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The following is an announcement from the National Historical
Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC):
The President's budget recommendations for Fiscal Year 2006 slash
or eliminate more than 150 federal programs. In that budget, the
National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)
has been targeted to receive NO funding. This includes no funds
for the grants program and no funds for staffing to support the
NHPRC programs. It effectively eliminates NHPRC.
The Council of State Historical Records Coordinators, the Society
of American Archivists, and the National Association for
Government Archivists and Records Administrators are working
collaboratively to address this threat to NHPRC and NARA.
Archivists across the U.S. are rallying to save NHPRC while also
ensuring that NARA has sufficient funding to sustain its current
programs and continue to advance in areas that benefit all
archival repositories and every citizen of the United States
As part of our efforts to continue to express to Congress
interest in restoration of funding for NHPRC, we have created an
online petition. Please consider signing this petition, and
please forward it to any listservs, e-mail groups, or
organizations and people you feel would be interested in helping
with this effort. It is a quick and easy way for many people to
assist. The petition will be forwarded to the House
Appropriations Committee and Subcommittee on Treasury,
Transportation, HUD and the Judiciary in late May. The petition
can be accessed at:
www.savearchives.org
Click on the "petition" button.
If you have not received a previous action alert on this issue,
we encourage you to also write a letter to your members of
Congress. For information on writing letters of support, see any
of the following websites:
www.savearchives.org
www.coshrc.org
www.archivists.org
Thanks for your efforts to save this important program for
archives!
Members of the NHPRC Joint Advocacy Task Force
Council of State Historical Records Coordinators: David
Carmicheal, Sandra Clark, Kathleen Roe
Society of American Archivists: Nancy Beaumont, Peter Gottlieb,
Rand Jimerson, Joan Krizack, Richard Pearce-Moses
National Association of Government Archivists and Records
Administrators: Timothy Slavin
Thanks to Eastman's Newsletter for reprinting this news release.
http://eogn.com/