Earl Long, during his 1959 race for Louisiana Lieutenant Governor

David R. McGuire Memorial Collection, Manuscripts Department, Tulane University; Gift of Jack McGuire

Program Committee:

Kathlene Ferris, Chair
Archivist
Center for Southwest Research
University of New Mexico
General Library
Albuquerque NM 87131-1466
Ph: 505-277-7172
Fx: 505-277-6019
kferris@unm.edu

Susan Goodman Novick
Director of Collections
Paso al Norte Immigration Museum
University of Texas at El Paso
500 W. University
El Paso , TX      79968
Ph: 915-747-5206
Fx: 915-747-5032
sgoodman@utep.edu

Brenda Gunn
Head of Archives and Manuscripts
Center for American History
SRH 2101
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712
bgunn@mail.utexas.edu

Mark Martin
Assistant Curator for Image Resources
LSU Libraries - Special Collections
Hill Memorial Library
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-3300
mmarti3@lsu.edu

Michael McColgin
Conservation Officer
Arizona State Archives
1700 W. Washington
Phoenix, AZ 85007
mimccol@lib.az.us

Kathlene Ferris
Chair, Program Committee

Anniversaries, celebrations, and commemorations will be among the topics on the program at the SSA's 2003 annual meeting. The meeting theme, “Cultural Celebrations and Commemorations: Archives, Memory, and History,” draws on archivists’ contributions to anniversary events such as the Bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase underway this year. Along those lines there will be a session about planning centennial events, one about advocating archives through cultural celebrations, and another about documenting world expositions. Reminding us that not all commemorations are happy events, there will be a session regarding research and documentation of the Charles Whitman mass murder tragedy.

Other sessions will cover a wide range of archival subjects. On the topic of preservation, a session on evaluating damaged visual materials will offer short-term and long-term solutions for preservation. In a session on documenting natural disasters, presenters will describe ways to use the events as public relations opportunities. Digital access will be the topic of a session on EAD-compliant finding aids and another session will address ethics and the Internet, continuing the discussion where it left off at last year’s popular session.

For a bit of local flavor, the legendary cooking of New Orleans will be the subject of a session on culinary resources in local archives. All of the daytime sessions will provide plenty of food for the mind, just as the evenings will offer the opportunity to savor local culinary delights. Join us in New Orleans and enjoy!