This year, MCN is again presenting an extraordinary conference, in an extraordinary venue, with extraordinary partners and presenters. You're invited to join us in Boston and to make MCN's 33rd Annual conference all the more extraordinary by your participation. Read on and see what we have in store. You'll see, you really won't want to miss this one!

The venerable and elegant Omni Parker House, right in the middle of downtown Boston, is this year's surprisingly affordable venue. Drawing deeply on the rich heritage of the past, the Parker House (not the Park Plaza) provides a cozy haven in which we can contemplate and confront one of the most vexing issues museums, archives, and libraries all have to deal with, digital longevity.

This year's program, organized around the theme: DIGITS FUGIT! Preserving Knowledge into the Future, is chock-full in every dimension. An first-rate selection of speakers will stretch your mind and imagination as you participate in sessions on all sorts of topics, each of which is crucial to your daily activities on the job.

On Thursday morning, the Blackaby Keynote will be delivered by the Executive Director of the Long Now Foundation, Alexander Rose. In another plenary on Friday afternoon, a look backwards and into the future of our collective endeavor, will be presented by one of the most thoughtful mentors of our community, Howard Besser, Director of the Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Program at NYU.

In addition to plenty of scheduled opportunities to listen and learn from some of the most respected colleagues in our field, there will be loads of informal networking time, as well. We'll go to engaging and entertaining places like MIT, the Fogg Art Museum, and the MFA, Boston, where you'll have time to catch up with old friends and build new and professionally rewarding relationships.

Immediately preceding MCN and in the same venue, NEDCC will present the newest in their series of acclaimed two-day conferences, The Persistence of Memory: Stewardship of Digital Assets. Starting Tuesday with IMLS former director, Dr. Robert S. Martin's keynote, and running right up until our opening reception in the Vendor's Exhibition Hall on Wednesday evening, this conference will be a great introduction for MCN's two and one-half day program. The timing and proximity of these two offerings is no coincidence - we want to make it easy for you to register for both programs while you're here!

So come to Boston this November, be a part of MCN's 33rd Annual Conference at the world famous Omni Parker House, in the heart of the old town. Join us in Boston where academies and institutions of higher learning are dedicated to creating and preserving knowledge, and passing it along into the future. You won't want to miss out!