The Conference will be held on Friday, October 19, 2012. The venue will be the William McGowan Theater, National Archives Building, 7th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. Attendees enter and leave the venue from the Constitution Avenue side of the building only.
Doors open at 8:00 a.m. (Registration and check-in). Program runs from 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
The conference will address how new challenges and opportunities are shaping preservation strategies. Within this framework, speakers will focus on conservation, reformatting, storage technology, and the ways in which these program activities are evolving toward new solutions. A session on education and outreach will highlight innovative methods to share information and engage users through social media and training.
The list of speakers and individual topics includes:
Keynote Speaker (with an Introduction by David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States)
David M. Rubenstein
Philanthropist and Co-founder of The Carlyle Group
Bethesda, MD
Introduction to the Conference Program
Doris Hamburg – Director of Preservation Programs
National Archives and Records Administration
College Park, MD
Environment and Storage technology
Ronald D. Weiss – President
Arkival Technology Corporation
Nashua, NH
John Faundeen – EROS Center Archivist
U.S. Geological Survey
Sioux Falls, SD
Conservation: Big and Small
Amy Lubick – Senior Paper Conservator and Conservation Digitization Coordinator
Sara Shpargel – Senior Photograph Conservator
Susan Page – Senior Paper Conservator
National Archives and Records Administration
College Park, MD
Reformatting
Brad Lawrence – Computer Science Lead
Kennedy Advanced Visualization Environments
Digital Image Analysis Facility
Kennedy Space Center, FL
Outreach
Nancy E. Kraft – Head of Preservation and Conservation
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City, IA
Beth Doyle – Head of Conservation Services Department
Duke University Libraries
Durham, NC
The Registration Fee is $125.00 (standard) and $75.00 for students. Food and beverages are included in the fee.
Please register early, as seating in the McGowan Theater is limited.
More information, including a printable registration form and flyer, is available at http://www.archives.gov/preservation/conferences/2012/
If you have any questions about this conference, please contact me directly.
Thank you and we all look forward to seeing you in October!
Sincerely,
Richard Schneider
Conference Coordinator
301-837-3617
Richard.schneider@nara.gov