Meetings and Activities of AHA Affiliated Societies

Library of Congress

Please note: all of the sessions and events scheduled below will take place on Friday, January 9, 2004 at the Library of Congress. For more information on directions to the Library of Congress, please visit their web site at http://www.loc.gov/loc/visit/directions.html.

Friday, January 9

8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Research Orientation

Researching Manuscript Materials
Reference information service, Madison Building
Manuscript Division Front Office (LM-102). Guidance offered to researchers on a drop-in individual basis. View published guides to the collections and learn about computer-based online services to organize research, as well as general information about the division. Contact: Manuscript Division Office, 202-707-5383.

9:00–11:00 a.m.

9:30–11:00 a.m.
Research Orientation

Digital Research Orientation
National Digital Learning Center, Madison Building.
Limit 25-50 people. An introduction for researchers to American Memory online collections and the library’s digital resources, including digitized materials from across the divisions of the library, with a focus on legal history, presidential history, women’s history, and social and cultural history. Contact: Marilyn Parr, 202-707-0944; mpar@loc.gov.

1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m.

Tours of American Treasures exhibit
Jefferson Building, Gallery.

Limit of 25 people per time slot. Contact: Susan Mordan, 202-707-9203, smordan@loc.gov.
American Treasures is the library’s permanent exhibition of rare and significant items relating to the United States’ past, drawn from throughout its collections.

2:00 p.m.

Tour of the Manuscript Division
Meet in Madison Building, Main Lobby, outside Manuscript Reading Room (LM-101).

Limit 15 people. A glimpse behind the scenes of the Manuscript Division, home to over ten thousand collections and more than fifty million items, with special focus on the archival challenges in processing the collections for research use. Contact: Laura Kells 202-707-7957 or Connie Cartledge 202-707-8828.