Founding Fathers Going Digital

The Washington Post has an interesting article. It seems that the University of Virginia Press is going to be putting the papers of some of the Founding Fathers online. The project is expected to be public by 2012 and completed by the following year. Click the above link for the full article.

Upcoming Conferences

The following conferences are coming up in the next several weeks:

• MARAC Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, November 11th-13th. It will be held in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and the theme is "the politics of archives".

• Association of Moving Image Archivists and the International Association of Sound
  and Audiovisual Archives will come together for the first time in a joint
  conference. November 2-6, 2010 in Philadelphia, PA

• New England Archivists Meeting November 5-6, 2010 at Keene State College
  the theme is "Looking Inward/Looking Outward: Changing Roles and Expectations
  in Archival Settings"

Also note that election day is in 2 weeks. Mark this date on your calender. Remember that your vote is important, no matter how dismal the year may seem.

Archivist in the News

The following article was posted on the Archives and Archivists listserv that is maintained by the SAA. It's an article about a man from Hopewell Junction who tried to sell what turned out to be a stolen Texas Supreme Court document. The situation was resolved when the director of operations for the New York State archives certified that the document was real and brought it back to Texas. Here is the link: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/casey/7237177.html.

New Assistant Web Master

I would like to take the time to introduce myself. My name is Michael and I am the new assistant web master for SCSAA. What that means is that I will be contributing to this blog on a regular basis. The plan is for that to happen every Sunday. This is my first semester at Albany and I am currently enrolled in the dual History/Information Science program. As you may have gathered I am in the archives track. That will be all for my first post. I look forward to contributing further to this blog.