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Upstate New York Archives Conference - Save the Date!



The Lake Ontario Archives Conference is pleased to announce their annual conference, ?Of Enduring Value:  Preservation in the Real World?, June 13-15, at Ithaca College, Ithaca New York.
 
The conference begins with two half-day workshops on June 13th at Cornell University.  We are pleased to have Michele Hamill, Paper and Photograph Conservator for Cornell University Library, teaching preservation of  photographic  materials, and Richard Strassberg, Director of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives at Cornell University, teaching archives security.
 
Friday's plenary speaker, John Dean, is Director of Cornell University Library?s Department of Preservation and Conservation.  His presentation is entitled ?Striving for Comprehensiveness in Preservation: Managing New Preservation Technologies?.
 
Friday night?s banquet speaker, Milton Sernett, is author of the recently released book North Star Country.  He will talk about the underground railroad in New York.
 
Conference session topics include records appraisal, electronic records, preservation grants, digital preservation, Cayuga land claims, and church records.
 
Please see the LOAC web site at  http://www.ithaca.edu/library/archives/loac/program2002.html for more conference information, or contact Barb Morley at blm2@cornell.edu.