The following message has been posted by the Outreach Committee of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC). --- 2007 ARSC CONFERENCE: MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN --- Save the date! The Ward Irish Music Archives will host the 41st annual ARSC Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 2-5, 2007. The Hilton Milwaukee City Center, 509 West Wisconsin Avenue, will be the conference venue. Completed in 1928, the hotel has been returned to its original Art Deco splendor. In addition to the usual exciting presentations, two very special events have been planned for the conference. On Thursday, May 3, join us for a dinner reception at the Irish Fest Center. The center, dedicated to Irish-related activities, including concerts and workshops, is home to the Ward Irish Music Archives. The archives "promote, preserve, and celebrate Irish music in all forms," and houses more than 40,000 Irish music artifacts, from sound recordings and sheet music to musical instruments. It is considered to be the largest public collection of its type in North America. On Saturday, May 5, buses roll out to Barrington, Illinois, taking registered conference attendees to an all-day outing at Jasper and Marian Sanfilippo's Victorian Palace, a unique 44,000-square-foot mansion and private museum. The world's largest collection of restored automatic musical instruments is on display -- phonographs, music boxes, coin-operated pianos, orchestrions, dance organs, calliopes, and more. The gargantuan 80-rank, 8000-pipe theater organ, with chambers occupying four stories, will impress anyone privileged to hear it. On the grounds of the Victorian Palace, the carousel building houses the Eden Palais, an exquisite European salon carousel from 1890. Steam engines from the 1800s and fairground and dance hall organs are also showcased in the structure. ARSC offers this rare opportunity to tour the spectacular Sanfilippo museum, which is not open to the public. More details about the 2007 ARSC Conference will be posted at http://www.arsc-audio.org/. Please stay tuned. Anna-Maria Manuel ARSC Outreach Committee Chair A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>