[Genealib] Librarians Day at the 2009 Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference Can Now Accommodate More Librarians

[Paula Stuart-Warren]

The 2009 Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference, hosted by the
Arkansas Genealogical Society, invites you to the annual special educational
day designed for librarians. The FGS Librarians’ Day, graciously sponsored
by ProQuest, will be held on Wednesday, September 2, 2009 during the FGS/AGS
Conference for the Nation’s Genealogists.

Are you a librarian or archivist working with family historians and
genealogy reference areas in a library, archive or historical society? This
is a day designed for you. The Conference theme is “Passages through Time”
and you know that many aspects of historical time and ancestral journeys
affect your job. Five presentations and a tour of the new Arkansas Studies
Institute provide topics that will help you in the daily work and knowledge.
This is a day with time for networking with others in similar jobs.

The location of Librarians Day has been moved to the Conference Hotel, the
Peabody Little Rock, in order to accommodate all those who have expressed an
interest in attending. The tour of the ASI is just a two block walk from the
Peabody. There is plenty of space for more registrants.

The impressive and recently opened Arkansas Studies Institute is located at
401President Clinton Avenue in Little Rock. The ASI houses the well-known
Butler Center for Arkansas Studies and part of the University of Arkansas
Little Rock’s Archives and Special Collections. The material housed in the
ASI building covers much more than Arkansas, especially for southern states.


Arkansas Studies Institute: http://www.cals.lib.ar.us/arstudies/index.htm
<http://www.cals.lib.ar.us/arstudies/index.htm%20>Butler Center for Arkansas
Studies: http://butlercenter.org and the blog
http://butlercenter.blogspot.com
UALR Archives and Special Collections: http://www.ualr.edu/archives/
<http://www.ualr.edu/archives/%20>

This is an all day event for librarians to network with each other as well
as hear from gifted speakers. The day starts at 9:00 AM and runs to about
4:00 PM. The ASI and Butler Center library have extended its hours and will
close at 8:00 PM so there will be plenty of time to do research.
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Librarians' Day Agenda:*
8:45 AM – Welcome, Peabody Hotel
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
    Building Bridges – Connecting Libraries, Archives and Genealogist by
Russell L. Baker, Retired Archival Manager, Arkansas History Commission and
State Archives.
10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
    American Memory (The Library of Congress) by Karen Russ, MLS, Government
Documents Librarian/Assistant Professor at Ottenheimer Library, Univ. of
Arkansas at Little Rock
11:30 AM – 12:45 PM
    Lunch sponsored by ProQuest – presentation by William Forsyth, PMP,
Director of Product Management and Ms. Lanell James, MSI, Manager, Genealogy
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
    Quick Overview of African American Resources by Lisa Parry Arnold,
Content Manager for The Generations Network.
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM
    Share in the Arkansas Experience – The Arkansas Studies Institute by
David Stricklin, Ph.D., Director of the Arkansas Studies Institute
3:15 PM
    Tour Arkansas Studies Institute

The cost is FREE and includes lunch courtesy of ProQuest! A RSVP is required
to attend the day. Please register at librariansday at fgs.org and include your
name, address, email, and library affiliation. FGS thanks ProQuest and the
Arkansas Studies Institute for their important participation in this day.

FGS invites librarians to attend the rest of the conference, too. For
program details and registration information visit www.fgsconference.org.
That site also has details should your library want to be a part of the
exciting Exhibit Hall. For conference updates, special announcements,
important links, and additional lecture and speaker information visit
www.fgsconferenceblog.org.

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Bios for the Librarians’ Day Speakers:*

LISA PARRY ARNOLD is Content manager over African-American records for
Ancestry, as well as Native American, Jewish, church and other challenging
records. Lisa is a Brigham Young University graduate in Family History, a
frequent presenter and an active member of the Association of Professional
Genealogists, currently serving as Chapter Coordinator of the Utah Valley
Chapter. She attends national and regional genealogical conferences
regularly and teaches Family History classes in her local community.

RUSSELL P. BAKER, archivist, lecturer, historian, teacher, and author, is a
native of Arkansas. He attended the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville,
where he became a member of Phi Beta Kappa and received a B. A. in History
in 1967. In 1985 he was granted a M. A. degree in Public History by the
University of Arkansas at Little Rock. From 1970 - May 2009 he was employed
by the Arkansas History Commission and State Archives in Little Rock and
most recently was  that institution’s Archival Manager and Arkansas’s senior
archivist. Over the years, he has also taught history and archival courses
at several public and private Central Arkansas colleges/universities. Mr.
Baker the author of several award winning historical and genealogical
publications. His Historical Directory of Arkansas Post Offices 1832 – 1971
and Arkansas Township Atlas, recently revised and reprinted, are modern
classics. During his professional career, he has contributed articles on
southern history and religion to local, regional, and national publications.
He is the author of a number of articles for the new on line Encyclopedia of
Arkansas. He is a frequent lecturer on modern family history research theory
at regional and national genealogical conferences and has taught in a number
of the Society of American Archivists’ continuing education programs. He is
a former member of the Society of American Archivists and current member of
the Academy of Certified Archivists. He has been a certified archivist since
1989. He is a life member of the Arkansas Genealogical Society and has
served on its board of directors for more than three decades. He is a past
president of that organization.

KAREN RUSS is currently the Government Documents Librarian in Ottenheimer
Library at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Originally from
Western New York, she has a Bachelor of Arts in History from the State
University of New York at Fredonia and a Masters of Library Science from the
State University of New York at Buffalo.

DAVID STRICKLIN is Head of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, the
Arkansas history department of the Central Arkansas Library System (CALS),
the library system’s Associate Director for Special Collections, and Adjunct
Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR). He
received a B.A. and an M.A. in history from Baylor University and a Ph.D. in
history from Tulane University. He came to the Butler Center after ten years
at Lyon College in Batesville, where he was Associate Professor of History.
At Lyon, he served as President of the Faculty Assembly, Chair of the
Humanities Division, and Faculty Representative to the Board of Trustees. In
1999, he was named Arkansas Professor of the Year by the Carnegie
Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Council for Advancement and
Support of Education. He served two terms as the Chair of the Board of
Directors of the Arkansas Humanities Council. He has worked on a number of
radio and television documentaries over the years and has many articles and
reviews in print, including a piece in the 2005 Oxford American annual Music
Issue, as well as three books, including Southern Music/American Music,
co-authored with Bill C. Malone. He oversees the work of the Arkansas
Studies Institute, a joint project of CALS and UALR, which opened in the
River Market in downtown Little Rock in the spring of 2009.
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