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The Michigan Archival Association invites you to attend its

annual meeting to be held in bustling downtown Grand

Rapids. The meeting sites and workshop will take place on the

Pew campus of Grand Valley State University (GVSU) inside

the Eberhard & DeVos Centers. Tours will feature nearby sites,

such as Heritage Hill, historic downtown Grand Rapids, the

Van Andel Museum Center, and the Grand River corridor.

There are many more sites for you to see and enjoy however –

all within walking distance of the hotel and meeting locations.

And the Grand Rapids Festival of the Arts begins on Friday,

June 3! So when you’re finished with the fun and excitement of

the annual meeting, share in Grand Rapids’ celebration of

cuisine, art and performance with your new friends and

colleagues, or bring along the family from home!

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The registration fee includes:

♦ All sessions ♦ Reception on Thursday, June 2 ♦ Continental breakfast on Friday, June 3 ♦ Lunch on Thursday & Friday, June 2-3 ♦ Free parking on both days

For early registration, your form and check for $55 ($10 discount) must be received prior to April 23 – this includes mail-in registrations. For regular registration, $65 ($45 for students), your form and

check must be received by May 13. After May 13, registration

must be performed on-site. Walk-in registrants will be charged

$75.00, which includes a $10.00 surcharge for late registration.

The registration deadline for the workshop is May 6.

All sessions and included meals will be held in the Eberhard

Center on the GVSU campus, where registration will take place

in room 215. On Thursday evening, a gala reception will be

hosted at the Ford Museum. The Saturday workshop will be

held at the DeVos Center. Parking for the Eberhard Center is

free in the building’s gated lot. For handicapped parking,

contact Matthew Daley, Local Arrangements. See page 3 for contact information. See page 4 for information on lodging, tours, raffle prizes and our 2005 speakers. There is a map in your packet with locations and directions.

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Book & Paper Conservation Saturday, June 4 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. DeVos Center Instructor, Romie Minor

This workshop is geared towards the non-archivist. The basic

elements of beginning conservation will be taught. The

workshop will cover book structures, proper storage and

handling of books, condition surveys, and basic book

techniques, such as cleaning and mending torn pages, tipping

in pages, tightening loose hinges, and repairing detached

spines. Each participant is encouraged to bring an item from

their collection for the hands-on evaluation and book repair.

The workshop registration fee is $25. Limit to 30 participants.

Required Readings

♦ Schechter, A.A. (1999). Basic book repair methods. CO: Library Unlimited. [E-book available via First Search or Google]

♦ Greenfield, J. (1983). Books, their care & repair. NY: H.W. Wilson.

♦ Greenfield, J. (1988). The care of fine books. NY: N. Lyons.

♦ Lavender, K. (2001). Book repair: A how-to-do-it manual. NY: Neal-Schuman.

♦ Rosenberg, M. & Marcowitz, B. (2002). The care & feeding of books old & new: A simple repair manual for book lovers. NY: Thomas Dunne.

Romie Minor, born and raised in Detroit, received a B.A. in

history from Wayne State University (WSU) in 1990. In 1998,

he obtained an M.L.S. and Graduate Certificate in Archival

Administration, also from WSU. He currently works as a

Librarian II at the Burton Historical Collection and the History

and Travel Department of the Detroit Public Library. Romie is

head Archivist at the Parade Company of Detroit, as well as an

Adjunct Faculty Instructor for the LIS program at WSU, where

he teaches Introduction to Library & Archival Conservation.

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9:00 a.m. – 4:45 p.m.

Registration Eberhard Center, Room 215

10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Opening Plenary: Welcome to Grand Rapids! Using images from many of the collections he acquired for the

Grand Rapids Public Library Archives, Gordon Olson, City

Historian Emeritus, will highlight the history of the state’s

second largest city through, “A Former City Historian’s Views

& Stories.” Along the way, he will discuss the people, events

and collections that made this history possible.

11:45 a.m. – 1:15 p.m.

