1. The 4th Annual MARAC/DC Caucus Archives Fair, 12:30 to 5:00 PM, Thursday October 11, 2001 at the Smithsonian Institution's Ripley Center, Ripley Center QUAD room 3111, National Mall, Washington, DC.

The Archives Fair will have participants from over twenty of the area's archival institutions such as the Library of Congress, the National Archives and Records Administration, the many archives within the Smithsonian Institution, George Washington University, Howard University, the University of Maryland, The Felix Grant Jazz Archives, and the Washingtoniana Division of the DC Public Library.

At 2:30pm Ms. Nina Gilden Seavey of the George Washington University's Documentary Center, and producer and director of the Emmy winning documentary, A PARALYZING FEAR: The Story of Polio in America, will discuss her experiences while conducting research in archives. Check out the film's website at http://www.pbs.org/storyofpolio.

2. Ninety Years of Scurlock, is a program that examines the photographic legacy of the Scurlock Photographic Studio in Washington, D.C. This program will be held on Wednesday, October 10, 2001, at 6:30 p.m., in the Auditorium, Room A-5, of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G Street, NW, Washington, DC.

Mr. John Fleckner, Chief Archivist at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, will speak about the Scurlock family and the impact of their photography studio on the thriving U Street community in Washington, and its role in documenting historical events in the city of Washington, D.C. Fleckner will also show slides from photographs in the Scurlock Studio collection that are housed at the National Museum of History. The Scurlock Photographic Studio was the most prominent African-American photography studio in Washington, D.C., from 1904 to 1983. Ninety Years of Scurlock is co-sponsored by Moorland-Spingarn Research Center of Howard University, Gelman Library at The George Washington University, The Washington Historical Society and the District of Columbia Public Library.

The D.C. Public Library has additional information on Addison Scurlock on the Black Renaissance in Washington, D.C. link on its website: http://www.dclibrary.org/blkren/index.html. Additional information on the Archives Center of the National Museum of History can be found at http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/archives/ac-i.htm.

3. The National Archives Assembly presents an Archives Week event, "The Charters of Freedom: An Interim Conservation Report." The speakers include Mary Lynne Ritzenthaler and Catherine Nicholson of NARA's Document Conservation Laboratory. This program will be held at 10:45am-12: 00 noon, on Wednesday, October 10, 2001, in the Auditorium of the National Archives at College Park, Maryland.

For further information, please go to dcarchivists.org

Thanks,

Jim Cassedy
DC Caucus Representative
Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference