ALABI members,
The email below went out to many of you two days ago. All of the forms for this year’s meeting can be found on the Meetings page, as well as directly below.
2011 ALABI Registration Form
2011 ALABI Program
2011 ALABI Accomodations
March 30, 2011
Dear ALABI Members –
Greetings! We hope this correspondence finds you well. Please read this message carefully as it contains important information about this year’s annual meeting.
Please find attached a program, information on lodging and accommodations, and a registration form for the ALABI annual meeting, Wednesday – Thursday, May 18-19, 2011, at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Dallas Baptist University. Please complete the registration form and return, along with payment, to Bill Sumners, ALABI executive secretary-treasurer, by May 4.
The administrations and staff at Southwestern and DBU have gone above and beyond the call of duty in accommodating our requests to meet at their facilities. The theme of this year’s meeting is “Archives in Jeopardy: Maintaining Our Mission in an Uncertain World.” Sessions cover a variety of library and archive topics unique to our group. We invite you to reflect on two questions before and during the meeting: (1) What techniques and strategies can be implemented in Baptist libraries and archives to help better manage and preserve collections? and (2) What resources are lacking in Baptist libraries and archives and what are some ways those materials can be documented and acquired?
Some additional information about the meeting: (1) For those who may plan to arrive early on Monday or Tuesday (May 17 or 18), Baylor University has offered to provide tours of their electronic library. Please contact Kathy Hillman (Kathy_Hillman@baylor.edu) to coordinate transportation from DFW to Waco. (2) Individuals who stay at the Riley Center at Southwestern will receive a complimentary breakfast. Riley Center guests should pick up a breakfast voucher at the registration table. Guests who do not stay at the Riley Center will be responsible for covering the costs of their own breakfast. Lunches, Wednesday evening dinner, the pre-conference workshop, preservation tour, and botanical gardens tour and dinner are included in the conference registration. (3) For individuals who do not plan to rent a car for the meeting, Southwestern is providing vans to transport our members to the tour at the Belfor Tech Center and Fort Worth Botanical Gardens. (4) The physical address to Joe T. Garcia’s Mexican Restaurant is: 2201 North Commerce Street / Fort Worth, TX 76164. The address to the Belfor Tech Center is: 2425 Blue Smoke Court, South / Fort Worth, TX 76105. The address to the Gardens is: 3220 Botanic Garden Boulevard / Fort Worth, TX 76107. (4) Please take a moment to view the online interactive campus maps at Southwestern, http://www.swbts.edu/campus_tour.cfm, and DBU,http://www3.dbu.edu/campusmap/.
We hope this information is helpful. Please let us know if you have any questions or if there is anything else you need. We appreciate your work in collecting and preserving Baptist history and look forward to seeing you soon.
Kind regards –
ALABI Arrangements Committee
Taffey Hall, Chair