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Fourth Annual Meeting of the Association of Centers for the Study of Congress May 17-18, 2007 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center One Woodrow Wilson Plaza 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20004-3027 Agenda   ACSC ANNUAL MEETING REGISTRATION AND GENERAL INFORMATION Please note one major change in the schedule of the annual meeting that is different from the earlier information you received by email. The Reception and Dinner has been moved to Thursday evening, May 17, instead of Friday, May 18th as originally reported. This change was made at the suggestion of several members who wished an earlier end on Friday to accommodate travel and also to insure good attendance at the dinner. General Information All meetings will be held at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC. We will meet in the 5th Floor Conference Rooms. Here is a link and map which shows the location of the Wilson Center within the larger Ronald Reagan Building. You may enter the building by either the 13th Street or 14th Street entrances. http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=contact.directions For security purposes, a photo I.D. will be required for entrance to the Reagan Building and Wilson Center. Program presenters requiring Internet access, PowerPoint, or other computer or visual aides should alert Susan Nugent of the Wilson Center. She can be reached at: 202-691-4147 and by email at: susan.nugent@wilsoncenter.org. Please be advised that you cannot use your own laptops. Digital presentations will have to be loaded onto the Wilson Center computers for display. Registration Procedure Regular Institutional members with paid dues for 2006-07 can send one person to the meeting with no registration fee. Supporting Institutional members with paid dues for 2006-07 can send two persons to the meeting with no registration fee. Individual members with paid dues for 2006-07 can register for a fee of $200. Non members can attend with the payment of a $250 registration fee. In this case we encourage you to join for a $50 annual individual membership and then pay $200 to register for the annual meeting. If your institution plans to send more than the allotted number of free registrations, each additional person can be registered for $200. Please notify the ACSC Treasurer Phil Duncan via email of the name or names of the persons attending from your institution. Phil can be reached at: pduncan@civicatalyst.com. Please give him the name or names and institutional affiliation as you want them to appear on conference name badges. Advance payment is preferred, but you may also pay at the conference. We do need to have an accurate count of attendees for purposes of catering and dinner two weeks before the conference begins. Send any registration fees, payable to “ACSC” or “Association of Centers for the Study of Congress” to: Phil Duncan 1069 W. Broad St. #776 Falls Church, VA 22045 The ACSC cannot accept credit cards at this time. If you have any questions about the program or arrangements, please contact: Ray Smock, ACSC President 304-876-5665 rsmock@shepherd.edu   AGENDA Thursday, May 17, 2007 9:00-9:30 AM: Coffee and Danish 9:30-10:00 AM: Welcome and Announcements Don Wolfensberger, Congress Project, Wilson Center Ray Smock, President, ACSC (Remarks by invited congressional guest TBA) 10:00 -11:45 AM: Using Congressional Collections, Current Scholarship and Future Projections Chair, Richard Baker, Senate Historical Office C. Lawrence Evans, College of William and Mary Paul Milazzo, Ohio University Charles Stewart, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 11:45 AM -12:30 PM: Catered lunch on site. 12:30-2:00 PM: Oral History and Congressional Research Chair, Richard McCulley, Center for Legislative Archives, NARA Don Ritchie, Senate Historical Office Susan Hartmann, Ohio State University, Wilson Center Fellow Kathleen Johnson, Office of History and Preservation, U.S. House of Representatives 2:00-2:15 PM: Break 2:15- 3:00 PM: Business Meeting 5:00- 6:00 PM: Tour of Capitol Visitor’s Center 6:00-8:30 PM: Reception and Dinner, The Capitol (Registrants and invited guests) Friday, May 18, 2007   8:30-9:00 AM: Coffee and Danish 9:00-10:45 AM: Where is the Web Taking Us? OR Where Will We Take the Web? Chair, Frank Mackaman, The Dirksen Congressional Center Roy Rosenzweig, Center for History and New Media, George Mason University Richard Hunt, Center for Legislative Archives, NARA 10:45-11:00 AM: Break 11:00-12:15 PM: Creating the Digital Records World Chair, Ray Smock, Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies Jim Hastings, Office of Records Services, NARA Representative from Footnote.com (TBA) Chris Burns, Bailey/How Library, University of Vermont 12:15-1:15 PM: Catered lunch on site. 1:15-2:30 PM: Digital Outreach by ACSC Member Organizations Chair, Kate Cruikshank, Lilly Library, Indiana University Phil Duncan, Center on Congress at Indiana University Herb Hartsook, South Carolina Political Collections, University of South Carolina Erin Sloan, Carl Albert Center, University of Oklahoma 2:30-2:45 PM: Break 2:45-4:00 PM: Government Congress Centers in Action Chair, Don Wolfensberger, The Congress Project, Woodrow Wilson Center Betty Koed, Office of the Historian, U. S. Senate Farar Elliott, Office of History and Preservation, U. S. House of Representatives Kenneth Kato, Center for Legislative Archives, NARA

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