With a brief historical look at the changing and challenging role of the lone arranger, participants discuss the difficulties and joys of wearing the many hats of a solo archivist. Speaking interactively with the audience, they offer advice and experience on working effectively and efficiently with others in the organization; generating support to create a sustainable program for the future; and balancing the many functions of an archives program as a lone arranger.

Seventy-five years of archival education activities across four complementary domains are reviewed and the most promising developments are noted. Topics addressed include an exploration of the state of graduate-level education, a critical look at several regional initiatives designed to widen the reach of archival training, a discussion of the importance of grassroots education, and an examination of Rare Book School as an intellectual and practical meeting ground for archivists, librarians, and other allied professionals.

The Congressional Papers Roundtable (CPR) has pursued an active agenda for the past twenty-five years. It also has produced many SAA leaders. The community, advocacy, and productivity found in roundtables make them ideal breeding grounds for leadership. What roles have roundtables played in archivists' development and within SAA? How will social networking affect those roles? How can we continue to generate new ideas and opportunities? Panelists examined these issues, reflected on the future, and emphasized lessons learned.

This session on archives history examines the role of three individuals—Waldo G. Leland (1879-1966), Solon J. Buck (1884-1962), and Lester J. Cappon (1900-1981)—in the formation of the archives profession in the United States in the first three-quarters of the twentieth century. These "founding brothers" published extensively, but they also created and maintained personal manuscript collections that reflect how they viewed themselves and how they wanted to be remembered. Four archivists/historians track through the lenses of the papers of the "founding brothers" the emergence of professional history to the beginnings of public history with their alliance and tension with archival science as a distinct profession.

Reference, access, and outreach are conceptually and functionally tied together in ways that were largely unexamined and unarticulated in the mid-1930s. In the second decade of the twenty-first century, archivists see these entities not only from a custodial perspective, but also as central to both repository identity and how the broad spectrum of society understands and supports archival work. The evolution of each of these functions and the cumulative impact of their interaction is discussed.

These three papers investigate the establishment and trajectories of three institutions devoted to the documentation of women's history: the World Center for Women's Archives in New York, the International Archives of the Women's Movement (now known as the Aletta Institute for Women's History) in Amsterdam, and the International Museum of Women in San Francisco. The panelists detail the challenges faced by each institution and discuss the key founding personalities.

You found the information, but can the researcher have access to it? These essays explore the issues of information access in an evolving digital and post-9/11 world. If you're an archivist, records manager, or historian in a government, university, or business repository, access restrictions probably apply to your collections. These essays focus on the evolution of national security, health, and proprietary restrictions in the context of conflicting archival mandates for distributing information freely but responsibly.

Panelists explore the past, present, and future relationships between the Society of American Archivists (SAA) and the regional archival organizations in the United States, including the vision for cooperation held out in Peter Gottlieb's 2010 SAA Presidential Address. Is a proliferation of archival organizations a sign of health or is it problematic? How has technology affected our organizations and their ability to meet archivists' needs?

The speakers consider SAA's role in creating and maintaining descriptive standards for U.S. archivists during the past thirty years. Among their topics: the development of descriptive standards in the United States, with a particular focus on SAA's past and potential roles; early efforts to adapt bibliographic standards for use with archival materials; the emergence of a truly archival international framework for description and the U.S. response; and the promising future of archival metadata standards that better support discovery, sharing, and reuse of descriptive information by users and archivists in responsive, network-accessible tools.