Two quick items. If you aren't concerned about State Archive loss, delete now. The Rally to Save the Florida Archives, Library and Museum is on, info below. We need your help in any way you can. If any of you have seen Jeb Bush's letter posted rest assured it doesn't mean much. He is still moving forward with giving away (and paying for the privilege) over 300,000 documents to a private university in south Florida. More info below. If you need more info, email me. Sharon Come visit the family (30+ lines online) www.roadshometofl.com IT'S A GO! WE HAVE MORE THAN 250 PEOPLE WHO WILL BE RALLYING IN TALL[Y]AHASSEE! WE NEED YOUR HELP TO SAVE THE FLORIDA STATE LIBRARY, ARCHIVES AND MUSEUM. On Tuesday, at 10:30, Bush will be presenting his State of the State address at the Capitol and then the Legislative Session begins. At about 1:00 PM, we will go to the R. A. Gray Building and surround it with our arms and hands linked. Anybody want to give a blessing. <G> SCHEDULE 9:00-10:00 AM Meet on the steps of the Old Capitol Building - Flyers and pins will be handed out. About 10 am, start walking into the Capitol Building and make sure your signs are visible. 12:00 PM - Lunch on your own 1:00 PM - "Arms around the Gray Building" We will surround the R.A. Gray building with as many people as we can. I get goose bumps just thinking about it. <G> Do not block people from going in and out. Bring signs, pins, stickers, whatever you have to show your displeasure, but please no profanity. We want to appear professional and orderly. Theme Song: Blame it on the Bossa Nova (Blame it on Jeb Bush and Nova) I am staying at the DoubleTree and will be there Sunday and Monday night. I am looking forward to meeting so many of you who helped in this campaign. If you have not heard this, it is worth repeating. The President of the Senate, Jim King said the the "Library will stay put." Does that give us encouragement??? Yea!!! I hope that I will see you there! Any questions, I will be happy to answer. Pam Pam Cooper FGS/FSGS 2003 Conference Co-Chair < http://www.fgs.org > President, Florida State Genealogical Society < http://www.rootsweb com/~flsgs/ > Chair, Librarians Serving Genealogists < http://www.cas.usf edu/lis/genealib/ > P. O. Box 7066 Vero Beach, FL 32961-7066 ----- Original Message ----- From: Pam Cooper To: Floriday Today Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 8:11 PM Subject: [floridatoday] State Library - No Problem ????? I have been hearing that the Georgia lists and others think that the State Library situation is no longer a problem. Recently, I was reminded by Barratt Wilkins of a situation that happened about 15 years ago. Back in the 1980's, the State Library gave the genealogy collection to the State Archives and there was a lot of flap about that. The State Library gave the Archives mostly family history and genealogy specific materials. Today, we can be grateful that most of them are now safe, temporarily (at least for a year.) However, in order to compromise and make available to genealogists the thousands of state, county and city history materials, the State Library decided to keep them in their circulating collection. This is now a part of the collection going to Nova University. Other items that you can check out are Florida and Federal documents as long as there are two other copies. For researchers of southeastern history, I have found in the State Library catalog over 6300 books on local and genealogical history of six of the southern states, by using the subject heading "[state] history." HOWEVER, many of them ARE located in the State Archives, but many are in the circulating collection. Titles listed below are in circulation. Georgia 625 "History of John [Virginia] Smith and his descendants in connection with the tobacco industry in Gadsden County, Florida and Decatur County, Georgia" [microform] "Polk County, Georgia " Alabama 297 "The administration of John Quinlan : second Bishop of Mobile, 1859-1883" Mississippi 283 "Country churchyards " "Southern women and their families in the 19th century, papers and diaries." [microform] South Carolina 391 "Lancaster County and the Great War, South Carolina " North Carolina 539 "Ashe County's Civil War : community and society in the Appalachian South " Florida 3979 This subject heading cannot find every book. Therefore, an estimate of how many books that can be circulated to researchers in Florida and other states can be a lot higher, especially if you include all the local history books from other states in New England and the Midwest. I found these for New Jersey in the State Library: Root & branch : African Americans in New York and east Jersey, 1613-1863 Documents relating to the colonial history of the state of New Jersey, [1631-1776] If you visit the State Library, and peruse by dewey decimal number in the 900's, I am sure that you will find a very extensive collection of books that can be checked out with a State Library card free to all Florida residents and is available on ILL for anyone in the U.S. But do not overlook other areas in the library. It is not my intention to get people upset about the books again, but it is necessary that everyone realize this collection is valuable. And, taking it away is like pulling the cornerstone and letting it all fall down slowly. The whole DLIS and the Archives are both in an unstable situation and will be for years to come if we don't have an amendment in the constitution to protect the library and archives forever. You may forward this to other lists if you so wish. Pam Pam Cooper FGS/FSGS 2003 Conference Co-Chair < http://www.fgs.org > President, Florida State Genealogical Society < http://www.rootsweb com/~flsgs/ > Chair, Librarians Serving Genealogists < http://www.cas.usf edu/lis/genealib/ > P. O. Box 7066 Vero Beach, FL 32961-7066 Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: floridatoday-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.