MAC OMAHA 2017 has ended

Create Your Own Event

MAC OMAHA 2017

9:00am CDT

SAA Workshop: Cultural Diversity Competency (CDC) Hill

3:00pm CDT

Registration St. Nicholas Foyer

7:00am CDT

Registration St. Nicholas Foyer

8:00am CDT

MAC Council Meeting Merchants Exhibit Support Basics: Solutions for Small Institutions and Small Budgets Cozzens Getting Started with Text Mining Archival Collections Washington City Teaching with Primary Sources Herndon

8:30am CDT

Boys Town Tour (shuttle and walking tour) Boys Town

9:30am CDT

Creighton University’s University Archives, Rare Books and Special Collections Open House (personal vehicle, taxi, or hotel shuttle and walking tour) Creighton University Archives Joslyn Art Museum Tour (shuttle and walking tour) Joslyn Art Museum

10:00am CDT

Old Market Historic District Tour (walking tour) Old Market Historic District

1:00pm CDT

MAC Pals Reception Murray

1:30pm CDT

Plenary: Joe Starita, Journalist, and Christine Lesiak, Producer, Nebraska Educational Television Blackstone Ballroom

3:30pm CDT

#s101 Leaning In: Strategies for Balancing Caregiving and Professional Careers and Reframing Definitions of Success Herndon #s102 Preserving and Reassembling Eyes on the Prize St. Nicholas A #s103 Cross-Disciplinary Instruction: Course Engagement beyond the History Major St. Nicholas B

6:00pm CDT

Opening Reception at the KANEKO KANEKO

7:00am CDT

Registration St. Nicholas Foyer

8:00am CDT

Poster Session St. Nicholas Foyer

8:30am CDT

#s201 Paths to Discovery: Programs Bringing African American Collections to Stakeholder Communities Blackstone A #s202 From Chaos to Order: Making Artifact Storage Work for You St. Nicholas #s203 Remembering “Over There”: WWI Collections, Outreach, and Education Hill

10:00am CDT

Poster Session TBA

10:30am CDT

#s301 Telling the Story of 1967–68 in the North: Documenting Social Protest in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Detroit Blackstone B #s302 Collaborative Web Archiving: Lessons from Kansas Hill #s303 Listen In: Podcasting the Archive Blackstone A

12:30pm CDT

Diverse Hiring Practices Hill Libraries, Archives, and Museums: Opportunities for Collaboration Blackstone A NHPRC Answers Your Questions Murray One Book, One Profession: Discussion of Teaching with Primary Sources Blackstone B

1:30pm CDT

#s401 It Takes a Village: Building Professional Capacity through Informal Peer Networks Hill #s402 Elbow Grease and Flexibility: Practical Insights from Migrations Big and Small Blackstone B #s403 Our Communities as Gateways Blackstone A

3:00pm CDT

Poster Session TBA

3:30pm CDT

MAC Members' Meeting Blackstone Ballroom

6:00pm CDT

Restaurant Tours Hilton Lobby

6:30pm CDT

Baseball: Creighton Bluejays vs. St. John's Red Storm TD Ameritrade Park

7:30am CDT

Registration St. Nicholas Foyer

8:30am CDT

#s501 Using Voices from the Past to Change the Future: Primary Sources as Outreach Tools for Social Justice Blackstone A #s502 The Missing Link: Finding Aids and Digital Collections Blackstone B #s503 More Alike than Different: A Reconvergence of Knowledge and Skills across LAMs Hill

10:30am CDT

#s601 Endangered Archives: Issues Facing Catholic Religious Collections in the United States Hill #s602 New Faces at the Processing Table Blackstone A #s603 All-Ages Archives: Building Frameworks for Creative Outreach to Younger Researchers Blackstone B