<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)">
<!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
.shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
</style><![endif]--><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Aptos;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;}
h1
{mso-style-priority:9;
mso-style-link:"Heading 1 Char";
mso-margin-top-alt:auto;
margin-right:0in;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:0in;
font-size:24.0pt;
font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;
font-weight:bold;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.Heading1Char
{mso-style-name:"Heading 1 Char";
mso-style-priority:9;
mso-style-link:"Heading 1";
font-family:"Aptos Display",sans-serif;
color:#0F4761;}
span.EmailStyle22
{mso-style-type:personal-reply;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:windowtext;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-size:10.0pt;
mso-ligatures:none;}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
</head>
<body bgcolor="#F7F8F9" lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word">
<div class="WordSection1">
<div>
<div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> membership@midwestarchives.org <membership@midwestarchives.org>
<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 13, 2026 11:26 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Carleton, Janet (she/her) <carleton@ohio.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [External] MAC Statement on the Proposed Closures of NARA Regional Record Centers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<div style="border:none;border-left:solid #FCD146 4.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 8.0pt;margin-top:7.5pt;margin-bottom:7.5pt;cursor:default">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#FDFAE7"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Use caution with links and attachments.</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;background:#F7F8F9;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing: 0;min-width: 320px" id="u_body">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;word-break:break-word">
<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top" style="background:#F7F8F9;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in">
<div align="center">
<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="500" style="width:375.0pt;border-collapse:collapse">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in">
<div>
<div>
<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in">
<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="500" valign="top" style="width:375.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in">
<div align="center">
<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in">
<div>
<div>
<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top" style="padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt">
<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black"><img width="480" height="158" style="width:5.0in;height:1.65in" id="_x0000_i1031" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/oasis-prod01-unlayer/1637064092390-MAClogo_FC.png"></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</div>
<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in">
<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="500" valign="top" style="width:375.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in">
<div align="center">
<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in">
<div>
<div>
<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top" style="padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt">
<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top" style="padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt">
<h1 align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:140%"><strong><span style="font-size:16.5pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">MAC Statement on the Proposed Closures of NARA Regional Record Centers</span></strong><span style="font-size:16.5pt;line-height:140%;color:black;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:top"><span style="color:black;display:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top" style="padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt;overflow-wrap:break-word;word-break:break-word">
<div>
<p style="line-height:140%"><span style="color:black">Our MAC Council is alarmed by the National Archives and Records Administration’s (NARA) plan to close three of its regional locations—Chicago, Seattle, and San Bruno, CA—in the coming years. This will have
devastating effects on local users’ abilities to access historically significant federal records as well as the impacted archival staff who have decades of knowledge and expertise working with the records themselves. The Council has released a statement regarding
the recent proposed closures. To read the full statement, see:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:140%"><span style="color:black"><a href="http://midwestarc.memberclicks.net/message2/link/ac49fe30-6854-4555-a6bf-4e9dc64bb00a/1"><span style="color:#0000EE">https://midwestarc.memberclicks.net/statement-on-proposed-nara-closures</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:140%"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:140%"><span style="color:black">To stay updated on MAC positions on issues of importance to the profession and the association, visit the MAC Position Statements page on our website:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:140%"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.midwestarchives.org/mac-position-statements">https://www.midwestarchives.org/mac-position-statements</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><img border="0" width="1" height="1" style="width:.0083in;height:.0083in" id="_x0000_i1030" src="http://clicks.memberclicks-mail.net/wf/open?upn=u001.yDiQTOVGVtHTQh5Y3hJN172FJfqZ47gUOc4rK3a7iwVl9n3-2BOWguVO2iLTOfwuftmcm9-2F3xf9MBtclyI1LwDPKWx2adV4fJ4t2diZAp41OLYQfE45nu-2BPCzXnHZEuYiyufie5ZHd09ZmgtYmoK4xTcKIjnprqoPNudYK1clGoAcJY9HT3CS9ur4-2Bq7mMel7EmNgBoWjIpWl-2BXVcNZSV1MA-2BConQ6LgOTzao0eS1gz7If156T9BkqxU683BW3zaGtsHOTduW92fggUT2W8hfYGjWvEFINk5mOYsXqqbNvK3s6hB1HB2LCMJ6QrRiI2bit"></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div style="margin-top:15.0pt">
<div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:.25in;text-align:center">
<span style="color:black">
<hr size="2" width="100%" noshade="" style="color:#EEEEEE" align="center">
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:9.0pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#A4A4A4">This email was sent by
<a href="mailto:membership@midwestarchives.org"><span style="color:#A4A4A4">membership@midwestarchives.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom:9.0pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#A4A4A4">Midwest Archives Conference
</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#A4A4A4">•</span><span style="color:#A4A4A4"> 2455 E. Sunrise Boulevard, Suite 816, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33304, United States
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom:9.0pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#A4A4A4"><a href="http://midwestarc.memberclicks.net/unsubscribe2/v2/unsubscribe/ac49fe30-6854-4555-a6bf-4e9dc64bb00a"><span style="color:#A4A4A4">Remove My Email or Manage Preferences</span></a> </span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#A4A4A4">•</span><span style="color:#A4A4A4">
<a href="http://www.memberclicks.com/emailprivacy/"><span style="color:#A4A4A4">Privacy Policy</span></a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom:9.0pt;color:#a4a4a">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://www.memberclicks.com/"><span style="color:#A4A4A4;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="163" height="15" style="width:1.7in;height:.1583in" id="_x0000_i1029" src="https://midwestarc.memberclicks.net/images/pbmc-email.png" alt="Powered by MemberClicks"></span></a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><img border="0" width="1" height="1" style="width:.0083in;height:.0083in" id="_x0000_i1028" src="http://midwestarc.memberclicks.net/message2/image/ac49fe30-6854-4555-a6bf-4e9dc64bb00a"></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>