I am happy to share with Va-Hist the announcement of the spring 2006
meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, in Baltimore.


Please excuse cross-postings and feel free to forward to any potentially
interested parties.

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MARAC SPRING CONFERENCE, BALTIMORE 2006

The Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) will hold their
spring 2006 meeting in downtown Baltimore on April 21-23.  MARAC is a
volunteer regional consortium of archivists and manuscript curators
living and working in Maryland, DC, and the surrounding states.
MARAC's members are employed in a wide variety of settings, including
public libraries, local historical societies, religious organizations,
corporations, academic, and governmental repositories.

The three-day conference will be held in the recently refurbished
Tremont Grand Hotel
http://www.tremontsuitehotels.com/meetings_grand.cfm).  It will include
workshops, seminars, and tours.  Among the sessions will be a plenary
featuring the Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein and a
luncheon program with William Fay, vice president of the company
responsible for the renovation of the Tremont Grand. Other sessions will
include: Documenting the Latino Community; African American Resources;
Organizing and Sustaining Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual, and Transgender
Community Based Archival/Historical Groups; Personal Papers of Jacques
Derrida; Image Licensing; The Work of Art in the Age of Digital
Reproduction; Documenting the Local Arts Scene; Archival Description in
Museums; Oral History from the Ground Up; In Katrina's Wake: Disasters
Do Happen; Capital Ideas: Archivists, Architects & Renovations; and
Planning a Workshop.

In addition, the conference will be offering four workshops.

*       Managing the Digital Desktop
*       Collections Disaster Preparedness, Response and Recovery at
the National Library of Medicine
*       Security Design and Implementation for Repositories
*       Visual and Sound Materials: Acquisition, Preservation and
Access.

Further information about the conference, including the full program,
can be found on the MARAC website
http://www.lib.umd.edu/MARAC/conferences/2006/spring06/spring2006.html.

Any further questions, please feel free to contact the Local
Arrangements Co-Chairs, Jennie Levine, University of Maryland, at
[log in to unmask] and Mary Mannix, Frederick County Public Libraries, at
[log in to unmask]

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Mary K. Mannix
Maryland Room Manager
C. Burr Artz Public Library
Frederick County Public Libraries
Frederick, MD

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