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Dear Archivists and Librarians,
We welcome you back to Cleveland! Hard to believe it has been 18 years (May 1, 1991) since the
ALHHS met in the
Best Location in the Nation.
We look forward to hosting the 2009
meeting and hope for the same wonderful weather we had in 1991.
The conference hotel is the
Cleveland Clinic InterContinental Hotel and Conference Center,
located in the heart of
University Circle, Cleveland’s cultural center.
This one square mile area is home to the
Cleveland Museum of Art,
Cleveland Botanical Gardens,
Cleveland Museum of Natural History,
Cleveland Orchestra,
Western Reserve Historical Society,
Museum of Contemporary Art
and, of course, the
Dittrick Medical History Center.
There are numerous dining experiences to be had as well.
The official website of the
Convention and Visitors Bureau of Greater Cleveland
may be accessed at the following address:
http://www.positivelycleveland.com.
Here you will find information about everything CLEVELAND!
As a preamble to the meeting, the ALHHS will be invited to
visit the rare book collection
at the Cleveland Botanical Gardens
on Wednesday, April 22nd.
We will also be treated to a tour of the
Eleanor Armstrong Smith Glass House,
an up-close and personal look at the
Spiny Desert of Madagascar
and the
Rainforest of Costa Rica.
Later that evening ALHHS and members of the
Medical Museums Association
will meet at
Nighttown
for dinner, Cleveland style, with a little Irish flair.
The annual meeting of the ALHHS will be held on
Thursday, April 23rd in the Ford Auditorium at the
Allen Memorial Medical Library.
The ALHHS program promises to be
enlightening with several morning sessions,
a luncheon with members of the Medical Museums Association
in the Cushing Reading Room, followed by a panel of
local museum professionals sharing their experiences with
unusual formats in libraries and archives. This year’s
featured speaker is Howard Kramer,
Director of Curatorial Affairs,
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum,
who will discuss collections issues and solutions.
Conference hotel information is available on the
ALHHS website, as is airport information, our agenda,
a map and the registration form. Please print the
registration form, complete it, and return it to Brooke Fox.
Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions about meeting arrangements.
If I can’t answer off the top of my head I will
certainly do what I can to find the answer.
Hope to see you in April 2009.
Jennifer K. Nieves
ALHHS 2009 Local Arrangements Chair
Archivist/Museum Registrar
Dittrick Medical History Center
Case Western Reserve University
11000 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland OH 44106-1714
216-368-3648 voice
216-368-0165 fax
jennifer.nieves AT case.edu
http://www.case.edu/artsci/dittrick/site2
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ALHHS Blue Book (Guidelines for
Organizers of ALHHS Annual Meetings, 2008 edition)
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