2007 Annual Meeting

9:00-9:30 AM: Coffee and Danish

9:30-10:00 AM:
Welcome and Announcements

• Don Wolfensberger, Congress Project, Wilson Center
• Ray Smock, President, ACSC
• (Remarks by invited congressional guest TBA)

10:00 -11:45 AM:
Using Congressional Collections, Current Scholarship and Future Projections

• Chair, Richard Baker, Senate Historical Office
• C. Lawrence Evans, College of William and Mary
• Paul Milazzo, Ohio University
• Charles Stewart, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

11:45 AM -12:30 PM: Catered lunch on site.

12:30-2:00 PM:
Oral History and Congressional Research

• Chair, Richard McCulley, Center for Legislative Archives, NARA
• Don Ritchie, Senate Historical Office
• Susan Hartmann, Ohio State University, Wilson Center Fellow
• Kathleen Johnson, Office of History and Preservation, U.S. House of Representatives

2:00-2:15 PM: Break

2:15- 3:00 PM: Business Meeting

5:00- 6:00 PM: Tour of Capitol Visitor’s Center

6:00-8:30 PM: Reception and Dinner, The Capitol
(Registrants and invited guests)

Friday, May 18, 2007

8:30-9:00 AM: Coffee and Danish

9:00-10:45 AM:
Where is the Web Taking Us? OR Where Will We Take the Web?

• Chair, Frank Mackaman, The Dirksen Congressional Center
• Roy Rosenzweig, Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
• Richard Hunt, Center for Legislative Archives, NARA

10:45-11:00 AM: Break

11:00-12:15 PM:
Creating the Digital Records World

• Chair, Ray Smock, Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies
• Jim Hastings, Office of Records Services, NARA
• Representative from Footnote.com (TBA)
• Chris Burns, Bailey/How Library, University of Vermont

12:15-1:15 PM: Catered lunch on site.

1:15-2:30 PM:
Digital Outreach by ACSC Member Organizations

• Chair, Kate Cruikshank, Lilly Library, Indiana University
• Phil Duncan, Center on Congress at Indiana University
• Herb Hartsook, South Carolina Political Collections, University of South Carolina
• Erin Sloan, Carl Albert Center, University of Oklahoma

2:30-2:45 PM: Break

2:45-4:00 PM:
Government Congress Centers in Action

• Chair, Don Wolfensberger, The Congress Project, Woodrow Wilson Center
• Betty Koed, Office of the Historian, U. S. Senate
• Farar Elliott, Office of History and Preservation, U. S. House of Representatives
• Kenneth Kato, Center for Legislative Archives, NARA