Buffet Lunch Followed by MAA elections & raffle

1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Start Spreadin’ the News: Archives & Outreach Increasing public awareness of archives has become a major

focus for institutions today as they struggle to prove their

value in the face of lean budgets. This session will discuss

different types of outreach and their best practices.

Participants

♦ Mary MacDonald, Dearborn Historical Museum ♦ Portia Vescio, MSU Archives & Historical Collections ♦ Julia Williford-Sosnowsky, Walter P. Reuther Library ♦ Chair, Holly Teasdle, Rabbi Leo M. Franklin Archives

History in the Classroom: Fostering

Relationships Between Students & Archives Using required classes at Starr Commonwealth and Albion

College as “learning laboratories” for local history, these

participants have worked to create bonds between their

students and archival collections. In this session, they will

discuss chosen subject matter, themes, methods, and results.

Participants

♦ Leslie Dick, formerly Albion Public Library Local History Room ♦ Dr. Wesley A. Dick, Albion College History Department ♦ Amy Reimann, Starr Commonwealth ♦ Chair, Mike Smith, Walter P. Reuther Library

Removing Barriers to Access: Archives

from the Researcher’s Point of View This session explores the issues researchers have with visiting

archival repositories and using their collections. Of what value

do researchers really find inventories, MARC records, Web

documents, and EAD finding aids? How are archivists reacting

to their researchers needs?

Participants

♦ Dr. Carl Bajema, GVSU Biology Department ♦ Dr. Randal M. Jelks, Calvin College History Department ♦ Marcus Robyns, Northern Michigan University Archives ♦ Chair, Larry Wagenaar, Historical Society of Michigan

3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.

Refreshments

3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.

The New Face of Genealogy & Genealogists Members of this session will discuss not only how the Internet

has changed genealogy research and genealogical societies, but

how politics and lost languages bar new genealogists from

retrieving ancestral information.

Participants

♦ Karen Jania, Bentley Historical Library ♦ Marian Matyn, Clarke Historical Library ♦ Evelyn Sawyer, Western Michigan Genealogical Society ♦ Chair, Brecque Keith, Walter P. Reuther Library

Lost Stories of Grand Rapids Why is the former academy of the Dominicans now a parking

lot for the Grand Rapids Public Library? How did Catholicism

come to Grand Rapids? This session will answer these

questions and more.

Participants ♦ Sister Michael Ellen Carling, OP, Dominican Archives ♦ Sharon Carlson, WMU Archives & Regional History

Collections ♦ Father Dennis W. Morrow, Diocesan Archives ♦ Chair, Dr. Karen Underwood, GVSU History Department

Urban Renewal & Historic Preservation Attend this session and become acquainted with Detroit’s

Brush Park Neighborhood, home to some of the wealthiest

Detroiters in the nineteenth century; get an early introduction

to Heritage Hill before the evening tour (though not required!);

and learn what kind of documents can be applied for use in

historic preservation efforts and how they are utilized.

Participants

♦ John Gibson, Burton Historical Collection ♦ Tom Logan, Author Almost Lost: Building & Preserving

Heritage Hill, Grand Rapids, Michigan ♦ Pamela O’Connor, Michigan Historic Preservation Network ♦ Chair, Sharon Scott, Bentley Historical Library

5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Heritage Hill Historic District Bus Tour

Furniture Factories Bus Tour

Van Andel Museum Center: Behind-the-Scenes Tour

7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

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This year’s gala reception will be held at the Gerald R. Ford

Museum and is sponsored by Alticor, Inc., the New Holland

Brewery, and the Gerald R. Ford Museum. The Museum

highlights the lives of both the President and Mrs. Ford

through five permanent exhibitions, including a replica of the

Oval Office and an interactive cabinet room. Temporary

exhibits are shown at the Ford as well, which for our visit will

include “Bob Hope,” which spans his entertainment career for

the American armed forces, and “Churchill & the Great

Republic,” a traveling exhibit from the Library of Congress.

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7:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.

