From the Board

We hope you enjoyed the fall meeting at Simmons on November 15th. If you weren't able to attend the conference, stay tuned for podcasts of the plenary sessions, which will be available in iTunes and via the NEA website.

In addition to attending interesting discussions and sessions by great speakers, the NEA board was listening to you. We heard that you would like more opportunities to interact and share professional practices with your peers in NEA. Many organizations are cutting professional development funds and travel expenses, which makes regional, local, and virtual networking still more important.

Your board is responding to these concerns in a number of ways. For example, the board re-visited the Education Committee's 'stand-alone' workshop efforts that bring educational opportunities to your communities outside of the semi-annual NEA conferences and enthusiastically recommended that they continue. We are also looking closely at improvements to the website functionality that will be realized in 2009.

And here's another way to connect: you can find New England Archivists on

The New England Archivists group page is a place to connect with other archivists and share ideas. Facebook is easy to join - and once you are registered, you can add comments, start or respond to discussion threads, post pictures, and more. If you'd prefer not to join Facebook, you can still visit the page, just as you would any web site. Just bookmark the web address above or the NEA website to keep up on what's happening with your colleagues. [Note that if you are not registered in Facebook, you cannot use the Safari browser to view the NEA Facebook page; Internet Explorer and Firefox, however, both let non-registered people view the page.]

We would love to hear from you -- via the Facebook page, on NEA Discuss, or email. How can we make our community -- physical and virtual-- stronger?

Many thanks,
Kathryn Hammond Baker, President
Peter Carini, VP/President -Elect
Chris Burns, Past President
Danielle Kovacs, Secretary
Nova Seals, Treasurer
Karen Adler Abramson, Member-at-Large
Ellen Doon, Member-at-Large
Joanie Gearin, Member-at-Large
Melissa Watterworth, Member-at-Large

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