Fall 2002 Meeting in
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
"A New Deal for Archivists: the Expanding Scope and Content of Archival Responsibilities"
October 24-26, 2002
A joint meeting with the New England Archivists (NEA)
Program: [pdf will open in a new file]
Local Arrangements Committee Co-Chairs:
 Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer, Culinary Institute of America
Brian Keough, University at Albany, State University of New York
Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Barbara Austen, Connecticut State Archives
Alison Oswald, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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Welcome!
On behalf of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference and the New England Archivists, we welcome
you to our joint fall meeting in Poughkeepsie, New York, October 24-26, 2002. This collaboration brings
together two regional organizations to exchange ideas, concerns, solutions, and new approaches. Please take
advantage of this opportunity to meet colleagues from outside your region. Join MARAC as it celebrates its
thirtieth anniversary!
The Program Committee has prepared a conference titled "A New Deal for Archivists: the Expanding Scope
and Content of Archival Responsibilities" with a variety of sessions that will appeal to all conference
attendees. The sessions address a wide range of archival concerns for small and large repositories: selecting
collections for digitization, conducting a job search, moving an archives, strategic planning, environmental
monitoring, and administering grants. Collecting profiles include manuscripts in public libraries, maritime
collections, and documentation of the environmental movement. A special session Friday evening will
provide a lighthearted cinematic portrayal of archives in the movies.
Following the Friday luncheon, NEA will recognize an individual or institution that has demonstrated
extraordinary support of archival programs with presentation of the NEA Archival Advocacy Award. Then
our plenary speaker, Edward Tenner, an independent writer and consultant, will speak about the
evaporation of knowledge based on his efforts to use archives and the published record to understand the
past, and on the paradox of anticipating what people will find interesting in the future. Mr. Tenner explores
the unpredictable side of technology from the Paradoxical Proliferation of Paper to Why Things Bite Back:
Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences.
Located halfway between Albany and New York City, Poughkeepsie is nestled in the heart of historic
Hudson Valley. The area was home to the Roosevelts, Rockefellers, Vanderbilts, and the Hudson River
School of painters. Vassar College, Marist College, Bard College, and the United States Military Academy
at West Point are among the institutions of higher education in the region. Conference participants will have
an opportunity to visit and tour the Culinary Institute of America, Vassar College Libraries, the Samuel F.B.
Morse Historic Site, Huguenot Street Historic District in New Paltz, and Adair Vineyards. Come early or
stay late, explore the local cultural and culinary delights, and enjoy the October foliage of the Hudson River
Valley.
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