Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 12:44 AM
Subject: Budget cuts to effect Historical Publications and Records Commission
The following e-mail was distributed by the NHPRC Joint Advocacy
Task Force.
I wanted to share this information, as it is of concern to any
genealogists who
use archives. I just finished signing the petition.
Please send this to any other Rootsweb or genealogy lists
you're on.
Joy Rich
Brooklyn, NY
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:
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:
http://www.savearchives.org/
http://www.coshrc.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