Aren't I just the little poster today? Here's a question that just came up while I was having lunch with a friend: he's a public historian, who makes his living doing contract histories for government agencies like the US Forest Service, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and occasionally, the Dept. of Defense. In the 1990s, he got a contract from DoD to do a National Historic Register survey of Offutt Air Force base, formerly Fort Crook; I actually sub-contracted a bunch of that and wrote a history of the place that was never published. So here's the question that came up: during this survey, he took extensive photos of every building on the base, created or copied maps of the whole place; in short, had pretty free access to the entire facility. That was in 1996. We also did a survey of the Utah Test and Training Range, the proving grounds west of Salt Lake City, in which we were allowed to photograph the sites and roads and so on, except for Dugway Proving Ground; we had to put our cameras away when we flew over that. Now, after 9/11 and with the Patriot Act in force, where does he stand with this collection if he wants to donate it to a repository? Roy Webb, C.A. Multimedia Archivist Special Collections J. Willard Marriott Library 295 South 1500 East University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 office: (801) 585-3073 FAX: (801) 585-3976 [log in to unmask] http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/photo 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]>