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Pre-registration deadline for the Midwest Archives Conference’s upcoming
Annual Meeting, "MAC in Bloom," is fast approaching: It’s next
Monday, April 3! Get your registration postmarked by that date and
save $$ (only $50 for MAC members, $60 for non-members and $35 for
students – what a deal!!), and reserve your spots for tours, workshops,
and other events. <br><br>
The meeting itself, held April 27-29, in Bloomington/Normal, Illinois,
will include all the workshops, tours, sessions and networking events
that have built MAC's reputation as a leader among archival professional
organizations nationwide, It’ll have something for everyone in the
fields of archives, special collections librarianship, conservation,
public history and museum work. Be sure to join us – it’ll be well
worth your while! <br><br>
</font>Come find out what MAC veterans know well: that MAC meetings are
the best deal in professional development you are going to find anywhere,
what with the great sessions, workshop opportunities, and fun and
enlightening tours and social events--all of which build archival
careers.<br><br>
This year's highlights include workshops on oral histories, preserving
scrapbooks, and outreach; the plenary "Telling the Story of the
Poor: Journalism and Archival Memory," by Pulitzer prize winner Leon
Dash; a tour of the newly opened Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and
Museum in nearby Springfield;<font size=3> and sessions on small museum
development, preserving the history of Midwestern Latinos, lending of
rare research items, and many others! </font> Of course this is in
addition to the other great tours, conference sessions, meetings, and
opening reception that make the MAC annual meeting so important.<br><br>
Up-to-date conference information, committee contacts, on-line program,
and printable registration form are all available at the meeting Web
site, <br>
<a href="http://www.midwestarchives.org/illinois/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.midwestarchives.org/illinois/</a>.<br>
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Janet M. Carleton - <carleton@ohio.edu> - 740/597-2527
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Digital Initiatives Coordinator / Women's Studies Bibliographer<br>
Alden 235A, Ohio University Libraries, Athens,
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