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MARAC is focused on our members' needs and interests. We strive to provide MARAC members affordable archival education, encourage diversity and inclusion in the profession, foster collegiality among archivists, and support archival advocacy throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. MARAC membership offers a wealth of benefits and service opportunities. To learn more, check out our Membership page or contact us. We look forward to working with you! Sincerely AnnouncementsRegistration is open for MARAC's Fall 2025 Symposium on Sustainability and Archives. Join MARAC on Monday, October 27, at Delaware’s Hagley Museum and Library Soda House. Topics will include impacts of climate change on archives or, conversely, the environmental impacts of our own work on our communities. How is climate change influencing and altering our staffing, institutions, collections, and work overall? Featuring Eira Tansey of Memory Rising. Visit Fall 2025 Symposium for program and registration. Register at Fall 2025 Registration by October 17, 2025. There will not be any on-site registration. Upcoming Virtual Workshop: Communicating Your Collection: Making Short Video Content for Outreach and Education (two-day workshop) Your archives are ready for their closeup! This two-day workshop will introduce the whys and how-tos of using Instagram to create short educational videos about your collection using your smartphone. Allie Alvis (aka @book_historia) will walk you through the rationale behind using short video as a communication tool, how to select an object and film it, how to edit that video in the Instagram interface, how to write and perform voiceover, and how to post your finished product. Allie will also cover posting your video to other platforms including TikTok, and how "the algorithm" can be both a friend and enemy. This workshop will be recorded. Visit Webinars and Workshops for details and registration. The Scholarship Committee is currently accepting applications for its 2025-2026 Graduate School Archival Education Scholarship. Graduate students living or attending school in the MARAC region can apply for a one-time $1000 award to be awarded for the spring 2026 semester, which will be paid directly to the educational institution. The award also includes a $30 student-level MARAC membership for a total award value of $1,030. Visit Graduate School Scholarship for details and application procedures. The Fall 2025 (Vol. 54, No. 4) issue of the Mid-Atlantic Archivist is now available! Discover how Marshall University Special Collections tackled the challenges of digitizing thousands of issues of a student newspaper. Explore how rethinking description and access points for a music collection at the University of Pittsburgh increased discoverability. Other highlights include a look at the upcoming Symposium on sustainability and archives, details of a grant funded project to digitize television footage, and a book review of Collection Thinking Within and Without Libraries, Archives and Museums. The form for membership year July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026 is available online at Membership 2025-2026. You may complete the form online and request an invoice to pay later via credit card or check. Download the membership form here if you prefer a paper form to mail in with a check. Dues are not pro-rated. Payments received in the 4th quarter (April 1 - June 30) will roll over to the next membership year. Have an idea, concern, or proposal for MARAC? Use this form to submit your comments to the Steering Committee. Submissions are discussed by Steering under New Business at the next scheduled committee meeting after the date of submission. Questions? Contact [email protected]. New on the Blog |
Founded in 1972, MARAC is a vibrant, volunteer-run organization welcoming archivists who live and work in the mid-Atlantic region, which includes Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia.Our Sponsors
