Midwest Archives Conference

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The Midwest Archives Conference (MAC) is a regional archivist association serving the Midwestern region of the United States. MAC was founded in 1972 and held its first fall meeting in the Bismarck Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. [1] While MAC has over 800 members from various states and countries, the MAC region is composed of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. [2] MAC holds annual conferences with roundtables, panels, and workshops targeted towards archivists, curators, and librarians. Conferences have addressed such topics as federal funding for archives, documenting social history through the records of various ethnic groups, conservation, and data reporting standards for archival institutions. [3] Other presentations have discussed how an archives can tie into their parent institution's anniversaries and big events, [4] or how to make popular music collections a part of your archives. [5] Annual meetings include informational sessions and notable plenary speakers, such as Pulitzer Prize winning author Leon Dash, who spoke at the 2006 Annual Meeting in Bloomington, Illinois. [6] Annual conferences also often include themes, such as "Documenting Rural America" (the theme of the 1986 conference held in Hudson, Wisconsin. [7]

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History

The Midwest Archives Conference officially began in May 1972 with 111 members although the idea of a regional conference had been discussed as early as the 1971 Society of American Archivists meeting in San Francisco. At a second meeting on September 29–30 MAC adopted a constitution, amendments, and elected officers and Council members. The MAC Newsletter began quarterly publication in January 1973. Due to the efforts of Mary Lynn Ritzenthaler and others MAC began publishing its scholarly journal, The Midwestern Archivist (later Archival Issues), in 1976 . [1] An early review of The Midwestern Archivist by Trudy Huskamp Peterson notes that the first two issues included only articles and book reviews, with plans to include additional material in later issues. [8]

Publications

MAC offers the following publications: [9]

MAC presidents [10]

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References

  1. 1 2 Quinn, Patrick M. (1993). "The Midwest Archives Conference: A Rich History Revisited". Archival Issues. 18 (1): 5–13. JSTOR   41101843.
  2. ↑ "Midwest Archives Conference". Society of American Archivists. Archived from the original on 2019-02-04. Retrieved February 15, 2019.
  3. ↑ Burckel, Nicholas C. (July 1982). "Special Report: Midwest Archives Conference Tenth Anniversary Meeting". Library Journal. 107: 1281–1282.
  4. ↑ McGrew, Morgan (October 3, 2016). "BVU librarian creates Twitter campaign". The Tack. Retrieved May 20, 2019.
  5. ↑ "Midwest Archives Conference: "Don't Knock The Rock"". Scripts & Grooves: The Blog of LaBudde Special Collections and the Marr Sound Archives. May 8, 2014. Retrieved June 7, 2019.
  6. ↑ "Archives conference set for Bloomington". The Pantagraph. March 14, 2006. Retrieved July 16, 2019.
  7. ↑ "Historians from 12 states to meet in west Wisconsin". The Country Today. September 10, 1986. Retrieved July 16, 2019.
  8. ↑ Peterson, Trudy Huskamp (January 1977). "Reviews: The Mid-Western Archivist". The American Archivist. 40 (1): 75–76. doi: 10.17723/aarc.40.1.h38660063t11x225 .
  9. ↑ "Midwest Archives Conference Records, 1972-2014: Summary" . Retrieved February 15, 2019.
  10. ↑ "Midwest Archives Conference Records, 1972-2014: Biography/History". Digital Collections: University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. Retrieved February 15, 2019.
  11. ↑ Theisen, Colleen (March 20, 2017). "David McCartney Elected President of Midwest Archives Conference". University of Iowa Libraries: News and Announcements. Retrieved May 20, 2019.
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