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Folks, A message from the Best Practices Exchanage organizers. Proposals welcome! Butch ************ Please excuse cross-postings REMINDER! The Best Practices Exchange to be held November 13-15, 2013 in Salt Lake City is still looking for session proposals. See http://www.bpexchange.org/ for details. This is a good opportunity to test out sessions you may want to also give at SAA next year, or share new ideas that you're working on right now. Anything related to the preservation and management of electronic records is welcome. Due to the theme of our conference this year, we especially welcome entries related to the preservation of electronic audio/visual materials, but don't let that limit you on session proposals. This conference (or un-conference, according to some) is traditionally an audience-interactive event where we share successes and failures alike. Lay things on the line and say it like it is. BPE is open to practitioners in government and university archives and libraries; educators and researchers in the fields of library science, information science, technology, archives, and records management; and product developers working to create systems for managing and preserving digital assets. We have two guest speakers who will be attending. Bob Bennett, former U.S. Senator from Utah and current head of Bennett Group International, will open the conference and express his ideas about how the archives community can educate and advocate for their needs with those who fund us. Our keynote speaker is Milt Shefter, from the Academy of Motion Pictures, Science and Technology Council. He will also conduct a workshop at the end of BPE for students and independent filmmakers, as well as other conference attendees, talking about how to preserve digital materials produced during the film-making process. Do you have collections used by genealogists? Utah is the prime spot for seeing how the family history community does its work. Tours will be given to local repositories, including the Family History Library, Utah State Archives, and Ancestry.com's facilities. Elizabeth Perkes Electronic Records Archivist Utah State Archives 346 South Rio Grande Salt Lake City, UT 84101 801-531-3852 [log in to unmask] ***************************** ############################ To unsubscribe from the NDSA-ALL list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://list.digitalpreservation.gov/scripts/wa-DIGITAL.exe?SUBED1=NDSA-ALL&A=1