2025 Virtual Fall Caucus 

Changing Seasons, Changing Practice

Thursday, November 13, 2025 / 9am to 1pm (Mountain)

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Program Information

9:00 am Welcome - Kimberly Anderson (Vice President and Chair of Education Committee, CIMA)

9:10 am Session 1 - Featured Presentation: “Building an Archives, Uncovering Stories” - Brad Parry (Vice Chairman of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation) and Jessica Breiman (Digital Archives Librarian, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah)

10:00 am Session 2 - “Enabling Discovery and Access of Born-digital Archives through Description” - Tammi Kim (Special Collections Technical Services Librarian, University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

10:30 am Break

10:40 am Session 3 - “From Yard Sale to Digital Archive: Building Sustainable Models for Orphaned Collections in the Intermountain West” - Annette Unrau (Independent Archivist)

11:05 am Break

11:10 am Session 4 - AI and Machine Learning in Archives

“The Limitations of AI in Primary Source Research” - Alex Meregaglia (Associate Professor and Archivist, Boise State University)

“‘AI in Archival Appraisal: Ethical Questions and Implications” - Laura Rocke (Community and University Archives, University of Nevada, Reno)

12:40 pm Conclusion and Final Announcements - Heid Steed (President, CIMA)