CFA is excited to participate in Chicago Open Archives: Yours to Explore, a second annual event from Chicago Area Archivists (CAA)! Over thirty local archives, research centers, and cultural institutions in the Chicago area will offer special events open to members of the public on October 6-8, 2016. Chicago Open Archives: Yours to Explore is an opportunity to discover unique historical materials and engage with archivists, librarians, and museum curators.
Since 1982, CAA has worked to provide opportunities for local archivists, historians, librarians and others in the Chicago metro area to meet together for discussion, social interaction, and education. Its membership include archivists, librarians, and records managers in academic, corporate, governmental, institutional, library, and museum settings.
The second annual Chicago Open Archives event connects visitors with archives during American Archives Month, a movement promoted by the Society of American Archivists, and is modeled from similar events in Portland, Sacramento, and Cambridge.
Participating sites for this year’s event include:
- Aurora Regional Fire Museum
- Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College Chicago
- Chicago Collections
- Chicago Film Archives
- Chicago History Museum
- Chicago Public Library, Sulzer Regional Library
- Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center
- Chicago Public Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection
- Creative Audio Archive
- DePaul University Special Collections and Archives
- Illinois Institute of Technology, University Archives & Special Collections
- International Museum of Surgical Science
- John M. Flaxman Library Special Collections, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Loyola University Chicago Archives & Special Collections
- Media Burn Archive
- Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Library and Archives
- National Archives at Chicago
- National Association of REALTORS® Library & Archives
- Newberry Library
- Oak Park Public Library/Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park
- Pullman State Historic Site
- Rebuild Foundation
- National Museum of the American Sailor, Naval History and Heritage Command, U.S. Navy
- Regional History Center, Northern Illinois University
- Roger Brown Study Collection
- Studs Terkel Radio Archive/WFMT Archives
- Ryerson & Burnham Archives, The Art Institute of Chicago
- Union League Club of Chicago
- University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center
- University of Illinois at Chicago
- Video Data Bank
- Women and Leadership Archives, Loyola University Chicago
CFA will be screening a selection of films that represent the archive’s breadth of material on Thursday October 6th from 3-3:45pm. More information about our event and all of the other events being offered by participating archives can be found at www.chicagoarchivists.org/chicago-open-archives. Hope to see you at our screening and amongst the other events!