The Archives’ Student Life and Culture Archival Program at the University of Illinois will sponsor and host to its second National Archives Conference for Fraternities and Sororities on June 21-23, 2012, on its Urbana-Champaign campus.  Building on the success of the 2010 conference, this event will bring together experts on archival management, planning, preservation, and outreach with an emphasis on fraternity and sorority records.  

One purpose of the conference is to provide archival training and support to headquarters staff members who are charged with their organization’s archives.  Speakers will include Josh Harris, University of Illinois audio-visual librarian, and Angela Waarala, digital collections project manager; Noraleen Young, archivist at Kappa Alpha Theta and archival consultant for Past to Present; and Michele Christian, associate professor and records analyst in Iowa State University’s Special Collections Department.  Featured speaker Diana Turk, a professor from New York University, has written extensively on fraternity and sorority life and will discuss the importance of these groups and their records to the study of education and campus history. 

The conference is open to all who are interested.  Registration deadline is May 18, 2012.

For more information and to register, visit the conference website at www.library.illinois.edu/archives/slc/conference12/ or contact Ellen Swain, archivist for student life and culture, at eswain@illinois.edu or 217/333-7841.