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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]