[SOA] FW: Urgent Action Alert: Save the NHPRC from Devastating Budget Cuts!

[Fred Previts]

Good Afternoon,

 

Please see the message below from SAA about proposed cuts to the NHPRC
and how we can help.

 

Thanks,

 

Fred Previts, CA <http://www.certifiedarchivists.org/> 

State Archivist

Government Services

Ohio Historical Society

1982 Velma Avenue

Columbus, Ohio 43211

Phone:  614-297-2536

Fax: 614-297-2546 

Email: fprevits at ohiohistory.org <mailto:fprevits at ohiohistory.org> 

www.ohiohistory.org

 

 


Save NHPRC from Devastating Budget Cuts


The House of Representatives has proposed cutting the National
Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) funding for 2011
from $10 million to $4 million as part of its overall effort to reduce
federal spending. This is a 60% reduction for this year alone, and it
sets a very dangerous precedent for the upcoming 2012 budget
negotiations.

The Council of State Archivists, the Society of American Archivists, the
National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators,
and the Association for Documentary Editing are working collaboratively
to address this threat to NHPRC and the National Archives.  Archivists
across the U.S. are rallying to stop serious cuts to NHPRC funding for
2011.

NHPRC needs funding of at least $8 million for 2011.

What can you do?

Act now! Between now and March 4, 2011:

Send e-mails/faxes on behalf of your organization to the members of the
Senate Appropriations Committee, urging them to support funding for
NHPRC of at least $8 million for FY 2011.

Circulate an action alert
<http://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/FinalAction.doc>  urging
your members and colleagues to send emails or faxes or, better yet, call
their Senators, urging them to fund NHPRC at a level of at least $8
million for FY 2011. Communications should come from individuals and
organizations that have received NHPRC grants or from those who have
benefited from the projects-genealogists, local government officials,
historians, teachers, and others.

View a sample letter for Senators here
<http://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/FinalSampleLetter.doc> . Be
sure to personalize it with examples and references to your institution
or state. 

View a fact sheet on the importance of NHPRC here
<http://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/FinalBackground.doc> . Use
or adapt it to share with your Senator.

To contact your Senators: www.senate.gov <http://www.senate.gov> .

To contact members of the Senate Appropriations Committee:
http://appropriations.senate.gov/ <http://appropriations.senate.gov/> .

 

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