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Week: Background Information
COSHRC
sponsored
a session on advocacy and Archives Week at its
July 2003
annual meeting that was held in conjunction with the National
Association
of Government Archives and Records Administrators.
During
this
session, attendees participated in a lively discussion about
their own
Archives Week activities and exchanged ideas about new
approaches to raising
public awareness about the importance of historical records.
They examined
the roles that State Historical Records Advisory Boards (SHRABs)
can play
in this effort, described the outreach techniques that had been
most effective
in their own states, and suggested ways that COSHRC and other
archival
associations could work together toward making Archives Week a
nationwide
observance.
A summary
of this discussion is available for download as either a
Microsoft
Word or Adobe
PDF document.
In
preparation
for the session, we compiled the following list of background
readings
and other resources that should be helpful in understanding the
history
of Archives Week and parallel activities in other countries and
professions.
Background
reading:
- George
W. Bain. "Coming of Age: Archives Week Turns Fifteen."
History News (Summer 2003).
- George
W. Bain. "Archives
Week and the
Power of Intersecting Ripples." Archival
Issues
23:1 (1998): 5-16. Reprinted with permission from the author
and the
Midwest Archives Conference.
- Larry
J. Hackman. "State Government and Statewide Archival
Affairs: New York as a Case Study." American
Archivist
55 (Fall 1992): 578-599. (There is a description starting on
p. 593
of the first Archives Weeks in New York as well as ideas
about the
kind of leadership that a state archives can provide in the
area of
public awareness and advocacy.)
- Larry
J. Hackman. "Archives
Week
in the United States?" SAA
Newsletter (March 1991): 14-15, 20. Reprinted with
permission
from the Society of American Archivists.
Events
in other countries:
From
allied fields:
- National
Library Week. Archivists might consider
emulating this
effort which is led by the American Library Association
(ALA) and
celebrated in a wide variety of ways. ALA provides excellent
resources
on the its website including graphics; sample proclamations,
public
service announcements, and letters to the editor;
programming ideas;
and written materials designed to help local initiatives
promote libraries
and librarians.
- "Now
Hear This: The Nine Laws of Successful Advocacy
Communications."
This is an excellent overview of strategic communications
for nonprofits
published by Fenton Communications and available as a PDF at
http://www.fenton.com/resources/nht_report.asp.
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