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REGISTER NOW!

The Best Practices Exchange, a conference focusing on electronic records
preservation and access, will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, November
13-15, 2013. Be sure to register soon! The hotel (see
http://www.radisson.com/saltlakecity/BPE) has an October 18th deadline to
lock in the best rate, which is $84/night.

If you are a federal employee and may have difficulty meeting some of these
deadlines, let us know and we will see what we can work out.

We ask that you register for the conference itself by November 1st so we can
plan most effectively. To register for the conference, go to
http://www.bpexchange.org/. We have also mirrored conference data on our
local website (http://archives.utah.gov/bpe-registration2.html), due to
periodic technical difficulties with the main site. Registration costs $175
for the full conference. If you would like to attend only Friday's
filmmakers seminar, the cost is $75, unless you are a student, in which case
the cost is just $25.

We have a full slate of activities planned (see the schedule at
http://archives.utah.gov/BPE-2013-schedule-long-descriptions.pdf). Bob
Bennett, former U.S. Senator from Utah, will open our conference. Our
keynote speaker, Milt Shefter, from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences, will be sharing his thoughts during our Thursday luncheon, and
also will be conducting a seminar for students and independent filmmakers
Friday afternoon. Last month, Milt was awarded the Society of Motion Picture
and Television Engineers' Archival Technology Medal for his work developing
technology and techniques for the long-term storage and preservation of
media content. He is also the co-author of "The Digital Dilemma: Strategic
Issues in Archiving and Accessing Digital Motion Picture Materials."
Following Milt's keynote address, the Sundance Institute will screen one of
its films, "These Amazing Shadows." Our other session speakers are coming
from all over the country to share their ideas about a variety of topics
related to electronic recordkeeping.

Another main attraction is the focus on digitization, especially as it
relates to genealogical research and family histories. The Family History
Library and Ancestry.com both will be presenting sessions and offering tours
of their facilities during the conference. Archive-It, one of the
conference's sponsors, will be doing a pre-conference workshop on Tuesday
(Nov. 12) with its group. Thanks to everyone for participating, it should be
a great conference.

Come join us!


Elizabeth Perkes
Electronic Records Archivist
Utah State Archives
346 South Rio Grande
Salt Lake City, UT 84101
801-531-3852
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