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Change and Continuity

A Conference for Students and Beginning Professionals on Archives, Rare Books, and Special Collections

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Bloomington, Indiana

Indiana University’s student chapter of the Society of American Archivists is proud to announce our second conference for students and beginning professionals, to be held on Saturday, March 6, 2010 at the Lilly Library in Bloomington, Indiana.

If you are a student in a library science, archives, or rare books program or have entered the profession within the previous three years, we invite you to submit your papers on topics related to archives, rare books, or special collections for presentation at the conference. In addition to paper sessions, the day-long conference will include workshops and a tour of the Lilly Library, Indiana University’s rare books and manuscripts library.

Each paper session will be just under an hour and will include two presenters. Each presenter will have approximately 20 to 25 minutes to speak, and the session will conclude with a ten to fifteen minute period for questions and answers.

To be considered as a presenter, please submit your paper (or, if your paper is not yet complete, an abstract of 150 to 200 words and a working title) to iusaaconference@gmail.com by Friday, January 1, 2010. Along with your paper or abstract, please include your name, email address, institutional affiliation, and any audio/visual needs you may have.

The papers will be discussed and voted on in a blind judging process and you will receive an acceptance or rejection by the middle of January. If you have only submitted an abstract, your acceptance will be conditional. You will be required to submit the completed paper by mid-February to have your acceptance finalized.

If your paper is accepted, you will be sent a more detailed registration form. At this time, you will also be asked to submit a registration fee of $15 to cover your breakfast and lunch. More details about meals, accommodations available in Bloomington, etc. will also be provided at this time.

For more information on our previous conference, please visit http://www.indiana.edu/~saarchiv/gradconference.html, and feel free to send any questions you may have to iusaaconference@gmail.com.

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

Sincerely,

The Conference Committee

Peter J. Wosh
Director, Archives/Public History Program
History Department
New York University
53 Washington Square South
New York NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-8601
Fax: (212) 995-4017
http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/history.gradprog.archivespublichistory.html

Call for Graduate Student Poster Presentations

The Program Committee for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) Spring 2010 meeting in Wilmington, Delaware, is seeking poster session proposals from graduate students in archives, information studies, or public history programs in the region. Students must be currently enrolled in a graduate program or have graduated no earlier than Fall 2008.
Graduate Student Poster Session
The Graduate Student Poster Session welcomes submissions from individual students and groups of students.
Posters may describe completed or ongoing applied or theoretical research; discuss interesting collections with which students have worked; or report on archives and records projects in which students have participated (e.g., development of finding aids, public outreach, database construction, etc.).
Submissions that focus on research or activity conducted within the previous academic year are particularly encouraged. The committee will select participants based on the quality of proposals. Posters should not exceed 30 inches high by 36 inches wide and should not be mounted or laminated.
The posters for the accepted proposals will be on display during the MARAC conference in Wilmington, Delaware, April 29-May 1, 2010. Poster abstracts will be printed in a program supplement and will appear in the conference schedule on the MARAC Website.
Submission Instructions and Deadlines
Submissions must include the following: