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Folks!
I feel this is important enough to post on the lists I am on! Please help
if you care. I did!
Liesa
UpFront with NGS
The Online Newsletter of the
National Genealogical Society
Special Issue:
from the Board of the National Genealogical Society
NARA Budget Reduction & Saturday and Evening Closings
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Please read ALL of the following information it is important to ALL
family historians and genealogists. We must make our voices heard on
both issues!
Dr. Allen Weinstein, Archivist of the United States, addressed the
opening session of the FGS/NEHGS 2006 Conference in Boston on Thursday,
August 31, 2006. He reiterated his position of open access to records
which he spoke about at the NGS conference in Chicago. He also commented
on the budget cut and the reduction in hours, staff, and preservation
that this will automatically cause.
Please contact your representatives in Congress and urge them to restore
the NARA budget cuts. You can easily do this via email for your member
of the House by going to
http://www.house.gov/writerep/
or for both branches of Congress by going to
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/ and entering just your zipcode.
Following his remarks, Professor Weinstein was presented with a letter
by the Chair of the joint NGS-FGS Records Preservation and Access
Committee (RPAC), addressing concerns about the proposed changes in the
hours of operation for the Research Rooms at the National Archives.
Very few are making their voices heard on this issue. This lack of
response sends a loud signal to the Archives that this is not a serious
issue and that closing the Archives (including regional branches) on
evenings and Saturdays is irrelevant. The RPAC has recommended the
following suggestions for the Archives to consider:
1) To accommodate the needs of those who need access on Saturdays, we
propose that you close one other day per week. This would be at your
discretion. Other archives often close Sunday and Monday.
2) Users who need evening hour access could be accommodated by opening
the archives later in the day, again at your discretion.
If you agree with the recommendations stated above, we are asking your
support by immediately going on-line and adding your "signature" to our
petition to substitute the hours of access and still help the archives
to meet their need to consolidate their hours of operation. Before 8
September 2006, please go to:
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/FGS2006/petition.html
<http://www.petitiononline.com/FGS2006/petition.html>(Case sensitive)
If you would like to send your own personal letter, send it prior to
8 September 2006 and address it to:
Regulations Comments Desk (NPOL)
Room 4100, Policy and Planning Staff
National Archives and Records Administration
8601 Adelphi Road
College Park, MD 20740-6001
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