Video Recording of NARA’s “Archives Fair 2015” Now Online
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Archives Fair 2015 took place on Friday, October 30, 2015 in Washington, D.C.
The Archives Fair is an annual event for archivists and related cultural heritage professionals to meet and exchange ideas about the profession. It is sponsored by the National Archives Assembly together with the DC Caucus of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) and the Smithsonian Institution Archives and Special Collections Council
Archives Fair 2015 Agenda
9:30-9:45 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
John LeGloahec, National Archives and Records and Administration
Chris Magee, National Archives Assembly President
David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States
9:45-11:30 a.m. Panel Discussion: Archives Related to WWII Japanese American Confinement Sites
Rihoko Ueno & Barbara Aikens, Archives of American Art
John Martinez and Markus Most, NARA-UMD Information School- Tule Lake project
David Haberstich, Archives Center at the National Museum of American History
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Lunch on your own & visit exhibitor tables
12:30-2:00 p.m. Panel Discussion: Beyond the Processed Box: Unearthing the Research Muse through the D.C. Africana Archives Project
Haley Bryant, MA Student, GWU
Theodora Danylevich, PhD Candidate, GWU
Anton House. PhD Candidate, Howard University
Moderated by Doretha Williams, Project Director, and Alex Krensky, Project Archivist
2:30-4:00 p.m. Project updates panel
SNAC: Jerry Simmons and Amanda Ross, NARA
Friends of DC Archives
Collection Match update: Dawn Sherman-Fells and Meghan Ryan Guthorn, NARA
Direct to Archives Fair 2015 Web Page
Filed under: Archives and Special Collections, News, Video Recordings
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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