[or-roots] Northwest Archivists/Northwest Oral History Association joint ann ual conference

Larry.Landis at orst.edu Larry.Landis at orst.edu
Wed Mar 6 12:19:11 PST 2002


The 2002 joint annual conference of Northwest Archivists and the Northwest
Oral History Association will be held at Oregon State University in
Corvallis, Oregon, April 25-27, with the theme: The Environment of the
Northwest:  An Archival View.  Archives and oral history topics will be
discussed in the context of the natural environment, natural resources,
cultural and natural landscape and the political landscape of the Northwest.
Pre-conference workshops on April 25th are Copyright: The Archivist and the
Law (co-sponsored with the Society of American Archivists); Oral History:
The Basics presented by Charles T. Morrissey; and half-day workshops on
Archival Theory and Applied Archival Techniques.  Two half-day field
sessions will also be offered on April 25th, focusing on botanical
collections and records in the morning and forestry and related cultural
resource records in the afternoon.

Conference sessions on Friday will focus on digital collections; oral
history for natural resource history; sustainable recordkeeping; archeology
records; Native American records; archival issues pertaining to superfund
site research; National History Day; archival resources that document the
history of wildlife refuges and conservation; and history and sources
documenting the energy crisis.  The plenary session speaker will be William
G. Robbins, Oregon State University Distinguished Professor of History,
whose work has focused on the environmental history of the western U.S.

More detailed program information and on-line registration is available at
http://conferences.orst.edu/online_regs.htm.  The deadline for early
registration is March 25th.

Questions about the conference may be directed to Elizabeth Nielsen
(elizabeth.nielsen at oregonstate.edu) or 541-737-0543.

Elizabeth Nielsen
Senior Staff Archivist
Oregon State University Archives
94 Kerr Administration Building
Corvallis OR 97331-2103
(541) 737-0543
(541) 737-0541 fax
elizabeth.nielsen at oregonstate.edu
http://oregonstate.edu/dept/archives




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