[Genealib] 2009 Librarians' Day at the Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference

[Paula Stuart-Warren]

Are you a librarian working with family historians and genealogy reference
areas? The 2009 Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference, hosted by
the Arkansas Genealogical Society, invites you to a special day designed for
librarians. The FGS Librarians’ Day, graciously sponsored by ProQuest, will
be held on 2 September 2009 (Wednesday).

The location is the impressive and recently opened Arkansas Studies
Institute, Central Arkansas Library System, located at 401President Clinton
Avenue, Little Rock, Arkansas. 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 library has extended its hours and
will close at 8:00 PM so there will be plenty of time to do research.

For more up to date information about the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
that is now located in the Arkansas Studies Institute Building, please check
out their blog at http://butlercenter.blogspot.com.

*Librarians' Day Agenda:*

8:45 AM – Welcome

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Building Bridges – Connecting Libraries, Archives and Genealogist by Russell
L. Baker, 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 TGN

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

There is limited seating (90). Please register at librariansday at fgs.org.
Please include, name, address, email, and library affiliation. The cost is
FREE and includes lunch courtesy of ProQuest! A RSVP is required to attend
the day. 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 info 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, additional
lecture and speaker information visit www.fgsconferenceblog.org.


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. Since 1970 he has been employed by
the Arkansas History Commission and State Archives in Little Rock and is now
that institution’s Archival Manager. He is currently 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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