AASLH’s Basics of Archives Online Course
This online workshop will take place on June 2-July 7.

Participants proceed at their own pace through this online workshop that covers the basics of archives management and practices including acquiring collections, processing, housing and preservation, and providing access.

The cost for the workshop is $85 for members and $95 for nonmembers.

To register for the course, go to www.aaslh.org/workshop.htm by May 29.

For more information or questions please contact Bethany Hawkins, Program Associate, at hawkins@aaslh.org or (615) 320-3203.

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Please confim events specifics with sponsoring organization, especially if traveling any distance.

Historic Preservation Month
May is Historic Preservation Month in Indiana, as officially proclaimed by Gov. Mitch Daniels.

Special events ranging from historic home tours to guided walking tours of historic districts will be offered throughout the state. Many are free.

For details on activities taking place during Indiana Historic Preservation Month, visit http://www.in.gov/dnr/files/hp_calendarevents2008presmonth.pdf.

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Small Museum Scholarship Available for 2008 AASLH Annual Meeting
The Small Museums Committee of AASLH is offering one $500 scholarship for an individual to attend the September 2008 AASLH Annual Meeting in Rochester, N.Y.

The deadline for submissions is May 30.

This scholarship is available to a full or part time paid or volunteer employee of a small museum (annual budget of up to $250,000) and will cover the cost of registration plus with remaining funds available to offset travel and/or lodging expenses. The scholarship is open to AASLH members and is a benefit of membership.

To apply or for more information visit http://www.aaslh.org/SmallMuseums.htm.

For questions, please contact Bruce Teeple, Small Museum Scholarship Committee Chair, at mongopawn44@hotmail.com .

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Concerts on the Canal
This concert is held in partnership with the Indiana University School of Music at IUPUI, and will be held on Thu., May 29, from 6-8 p.m. at the Canal Plaza of the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center.

The event is free to the public.

This concert features The Best of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong and Cool City Swing with Shannon Forsell and Jimmy Guilford

Free seating is available on the Plaza steps and on the greenway across the Canal. The cost for reserved table seating for four is $30 or $25 for IHS members; for tables of eight: $40 or $35 for IHS members. Tables may be reserved in advance by calling the Welcome Center at (317) 232-1882.

Attendees may bring their own food and non-alcoholic beverages to the concert. Attendees may NOT bring alcoholic beverages onto the premises. All alcohol must be purchased on site.

No pets and no smoking allowed on Plaza.

The Café, cash bar and outdoor grill will be open from 5-7:30 p.m.

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Preserving America’s Historical Record Act
The Preserving the American Historical Record Act (H.R. 6056) has been introduced by Congressmen Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) and Chris Cannon (R-UT).

The National Coalition for History has endorsed the PAHR bill and urges you to contact your House member to ask that they co-sponsor the bill.

The PAHR legislation would establish a new federal program of formula grants to the states and territories to support archives and historical records at the state and local level. This week’s introduction of the PAHR bill marks the culmination of years of work by the Council of State Archivists, the Society of American Archivists, and the National Association of Government Archives and Records Administration.

For more information visit http://historycoalition.org/issues/preserving-americas-historical-record-act/.

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“One Shot": The WWII Photography of John A. Bushemi at the World War II Victory Museum in Auburn
John A. Bushemi, was a good-natured, talented photographer from Gary, Indiana who covered several of the island invasions during World War II in the Pacific. This traveling exhibit features reproductions of Bushemi’s photographs “from a rifle’s length vantage point,” according to his colleague and fellow war correspondent Merle Miller. Among the magazine covers and personal photographs from Bushemi’s assignment to YANK, the weekly magazine written by and for enlisted men, are images of soldiers training at Fort Braggs, soldiers on the beach of Entiwok Island in the Marshalls awaiting the order to attack, and close-up portraits of soldiers who were featured in a YANK article about the battle for New Georgia.

Bushemi died February 19, 1944, when shrapnel from Japanese knee-mortar shells hit and mortally wounded the photographer. As navy surgeons frantically attempted to save Bushemi’s life, the photographer gave his epitaph, telling Miller “Be sure to get those pictures back to the office.” Images of both his battleship funeral service and his funeral service back home in Gary are included in the exhibit.


Who Do You Think You Are? at the Merrillville-Ross Township Historical Society and Museum in Merrillville
The different ethnic groups that have played a part in the Hoosier state's heritage are explored in this exhibit. Using photographs, maps, statistics and graphics drawn from the IHS's collections and from institutions around the state, the display examines such topics as how people immigrated to the United States and Indiana, why they did it, and where these people settled. It also looks at lighter subjects, such as how different ethnic groups celebrate their heritage.

These traveling exhibits are on loan from the Indiana Historical Society. For more information about the IHS traveling exhibit program, go to www.indianahistory.org/LHS and click on "Traveling Exhibition".