Continental Breakfast & Informal Talk For those of you who could use some early morning brain

food, former Grand Rapids Mayor and historic preservationist,

John H. Logie will be here talking about his experiences

interpreting national historic preservation law for the state,

and his role in the development of the Heritage Hill Historic

District. He will also share his insights and advice on how to

best to strengthen Michigan archival programs.

8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Registration Eberhard Center, Room 215

8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

Historic Grand Rapids Walking Tour

10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Come Together, Right Now:

Cooperation & Collaboration in Archives Cooperation and collaboration between historical repositories

reaps benefits for all involved, whether the purpose is more

effective reference service or mutually beneficial collection

development. This session will explore innovative ways to

develop and maintain such partnerships.

Participants

♦ John Bowen, Benson Ford Research Center ♦ Dean Weber, Ford Motor Company Archives ♦ John Price Wilkin, U-M Technical & Access Services ♦ Chair, Leslie Armbruster, Ford Motor Company Archives

Sorry, These are the Rules! What kinds of rules and policies are archives having to create

and give up in order to deal with the advancements of

technology and the big business of companies like eBay?

Participants

♦ Kristen Chinery, Walter P. Reuther Library ♦ David Poremba, Burton Historical Collection ♦ TBA ♦ Chair, Heidi Christein, WSU Law School

Women’s Voices A poet voicing her musings on paper…a daughter recording

her father’s voice, turning his thoughts into sentences,

paragraphs, chapters…a historian taping the dialogues of

women whose voices would otherwise go unnoticed and

unremembered…these are this morning’s participants.

Participants

♦ Toni Gibson, Author ♦ Geneva Kebler Wiskemann, Michigan Oral History Assoc. ♦ Jennifer Morrison, Greater Grand Rapids Women’s History

Council ♦ Chair, Marilyn McNitt, Bentley Historical Library

12:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.

Buffet Lunch & Keynote Address Keynote speaker, Hank Meijer, co-

chairman and CEO of Meijer, Inc.,

will present, “On the Trail of

Senator Arthur Vandenberg.”

Vandenberg was Michigan’s most

influential senator and an architect

of U.S. foreign policy after WWII.

Researching Vandenberg’s life has

been a goal of Hank, who will share

his biographical and archival

adventures with us today.

2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Sharing History: The Relationship Between

Archives & Records Management What happens when you – the archivist – are suddenly forced

to take on records management responsibilities? What of the

two fields cross over, help or hinder the other? This session

will explore the answers to these questions.

Participants

♦ Bobbie Miner, Alticor, Inc. ♦ Sarah Roberts, MSU Archives & Historical Collections ♦ Caryn Wojcik, Michigan Historical Center ♦ Chair, William LeFevre, Walter P. Reuther Library

Blueprints and Tintypes and Slides – Oh My! This session will delve into the preservation of architectural

records and photographs, and give us a peek into the work

being done today in digital imagery and the preservation of

electronic files.

Participants

♦ Sally Bund, Bentley Historical Library ♦ Thomas Featherstone, Walter P. Reuther Library ♦ Jessica Lehr, Benson Ford Research Center ♦♦ Chair, Rebecca Bizonet, U-M Special Collections Library

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Registration Sandy Eklund (313) 884-5601 aa6699@wayne.edu

Program Jennie Thomas Brecque Keith (517) 629-0487 (313) 577-9894 jthomas@albion.edu ac8756@wayne.edu

Local Arrangements Matthew Daley Rebecca Mayne (616) 331-8701 (616) 988-5402 ext.5496 daleym@gvsu.edu rmayne@grpl.org

Mark your calendars for the 2006 Annual Conference in Frankenmuth on June 22 & 23 !

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A limited number of rooms have been reserved for Wednesday

night through Friday night, June 1-3, at the Days Inn, 310 Pearl

St NW, in downtown Grand Rapids.

