Category: ICA Archives

FALL SOJOURN: CELEBRATING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

7/6/2017

Semi-annual Archives Sojourns provide an opportunity for colleagues from across the country to work and reflect on the future of our past. During the Spring Sojourn, March 13–17, colleagues focused on (1) designing and launching a new ICA Archives website and (2) analyzing and cataloging the Human Development Projects (HDPs).

2017 ICA GLOBAL ARCHIVES SPRING SOJOURN

3/7/2017

Dear Colleagues and Friends, You are invited to attend the 2017 Archives Spring Sojourn, March 13 – March 17, to be held at the ICA GreenRise Building in Chicago.

ICA ENVISIONS NEW DIRECTIONS AT BOARD MEETING AND ARCHIVES SOJOURN

5/13/2016

ICA board, staff, and volunteers are welcoming spring of 2016 with new commitments for the future of ICA. From March 28th through April 2nd, ICA leaders directed their energy towards strategic planning.

ANNOUNCING 2016 SPRING SOJOURN

3/4/2016

Last Fall’s Sojourn was the biggest in Archives history and we have great expectations for the next session. A key component to this Sojourn will be a Global Archives Planning session on Tuesday, March 29th to strategically map out the next several years. The intent for Spring Sojourn 2016 is to release ICA Global Archive strategy to support ongoing archive projects and the mission of ICA.

ARCHIVES INTERNS ANALYZE TOWN MEETING 76

1/25/2016

Two interns from the Dominican University Masters of Library Science program have finished the first step in an extended project which focuses on Town Meeting 76 and how it relates to the current and future work of the ICA.

FALL ARCHIVES SOJOURN 2015: EXPLORING THE FUTURE OF OUR PAST

11/11/2015

From September 21st through 25th, the ICA Global Archives team came together for the largest Sojourn to date, with 50 colleagues joining both in person and virtually.

COLLEAGUES GATHER TO REMEMBER BETTY CHIPMAN PESEK

8/24/2015

While celebrating Betty's "great life lived and completed," guests shared many personal stories and common reflections.

THE WORK OF THE ARCHIVES BASEMENT RESETTLEMENT PROJECT

5/11/2015

Over the years many cabinets of files have been transferred from the basement archive storage to the 6th floor Global Archives work rooms. The Global Archives team is in the midst of the Archive Basement Resettlement, an initiative to make sure all of the most valuable information will be preserved. Over 18,000 documents have been logged into the archive database, and volunteers are working to make documents available online.

GLOBAL ARCHIVES PROJECT IS DESIGNING A RESETTLEMENT PLAN

1/26/2015

There are many opportunities to engage with the ICA Global Archives in the upcoming year. Starting in January 2015, a team will be EXTRACTING files from basement storage. These BASEMENT MINERS have selected one category to focus on; 'Global Research Assembly' documents will be selected by year and placed in bankers boxes, loaded onto the freight elevator and brought to the 6th floor.

ICA RELEASES FIFTH CITY VIDEO TO COMMEMORATE FIFTH CITY PRESCHOOL 50TH ANNIVERSARY

7/23/2014

In 1962, ICA established operations in Fifth City in Chicago's East Garfield Park community on the West Side of Chicago.

Two years later, Fifth City community members established the Fifth City Child Development Institute. This Saturday, July 26th, 9am-3pm, Fifth City Preschool will celebrate 50 years of providing early education to neighborhood children.

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