SECAC News

• Since its first release in 2001, James Madison University's MDID (Madison Digital Image Database) has been available to users in the academic community, free of charge. JMU released MDID2 software under an open source license in July 2004, which continues the spread of this multimedia teaching tool. For more information, visit the MDID wiki at: http://mdid.org.

• SECAC History, "Forty-five Years Later"
by Martha Bell Caldwell

(From the 2001 Annual Conference Session: "Reflections on Sixty Years of SECAC" chaired by William R. Levin, Centre College)

I don't quite cover the 60 years of SECAC history - only 45 years of it. My first SECAC meeting was at the University of Mississippi in 1956. Present was Dr. Clemens Sommer from UNC who I chauffered around Oxford in my old gear shift car...

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• SECAC History, "Fifty Years and Counting..."
by Anne Thomas

(From the 2001 Annual Conference Session: "Reflections on Sixty Years of SECAC" chaired by William R. Levin, Centre College)

When Bill Levin asked me to participate in this session he suggested that I use "selective memories" about SECAC and posed several possible topics for my consideration...

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• SECAC History, "Visual Resources Curators Affiliate Organization: Twenty-four Years of Active Involvement in SECAC"
by Christina B. Updike, James Madison University

(From the 2001 Annual Conference Session: "Reflections on Sixty Years of SECAC" chaired by William R. Levin, Centre College)

When Bill Levin sent out an email "Call for Papers" for his "Reflections on 60 Years of SECAC" session, I was amazed to learn that SECAC had reached this milestone. Then I calculated the number of years it has been since I founded the Visual Resources Curators Affiliate Organization of SECAC and was equally surprised to realize that it has been 24 years in existence...

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