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Society of Georgia Archivists - South Carolina Archival Association Joint Annual Meeting Augusta Marriott Hotel & Suites Archives in Transition: Current Issues and Future Trends October 28-29, 2010 Keynote Speakers: Kathleen Roe and Richard Pearce-Moses Pre-conference workshop to be held on Wednesday, October 27 (Check back for more information!) Don't miss the educational and networking opportunities! Annual Meeting registration closes on September 28, 2010. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER AND PURCHASE GUEST MEAL TICKETS Help publicize the meeting! Print and post an Annual Meeting Flyer.

Augusta Marriott Hotel & Suites Information:

The room rate is $125 per night plus tax.  We have a block of rooms under the group code HISHISA.

For online reservations, click here:  Reserve a Room

To phone in reservations, call 1-800-868-5354 and ask for reservations under the group code. 

The reservation cut off date is October 5, 2010.

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Keynote Speakers:
Kathleen D. Roe is Director of Archives and Records Management Operations at the New York State Archives where she oversees records management services to state and local governments, and the management of the State Archives facility, holding over 200 million items.  She is past president of the Council of State Archivists and currently serves as chair of the CoSA Government Relations Committee.  She has chaired or served on numerous SAA committees, is  a member of the Government Affairs Working Group, and is a Fellow of SAA.  Her current professional activities focus around serving as the chair of the CoSA/SAA/NAGARA Preserving the American Historical Record (PAHR) Task Force and advocating, nagging, and generally talking endlessly about the need to enact the PAHR legislation presently before Congress.

Richard Pearce-Moses has been a professional archivist for more than twenty years. He is the Director of the Master of Archival Studies program at Clayton State University in Morrow, Georgia. He has worked with a variety of subjects and formats, including photography, regional history, Native American art and culture, and state and local government. For the past decade, he has focused on digital archives and libraries, including finding ways to capture and preserve digital publications on the Web and new ways to automate processing electronic records. Library of Congress named him a Digital Preservation Pioneer in 2008, and the American Library Association presented him with the Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology in 2007. Richard has served as the President of the Society of American Archivists, and he is the principal author of A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology.


Vendors please contact the Chair of Local Arrangements for information about exhibiting and sponsorship.

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Got Photographs?

The SGA Archives is still looking for photographs of past events and people to add to our archives. If you have photographs you would be willing to donate, please contact Suzanne K. Durham. Digital images, either born-digital or scanned from photographs, are welcome.

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Previous Meetings

• 2009: What's Prologue is Past: SGA Faces the Future at Forty
  
• 2008: Archives in Focus: Describing, Sharing,and Caring for Photographic Collections
  
• 2007: Access, Outreach, and Description: Improving Archival Avenues to Collections
• 2006: Discovering, Sharing, and Preserving Our Stories
• 2005: Archives in Binary: Electronic Records, Digital Surrogates, and Business as Usual
• 2004: The Changing Face of Archives: Coping with Changes in Society
• 2003: Architecture of Archives: Tools of the Trade
• 2002: Politics and the Archives
• 2001: Newness and Renewal: New Users, New Material, and New Practitioners
• 2000: Meeting the Challenges of the New Millennium
• 1999: SGA: Thirty Years of Documenting Southern History and Culture
• 1998: Taking Archives to the People: Reference, Outreach and Public Programs