Help protect the NHPRC & NARA (USA)
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The following email was distributed by the NHPRC Joint Advocacy Task Force.
PLEASE share this information, as it is of concern to many of us who use archives.
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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
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