The following are archival events for May 31 through June 12 as taken from the Archivist’s Daybook, <http://www.southwestarchivists.org/HTML/Daybook.htm>. --- May 3 1 SAA Theodore Calvin Pease Award nominations due. May 31 Deadline to apply for funding through the Archival Community Digitization Program for the fiscal year 2006-2007. Funding will be provided through the Canadian Memory Fund, as part of the Department of Heritage's Canadian Culture Online Funding Program. The guidelines and application template are available here <http://www.cdncouncilarchives.ca/>. May 31 - June 2 "New Skills for a Digital Era;" Washington, DC, a colloquium sponsored by the Arizona State Library and Archives, the National Archives and Records Administration, and the Society of American Archivists to discuss what skills librarians, archivists, and records managers (LARMs) need to flourish in the digital era. Contact Richard Pearce-Moses, [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>, 602-542-4035. June 1 Academy of Certified Archivists <http://www.certifiedarchivists.org> recertification petitions due; deadline for returning election ballots; annual Academy dues payable starting today; and deadline to register for the ACA Item Writing Workshop. Contact: Academy of Certified Archivists <http://www.certifiedarchivists.org/>, 48 Howard Street, Albany, New York 12207, Tel: 518-463-8644, Fax: 518-463-8656, [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> June 1 Hurricane season begins in the Atlantic. Are your disaster plans current? June 1 On this date in 1995, John Carlin was sworn in as Archivist of the United States. June 1 Deadline to apply for the Midwest Archives Conference $500 scholarship for minority students in archival administration. June 1 Deadline, Boydston Prize for best review or review essay dealing with the scholarly editing of works or documents. June 1 NHPRC <http://www.nara.gov/nhprc/> deadline (for the November meeting). The Commission's main guidelines (which include application forms) may be downloaded from their guidelines <http://www.nara.gov/nhprc/apply.html> page as "PDF" files or may be requested from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), National Archives and Records Administration, 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 111, Washington, DC 20408-0001, phone: 202-501-5610, fax: 202-501-5601. June 1-2 AMIGOS <http://www.amigos.org/> workshop, "Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery;" Lubbock, Texas. June 2 Society of Rocky Mountain Archivists spring meeting <http://www.srmarchivists.org/meetings.htm>; Pueblo, Colorado. June 2 SOLINET <http://www.solinet.net> workshop, "Developing a Disaster Plan." Live Online Class. $155.00 for SOLINET members $225.00 for non-members Early bird discounts and late fees apply. June 3 Deadline to submit proposal abstracts for "Sofia 2006: Globalization, Digitization, Access and Preservation of Cultural Heritage <http://slim.emporia.edu/globenet/Sofia2006/Index.htm>;" to be held November 8-10 in Sofia, Bulgaria. June 4 On this date in 1997, the Gatineau Preservation Centre <http://www.archives.ca/exec/naweb.dll?fs&0101&e&top&0> of the National Archives of Canada officially opened. June 5 SOLINET <http://www.solinet.net> workshop, "Environmental Control and Monitoring;" Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina, US. $145.00 for SOLINET members $185.00 for non-members Early bird discounts and late fees apply. June 5-16 "Modern Archives Institute <http://www.archives.gov/preservation/modern_archives_institute.html>," offered by NARA, in cooperation with the Library of Congress; Washington, DC. June 6 On this date in 2001, US President George W. Bush nominated Robert S. Martin to be Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) <http://www.imls.gov/>. Martin was the first librarian and archivist to head the institute, which was created in 1996 to centralize funding for libraries and museums. At the time of his appointment Martin was Professor and Interim Director of the School of Library and Information Studies at Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas. Previously he served as Professor and Associate Dean of Special Collections at Louisiana State University (1991-1995) and Director and Librarian of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (1995 to 1999). Dr. Martin is a past president <http://southwestarchivists.org/HTML/PastPres.htm> and a past Distinguished Service Award <http://southwestarchivists.org/HTML/DSA.htm> recipient of the Society of Southwest Archivists <http://www.southwestarchivists.org/index.htm>. June 6-9 -EURASICA Training Seminar on Preservation and Protection of Archives in the Modern World of the Eurasian Regional Branch of the ICA <http://www.ica.org/calendrier.php?pcalendrierid=326&plangue=eng>; Moscow. June 7-9 Archives Association of Ontario 13th annual conference; Hamilton. Theme: "The Philosophy of Archives." June 9 The New York Folklore Society's June 2006 Symposium on New Archival and Ethnographic Technologies; Hyde Park. June 11 Today in 1987, the National Archives of Canada Act was proclaimed. It succeeded the Public Archives Act of 1912, renamed the Public Archives of Canada to the National Archives of Canada and the title of its head to National Archivist of Canada, and addressed privacy and access issues. June 12 Deadline for comments on a NARA proposal to revise its regulations on the locations and hours of NARA facilities to reflect the relocation of two facilities in the past fiscal year. <http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20061800/edocket.access.gpo.go v%20/2006/E6-7263.htm> June 12 New York Archivists Round Table meeting, "Performing Arts Archives: “Satchmo’s Stuff” and The Kurt Weill Foundation." RSVP to Leilani Dawson by June 7, [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> (recommended) or telephone: (718) 222-4111. June 12-23 39th Annual Georgia Archives Institute <http://www.georgiaarchivesinstitute.org>. -- The Archivist’s Daybook is another service to the profession of the Society of Southwest Archivists (http://www.southwestarchivists.org). In it you will find information about continuing education and professional development opportunities for archivists around the world. We welcome the opportunity to promote your archival event and especially encourage non-North American archival meeting planners to list their event with us (there is, of course, no charge for listing your event in the Archivist's Daybook). Please help us promote your event by letting us know <mailto:[log in to unmask] Daybook> of your meeting, seminar, or workshop by emailing [log in to unmask] ---- Leon C. Miller, Manuscripts Librarian Special Collections, Jones Hall Tulane University Libraries New Orleans, Louisiana 70118 ph: 504-865-5685, fx: 504-865-5761, [log in to unmask] http://specialcollections.tulane.edu 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. 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