With: Kevin M. Dwyer, Massachusetts Department of Education (Focused on MCAS at 7th Grade and at Grades 9 or 10)

Mahar Regional School, 507 South Main Street, Orange, MA 01364

*Co-sponsored by the Western Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies

With: Leonard Adams, Gov’t Documents/Patents & Trademarks Librarian; Danelle Kovacs, Curator of Collections, Special Collections and Archives; and Melinda McIntosh, Microforms Reference Librarian and Genealogy Specialist

Meet at the Calipari Classroom, Main Floor, W.E.B. DuBois Library, UMASS-Amherst

(Limited to first 25.)

Learn to research immigration history using Passenger Lists 1820-1943 & Naturalization records 1790-present.

AM: Accessing and Using the Archives

PM: Structured individual research on topic of choice.

Jean Nudd, Teacher Liason, National Archives

National Archives, Northeast Region, 10 Conte Drive, Pittsfield, MA

Elizabeth Sharpe, Author of In the Shadow of the Dam

Hilltown Cooperative Charter School, 132 Main Street, Haydenville, MA

Bruce Laurie, Professor of History, UMASS-Amherst

Holyoke Heritage State Park, 221 Appleton Street, Holyoke, MA

With Leonard Adams, Gov’t Documents/Patents & Trademarks Librarian, W.E.B. DuBois Library, UMASS

Meet at the Calipari Classroom, Main Floor.

RESCHEDULED for April 3, 2008, 3:30pm-5:30pm. (Updated topic: "Library and Online Tools for Researching Local History")