnson letter
object
Thomas Painter
Alice Field data Collection
Christine
Dr. Kinsey’s
Jorgenson –
Microscope Louise Vertical File
Lawrence
Scrapbook John Money
Donation

14. Reception Area Display Case

15. Items from
Letter from the 2004
Letter from George film Kinsey
Sigmund Platt Lynes
Freud to Dr.
Kinsey

16. IU Art Museum “Archive”
 Over 43,000
 Art Objects
 Paper Records
 Digital Records
 Object Folders
 Dealer/Donor Files
 Exhibition Archive

17. IUAM Tour
 Part of SAA-SC conference
 at IU-B
 Toured in previous years
 This year with the museum's
registrar
 Not only IU-B students
 Raised awareness of
museum archives in general

18. Kinsey Institute Tour
 Society of Art Librarianship
Students at IU-B
 Tour led by the Curator of
Art, Artifacts, and
Photographs
 Included library and art
gallery
 Promoted as a resource for
student research and a
potential internship site

19. From which of the following IU-B Archives have
you used archival resources?

20. From which sources have you learned about the
existence of an IU-B archive?

21. Which of the following prompted you to
physically go to an archive on the IU-B campus?

22. Which of the following dissuaded you from
visiting an archive?

23. Would you “like” an archive on Facebook?
Would you follow an archive on Twitter?

24. Questions/Discussions
 Archival Outreach
 Ideas?
 Comments?
 Questions?