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THE MIDWEST ARCHIVES CONFERENCE Digital Preservation Lawrence, Kansas PROGRAM Join us November 7-8, 2008 for MAC's third annual fall symposium. This year's meeting brings you to Lawrence, Kansas, home of the University of Kansas. Lawrence, founded in 1854 is known for its leading role in the establishment of Kansas as a free (antislavery) state and for weathering ongoing conflicts between abolitionists and proslavery supporters in the years leading up to the Civil War. Today, Lawrence boasts a vibrant downtown with unique shops, local restaurants and entertainment venues. Learn more at http://downtownlawrence.com. Nancy Y. McGovern, digital preservation officer for the University of Michigan's Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), is the co-developer of and primary instructor for Cornell's highly respected Digital Preservation Management workshop series. Aprille C. McKay, Digital Preservation Specialist, also of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), will serve as the co-instructor for the symposium. This workshop is predicated on the need for institutions to combine organizational and technological perspectives to devise an appropriate response to the challenges that digital preservation (DP) requirements present. It is aimed at managers at institutions who are grappling with fundamental DP issues. The workshop schedule is built around three action plan sessions for policy, technology, and resource frameworks that we developed to assist you in designing and implementing an approach that will work for your institution. Each action plan references exemplars from real programs and potential building blocks for your frameworks. Symposium attendees are eligible to earn seven Archival Recertification Credits from the Academy of Certified Archivists. Registration rate includes supplemental handouts and access to an online tutorial, to be completed by participants in advance of the event. Download the 2008 Fall Symposium flyer. Questions about the symposium content? Contact Matt Veatch (Kansas Historical Society), 785-785-272-8681 x271 or mveatch@kshs.org; or Alison Stankrauff (University of Indiana South Bend), 574-520-4392 or astankra@iusb.edu.
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