صور الصفحة
PDF
النشر الإلكتروني

NEWS AND NOTICES

Programs and preregistration forms for the

1976 International Council on Archives Congress in Washington, D. C., are now available. The congress, hosted by the National Archives and Records Service and the Society of American Archivists, will be held from September 27 to October 1, 1976. The theme is "The Archival Revolution of Our Time." Papers will be translated into English, French, German, Russian, and Spanish, with simultaneous translations of plenary sessions being provided. The Society of American Archivists will hold its annual meeting concurrently and participants will be able to attend the program meetings of both groups and receive a broader understanding of international and domestic archival concerns. For more information about the 1976 congress, write to: ICA '76, National Archives and Records Service (GSA), Washington, DC 20408.

More than twenty-five key documents that trace the nation's history from the formation of the union to the present day will be featured in a panoramic exhibition at the National Archives, opening March 27 and running into 1977. The exhibit is titled "The Written Word Endures: Milestone Documents of American History." In addition to the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights, which are on permanent display, the exhibit will include the Articles of Confederation, Treaty of Paris, Louisiana Purchase treaty, Monroe Doctrine, Compromise of 1850, Dred Scott Decision, Emancipation Proclamation, Thirteenth Amendment, Homestead Act, Treaty of Versailles, first inaugural address of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Japanese surrender document of 1945, Marshall Plan, and SALT accord.

Photographs, maps, patent drawings, graphics, and other material taken from National Archives collections will augment and explain the documents. In June 1976, the National

Archives will issue a one-hundred-page illustrated book based on the exhibit but containing as well materials not in the exhibit and a running text that will show the documents in historical perspective. To show the nation's most cherished documents at their best, the exhibition hall and the Constitution Avenue entrance of the National Archives are being refurbished.

As one of its major Bicentennial projects, the Center for the Documentary Study of the American Revolution at the National Archives is preparing a computer-assisted subject and name index and a descriptive chronological list of the papers of the Continental Congress. The papers have been described as one of the most precious bodies of records possessed by any government. The two-hundred thousand pages comprise a unique set of documents. A second project undertaken, also computer-assisted, is that of consolidating the indexes of the thirtyseven volumes of the Journal of the Continental Congress.

In another Bicentennial endeavor, the Archives is planning to publish a guide to prefederal records in the National Archives. This work in one volume will describe records created before March 4, 1789, as well as selected records of a later date, pertaining to the prefederal period. Included will be the papers of the Continental and Confederation congresses, the War Department collection of Revolutionary War records, records of the Constitutional Convention, Revolutionary War bounty land application files, and Revolutionary War pension claims.

The National Audiovisual Center of NARS has issued a booklet entitled Media for the Bicentennial that lists fifty motion pictures, made by federal agencies, suitable for showing by schools, churches, and community and service organizations. Subjects range from the American Revolution to the advanced technology of the space program. The forty-two-page booklet may be obtained free of charge by writing to: Reference Section (B-6), National Audiovisual Center (GSA), Washington, DC 20409.

The 1973 and 1974 volumes of the "Public Papers of the Presidents" series have been issued by the Office of the Federal Register. The books cover the last two years of the administration of Richard Nixon, and contain transcripts of the president's news conferences, public messages and statements, and other papers released by the White House from January 1, 1973, to August 9, 1974, when the president resigned.

Highlights of two decades of television news broadcasts will be presented in a new series of free film showings at the National Archives theater starting January 15 and running through August 27 of this year. "And That's the Way It Was, Television News, 1947-68," will focus on videotape as a form of historical source material. Highlights include the first presidential address televised from the White House, that of President Truman on October 5, 1947, and the first program in Edward R. Murrow's celebrated "See It Now" series. These and the other films on the program were selected from the holdings of the Audiovisual Archives Division and from the presidential libraries. Contributions were made by ABC News, CBS News, and NBC News.

In an important followup to the International Women's Year Conference in Mexico City in June, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library in Austin, Texas, held a symposium designed to encourage women to increase their participation in public life at all levels. The two-day convocation in November drew the best attendance by far in the series of public service conferences held at the library. Among the participants were Congresswomen Barbara Jordan and Martha Griffiths, former ambassadors Clare Booth Luce and Carol Laise, writer Gloria Steinem, and former White House press secretary Bill Moyers.

Making records more accessible for use by scholars and the public was the major subject of discussion at the semi-annual meeting of the National Archives Advisory Council at the Johnson library in November. The sixteen members of the council who attended the twoday session discussed relations between presidential libraries and universities; machinereadable records and their uses; satellite archives; the NARS computer-assisted system for locating holdings, describing them, and developing finding aids; and Bicentennial plans of the Archives.

Last December, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission granted $21,000 to the Society of American Archivists to support the preparation of five archival manuals. This is the first records program grant by the commission. C. F. W. Coker, editor of the American Archivist, will coordinate the project. The manuals, for which authors have been selected, will cover the following subjects: surveys and inventories, appraisal and accessioning, arrangement and description, reference and access, and preservation.

