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The PDF version of the final program is now online, and a printed program will be available at the meeting. See the program for details about the sessions and speakers.

Program highlights include:

Thursday, May 1st

Basics of Archives Workshop (all day)
Legal Aspects of Photography Rights, Archive Management, and Permissions
(SAA-sponsored workshop; sign up separately at http://www.archivists.org/prof-education/workshop-detail.asp?id=2351) (all day)

Online Archive of California Contributors Meeting
(free, and open to all contributors) (afternoon)

SCA Leadership Seminar (afternoon)

Opening Reception at the Maritime Museum of Monterey

Friday, May 2nd

Vendors (all day)

Silent Auction (all day)

Plenary Speaker, Dr. Timothy Naftali, Director, Nixon Library and Museum

Session 1: Mass Digitization
Session 2: Interns and Students and Volunteers, Oh My!
Session 3: Publishing From Your Archives: Let Yourself Do Some Research Too

Buffet Luncheon with speaker Dr. Susan Shillinglaw, San Jose State University and National Steinbeck Center: "I wouldn't pay ten dollars for a Gutenburg Bible: Steinbeck's Apprenticeship Years on the Monterey Peninsula."

Session 4: Archives 2.0
Session 5: Applying More Product Less Process Principles to Digitization of Archival Collections
Session 6: Ethics Roundtable

Business Meeting

Gourmet Night (hosted by Monterey area archivists at renowned and delicious local eateries)
More information TBA.

Saturday, May 3rd

Silent Auction (closes at noon)

Session 7: Establishing A County Archives
Session 8: Digital Cameras in Archives
Session 9: e-Legacy Revisited: Mapping Our Progress

Session 10: Bull's-eye! Successfully Targeting Your Repository's Outreach Efforts
Session 11: Online Archive of California Redesign
Session 12: Pluralizing the Archival Paradigm

Luncheon Speakers are Dr. Rose Mary Beebe and Dr. Robert Senkewicz, co-authors of The History of Alta California: A Memoir of Mexican California, by Antonio Marķa Osio (1996), Testimonies: Early California through the Eyes of Women (2006), and Land of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535-1846 (2001).
SCA Awards will be presented by Awards Committee Chair, Chuck Wilson

Session 13: Archivists' Toolkit
Session 14: The Shifting Sands of Success: Digital Planning Case Study Utilizing Library Science/Archive Graduate Students
Session 15: Rising to New Heights: Developing Your Leadership Potential With SCA

Julie.A.Cooper@jpl.nasa.gov

Last updated April 15, 2008