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Curation Conference Announcement
Jean Kelley (Jean_Kelley@NPS.GOV)
Wed, 6 Dec 1995 15:21:14 -0500
Federal activities have generated millions of objects and
archival records that are managed in public trust by hundreds of
federal and non-federal institutions around the United States.
This conference provides a forum for non-federal and federal
participants to address major issues related to the long-term
management of federally-associated collections. The goals of the
conference are to foster communication and cooperation, build new
strategies of action, create new and revive old partnerships, and
improve technical expertise related to managing federally-
associated collections of all kinds.
Targeted Participants:
Staff of state and private institutions that hold
federally-associated collections; Federal curators
and other professionals concerned with collections (e.g.,
archeologists, biologists, and paleontologists); Managers
of federal agencies; Tribal representatives and curators;
University collections managers and curators; Collections
users (e.g., researchers, students, educators); Staff of
private consulting firms and contractors
Themes and possible session topics:
BUILDING AND STRENGTHENING PARTNERSHIPS
*History of federal and non-federal relationships
concerning collections and their management
*Finding common ground among Federal agencies and
non-federal institutions on requirements and
procedures
*Contractual aspects of partnership: MOUs, MOAs,
cooperative agreements, etc.
*Accountability of federally-associated collections
*Costs of curation and fund raising
*Long-range planning for federally-associated collections
STREAMLINING MANAGEMENT OF FEDERALLY-ASSOCIATED COLLECTIONS
*Electronic applications to collections management and
use
*Multi-media access to collections documentation
*Compliance issues on the federal laws and regulations
related to federally-associated collections
*Comparison of state-associated and federally-associated
collections management
*Regional vs. local repositories
*Deaccessioning
IMPROVING LONG-TERM PRESERVATION OF COLLECTIONS
*Conservation issues and destructive analysis
*Ethics of collections management
*Copyright, licensing, intellectual property rights
*Issues specific to disciplines (e.g., natural history,
ethnography, art, archeology)
NATIVE AMERICAN ISSUES; NAGPRA; CURATION POLICIES
*Care of sacred and culturally-sensitive objects
*NAGPRA grant recipient projects and products
For more information, send your name, address, institutional
affiliation, phone number, FAX number, and e-mail address to:
Fritz Stern
University of California, Berkeley
Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology
103 Kroeber Hall #3712
Berkeley, CA 94720-3712
or
FAX to: 510-642-6271
or
Email to: fstern@uclink3.berkeley.edu
If you are interested in organizing a session or presenting an
individual paper, please send a 100-word abstract along with your
contact information. You may also propose pre-conference
workshops for June 3 or 4.
The deadline for receiving program proposals and abstracts is
February 15, 1996.
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