Announcement from Casey Westerman, Metro Detroit Archivists League (MEDAL):
I’m pleased to announce a pre-conference symposium, organized by the Metro Detroit Archivists League, to be held at the Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs on July 30, 2014.
The archives and archivists of Southeast Michigan will be well represented at the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. this August, with archivists from the University of Michigan, The Henry Ford, Wayne State University, and other institutions presenting papers and speaking in panel discussions. The Metro Detroit Archivists League will hold a symposium on July 30, two weeks before the conference, to allow speakers to practice their talks and react to constructive commentary from their peers. This is also an opportunity for those who won’t be attending the conference to hear a handful of presentations from area archivists.
The program is tentative at this point, but I’ve had confirmation of participation from four speakers at this point. All interested archivists and archives professionals are invited to join the symposium, which will take place from 10:00 AM until noon in the Reuther Conference Room of the Walter P. Reuther Library. For more information, or to RSVP, please email me at casey.westerman@wayne.edu.
Casey Westerman
University Archivist
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202
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The Metro Detroit Archivists League (MEDAL) was founded in 2012 to provide archivists of the Detroit metropolitan area a chance to meet, network, and collaborate. Monthly meetings are announced on the group’s Facebook page; previous meetings have taken place in Detroit, Dearborn, Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, and Royal Oak.
http://www2.archivists.org/assoc-orgs/metro-detroit-archivists-league