♦ Rate $68.00 double occupancy, excluding tax ♦ Reservations may be made by calling (616) 235-7611 ♦ Mention the MAA annual meeting to receive the special rate ♦ Room rate and availability cannot be guaranteed after May 13 ♦ Hotel parking is free

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Heritage Hill Historic District Bus Tour will be led by Tom Logan, professional community

planner & Heritage Hill home owner, who will emphasize how

the area has achieved its distinctive shape and feel over the

years. It has developed into one of the country’s largest urban

historic districts with 1300 homes, representative of 60

different architectural styles. The tour will sample that range,

including the Voight House and the Meyer May House,

designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Pre-registration required. $15.00 transport fee. Limit 25 participants. Meet in the lobby of the Eberhard Center for departure.

Furniture Factories Bus Tour will be led by

Rebecca Smith Hoffman, one of the principals of

Past Perfect, Inc., consultants for building restoration and

renovation. She will take participants along either side of the

Grand River corridor to view furniture factory structures,

including Widdicomb, Colonial, Stow & Davis, Sligh, and

Hekman. A focal point will be the Berkey & Gay furniture

factory, a building recently renovated for living space. Pre-registration required. $15.00 transport fee. Limit 25 participants. Meet in the lobby of the Eberhard Center for departure.

Van Andel Museum Center: Behind-the-

Scenes Tour will be led by Chris Carron & Marilyn

Merdzinski, who will give a special after-hours tour of the

facility. Members of the museum staff will also share their

experiences in the development of their collection-based

exhibits. There will as well be time for participants to view

their current exhibits, including “The Furniture City” and “Old

Grand Rapids.” Pre-registration is required. This is a walking tour. No fees or limit on participants. Meet at the museum’s main entrance, 227 Pearl St. NW, promptly at 5:00 p.m. for after-hours access.

Historic Grand Rapids Walking Tour will be

led by Gordon Olson. This tour will be an opportunity

to see some of the historic buildings and locations in the

downtown Grand Rapids area, such as Campau Square, the

McKay Tower and Prospect Hill. Come find out about murder

at old Peck’s Drug Store and how real estate competition

caused the awkward layout of the city’s streets! Pre-registration is required. This is a walking tour. No fees or limit on participants. Meet in the lobby of the Eberhard Center for departure.

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This year’s raffle features six great prizes: a half case of

Michigan wines; gift certificates to two of downtown Grand

Rapids’ Top 10 restaurants, Sanchez ($25) and the One Trick

Pony ($50); a baseball signed by Willie Horton, member of the

1968 World Series winning Detroit Tigers; and a Leap chair

from Steelcase, valued at $700! Tickets for the wine, certificates,

and autographed baseball are $1 each, or 6/$5 - purchase however

many of these tickets that you want and put them towards

your favorites of those five prizes. Tickets for the Leap chair will

be $3 each. All proceeds go towards the annual MAA

contribution to Michigan History Day. Must be present to win.

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John H. Logie is a Grand Rapids native. He is a 1968

graduate of the U-M Law School and an attorney with Warner

Norcross & Judd. He was mayor of Grand Rapids from 1991 to

2003, his twelve-year term the longest in the history of the city.

Funds given upon his retirement formed fellowships for GVSU

students to work within the city government. John has been a

Trustee of the GVSU Foundation since 1998, and Chair of the

Board of the Clarke Historical Library since 2000. In 2000, John

received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Michigan

Historic Preservation Network and in 2004, was acknowledged

with an Honorary Doctorate in Public Service from Ferris State

University.

Hank Meijer, 53, is co-chairman and CEO of Meijer, Inc.,

which currently operates 170 self-service combination

supermarket-discount department stores in five states. Hank

joined the family retail business at the age of eleven as a

bagger. After spending several years working up the ranks of

the newspaper business, from reporter to editor and finally

publisher, Hank returned to Meijer in 1979 as assistant

advertising director. In 1982, he was promoted to marketing

director. Two years later, he published Thrifty Years, a

biography of Hendrick Meijer, the company-founder and

Hank’s grandfather. Hank has also written articles on Senator

Arthur Vandenberg, having been published in the Michigan

Historical Review and has written the entry on the Senator for

Simon & Schuster’s Encyclopedia of the US Congress. Hank is a

Trustee of the Ford Museum Foundation and Vice President of

the Grand Rapids Area Council for the Humanities.

