Carolyn
This is important, but only the word "President" lets me know you are
talking about the US. Are you? Please all remember that when you post on
this list you are in international cyberspace and all of us need to
understand when the message is this important. For example I am a US
citizen living overseas. All you have to do is use three letters in your
messages "USA". I thought you would be proud to do so.
Thanks. D.
-----Original Message-----
From: Carolyn Clark [mailto:csclark01@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: 13 June 2005 01:09
To: CAMPBELL-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [CAMPBELL] Fwd: Save our archives -- sign the petition, please!
The following e-mail is of great concern to any genealogists who use
archives.
Please read, sign the petition, then send this to any other Rootsweb or
genealogy lists you're on.
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 access at:
_www.savearchives.org_ (
http://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_ (
http://www.savearchives.org/)
www.coshrc.org_ (
http://www.coshrc.org/)
www.archivists.org_ (
http://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
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