[ARSCLIST] FW: NHPRC -- sign the electronic petition to restore funding

["Peoples, Curtis" <curtis.peoples@xxxxxxx>]

Most of you are already aware of this, but if you have not signed the
petition here is an oppurtunity. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Holmes, Sara J 
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 9:16 AM
To: Libraries - SWCSCL
Subject: FW: NHPRC -- sign the electronic petition to restore funding


Some of you may already be aware that NHPRC grants program is threatened
with elimination in the next fiscal year. An easy way to show support
for the program and urge restoration of funding is to sign the online
petition (link below) set up by the Advocacy Task Force.

-----Original Message-----
From: Archives & Archivists [mailto:ARCHIVES@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Vicki Walch
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 8:16 AM
To: ARCHIVES@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: NHPRC -- sign the electronic petition to restore funding


Posted on behalf of the NHPRC Joint Advocacy Task Force:

The President's budget recommendations for Fiscal Year 2006 slash or
eliminate more than 150 federal programs.  In that budget, the National
Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) has been targeted
to receive NO funding.  This includes no funds for the grants program
and no funds for staffing to support the NHPRC programs.  It effectively
eliminates NHPRC.

The Council of State Historical Records Coordinators, the Society of
American Archivists, and the National Association for Government
Archivists and Records Administrators are working collaboratively to
address this threat to NHPRC and NARA.  Archivists across the U.S. are
rallying to save NHPRC while also ensuring that NARA has sufficient
funding to sustain its current programs and continue to advance in areas
that benefit all archival repositories and every citizen of the United
States

As part of our efforts to continue to express to Congress interest in
restoration of funding for NHPRC, we have created an online petition.
Please consider signing this petition, and please forward it to any
listservs, email groups, or organizations and people you feel would be
interested in helping with this effort.  It is a quick and easy way for
many people to assist.  The petition will be forwarded to the House
Appropriations Committee and Subcommittee on Treasury, Transportation,
HUD and the Judiciary in late May.  The petition can be access at:

www.savearchives.org

and click on the "petition" button.

If you have not received a previous action alert on this issue, we
encourage you to also write a letter to your members of Congress.  For
information on writing letters of support, see any of the following
websites:

www.savearchives.org
www.coshrc.org
www.archivists.org

Thanks for your efforts to save this important program for archives!

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Members of the NHPRC Joint Advocacy Task Force

Council of State Historical Records Coordinators:
David Carmicheal, Sandra Clark, Kathleen Roe

Society of American Archivists:
Nancy Beaumont, Peter Gottlieb, Rand Jimerson, Joan Krizack, Richard
Pearce-Moses

ARMA International:
Stacey Moye

National Association of Government Archivists and Records
Administrators: Timothy Slavin

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