scrapbooks, pamphlets, manuscripts, maps, and photographs more
assessable to genealogists, students, and other researchers.
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<\/a>10:45 A.M. – 11:45 A.M.
Kids & Collections: Making Meaningful Connections<\/b>
Liz Shapiro
How do you connect kids with your historical collections? The
Sharon, Connecticut Historical Society’s multi-faceted approach
includes the museum website (www.sharonhist.org), Facebook,
Flickr, Glogster, and a new \u201cCommunity Curator\u201d program to enable
students in grades pre-K through 8 to use local primary resource
materials to create digital stories about people and places through
research, technology, and collaboration, blending a dynamic
multimedia swirl of photographs, text, music, and narration.<\/p>\n
12:00 NOON – 1:45 P.M.
Lunch, Courtesy of ProQuest<\/b>
ProQuest Information and Learning
William Forsyth<\/p>\n
2:00 P.M.- 3:00 P.M.
Bringing the Civil War to Life through Library Program and Curriculum Development<\/b>
Donna E. Walcovy, Ph.D.
The 150th anniversary of the American Civil War (or if you are from the
South, the War of Northern Aggression) begins on April 12, 2011, two
days after the NERGC conference ends. Learn how you can make
the Civil War come alive for your community, adults, visitors, teens,
and children.<\/p>\n
The New England Regional Genealogical Conference (NERGC)<\/b> is being held April 6-10, 2011 in Springfield, MA. More information is available from the conference website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THURSDAY, 7 APRIL – LIBRARIANS\u2019 AND TEACHERS\u2019 DAY NERGC’s Third Librarians’ and Teachers’ Day will be held onThursday, 7 April 2011 at the Springfield Marriott. The day will bedevoted to Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Robert Cameron Weir","author_link":"https:\/\/nergc.org\/author\/rcweir\/"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nergc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nergc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nergc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nergc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nergc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nergc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nergc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nergc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nergc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>
3:15 P.M.- 4:15 P.M.
Illustrating the Past: Digital Images at the National Archives<\/b>
Jean Nudd Elliott
Digital images are now a part of everyday life. Learn how you can
locate images from the Revolutionary War through the Vietnam era
for your clients, whether they are school children, history buffs, or
genealogists.<\/p>\n