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Posted 11/18/09: SIA JOB OPENING: The SIA has an opening for the part-time position of Events Coordinator. The Events Coordinator plays a key role in the planning and execution of the SIA's springtime Annual Meetings, Fall Tours and Study Tours. The job includes selecting future event venues, recruiting and organizing local volunteers and co-sponsoring organizations, managing the project schedule and budget, and coordinating the event itself. Current SIA membership is required, as well as experience participating in SIA events. Relevant event planning experience is also important. For more information or to submit your application, contact SIA President Mary Habstritt (president@siahq.org). Applications must be received no later than January 15, 2010.
Posted 10/12/09 News Item about our 2009 Fall tour in the Mid-Hudson Valley
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Posted 10/07/09 WANTED: Editor for the IA, The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology. The SIA is currently accepting applications from candidates for IA editor. The current editor, Pat Martin, who has ably served for 14 years, is now devoting more and more time to departmental responsibilities as well as international activities in the field of industrial archeology and wishes to turn the job of editor over to another scholar.
IA is the major publication of the Society for Industrial Archeology, a peer-reviewed journal that publishes original scholarship on topics germane to the study, preservation, and interpretation of industrial heritage and industrialization as a social process. IA tends to focus more on the physical remains of industrialization, such as sites, artifacts, processes, and landscapes rather than on documentary evidence, reflecting the distinctive perspective of industrial archaeology as a field of interest. We generally publish two numbers of each annual volume, for a total of between 120 and 240 pages per year. In collaboration with the Book Review Editor, the Editor oversees the general operation of the journal, including soliciting manuscripts, reviewing submissions, choosing/soliciting reviewers, and collating reviewers' suggestions for consideration by authors. The Editor makes the final judgment, accepting or rejecting articles based on reviews, and works with authors to bring them to print. The Editor works with a Copy Editor (a contractor) to make final adjustments and works with a typesetter (currently based at Michigan Tech University) to prepare each issue in an appropriate electronic format for submission to a printer (currently Sheridan Press). The Editor reviews galleys with the Copy Editor, making final changes before printing. The Editor works with SIA Headquarters to generate an appropriate mailing list for each issue, the list submitted to the printer for mailing.
Institutional Support: It is critical that whoever assumes the position has appropriate institutional support. Currently, at Michigan Technological University (where 1A is now based), this has included a cash subsidy for office and travel expenses, as well as released time from other academic duties to devote to the business of the SIA and its journal. This permits the Editor to concentrate on the necessary activities required by the journal, and to ensure its continued success. DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: Nov. 30, 2009 Submit a letter of interest and resume via e-mail to: Betsy Fahlman, Chair, IA Search Committee Fahlman@asu. edu.
Posted 09/11/09: October 21-24, 2009 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH: CONSERVING CANADA'S INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE
Several SIA members are participating, including Chris Andreae, Pauline Desjardins, Shawn Selway, Donald S. Wylie, Anthony Butler, & the City of Hamilton, Ontario.
Registration is now open.
The places associated with Canada's industrial past were once a neglected corner of the heritage movement. Today the conservation and rehabilitation of these places of extraction, production and process represent some of the most innovative and exciting examples of heritage site development, adaptive use, and urban revitalization. For many sites the conservation goals are not limited to the physical fabric but also recognize the need to preserve "spirit of place" that is embedded in the intangibles of memory, sensory experience and a community's identity of who they are. The three-day conference will bring together site managers, conservation specialists, community planners, property developers and others from across the country to share ideas, experiences and to explore directions for the future. The conference themes will be explored in varied and dynamic program that will combine formal presentations with social events and tours to a number of significant sites that have made this area an industrial heartland since the early 19th century.
CONFERENCE THEMES:
- Brownsite to Heritage Site: Planning Challenges and Strategies
- The Challenge of Preserving Industrial Heritage as Historic Sites and Museums
- Adaptive Use of Industrial Heritage: Conservation or Recycling?
- Strengthening Community Identity and Engagement
- Industrial Landscapes and Districts
Contact: INDUSTRIAL.STRENGTH@HAMILTON.CA 905-546-5086
From the 2009 Annual Business Meeting, held in Pittsburgh on May 30, 2009
2009 Election Results: New Directors; Carol Litchfield, Bill Vermes, Nominations Committee: Rachael Greenlee, TICCIH Representative: Peter H. Stott
2009 General Tools Award Winner: Carol Poh
2009 Robert M. Vogel Prize: Marco Meniketti
Press Coverage of our 2009 Annual Conference in Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh, May 29, 2009 - Archeology group peeks at city's industrial history Industrial revolution. When the Society for Industrial Archeology meets this weekend, they'll find much has changed since their first gathering here in 1974.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Pittsburgh, May 29, 2009 - Society for Industrial Archeology Tours Homestead plant to learn about its WWII history
Press Release - April 28, 2009 - Industrial Heritage Sites Threatened
Among 11 Most Endangered Historic Places.
Press Release - April 28, 2009 - Roebling Masterpiece Threatened
Tower Would Block Views of Landmarked Brooklyn Bridge.
