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Archives Week in Washington, DC (October 7 - 13, 2001)



The DC Caucus (www.dcarchivists.org) of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives
Conference (MARAC) is pleased to announce some terrific activities in
celebration of Archives Week, October 7 - 13, 2001.  These activities
include:

1.  The 4th Annual MARAC/DC Caucus Archives Fair, 12:30 to 5:00 PM, Thursday
October 11, 2001 at the Smithsonian Institution's Ripley Center, Ripley
Center QUAD room 3111, National Mall, Washington, DC.

The Archives Fair will have participants from over twenty of the area's
archival institutions such as the Library of Congress, the National Archives
and Records Administration, the many archives within the Smithsonian
Institution, George Washington University, Howard University, George Mason
University, the University of Maryland and the Washingtoniana Division of
the DC Public Library.

At 2:30pm Ms. Nina Gilden Seavey of the George Washington University's
Documentary Center, and producer and director of the Emmy winning
documentary, A PARALYZING FEAR: The Story of Polio in America, will discuss
her experiences while conducting research in archives. Check out the film's
website at http://www.pbs.org/storyofpolio.

2. Ninety Years of Scurlock, is a program that examines the photographic
legacy of the Scurlock Photographic Studio in Washington, D.C. This program
will be held on Wednesday, October 10, 2001, at 6:30 p.m., in the
Auditorium, Room A-5, of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G
Street, NW, Washington, DC.

Mr. John Fleckner, Chief Archivist at the National Museum of American
History, Smithsonian Institution, will speak about the Scurlock family and
the impact of their photography studio on the thriving U Street community in
Washington, and its role in documenting historical events in the city of
Washington, D.C.  Fleckner will also show slides from photographs in the
Scurlock Studio collection that are housed at the National Museum of
History.  The Scurlock Photographic Studio was the most prominent
African-American photography studio in Washington, D.C., from 1904 to 1983.
Ninety Years of Scurlock is co-sponsored by Moorland-Spingarn Research
Center of Howard University, Gelman Library at The George Washington
University, The Washington Historical Society and the District of Columbia
Public Library.

The D.C. Public Library has additional information on Addison Scurlock on
the Black Renaissance in Washington, D.C. link on its website:
http://www.dclibrary.org/blkren/index.html. Additional information on the
Archives Center of the National Museum of History can be found at
http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/archives/ac-i.htm.

3.  The National Archives Assembly presents an Archives Week event, "The
Charters of Freedom: An Interim Conservation Report." The speakers include
Mary Lynne Ritzenthaler and Catherine Nicholson of NARA's Document
Conservation Laboratory. This program will be held at 10:45am-12: 00 noon,
on Wednesday, October 10, 2001, in the Auditorium of the National Archives
at College Park, Maryland.

For further information, please go to dcarchivists.org

Thanks,

Jim Cassedy
DC Caucus Representative
Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference

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