Call for Poster Presentations
Submission Deadline: May 7, 2010
First Annual VCARA Conference
"Public Records / Public Trust"
May 25, 2010
5:30 PM (PST) to 7:30 PM (PST)
Location: The Virtual Center for Archives and Records Administration
(VCARA) in Second Life on the SJSU SLIS Island
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SJSU%20SLIS/50/25/33
Public records belong to the people, who trust the government to safeguard
these historical documents. However, historical public documents are lost or
stolen at all levels of government, and such loss is not a new phenomenon.
Early records have been destroyed by fires and floods, damaged during riots
and wars, and stolen and sold for profit by those entrusted with their care.
Rapidly evolving forms of communication and Internet based commerce provide
fertile ground for trading in valuable assets, both legal and illegal. In
the past few years, a number of states have been surprised to find "history
for sale" by private individuals on eBay and other sites on the Internet.
What many citizens do not know is that records created by government
entities, even if they are in the possession of private individuals, remain
public property. Those convicted of the theft of those documents face fines
and imprisonment, and those buying such documents will be expected to return
them, often without reimbursement for the purchase price.
This conference aims at presenting research findings and generating public
awareness on the subject of lost or stolen records that may eventually be
found for sale to the highest bidder or made permanently inaccessible to the
public and historians by other means. Subjects of interest include legal
aspects of these issues, methods currently being employed to secure records
in public facilities or produced by public officials, analysis of successful
efforts to reclaim missing records, as well as effective efforts to educate
the public.
Graduate students and faculty from all institutions are invited to take part
in the first annual VCARA conference on May 25, 2010. The conference will
consist of presentations from invited speakers and poster sessions in Second
Life.
Poster sessions are now being organized and all interested graduate students
and faculty are encouraged to submit a proposal. Conference organizers will
provide assistance with the technical aspects of the poster sessions.
Please submit your poster proposals by sending information requested on the
form posted to:
http://amazon.sjsu.edu/html-pfranks/VCARA/VCARA_Poster_Presentation_Proposal
.doc and send to Dr. Pat Franks [log in to unmask] by May 7, 2010.
And if you are not a graduate student or faculty member but wish to share
your expertise on this topic with faculty and students by presenting a
lecture or providing additional information, contact Pat directly to discuss
your ideas.
Pat
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Patricia C. Franks, Ph.D., CRM
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MARA Program Coordinator
School of Library & Information Science
San Jose State University
http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/mara/index.htm
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