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Spring 2006 Meeting: "All Together Now: Archivists Learning from Each Other"

The Spring 2006 meeting took place at Boston College on March 10-11, 2006. Workshops were held on Friday, March 10, and included Describing Archives: A Contents Standard (co-sponsored with SAA), Caring for Historical Records (co-sponsored with the New England Museum Association), and Identifying and Handling Photographs.

On Saturday, March 11, the program included sessions on interns, dealing with donors, institutional repositories, traveling exhibitions, and new computer tools provided by NEA for the membership to help us communicate and network with each other. Of particular interest were the State Archivists Roundtable in which the head archivists of each New England state will participate in a discussion of the issues and concerns that involve their government archives.

The opening reception on Friday evening took place at the Burns Library of Rare Books and Special Collections. The Saturday luncheon speaker was Thomas OConnor, University Historian of Boston College and Professor Emeritus.

Program material is available here.

For questions about the meeting program contact Laura Katz Smith, Chair of the Program Committee, at laura.katz.smith@uconn.edu

Our Boston College hosts of the 2006 Spring Meeting (L to R): David E Horn, Head, Archives & Manuscripts, Burns Library; keynote speaker Dr. Thomas H. O'Connor, University Historian; and Dr. Robert K O'Neill, Burns Librarian.

Mary Ide, WGBH Director of Media Archives & Preservation Center, introduces our new logo on behalf of the NEA branding committee

State Archivists attending the 2006 Spring Meeting include (L to R ): Frank Mevers (NH); Gwenn Stearn (RI); Jack Warner (MA); and Gregory Sanford (VT). Not pictured: Mark Jones (CT).