2015 LHA annual meeting in Lafayette

LaRC Public Services Librarian Sean Benjamin giving his presentation at the first session of the Louisiana Historical Association annual meeting, March 5, 2015. 

The 57th annual meeting of the Louisiana Historical Association is being held March 5-7, 2015, at the Ramada Lafayette Conference Center in Lafayette, Louisiana.  LaRC Department Head, Leon Miller, chaired a lively and successful session, "Archival Innovation in Access, Reference, and Teaching."  Presentations were given by Sally K. Reeves of the Office of the Clerk of Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans; Trish Nugent and Elizabeth Kelly of Loyola University; and Sean Benjamin of Tulane University's Louisiana Research Collection.

Sean's talk described "Too Much of a Good Thing: Managing Archival Reference Overload."  The audience responded warmly to hearing of the advances and challenges in providing access services to the public, and the discussion went past the scheduled time.

Tulane History Dept. graduate student and LaRC assistant, Alix Riviere, delivers her paper, "Enslaved Children and Race Relations in Antebellum Virginia and Louisiana," March 6, 2015.   Alongside Alix on the panel are Gregory K. Weimer of Florida International University and Andrew N. Wegmann, Louisiana State University. 

Photo and post by Susanna Powers