Well, they may be able to research the 20th and 21 century...but unless they Archives are willing to put their records online...they will reach a brick wall at this point....:) ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Curtis A. Lyons" <[email protected]> Reply-To: "Curtis A. Lyons" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [ARCHIVES] Virginia Commonwealth Univ. outreach project Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:22:08 -0400 I will shortly be sending a position announcement for this NHPRC-funded project but thought some of you not in the market for a new job might be interested, so here is our press release as an introduction. This project is based on Northeastern University's NHPRC-funded Under-documented Communities project. NHPRC awards $160,700 grant to VCU Libraries for community outreach The VCU Libraries is pleased to announce that it has received $160,700 in grant funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) to expand its Archives of the New Dominion community outreach initiative. Under the terms of the grant, the VCU Libraries will work with African-American, Hispanic-American, Gay and Lesbian, and Women's activist communities in Richmond and Central Virginia to record and preserve the work of their organizations and key individuals. The funding provided to VCU was one of the NHPRCs largest 2004 grants, and is the largest amount ever given to a Virginia institution for a records access project. As part of the Archives of the New Dominion, this grant initiative will fill a critical gap in historical resources available to future students and scholars. With a few exceptions, historians studying the minority and activist communities of 20th century Central Virginia must rely largely on secondary sources and demographic data. This project will ensure researchers a wide scope of resources and evidence to draw from in their research. While this effort will be important to future scholars, it also will benefit the local community and the State as a whole. The projects long-range goal is to allow the heirs of todays communities access to their own history to better understand how that history helped forge the world in which they live. By initiating this effort now, the persons and organizations that have played a key role in the 20th century Richmond urban and Central Virginia experience will be able to document and preserve their history directly. This project forms part of the VCU Libraries Archives of the New Dominion initiative, which brings together records that current and future scholars will use in their research of 20th and 21st century Richmond and Central Virginia. The materials in the collection focus on, but are not limited to, the social and cultural history of the metropolitan region and are part of the Special Collections and Archives Department of the James Branch Cabell Library. Among the issues and movements, which are already represented in the collection, are Civil Rights, Women's Suffrage, suburbanization, attempts to revitalize the downtown area, and the development of the Richmond Symphony. More information on the Special Collections and Archives department, including lists of collections and on-line exhibits can be found online at (www.library.vcu.edu/jbc/speccoll/speccoll.html). The NHPRC is the grant-funding arm of the National Archives and Records Administration. It awards grants annually to libraries and museums "to ensure understanding of our nation's past by promoting, nationwide, the identification, preservation, and dissemination of essential historical documentation." More information on the NHPRC can be found online at (www.archives.gov/grants/index.html). Curtis Lyons VCU Libraries A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [email protected] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [email protected] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? 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