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            CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS:
   PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES FOR FEDERALLY-ASSOCIATED COLLECTIONS

                            June 5-7, 1996
                             Berkeley, CA

          Sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Interior
                             and the
        Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, UC-Berkeley

Federal activities have generated millions of objects and
archival records that are managed in public trust by hundreds of
federal and non-federal institutions around the United States.
This conference provides a forum for non-federal and federal
participants to address major issues related to the long-term
management of federally-associated collections.  The goals of the
conference are to foster communication and cooperation, build new
strategies of action, create new and revive old partnerships, and
improve technical expertise related to managing federally-
associated collections of all kinds.

Targeted Participants:

        Staff of state and private institutions that hold
        federally-associated collections; Federal curators
        and other professionals concerned with collections (e.g.,
        archeologists, biologists, and paleontologists); Managers
        of federal agencies; Tribal representatives and curators;
        University collections managers and curators; Collections
        users (e.g., researchers, students, educators); Staff of
        private consulting firms and contractors

Themes and possible session topics:

    BUILDING AND STRENGTHENING PARTNERSHIPS

        *History of federal and non-federal relationships
           concerning collections and their management
        *Finding common ground among Federal agencies and
           non-federal institutions on requirements and
           procedures
        *Contractual aspects of partnership: MOUs, MOAs,
           cooperative agreements, etc.
        *Accountability of federally-associated collections
        *Costs of curation and fund raising
        *Long-range planning for federally-associated collections

    STREAMLINING MANAGEMENT OF FEDERALLY-ASSOCIATED COLLECTIONS

        *Electronic applications to collections management and
           use
        *Multi-media access to collections documentation
        *Compliance issues on the federal laws and regulations
           related to federally-associated collections
        *Comparison of state-associated and federally-associated
           collections management
        *Regional vs. local repositories
        *Deaccessioning

    IMPROVING LONG-TERM PRESERVATION OF COLLECTIONS

        *Conservation issues and destructive analysis
        *Ethics of collections management
        *Copyright, licensing, intellectual property rights
        *Issues specific to disciplines (e.g., natural history,
           ethnography, art, archeology)

    NATIVE AMERICAN ISSUES; NAGPRA; CURATION POLICIES
        *Care of sacred and culturally-sensitive objects
        *NAGPRA grant recipient projects and products

For more information, send your name, address, institutional
affiliation, phone number, FAX number, and e-mail address to:

    Fritz Stern
    University of California, Berkeley
    Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology
    103 Kroeber Hall #3712
    Berkeley, CA 94720-3712
    or
    FAX to: 510-642-6271
    or
    Email to: [log in to unmask]

If you are interested in organizing a session or presenting an
individual paper, please send a 100-word abstract along with your
contact information.  You may also propose pre-conference
workshops for June 3 or 4.

The deadline for receiving program proposals and abstracts is
February 15, 1996.