Spindler Sabbatical Accomplishments:

 

Sabbatical Activities

 

·        Reading List of 100 Titles Completed

 

·        Spindler Professional Website Completed http://www.public.asu.edu/~spindler

 

·        ECURE Conference:

o       Chaired Planning Meetings: 1/13, 1/29, 2/10, 2/24, 3/9

o       Solicited and secured presentation slides from ten speakers

o       Presented Conference March 1-3

§         Presented “Roadmap to the Conference” and “Use it or Lose it: Preserving Your Digital Documents”

§         Made Welcoming remarks/Keynote Introductions

o       Spindler, Rob and Jeremy Rowe,”ECURE Presents Diverse Views of Preservation and Access”, RLG Diginews 8(2) April 15, 2004 http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=17068#article3

o       Transcribed Pre-Note and Keynote Addresses to compliment forthcoming streamed Video.

o       Reviewed MU Contract and secured ECURE 2005 dates

o       Distributed Conference and session–specific evaluations to speakers.

 

·        SAA Electronic Publications Working Group:

o       Brief Working Meeting at ECURE

o       Authored, Vetted and Submitted Progress Report in June

o       Reviewed draft RFP for American Archivist Retroconversion

o       Assisted SAA Office in testing threaded discussion technology

o       Drafted options for archiving Section Newsletters

 

·        SAA Glossary of Archival Terminology

o       To be published electronically and in hard copy in 2005

o       Serving as editorial advisor, reviewed all definitions (ca. 3,000 terms)

 

·        SAA College and University Archives: Selected Readings

o       Forthcoming monograph to be published by SAA in 2005

o       Accepted invitation to author Chapter on ETD’s and Electronic Publishing

o       Completed first draft of chapter

 

·        Article draft: “Institutional Repositories and the Market of Ideas”

 

·        SAA Archival Processing Manual: Invited to review draft, completed

 

·        “From Cards To Computers” 1991 SAA Annual Meeting Session

o       Digitized cassette audio recording, reformatted for web

o       Requested and received publication permission from SAA

o       Requested publication permission from co-presenters

 

·        State Archives Building Advocacy:

o       House Government and Retirement Committee, 1/27

o       House Appropriations Committee, 4/6

 

·        Arizona Historical Records Advisory Board

o       Reviewed nine brief grant proposals

o       Attended AHRAB meeting of 5/18/2004 and awarded grants

 

ASU Work-Related:

 

 

·        D-Space Planning Meeting 1/22

 

·        Learning Management Systems Records Mgmt Meeting 1/29

 

·        John Rhodes Exhibit Reception, 2/5

 

·        Staff Recognition Breakfast 3/11

 

·        Goddard Papers Project

o       Meeting 4/13

o       Project Prospectus Drafted 4/15

o       Prospectus draft revised and redistributed 6/10

 

·        Responded to several communications re: departmental operational and personnel issues