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The Midwest Archives Conference: A Rich History Revisited

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Abstract

This article will recount the origins and evolution of the Midwest Archives Conference (MAC) from its birth in the Bismarck Hotel in Chicago on May 5 and 6, 1972, through its development into the largest and one of the most dynamic regional archival organizations in the United States. Although this article is grounded in the extensive records of MAC held by the Northwestern University Archives, it is more a personal memoir of a founding member and two-decade participant in MAC than a formal history. Such a history, well deserved, will come, no doubt, in due time, crafted by another author with a less-prismed lens and sufficient distance from the events described below.

How to Cite:

Quinn, P. M., (1993) “The Midwest Archives Conference: A Rich History Revisited”, Archival Issues 18(1), 5–13. doi: https://doi.org//archivalissues.10614