A New England Wayzgoose [2002 "On the Road" Event]

October 27, 2002
The Museum of Printing   www.museumofprinting.org
800 Massachusetts Avenue
North Andover, Massachusetts

SUNDAY OCTOBER 27, 1:00-3:00 PM. Two talks on preserving the pre-digital past, from APHA's July panel at the SHARP London conference, were re-presented. The Museum of Printing hosted the event. Scheduled to coincide with the Boston Antiquarian Book Fair, many members of APHA and the Museum took the opportunity to have a bookish weekend in Massachusetts.

The two talks presented here were part of an attempt to answer the question (presented as part of the original panel): In the rush to digitization, what are we losing about twentieth-century print culture? What technologies and information and stories about printing production are disappearing? What is needed to save them for historians of print? Which organizations are collecting and preserving technologies and stories?

Talks were presented by APHA Members Alice Beckwith, Professor of Art History, Providence College, and Coordinator, APHA Oral History Project, "Voices from the Digital Edge: The APHA Oral History Project," and Paul Romaine, former Curator and Executive Director, The Gilder Lehrman Collection, and Vice-President for Membership, APHA, "Preserving Printing Artifacts: Museums, Associations and Individuals."

Look at a list of previous conference topics.

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