Preserving the Memory of the World International Symposium, UBC, Vancouver, BC, March 12, 02010

From the announcement on the ARCAN-L mailing list (02010 01 12):

Following the great success of last year International Symposium, the University of British Columbia Student Chapter of the Association of Canadian Archivists, on March 12, 2010, will hold a whole day International Symposium entitled "Preserving the Memory of the World." Under the auspices of the UNESCO Memory of the World (MoW) Program, which inspired its content, the keynote will be given by a representative of the MoW program, and every speech will be about the preservation of some type of documentary heritage, with a strong emphasis on the digital.

The speakers are: Johanna Smith, Jean-Stéphen Piché and Brian Thurgood from Library and Archives Canada, Lothar Jordan from the Kleist-Museum in Frankfurt (Germany) and UNESCO, George Blood from the Safe Sound Archive in Philadelphia, Dato' Sidek Jamil from the National Archivist of Malaysia, Tyler Walters from the Georgia Institute of Technology Library and Information Center, Babak Hamidzadeh from the Library of Congress, and Ken Thibodeau form NARA. The Symposium program can be found at: http://www.slais.ubc.ca/people/students/student-groups/aca/symposium2010/index.html.

The Symposium is free for students, while there is a small fee of $15 for professionals, which includes lunch, drinks and coffee breaks. We will be accepting cheques in advance, and cash or cheques at the door.

The Symposium will take place in the Golden Jubilee Room, on the fourth floor of the Irving K. Barber Centre at UBC, at 1961 East Mall.
Maps and parking information can be found here: http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?show=y,n,n,n,n,y&bldg2Search=n&locat1=516.

Please RSVP to aca.slais@gmail.com, and/or send a cheque (made out to Association of Canadian Archivists, UBC Student Chapter) to: ACA c/o SLAIS Suite 470 - 1961 East Mall Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1.