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Vol. 26:3 ISSN 0160-8460 September 1998
Mark Conrad Joins Commission Staff
Photograph by Earl McDonald, NARA
Mark Conrad is the NHPRC's new Director for Technology Initiatives. He brings to the Commission staff considerable knowledge of the challenges which electronic records and information pose for the archival profession.
Mark's previous position was with the Life Cycle Management Division of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), prior to which he was an appraisal and accessioning archivist in NARA's Center for Electronic Records. His assignments in these capacities included the appraisal and accessioning of e-mail and other electronic records from the Executive Office of the President (EOP) for the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton Administrations. Mark also participated in negotiations with the Department of State for the first transfer of its Electronic Central Files to NARA.
From September 1995 to June 1996, Mark was a Visiting Fulbright Scholar in the Archives Department of University College, Dublin, Ireland, where he taught courses on electronic records issues. The classes included students in the Diploma in Archival Studies Program, as well as working archivists. Mark received an Inter-Country Fulbright grant to deliver lectures at two universities and at the National Archives in Finland, and participated in a working meeting on the long-term preservation of electronic records co-sponsored by the National Archives of Sweden and Astra AB.
Mark has been involved with two NHPRC grant projects during his archival career. He served as the project archivist on an electronic records project at the Pennsylvania State University Archives, and as assistant project archivist and later acting project archivist on another endeavor at the Rhode Island State Archives.
To contact Mark, telephone 202-501-5610, extension 233; write to him at NHPRC, NARA, 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 111, Washington, DC 20408-0001; or e-mail him at mark.conrad@nara.gov.
