Fall 2024 Virtual Conference
Renaissance & Renewal
November 13-15, 2024

Image: New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., [1933]. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division. 

Renaissance & Renewal, MARAC’s third virtual conference, will highlight creativity, advocacy, versatility, and innovation in archival work. Conference speakers will address a wide variety of topics, including community-building, career pivots, social justice and reparative archiving, and the use of AI, and digital skills. As always, our MARAC colleagues hold riches of wisdom to share, and we are excited to learn alongside one another. We will collectively explore what is possible when we bring new ideas, new insights, and courage to our work. View Conference Program HERE

Schedule-At-A-Glance, November 13 - 15, 2024
All times listed are Eastern Standard Time

Please note: ** indicates the session will be recorded. Session recordings will be made available to attendees following the conference.

Wednesday, November 13
12:00pm - 1:00pm    **Plenary: Reflections on a Century of Building Black Collections: The Schomburg Center and the Harlem Renaissance at 100!
1:10pm - 1:35pm     Vendor Talk: PA Power Library
1:40pm - 2:00pm     Live Q&A session with Virtual Tour hosts

Thursday, November 14
10:00am - 11:15am  Concurrent Sessions
    ** S1: Life After MPLP?: Identifying Underrepresented Voices in Collections through a Repository-Wide Collections Survey
        S2: Empathy in Archiving: A Conversation between Reference Archivists
    ** S3: Mini-Workshop: Leveraging a Preservation Plan for Collections Advocacy
        S4: What They Don't Teach You in School: Skills Learned While Working
        S5: Thinking Outside the (Digital) Box
11:30am - 11:55am  Vendor Talk: PastView
12:00pm - 1:00pm   MARAC Business Meeting
1:10pm - 1:35pm     Vendor Talk: Preservica
1:45pm - 2:45pm     Concurrent Sessions
    ** S6: Oral histories on the fast track: Rethinking archival description for oral history, from accessioning to access
    ** S7: A Backward Approach: The New Jersey State Archives' Electronic Records Program
    ** S8: You get out of it what you put into it: Lessons from a Two-year Post-baccalaureate Program
    ** S9: From Harlem to Central VA: Renaissance Roots
3:10pm - 3:35pm    Vendor Talk: From the Page
3:45pm - 5:00pm    Concurrent Sessions
        S10: Propping the Doors Open: Collaboration and Access between Tribal Communities and Non-Native Institutions [Recipient of the   MARAC Diversity and Inclusion Session Scholarship]
        S11: (Ad)dressing Wounds and Issues: Discourse and Dialogue on Trauma-Informed Practices
    ** S12: Mini-Workshop: Suddenly Digital: Acquiring Pragmatic Digital Archives Skills On the Job
    ** S13: Building Archival Collections Through Collaborative Projects
        S14: How to Share Power: Building Collaborative Futures for Unpaid Labor in the Archives

Friday, November 15
9:00am - 10:15am  Concurrent Sessions
    ** S15: Renewal through Institutional Reconciliation and your next Social Justice Project: How Archives are reinventing student-centeredness
        S16: Archives as a Second Career: Benefits, Challenges, and How to Make it Work
        S17: Mini-Workshop: Building Strategy as Archival Climate Advocates
        S18: Enhancing Archival Access with AI
        S19: A Call to Action: ALI 2024 at the University of Virginia
10:30am - 10:55am Vendor Talk: Polygon
11:00am - 12:00pm Concurrent Sessions
    ** S20: Broadcasting Baltimore: Digitizing Hidden Histories in the WJZ-TV Collection
    ** S21: Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes: Embracing inevitable change in the workplace
    ** S22: Mrs. Doctor’s Wife: Re-Identifying Women in the Archives
        S23: Live Q&A with Poster Presenters

Tour and poster presentations are being presented asynchronously through MARAC’s YouTube channel. You can view the tours HERE  and posters HERE. 

Registration

Registration is closed.

MARAC Member: $30.00
MARAC Student Member: free
Non-member: $50.00
Non-member Student: $10.00

Questions? Visit MARAC's Registration FAQ or contact Sara Predmore at [email protected].  

Vendors

Vendors will have the opportunity to sponsor sessions or reserve a slot to make a pitch, perform a demonstration, or hold office hours for questions and answers.  Registration is closed.  Questions? Contact the MARAC Vendor Coordinator, Nick Zmijewski, at [email protected].

Contact the Meeting Planners

Email [email protected] to reach the meeting planning committees.

Virtual Arrangements Committee Co-Chairs

• Scott Keefer, Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent De Paul
• Colleen McFarland Rademaker, Disciples of Christ Historical Society
  

Program Committee Co-Chairs

• Megan Craynon, Maryland State Archives
• Hillary Kativa, University of Delaware

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