[Genealib] ALA Genealogy Event in Denver, Jan. 24

[Elaine Hayes]

Please note that the date of the event is Friday January 23rd not 24th
(which is a Saturday).
 
Elaine Haye
 
Elaine Jones Hayes
Assistant Manager - Reference Services, 
Special Collections Librarian - Family & Local History
Laramie County Library System
2200 Pioneer Avenue
Cheyenne, Wyoming 82001
ehayes at lclsonline.org 
307-773-7232
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>>> Jack Simpson <simpsonj at newberry.org> 11/13/2008 9:03 AM >>>
Sorry for the second posting- I failed to correct the subject line on 
the previous one.
Once again, I'm passing along a message from the ALA regarding an 
upcoming event:

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


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

-- 
Jack Simpson Curator of Local and Family History The Newberry Library
312.255.3671
simpsonj at newberry.org 

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