Sixth Annual Meeting of the Association of Centers
for
the Study of Congress
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
May
6-8,
2009
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
5th
floor conference room
11:30-10:00 PM: Check-in and materials drop-off
10:00-10:45 PM: Catered lunch
on-site
1:00-1:15 PM:
Welcome
Don
Wolfensberger,
Congress Project, Woodrow
Wilson International
Center for Scholars
Sheryl Vogt, ACSC President, Director, Richard B.
Russell Library for
Political Research and Studies, University
of Georgia
1:15-1:45 PM:
Keynote
John Lawrence, Chief of Staff for House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Introduction by Matthew Wasniewski, Historian and
Deputy
Chief, Office of History and Preservation, Office of the Clerk, U.S.
House of Representatives
2:00-3:45 PM:
Session 1: Congressional Papers and Congressional
Scholarship
Patrick Cox,
Associate Director, Center for American History, University
of Texas at Austin (chair)
Gareth Davies, University Lecturer in
American History, St. Anne’s College, Oxford University
Douglas Harris, Associate Professor of Political
Science, Loyola College
of Maryland
Frank Mackaman, Director, Everett Dirksen
Congressional Center, “The Scope
of Research on Congress: A Funder’s Perspective” (report to be read by
Kate
Cruikshank)
Larry Weimer, Special Collections and University
Archives, Rutgers University
4:00-5:00 PM:
Session 2: Business Meeting
Thursday,
May 7, 2009
6th
floor board room
8:30-9:00 AM: Coffee and
Danish
9:00-10:30 AM:
Session 3: ACSC: Its Members, Its
Future
Sheryl Vogt, Director, Richard B. Russell Library
for Political Research
and Studies, University
of Georgia (chair)
Member
self-introductions
of 2 minutes maximum:
What are the five most important
things to know about your organization? AND
How are you connected to other entities that support
research and study about Congress?
What do we expect from and for the ACSC?
10:30-10:45 AM: Break
10:45-11:45 AM:
Session 4: Exploiting the Online
World for Access to Collections
Betsy Pittman, Thomas J. Dodd
Center,
University of Connecticut
(chair)
Rebecca Johnson
Melvin, Special Collections Department,
University of Delaware
Libraries
Kat Shirley, Head of Arrangement and Description,
Richard B. Russell
Library for Political Research and Studies, University of Georgia
10:00-10:45: Catered
lunch onsite
1:00-2:00 PM:
Session 5: Seamless Transitions:
Receiving Electronic
Records
Karen Paul, Senate Archivist (chair)
Ted Clark, Information Technology Specialist for
Congressional
Records, NARA
Steve Hussman, Head of Archives and Special
Collections, New Mexico State University
Library
3:00-6:00 PM:
Tour
and
Reception at the Capitol
Visitor Center
Greeting
by Nancy Erickson, Secretary of the Senate
Friday, May 8, 2009
5th floor
conference room
8:30-9:00 AM: Coffee and
Danish
9:00-10:15 AM:
Session 6: Congressional Centers and
Civic Engagement: The Russell Forum for Civic Life in
Georgia
Jill Severn, Richard B. Russell Library for
Political Research and Studies, University
of Georgia
Taylor Willingham, Texas
Forums, Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library
10:15-10:30 AM: Break
10:30-11:45 AM:
Session 7: The Landscape of Which We
Are Part: Documenting Congress
Sheryl Vogt, Director, Richard B. Russell Library
for Political Research
and Studies, University
of Georgia (chair)
Don Wolfensberger, Congress Project, Woodrow
Wilson
Center
Richard Baker, Historian of the Senate, “The
Advisory Committee on the
Records of Congress
Linda
Whitaker, Arizona Historical
Foundation, and current chair of the Congressional Papers Roundtable of
the
Society of American Archivists, “The SAA Congressional Papers
Roundtable and ACSC”
10:00-10:45 PM: Catered lunch
on site
1:00-2:00 PM:
Session
8: ACSC Discussions: Envisioning Our Future
Richard Hunt, Center for Legislative
Archives, NARA,
facilitator
2:00-2:15 PM: Break
2:15-3:15 PM:
Session 9: ACSC: Charting Our Course
Richard Hunt, Center for
Legislative
Archives, NARA,
facilitator
Conference Ends
3:30-4:00 PM:
Session 10: Executive
Committee Meeting