Any one is welcome to join my Genealogy chat list to talk about changes in genealogy or the how to things that clog up lists Too bad to hear this, also CA has been blocking files and trying to get Oregon to follow. Dan http://www.wvi.com/~wb ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 9:54 PM Subject: [MAUPIN-L] *OHS*TO*CLOSE* > Hi all: > > Wanted to pass this on. > > Best, Sandi > > Historical Society to close archives > > 2003-01-23 > By The Associated Press > > > > The Oklahoma Historical Society will close its archives, research library and > newspaper reading room next month to save money and consolidate its research > facilities. A statewide budget shortfall has resulted in the loss of $1.7 > million in revenue to the Historical Society over the past year, executive > director Bob Blackburn said. Budget problems have forced a 20 percent > reduction in staff positions plus eight furlough days for staff members. > Blackburn said the society had planned to consolidate its research facilities > at the new Oklahoma History Center, scheduled to open in 2004. "We have had > to accelerate that plan to meet budget problems and therefore fewer staff > positions," he said. The reading rooms will be closed on Feb. 1 and will > reopen March 1. When the research facilities reopen, visitors will go to one > reference desk to use all materials, Blackburn said. The society was founded > in 1893 by the Oklahoma Press Association to collect newspapers printed in > the state. The society now has more than 30 million individual pages of > newspapers, representing more than 4,000 titles and 95 percent of all the > newspapers ever printed in Oklahoma. > > > > ==== MAUPIN Mailing List ==== > If you want to chat and get to know your Maupin relatives better, please subscribe to our [email protected] that contains the word "subscribe" and then email [email protected]