Gordon Olson, Grand Rapids Historian Emeritus, came to

Grand Rapids in 1973 as Assistant Director of the Grand

Rapids Public Museum; becoming Grand Rapids’ official city

Historian in 1978. As Historian, he was chiefly responsible for

significant increases in the holdings of the Grand Rapids

Public Library archives, such as the Nancy Mulnix Collection.

Over the years, he has risen over $500,000 to support local

publishing and collecting ventures; most recently publishing a

book entitled, Flight to Freedom, about local Vietnamese

refugees. Today he is still the person most called upon to

provide information on Grand Rapids history.

Cover photos: (left to right) The city’s new library in 1904, donated by Chicago financier Martin Ryerson in memory of his mother; Mary Stiles, chained to the wrecking ball that would knock down the old city hall clock tower, 1969; Campau Square the center of business in Grand Rapids, at the corner of Monroe & Pearl Streets, after WWII [GRPL Photo Collection 54-11-6, 54-10-25, 54-19-36]. Photo from page 3: Senator Arthur Vandenberg at the voting booth [GRPL Photo Collection 54]

MICHIGAN ARCHIVAL ASSOCIATION

2005 ANNUAL MEETING PRE-REGISTRATION FORM

Please Print

Name

Affiliation

Address

Daytime Phone Number_____________________________Fax

Email

Are you currently a member of MAA? Yes________ No________

REGISTRATION FEES - PAID IN ADVANCE Must be received by May 13 or you have to pay on-site with an additional $10 charge!

Registration - Includes conference sessions, Thursday reception, Friday breakfast, and Thursday/Friday lunches

Members (postmarked by April 23) $55________

Nonmember* (postmarked by April 23) $70________

Member (received April 23-May 13) $65________

Nonmember* (received April 23-May 13) $80________

Student $45________

Thursday Tours - Need to include how many people plan to attend each tour, fee or no

Heritage Hill Tour $15 X ____ people = $__________

Furniture Factories Tour $15 X ____ people = $__________

Van Andel Museum Tour Free ____ people

Friday Tour

Grand Rapids Tour Free ____ people

Meals - Guest Registration Only!

Thurs. lunch $ 8________

Fri. breakfast $19________

Fri. lunch $14________

Workshop

Book and Paper Conservation $25________

Donation to help defray MAA meeting costs $__________

Total workshop and registration fees paid in advance $_________

A list of names, addresses, and contact information of all pre-registrants will be included in your conference packet. Please check here if you do NOT want to be included in this list: _____

* Non-member registration includes 1-year membership Please complete reverse side of this form

HELP US PLAN THE CONFERENCE

Please indicate for each time slot which session you will be attending; it helps us determine room size and

seating allocations. This form will be included in the registration packet that you will receive at the

conference:

Name:__________________________________________________________________________________

SESSIONS YOU PLAN TO ATTEND

Thursday, June 2 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

• Opening Plenary: Welcome to Grand Rapids _____ 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

• Start Spreadin’ the News: Archives and Outreach _____ • History in the Classroom… _____ • Removing Barriers to Access… _____

3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.

• The New Face of Genealogy and Genealogists _____ • Lost Stories of Grand Rapids _____ • Urban Renewal and Historic Preservation _____

Friday, June 3 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

• Come Together, Right Now… _____ • Sorry, These are the Rules! _____ • Women’s Voices _____

2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. • Sharing History… _____ • Blueprints and Tintypes and Slides – Oh My! _____

EVENTS YOU PLAN TO ATTEND

• Buffet Lunch, Thursday, June 2 _____ • Refreshments, Thursday, June 2 _____ • Reception, Thursday, June 2 _____ • Reception - Guest, Thursday, June 2 _____ • Continental Breakfast & Talk, Friday, June 3 _____ • Buffet Lunch & Keynote Address, Friday, June 3 _____

Please make your check payable to MAA.

Mail your check and this form to:

William LeFevre MAA Treasurer

Walter P. Reuther Library 5401 Cass Ave.

Detroit MI 48202

All registrants will receive an acknowledgment of their registration.