The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress is happy to announce the preliminary schedule for the upcoming symposium—Cultural Heritage Archives: Networks, Innovation & Collaboration—to be held September 26-27, 2013 at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/events/culturalheritagearchives/schedule.html Biographies and abstracts for all presenters and moderators are accessible from the preliminary schedule, but they can also be accessed directly from this link: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/events/culturalheritagearchives/bios.html You can also find information for visiting the Library of Congress here: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/events/culturalheritagearchives/visitorinfo.html The symposium will be free and open to the public, but registration is required. You will be able to register through the symposium website ( http://www.loc.gov/folklife/events/culturalheritagearchives/index.html) beginning in mid-to-late August. Bertram Lyons, CA Folklife Specialist / Digital Assets Manager American Folklife Center Library of Congress [log in to unmask] www.loc.gov/folklife & Consulting Archivist, Project Manager & Dissemination Coordinator Association for Cultural Equity Alan Lomax Archive [log in to unmask] www.culturalequity.org & Editor International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) [log in to unmask] www.iasa-web.org/iasa-publications