PEA - Portland Emerging Archivists

Picking a name is hard, but last night at the Lucky Lab in Southeast Portland, 5 of us got together (2 students, 3 archivists) and founded Portland Emerging Archivists (PEA). We drew up a couple guiding ideas for the group:

• PEA will host 3-4 events each year aimed at bringing together students and "new" archivists.  
• Each event will be free or very cheap and include both educational and social components.  
• The locations will be picked that encourage social interactions, including community spaces, bars, coffee shops, etc..
• We will collaborate with area groups including library/information science organizations, but our mission is to serve the archives community. 
• Instead of trying to create a new listserv/board/etc...we decided to work through the established channels of the SAA's Student and New Archives Professional Roundtable (SNAP), Portland Area Archivists (PAA), the Northwest Archivists(NWA), and the archive programs listservs in the area.  

Our first event will be June 24th and by the middle of this week, we will be announcing the exact time and location.