K. C. Johnson, an historian, posted a link earlier this week to Chris Lee's Washington Post article on secrecy and the National Archives at HNN's blog, Cliopatria. I used that forum to post a number of comments, beyond the scope possible here on the Archives List. It isn't the ideal forum for me, as most of the bloggers at Cliopatria are academics who have not used NARA much for research. They mostly lack a frame of reference for Federal records and seem quite uninformed on archival or records issues. Most of their blog entries center on academic issues, campus news, current events. Johnson, however, has worked with the LBJ tapes, materials which derive from an old "donor-restricted" Presidential Library rather than one where release is governed by the Presidential Records Act. Still, I was able to post a bunch of staff at Cliopatria.. For anyone interested in my assessments of the challenges NARA faces on transparency, what to tell researchers, please see http://hnn.us/blogs/comments/23889.html . 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]>