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Free Access to Select Museums with Bank of America Card
A Bank of America card (check, ATM, or credit) gets you free access to select museums on the first weekend of every month in 2008.

For details and a list of museums visit http://promotions.bankofamerica.com/museums/.

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New Grant County Historian Appointed
The Indiana Historical Society and Indiana Historical Bureau welcome William Munn as the newly appointed Grant County Historian.

The County Historian Program was established in 1981 by the Indiana Historical Society and the Indiana Historical Bureau in an effort to improve the historical communication network in the state. Each county has one county historian. Through this program, the county historians promote local history in their counties and serve primarily as resource people. The Local History Services Department of the Indiana Historical Society coordinates the program.

For a complete list of county historians, visit  www.indianahistory.org/lhs/historianlist.html.

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Research and Evaluation Internship at the Institute for Learning Innovation
The Institute for Learning Innovation (ILI), located near Annapolis, Md., offers a three-month, paid internship/professional development opportunity as a Research and Evaluation Assistant.

Applications will be accepted through June 1, 2008.

The Fall 2008 Deborah A. Carey Internship begins in September 2008, ends twelve weeks later (start and end dates are flexible) and has a stipend of $1600 per month. Internships occur at our offices near Annapolis, Md. ILI is a not-for-profit learning research and evaluation organization that works to describe, assess and advance learning in free-choice settings such as museums, libraries, community-based programs and the Internet, as well as in the formal education system.

The Research and Evaluation Assistant will work on a variety of projects, which may include evaluation of museum programs or exhibitions, community-based or technology-based programs, or other programs in non-formal learning environments. Past interns have worked on a front-end evaluation of an exhibition at the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum, formative evaluation of exhibitions for the National Children's Museum, audience research at the American Philosophical Society to understand visitor's attitudes about museums' use of reproductions and original artifacts in exhibitions, a summative evaluation of a teacher development program, and a variety of other evaluations and research studies.

Duties are specific to projects that are available at the time of the internship and will include some or all of the following tasks:

• Coordinating aspects of evaluation planning and design. The candidate may work with a project manager to formulate the initial design and conceptualization of an evaluation project.
• Collecting data in the field. Data collection may involve conducting interviews, observations, or tracking in a museum, community-based organization, or free-choice learning institution.
• Reducing and analyzing data. Candidates may code and enter data into the appropriate software program as well as run specific reports/tests.
• Writing portions of technical reports that interpret and summarize data.

Applicants must be either 1) working on or have completed their master's degree in museum education or a related field and have had some experience and/or course work in evaluation or research design; or 2) working on a PhD and have relevant experience and/or course work. Our goal is to provide a mutually beneficial experience in which the intern learns new skills while providing of high quality work. The ideal candidate must learn quickly and be able to work simultaneously on several of the many projects with which ILI is involved. The candidate should have strong analytical and critical thinking skills, excellent written and oral communication, as well as sound interpersonal skills.  As much as possible, we attempt to match an intern's goals and interests with relevant projects at ILI.

Candidates must hold U.S. citizenship.

Application for consideration must include all of the following: A brief cover letter, a current cv/resume and three letters of reference.

In 2-3 pages please provide the following information as best you can:

• Briefly describe your interest and/or experience with evaluation and research in informal learning environments or visitor studies
• Briefly describe any experience or involvement you have had with front-end, formative, remedial or summative evaluation
• Briefly describe your interests in evaluation and research in informal learning or visitor studies and any steps you  have taken to pursue those interests
• Share how  you see your career or academic goals supported by an internship with ILI
• Briefly describe the personal strengths and skills that you would bring to the internship

Application materials should be sent electronically to kessler@ilinet.org or by mail to:

Institute for Learning Innovation
Attention: Cheryl Kessler, Internship Coordinator
3168 Braverton St., Suite 280
Edgewater, MD 21037

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Archive Builders White Papers Available Online
The materials used in the document management class taught by Archive Builders are available for free download on this site.

The dimensions of the document management continuum include the evolution of recorded information, document types, document mediums, document formats, the creation, editing, dissemination, use, collection, indexing, glossing, evaluating, discussing, excerpting, reformatting, linking, and protection of documents and the levels of expression recorded in documents.

All of the documents available at the site are designed to be printed as a single document (book) on two sided pages. The documents can also be printed individually or as single pages. Because all the course materials are also available in a single PDF file, you can do a full text search on all the materials.

For more information or to download, visit http://www.archivebuilders.com/whitepapers/index.html.

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Note from the Editor:

Do you know someone who might want to receive Communique Online? Anyone may join the mailing list by e-mailing col@indianahistory.org.

If your historical organizations, genealogical society or museum has changed its address or phone number in the past six months, please send the updated information to Coordinator, Local History Services, at the above e-mail, or Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center, 450 W. Ohio St., Indianapolis, IN 46202.