Following a two-month study at the National Archives, five German scholars have decided to inventory and reproduce NARS records of the American Military Government in Germany for the period 1945-49. James Hastings of the General Archives Division aided Wolfgang Benz, Hermann Graml, Wolfgang Jacobmeyer, and Hermann Weiss from the Institut fuer Zeitgeschichte (Munich) and Wolfram Werner from the Bundesarchiv (Koblenz), in the study.

The appointment of Ann Morgan Campbell, executive director of the Society of American Archivists, to the SAA seat on the Public Documents Commission has been announced by the archivist of the United States, James B. Rhoads, who recently completed his term as president of the SAA. Ms. Campbell replaces Herman Kahn, of Yale University, who died last June 5. The seventeen-member commission is charged with studying the control, disposition, and

preservation of records and documents of federal government officials, including presidents. The commission is headed by Herbert Brownell, former attorney general under President Eisenhower. The archivist will serve on the commission as the representative of the administrator of general services.

The National Archives docents program is seeking Washington, D. C., area residents to participate in its Bicentennial activities. Interested readers are asked to phone 523-3183 or write to: National Archives, Rm. G-9, Washington, DC 20408, for more detailed information.

Recent appointments of state historical records coordinators in Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, and Guam bring the total number of state coordinators to thirty. A pamphlet on the records program, including application procedures, will be available shortly, and may be obtained by writing: Records Program, NHPRC, National Archives Building, Washington, DC 20408, or phone 202-523-3234. The commission is anxious to receive grant proposals from institutions and organizations in states for which coordinators and advisory boards have been appointed, following review of the proposals by state boards. Regional and national proposals may be submitted directly to the commission. Titles of coordinators appointed to date are as follows:

Alabama-Milo B. Howard, director, Alabama Department of Archives and History; Arizona-Marguerite B. Cooley, director, Division of Library, Archives and Public Records; Arkansas-John L. Ferguson, director and state historian, Arkansas History Commission; Delaware - Lawrence C. Henry, director, Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs, Hall of Records; Florida-Robert B. Williams, director,

Department of State, Division of Archives, History and Records Management; Georgia-Carroll Hart, director, Department of Archives and History; Hawaii-Agnes C. Conrad, state archivist, Hawaii State Archives; Idaho-Merle Wells, director, Idaho State Historical Society; Indiana-John J. Newman, state archivist, Indiana State Library; Iowa-Peter T. Harstad, director, Iowa State Historical Society; Kansas -Nyle H. Miller, executive director, Kansas State Historical Society; Louisiana - Donald Lemieux, state archivist; Maryland - Edward Papenfuse, state archivist, Maryland Hall of Records; Massachusetts-Paul Guzzi, secretary of the commonwealth, State House; Michigan -Martha Bigelow, director, Michigan Historical Division; Minnesota-Russell W. Fridley, director, Minnesota Historical Society; Mississippi-Elbert R. Hilliard, director, Mississippi Department of Archives and History; Nevada -William D. Swackhamer, secretary of state, Capitol Building; New Jersey-David Palmer, acting director, State Library, Archives and History, New Jersey State Library; North Carolina-Thornton W. Mitchell, chief, Archives and Records Section, Department of Cultural Resources; North Dakota-James E. Sperry, superintendent, State Historical Society; OhioThomas H. Smith, director, The Ohio Historical Society; Pennsylvania-William J. Wewer, executive director, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; South CarolinaCharles E. Lee, director, South Carolina Department of Archives and History; TennesseeCleo A. Hughes, director, Archives Section, Tennessee State Library and Archives; TexasJohn M. Kinney, state archivist, Archives Division, Texas State Library; Vermont-Richard C. Thomas, secretary of state; Virginia-Donald Haynes, state librarian, Virginia State Library; Puerto Rico-Louis M. Rodriguez-Morales, director, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena, Biblioteca General de Puerto Rico; GuamMagdalena Taitano, territorial librarian.

CONTRIBUTORS

Jack Shulimson of the Marine Corps History and Museums Division at the Marine Corps headquarters in Washington, D. C., received his undergraduate degree from the University of Buffalo and his master's degree from the University of Michigan. He is presently working toward a doctorate at the University of Maryland. In addition to having written Marines in Lebanon, 1958, he has had articles published in Military Affairs and the Marine Corps Gazette. He has also prepared two monographs on the role of the marines in Vietnam.

Jonathan G. Utley is assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He received his A.B. from Illinois College and the M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. He is currently doing research and preparing a monograph on the formulation and implementation of U. S. foreign policy during the Sino-Japanese war.

Charles M. Dollar, director of the MachineReadable Archives Division of the National Archives and Records Service, is a native of Tennessee. Upon receiving a Ph.D. in history from the University of Kentucky, he joined the faculty of Oklahoma State University where he taught American urban history and twentiethcentury American history and worked extensively on quantitative methods for historical research. He is coauthor of the Historian's Guide to Statistics and has published articles in Computers and the Humanities and the Journal of Southern History.

Kenneth MacDonald Jones received his Ph.D. from Cornell University. He is at present assistant professor of history at Arizona State University. The work for his paper in this issue of Prologue was aided by a grant from the National Science Foundation for improving doctoral dissertation research.

[graphic][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed]
« السابقةمتابعة »