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Fall Meeting, October 15-17, 2008
Appalachian State University, Boone, NC

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17

8:30-9:00am: Meeting Registration and Coffee, Lobby, Belk Library &Information Commons
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8:30-9:00am: Poster Sessions
Lobby, 1st Floor, Belk Library &Information Commons
Description: The creators of these posters will display interactive exhibits, answer questions, and give you a hands-on opportunity to learn about their current projects concerning archives and cultural heritage in the Appalachian region.
Presenters: Anna Fariello, Hunter Library, Western Carolina University
Elizabeth Hull, Special Collections, UNC-Chapel Hill
Karen Paar, Southern Appalachian Archives, Mars Hill College
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9:00-9:15am: Welcome from Dr. Mary Reichel, University Librarian, Belk Library &Information Commons
Room 114, 1st Floor, Lobby, Belk Library &Information Commons
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9:15-10:30am: Opening Plenary: "Super-Scenic Motorway: The Blue Ridge Parkway Nobody Knows"
Speaker: Dr. Anne Mitchell Whisnant, Ph.D., Director of Research, Communications, and Programs for the Office of Faculty Governance and Adjunct Assistant Professor of History, UNC-Chapel Hill
Room 114, 1st Floor, Lobby, Belk Library &Information Commons
The Opening Plenary is made possible through a grant from the North Carolina Humanities Council's Road Scholars Speakers Bureau. The North Carolina Humanities Council is a nonprofit foundation and state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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10:30-10:45am: Break
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10:45am-12:15pm: Concurrent Sessions

Session IA: Gearing Up for Home Movie Day
Room 114, 1st Floor, Lobby, Belk Library &Information Commons
Description: Home Movie Day is Saturday, October 18 and many moving image archivists in North Carolina are coming together to coordinate events in the weeks surrounding this special day. This celebration of amateur films and filmmaking is held annually worldwide. Home Movie Day events provide the opportunity for individuals and families to see and share their own home movies with an audience in their community, and to see their neighbors' films as well. They will also learn how best to care for them. This can include inspection of small-gauge formats and the opportunity for people who no longer have projectors to see the films projected the way they were meant to be seen. Archivists who have had successful screenings in the past will discuss their experiences and explain how your community can host such an event in 2009.
Panelists: Kim Cumber, North Carolina State Archives
Skip Elsheimer, AV Geeks, Raleigh NC

Session IB: Documenting Marginalized Populations
Room 421, 4th Floor, Belk Library &Information Commons
Description: With an increasing number of institutions incorporating diversity into their missions, those collecting archival and manuscript collections look towards previously untapped populations for gathering materials. Collections from marginalized populations can be particularly difficult to locate due to the historical necessity for invisibility. As a result, additional techniques and assurances of privacy must be developed to adequately document these groups' experiences. The panelists will address specific techniques used to acquire and maintain such manuscript collections.
Panelists: Kathy Staley, Special Collections, Appalachian State University
Ray Christian, N.C. Mutual Life Insurance Company Archives
Amy McDonald, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science
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12:15-1:45pm: Lunch on your own in downtown Boone
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1:45-2:15pm: Presentation of the Thornton W. Mitchell Service Award and the Gene Williams Student Paper Award
Room 114, 1st Floor, Lobby, Belk Library &Information Commons
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2:15-3:15pm: Concurrent Sessions

Session IIA: A Slave Called Joe: A Cultural and Historical Program Derived From a Manuscript Collection
Room 114, 1st Floor, Lobby, Belk Library &Information Commons
Description: The Patterson Family Papers (Mss. 341) in the Special Collections at UNC Charlotte includes key documents about the family’s slaves, including "Joe," whose name appears prominently throughout the collection. The presenter will share documentary evidence about Joe’s life beginning in 1828 until his emancipation in 1865, as revealed in these family papers.
Presenter: Bob McInnes, Atkins Library Special Collections, UNC-Charlotte
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Session IIB: Tour of Special Collections
Room 432, 4th Floor, Belk Library &Information Commons
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3:15-3:30pm: Break
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3:30-4:45pm: Concurrent Sessions

Session IIIA: Change Management in Archives
Room 114, 1st Floor, Lobby, Belk Library &Information Commons
Description: New standards and technologies can have a heavy emotional impact in the workplace. What is the human aspect of change in archives? We would like to discuss the principles of change management, the difficulties in managing change across generations, and the possibility of finding middle ground vis-a-vis new technologies.
Panelists: Lisa Carter, NSCU Special Collections Research Center
Michelle Belden, UNC-Greensboro Special Collections
Stephanie Turner, UNC-Greensboro Special Collections

Session IIIB: Combining Wargames and Archives to Teach the Historical Process
Room 421, 4th Floor, Belk Library &Information Commons
Description: Utilizing wargames in history courses such as military history allows professors to create a positive classroom environment in which students actively learn the analytical, critical thinking, archival research, and writing skills of the historical profession. The historical process becomes transparent for students as they can see every step of how historians practice their craft, including those mandatory visits to the archives. In such an exercise, reference archivists have the opportunity to "teach" in the reading room and the repository receives a teaching collection for future uses. Panelists will discuss the process from the initial wargame exercise to the final paper, from the perspectives of the professor, archivist, and students.
Panelists: Greta Browning, Special Collections, Appalachian State University
Dr. Judkin Browning, History Department, Appalachian State University
Students from American Military History, Appalachian State University, Fall 2007
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4:45-5:00pm: Closing Remarks
Room 114, 1st Floor, Lobby, Belk Library &Information Commons

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