Call for presentations – ARMA Great Northwest Region Conference – April 2008

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The Great Northwest Region of ARMA International announces its Region Conference to be held in beautiful Portland, Oregon April 7 – 9, 2008.

We invite you to join us as a presenter at the conference. Our conference theme is “LINKS: Leveraging Information, Networks, and Knowledge Successfully.” LINKS was chosen to illustrate how records & information management is an integral part of an organization’s well-being and how it is our duty as records professionals to establish, grow and maintain links not only with our customers and organization’s management, but also with our partners in technology services, legal services, and with our vendors and fellow RIM professionals.

For details on submitting a proposal, please visit the Great Northwest Region website and click on the Call for Presentations link or contact me offline. Thank you.

Tim Hunt, CRM
Chair, Speaker and Program Committee
2008 ARMA Great Northwest region Conference
Phone: (503) 823-4565
tim dot hunt **AT** ci dot portland dot or dot us

May is Preservation Month

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Some ideas and tips for your community’s celebration of Preservation Month from the National Trust can be found at:

http://www.nationaltrust.org/preservationmonth/

Oregon Archaeology Month

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Oregon Archaeology Celebration will be October 1 through 31, 2007. We are just starting the planning process for this year. Our theme is “Climate Change – Profiling Climate Change through Archaeology.” However, events do not have to “fit” that theme. Any and all events that help connect Oregonians to how people lived in the past, used land and resources in the past, created beauty, believed and took care of the land, resources and people in the past, any activity that helps modern day people appreciate the knowledge, skills and histories of peoples and cultures, is an “event” OAC would like to publicize and recognize.

Events can be static, unstaffed, such as a display, or interactive, such as a lecture or demonstration. They can require physical activity like a tour or mock dig or they can be stationary like a video presentation. Target participants can be children, adults, families, students or mixed-age audiences. Past events have ranged from elaborate “living history” fairs to simple, heritage themed displays in a library.

The heart of Oregon Archaeology Celebration is the events. While OAC will run the month of October, activities and events that start in September or continue into November also can be included. Please consider what you might want to do, what might be going on at your facility or with your programs next October and then consider list these items in the OAC Calendar of Events. The Calendar of Events gets distributed to thousands of individuals through schools, visitor centers, libraries, and tourism offices. It also is hosted on a website advertised by the Oregon Archaeology Celebration poster.

Archives Week: April 16th Meeting, Monday, 9.30a

Monday, April 16th, 9.30a-12p

Oregon State Archives
800 Summer St. NE
Salem, OR 97310

For February’s minutes see the Planning Group webpage.

Heritage Conference Schedule, Registration Available

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The preliminary schedule and registration form for the 8th Oregon Heritage Conference is now available. “Strengthening the Fabric of Oregon’s Heritage” is the theme of this year’s conference which will take place May 3-5 in Pendleton.

There will be workshops on oral history, archives and archives management, and historic cemetery care. There will be presentations and panels on grants and grantwriting, volunteer management, the new Main Street Program, product and marketing, and other heritage topics. The Friday evening banquet will include the presentation of the first Oregon Heritage Excellence Awards by First Lady Mary Oberst.

The preliminary schedule and registration form are available at www.oregonheritage.org/OPRD/HCD/OHC/conference.shtml .