Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference
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Oak Hill, VA 20171
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Registration Form

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Please make your check payable to MARAC, and mail it with your printed registration form to MARAC, P.O. Box 710215 Oak Hill, VA 20171. Please note: MARAC cannot take purchase orders or credit card charges. No refunds for cancellations will be made after October 24, 2008.

Welcome!

The Program and Local Arrangements Committees for the Fall 2008 MARAC meeting invite you to join them and "explore local history" on November 6 to 8 in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland. Making History Local will feature sessions documenting events in our region through film, audiovisual collections, collaborative projects, and other archival resources.

Silver Spring, though living in the shadow of Washington, D.C., has a long and rich history of its own. Taking its name from a mica-flecked spring discovered in 1840 by Francis Preston Blair, Silver Spring has seen both economic growth and decline, typical of many older cities. Downtown Silver Spring was a major shopping center in the 1950s and 60s, and today boasts new retailers, restaurants, and entertainment venues.

You'll find dining in Silver Spring extremely varied, with restaurants that include American, African, Burmese, Ethiopian, Moroccan, Italian, Mexican, Salvadoran, Jamaican, Vietnamese, Lebanese, and fusion cuisine, as well as many national and regional chains.

Our program features twenty-one sessions ranging in topics from archival detectives; Washington, D.C. in 1968; television news collections; digital curation; electronic records education; digitization projects; career development; and changes in our profession.

In keeping with the theme, the plenary address will feature Mary Beth Corrigan, an independent consultant, who has advised businesses and unions in the care of their historical collections. Dr. Corrigan appraised the PNC/Riggs Archives and drawing from her experience on this project she will discuss the importance of local history collections when used by a diverse and large audience of popular historians.

Our luncheon speaker, Jerry A. McCoy, is the special collections librarian and archivist in the Washingtoniana Division of the District of Columbia Public Library and the Peabody Room at the Georgetown Branch of the DC Public Library. Mr. McCoy is President of the Silver Spring Historical Society and will talk about his efforts to save "The Old Tavern Mural," a New Deal post office mural now on display at the Silver Spring Public Library.

We hope you will join us in Silver Spring for Making History Local!

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Museums on the Metro's Red Line

In Washington, DC, you'll enjoy access to fascinating, free attractions and historic sights. Touch a moon rock, marvel at the Hope Diamond, view Dorothy's Ruby Red slippers or explore Native American culture at the Smithsonian Institution's fifteen Washington, DC area facilities. Discover treasures like the Gutenberg Bible at the Library of Congress, the only da Vinci painting in North America at the National Gallery of Art and historic documents like the Declaration of Independence at the National Archives.

Museums on Metro's Red Line describes all the museums you can visit by riding on Metro's Red Line. Twenty-six museums are listed between Rockville, Maryland and Union Station in Washington, DC. We give you information on world renown museums such as the Library of Congress, the National Archives and the National Museum of American Art to ones off the beaten track like the Petersen Boarding House (the house where Abraham Lincoln died), Stephen Decatur House, and the DAR Museum.

Museums on Metro's Red Line is available online at http://www.lib.umd.edu/MARAC/conferences/2008/fall08/museums.pdf -- [pdf file will open in a new window] and will be available in print at the conference Registration table.

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