[Neasis-l] Register now for the NEA Spring 2014 Meeting!

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Dear Colleagues,

New England Archivists (NEA) is excited to announce that registration for
the Spring 2014 Meeting is now open! Join us March 20-22 at the Sheraton
Harborside Hotel in Portsmouth, New Hampshire for great programs,
workshops, thought-provoking sessions, and a “Jeopardy” tournament. In this
E-mail you will find pertinent information about registration, lodging, and
what to look forward to at Spring 2014.

REGISTRATION DATES
Early-bird: now-February 17
Advance: February 18 – March 14
On site: March 15-22

For detailed pricing information and to register online, click
here<http://newenglandarchivists.wildapricot.org/Default.aspx?pageId=1509872&eventId=813163&EventViewMode=EventDetails>.
To be eligible for the NEA-Member Registration Rate, please make sure
you’ve renewed your membership. Remember: you can always check your status
and renew online <http://newenglandarchivists.wildapricot.org/renew>.

If you have any questions about the registration process, contact Emily
Tordo, NEA Registrar at etordo at andover.edu. Any questions about membership
renewal, contact Kristine M. Sjostedt, Membership Secretary at
Kristine.Sjostedt at umassmed.edu.

*LODGING*
Sheraton Portsmouth Harborside
250 Market Street
Portsmouth, New Hampshire 03801
Google Map <http://goo.gl/maps/yzJQC>
(603) 431-2300
http://www.sheratonportsmouth.com/

Room rate $125 available until February 24th (subject to availability.),
using this code: New England Archivists 2014 QYND6W2WZTY (OR copy and paste
the following link into a web browser):
https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/StarGroupsWeb/res?id=1306242670&key=9E66C

*MEETING HIGHLIGHTS*
Spring 2014 will feature two plenary speakers: Vivek Bald and Ian MacKaye.

Ian MacKaye (Friday, March 21) is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and
producer best known for being the frontman of influential punk bands like
Minor Threat, Fugazi, and The Evens. Currently he is working to personally
preserve recordings of all of Fugazi’s 1,000+ shows. He is also trying to
preserve the cassette recordings of his grandmother who wrote a marriage
counseling column for Ladies Home Journal. Read more about MacKaye's
audio-archiving
work<http://www.spin.com/articles/fugazi-ian-mackaye-library-of-congress-lecture-punk-archive/>
.

Vivek Bald (Saturday, March 22) is a scholar and filmmaker whose
documentary, *In Search of Bengali Harlem *has spurred a related book and
website <http://bengaliharlem.com/>. The website is part of Bald’s ongoing
project to document the histories of two little-known groups of early South
Asian migrants to the United States. Both were groups of Muslim men,
predominantly from the region of Bengal, who entered the U.S. between the
1880s and the 1940s.

The sessions on Friday and Saturday cover a wide range of topics and
formats such as a roundtable discussion on the Boston Bombing Digital
Archives, working with students in archives, collaborating with
non-archivists, and how best to provide access to moving image and sound
archives.

The “Jeopardy” tournament on Friday will test your knowledge of the
profession, repositories all over New England, and fun historical facts.
Players will compete for bragging rights and cool prizes by answering
questions from NEA’s own Alex Trebek, Gregor Trinkaus-Randall. Details on
how to participate are coming soon.

View the full schedule to begin your own planning for Spring
2014<http://newenglandarchivists.wildapricot.org/Default.aspx?pageId=1679054>
.

If you have any questions regarding the NEA Spring 2014 Meeting, please
contact Kelli Bogan, Spring 2014 Program Committee Chair, at
kbogan at colby-sawyer.edu.

Look forward to seeing you in Portsmouth!

New England Archivists
Communications Committee
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