[Genealib] Midwinter Meeting Genealogy Institute: Sign up today!

[Liz Markel]

Please share this with your colleagues, and any genealogy buffs you may
know-this program is open to the public!

 

The History Section of the Reference and User Services Association
(RUSA) invites librarians, library staff and the public to attend
"Behind the Genealogy Reference Desk," a one-day institute from 8 a.m.
to 4 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 24, 2009, at the Denver Public Library, held
in conjunction with the ALA 2009 Midwinter Meeting.

 

Participants will learn from local genealogy experts about how such
resources as the Colorado Rail Museum and the Colorado State Archives
can assist coast-to-coast family history researchers. Speakers will also
address ways to overcome the challenges of closed-record environments.

 

Advance registration ends Dec. 5, 2008. On-site registration will be
available. The price includes lunch and a tour of the Colorado
Historical Society Stephen Hart Library and the Colorado State Archives.
The program site is fully handicap-accessible.

 

Details and registration instructions are at the event's website:

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rusa/events/genealogypreconf/index.cfm
<http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rusa/events/genealogypreconf/index.cf
m>  

 

Or the RUSA blog:

http://rusa.ala.org/blog/2008/11/11/explore-ancestral-roots-of-american-
west-at-midwinter-genealogy-institute/ 

Institute presenters:

Janice Prater, genealogy librarian, past-president of the Colorado
Genealogical Society and editor of the International Society for British
Genealogy and Family History's quarterly publication

Charles Albi, director emeritus of the Colorado Rail Museum, Golden
(Colo.)

Jose Esquibel, expert on colonial New Mexico and author of "Royal Road:
El Camino Real from Mexico City to Santa Fe" 

Dr. Wendel Cox, western bibliographer, Denver Public Library and author
of "A World Together, a World Apart: the United States and the Arikaras,
1803-1851,"

Rebecca Lentz, director of the Stephen Hart Library, Colorado Historical
Society

James K. Jeffrey, genealogy specialist at the Denver Public Library and
president of the Colorado Council of Genealogical Societies



 

 

Sincerely,

Liz F. Markel, Marketing Specialist

Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA)

Reference and User Services Association (RUSA)

 

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