Professional Development Conference: Clarion University

Clarion University of Pennsylvania Department of Library Science invites you to its Spring 2010 Professional Development Conference. The conference will be held on Friday April 23 on the Clarion University campus. The topic is History Next Door: Improving Access to Local History Resources. The keynote speaker will be Dwayne K. Buttler, J.D., Professor, University Libraries and Evelyn J. Schneider Endowed Chair for Scholarly Communication at the University of Louisville. He will be speaking on issues of copyright for both print and digital local history collections. Also discussed at the conference will be issues of collection organization, preservation, reference for local history and genealogy, and digitization of local history items. There is no fee for the conference. Librarians, archivists, local history volunteers, historians, members of historical societies, etc. are encouraged to attend.