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. **** 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] -- Mary K. Mannix Maryland Room Manager C. Burr Artz Public Library Frederick County Public Libraries Frederick, MD To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html