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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 [email protected]
Program Jennie Thomas Brecque Keith (517) 629-0487 (313) 577-9894 [email protected] [email protected]
Local Arrangements Matthew Daley Rebecca Mayne (616) 331-8701 (616) 988-5402 ext.5496 [email protected] [email protected]
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]
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MICHIGAN ARCHIVAL ASSOCIATION
2005 ANNUAL MEETING PRE-REGISTRATION FORM
Please Print
Name
Affiliation
Address
Daytime Phone Number_____________________________Fax
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
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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.