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March 2013 Main Speaker

Mr. John H. Slate is the archivist for the City of Dallas, where he is responsible for historic city government records in the Dallas Municipal Archives. He is a member of the Academy of Certified Archivists, has a BS from UT-Austin and a Master’s in Library and Information Science, worked at the Center for American History at UT-Austin for 13 years, was curator/librarian at the Hertzberg Museum of the San Antonio Public Library, and was archivist at the Texas African American Photography Archive in Dallas.
 
He is past chair of the Government Records and the Visual Materials Sections of the Society of American Archivists and served as president of the Society of Southwest Archivists 2010-11. He is a member of the Texas State Library and Archives’ Historical Records Advisory Board. At the Municipal Archives he is responsible for the preservation of and access to historic architectural plans and drawings of City of Dallas facilities and parks.