As you've recently heard, NHPRC has been "zeroed out" in the President's budget. No money at all for grants, no money for the administration of NHPRC. The Society of American Archivists (SAA), National Association of Government Archivists and Records Administrators (NAGARA) and Council of State Historical Records Coordinators (COSHRC) have formed a Joint Task Force on Advocacy to take action collaboratively on this issues. This effort also is being coordinated with the Association for Documentary Editors and the National Coalition for History. This group is developing an action plan which will be shared in more detail, but for now there is an immediate need to take the first step--Letters to the Senate and House Appropriations Committee urging them to restore funding for NHPRC. The committees begin meeting March 1, so letters need to go out this week. Letters need to come from people who have received NHPRC grants or from people who have benefited from the projects--genealogists, local government officials, historians, teachers, etc. In particular, please look for people who may have connections to the member of Congress, or try to get letters from the head of a library, historical society, or government that got an NHPRC grant. Letters FAXED this week would be perfectly timed to get their attention. Email is not given much credence at this point because of the amount that comes in, and land mail is irradiated, adding literally weeks of time to receipt. So the mid-level Fax technology works best for this. More information about this effort, including guidelines for preparing a letter and a list of the Senate and House Appropriations Committee members may be found at the SAA website: http://www.archivists.org/news/nhprc-FY2006.asp Ray LaFever New York State Archives A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>