Student Archivists at Maryland

I am just the messenger; this is essentially copied whole-cloth from the Archives list email. Please contact the address listed in that email for more details. Regardless, if you CAN make it, it sounds like a good program, and one worth your time.

The National Archives Assembly and the DC Caucus of the Mid-Atlantic Regional
Archives Conference are sponsoring the 10^th Annual Washington, DC, Area Metropolitan
Archives Fair on Wednesday, October 11, 2006, from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm at the
National Archives, 7th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW. The Fair celebrates
American Archives Week, an observance highlighting the significance of the
documentary record and the documentary richness of our nation. This year’s theme is
“Archives: Bridges from the Past to the Present.” Representatives from many
Washington area archival repositories will display information resources
from their institutions.

Some of the participating institutions include the National Air and Space Museum,
George Washington University Special Collections Department, Virginia Room of the
Arlington County Central Library, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Division, Library of Congress Manuscript Division, University of the District of
Columbia Felix E. Grant Jazz Archives, National Press Club, University of Maryland S
pecial Collections, Smithsonian Archives of American Art, National Museum of American
History Archives Center, Goodwill Industries, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at
Howard University, Washingtoniana Division of the District of Columbia Public
Library, and others.

The Fair will feature a panel discussion at 11:45 entitled, “The John Roberts
and Samuel Alito Experience: The Role of the National Archives of the United States
in Nominations to the Supreme Court.” James Hastings, John Laster, Nancy Smith, and
Steven Tilley of the National Archives will discuss the extraordinary measures that
NARA had to take in 2005 to make federal records in Washington and Presidential
records in California available to the Senate and the public before the hearings on
the nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. They will
offer a real-world account of what it was like for archivists to be involved at the
center of the storm for access to records.

These events are free and open to the public. Information on visiting the National
Archives, including transportation options, is available at
http://www.archives.gov/dc-metro/washington/index.htmlwww.nara.gov.
Fair attendees may use the special events entrance on Constitution Avenue to
enter the building.

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For further information, contact Marisa Bourgoin at
mbourgoin@corcoran.org  or (202)
639-1721or Jennie Guilbaud at jennie.guilbaud@nara.gov
 or (301) 837-1777.