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Show SUSC to host Intermountain Archivists Conference 'Classifying" -Ann Butters, Utah State University; "Folklore Archives" - William A. Wilson, Brigham Young University; "Oral History" --Mary Ellen Glass, University of Nevada; "Grantsmanship" --Margaret Child, National Endowment for the Humanities; and "Conservation" "Con-servation" -Mary S. White-Zeigler, White-Zeigler, Salt Lake City Library. A panel discussion on , "Accrediting" will feature Jeff Simmonds, USU, Dennis Rowley, BYU, Don Schmidt, LDS Historical Department, and Harold Jacobsen, Utah State Archives. Ar-chives. Ann Campbell, representing the Society of American Archivists, will be the featured speaker at a banquet Friday evening. A conference of Intermountain In-termountain Archivists will be held May 20 - 21 at Southern Utah State College. "An archivist," explains Inez Cooper, SUSC Special Collections Librarian," is a person in charge of an organized body of records or historical materials preserved by an organization or institution." Invitations have been sent to the 200 members of the Intermoutain organization which encompasses Utah, Idaho, New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada. The group was first organized in 1974, Mrs. Cooper said, by the Utah State Historical Society, From an initial meeting at Utah State University which was attended by a very small group of participants, the organization has grown to its current 200-member status. "There are very few institutions in-stitutions where a person can be trained as an archivist. ar-chivist. Most people in the profession now have been originally trained in history, folklore, or librarianship and have become archivists througha process of on-the-job training," Mrs. Cooper explain? A growing trend at the present time is for large businesses, banks and corporations to establish archives for the classification and collection of their respective historial records. Until recently colleges and universitites have been the major stronghold of the archivist. The two-day conference at SUSC will include several sessions dealing with non-book non-book materials. "Because many of the materials we work with are very old such as crumpled newspapers, old photographs, mistreated diaries and other fragile articles, a session on conservation con-servation is being included," Mrs. Cooper said. "Other sessions will deal with folklore archives, classification of materials, and methods of researching, interviewing and compiling valuable oral histories," she said. Registration for the conference will begin at 9 a.m. May 20 in the SUSC Library, Special Collections Area. Workshop sessions and , guest speakers will include: |