The following are archival events for August 24 - November 1 as taken from
the
Archivist's Daybook <http://www.southwestarchivists.org/HTML/Daybook.htm>.
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August 24 On this date in 1814, Stephen Pleasonton, a senior clerk in the US
Secretary of State's office, hastily bundled the Declaration of
Independence, the Constitution of the United States, international treaties,
and George Washington's correspondence into coarse linen bags and took them
35 miles from Washington to Leesburg, Virginia. There, he hid them in an
abandoned house to safeguard them from British troops, who were in the
process of burning government buildings in Washington.
August 24 Today in 2005, the Cambodian Parliament passed the country's first
Archives Law. The law was drafted with the assistance of the French National
Archives as part of a long term project to develop the National Archives of
Cambodia. The law provided the National Archives of Cambodia with the powers
it previously lacked to acquire records that had been accumulating since
1979 in various Cambodian Government Ministries and agencies.
August 27 Deadline to complete the MIC Evaluation Survey
<http://mic.loc.gov>, an attempt to assess the effectiveness of the Moving
Image Collections initiative, a collaborative between the Association of
Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) and the Library of Congress.
August 28 Amigos Preservation Live Online Class, "EAD2HTML."
<http://www.amigos.org/learning/catalog/>
August 28-31 1º Congresso Arquivístico da América
<http://www.aaerj.org.br/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=483&mode=&or
der=0&thold=0>, Arquivos Públicos e Privados: métodos e tecnologias; Santa
Fé, Argentina.
August 30 Amigos Preservation Live Online Class, "EAD2HTML."
<http://www.amigos.org/learning/catalog/>
September is Archives Awareness Month in Great Britain.
Sept 1 On this date in 2005, Dr. Robert S. Martin assumed the Lillian
Bradshaw Endowed Chair in Library Science at the Denton campus of Texas
Woman's University. Dr. Martin was previously the first librarian and
archivist to be appointed Director of the Institute of Museum and Library
Services <http://www.imls.gov/news/2005/071305.shtm>, a US government
agency. His four-year term as director ended in June 2005. Among the many
achievements of Dr. Martin's tenure at IMLS were an increase in the agency’s
budget from $232,321,000 to $280,564,000, the reauthorizing of the agency
through 2009, and the launching of a new multi-million dollar grant program
(over $22 million in FY 2005) to recruit and educate the next generation of
librarians. 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>.
Sept 1 Deadline to apply for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference
(MARAC <http://www.itd.umd.edu/MARAC/marac-hp.htm>) scholarship to attend
its fall meeting.
Sept 1 Deadline to apply for the Larry Gully Scholarship
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> awarded annually by the Society of Georgia
Archivists for attendance at the organization's annual meeting in the fall
and for one year membership in SGA. The scholarship covers the following
year's membership dues, the meeting registration fee, and a maximum of $100
for other expenses. Contact: [log in to unmask]
<http://webmail.central.cox.net/do/mail/message/mailto?to=scholarships%40sog
a.org>.
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opportunities for archivists around the world through 2009. We welcome the
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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
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