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TITLE: HABS: Planning for the Future (Afternoon Session)
SPEAKER: various speakers
EVENT DATE: 11/14/2008
RUNNING TIME: 148 minutes
DESCRIPTION:
2008 marks the 75th anniversary of the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), America's first federal historic preservation program. The HABS mission is to create a public archive of America's architectural heritage, consisting of measured drawings, historical reports and large-format black-and-white photographs. Speakers for the afternoon session "Planning for the Future" were Anne Weber, a senior associate with Farewell, Mills, Gatsch Architects in Princeton, N.J.; and Katherine M. Arrington, digital library specialist in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress.