On November 12, 1999, LAMA members from all over the state met in New Orleans at the Newcomb Center for Research on Women for their Annual Meeting. On the program were presentations by Clarence Hunter, Archivist at the Amistad Research Center, who spoke on "Missing Pieces of the Civil Rights Movement Records"; David A. Combe, Law Librarian and Professor of Law at the Tulane University Law School Library, who spoke on "John Minor Wisdom Judicial Papers: The Man and the Papers"; and Mark Andrews, who has been arranging the Wisdom Papers at Tulane.
Members also elected new officers and board members, and, as is traditional at LAMA meetings, reported news from their individual institutions. The meeting concluded with a wonderful lunch and a walking tour of repositories on the Tulane and Loyola University campuses: the Newcomb Center for Research on Women, Jones Hall (the home of Tulane's Special Collections), the Law School Library (home of the Wisdom papers), and the new Loyola University Library.
Here are a few snaps of the meeting, taken (not always very well!) with a digital camera.
A GOOD TIME WAS HAD BY ALL!
| BEFORE THE MEETING | |
 Out-going LAMA President, Brenda Square (Amistad), In-coming LAMA President Mary Linn Wernet (Northwestern) |  Dorothy Dawes (Dominican Sisters, Congregation of St. Mary), Carol Bartels (The Historic N.O. Collection), Wayne Everard (N.O. Public Library) |
 Clarence Hunter (Amistad), Bruce Turner (Univ. of Southwestern La.), Rob Sherer (Tulane), Patrick Webb (McNeese). |  Art Carpenter (Loyola), Florence Borders (SUNO) |
| SPEAKERS | ||
 Clarence Hunter, Amistad Research Center |  David Combe, Tulane Law School Library |  Mark Andrews, Tulane Law School Library |
 Mary Linn Wernet reports on SAC 2000 |  Collin Hamer (N.O. Public Library) gives the Treasurer's report |
| REPORTS FROM MEMBER INSTITUTIONS | ||
 Carol Bartels (The Historic N.O. Collection) |  Camille Redding (Southern U., Shreveport) |  Florence Borders (Southern U., N.O.) |
 Pati Threatt (LSU) |  Carol Mathias (Nicholls) |  Marie Windell (UNO) |
 Susan Tucker (Newcomb) |  Kathie Bordelon (McNeese) | |
 Lunch |  Rob Sherer, Jones Hall, Tulane |  Jazz Archive, Tulane |
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