New Skills for a Digital Era

Welcome and Opening Remarks
Ken Thibodeau
National Archives and Records Administration

Keynote I
Margaret Hedstrom
School of Information
University of Michigan

Keynote II
Stuart McKee
National Technology Officer
Microsoft

Reengineering the Archival Skill Set
Richard Pearce-Moses
President of the Society of American Archivists
Director of Digital Government Information, Arizona State Library and Archives

Orientation and planning for the following day
Facilitator

Adjourn

Continental breakfast

Call to Order and Reminder of "How things work"
Facilitator

Acquisition (selection and surveys, transfer and ingest)

• 1. Eliot Wilczek and Kevin Glick. Changes in Acquisition: A Guide to the Ingest of Electronic Records.
• 2. Ann Marie Przybyla and Geof Huth. Conducting an Inventory of Electronic Records.

Break

• 3. Timothy Pyatt. Acquisitions: assessment, scheduling, and transfer of public affairs records.
• 4. Catherine Stollar and Thomas Kiehne. Guarding the Guards: Archiving the Electronic Records of Hypertext Author Michael Joyce.

Storage and the Digital Stacks

• 5. Patricia Galloway. The Eyes of Texas: What can archivists learn from working with a digital institutional repository?
• 6. Jennifer King. George Washington University’s Special Collection's transformation into a repository with digital services.

• 7. Maria Esteva. Text and Bitstreams: Appraisal and Preservation of a Natural Electronic Archive.

• 8. Beth Yakel and Polly Reynolds. The Next Generation Finding Aid: The Polar Bear Expedition Digital Collections: A Case Study in Reference and Access to Digital Materials.
• 9. Margaret Adams. Archival Reference Services for Digital Records: Three and a half years experience with the Access to Archival Databases (AAD) resource.

• 10. Jerry Kirkpatrick and Rich Dymalski. One County’s Attempt to Move from 0 to Digital in Record Time.
• 11. Cole Whiteman. Mapping Processes in Motion: Practical lessons from the experience of discovering, visualizing, analyzing, and redesigning a complex process of digital archiving and dissemination.