"Celebrate Archives Week!"
Archives Week begins the first Sunday of November. The NEA community invites you to discover and celebrate the importance of original historical documents. All kinds of historical documents have value, whether it is the original draft of the Constitution of your state or a photograph of your great-great-grandfather in his Civil War uniform, or even the minutes of a local Parent-Teacher Organization meeting from the 1990s.
NEA encourages individuals and repositories responsible for acquiring, preserving, or making historical documents available to host an Archives Week event, distribute a flyer, or prepare an exhibit--Archives Week is about you!
Archives Week bookmarks are created by NEA's Outreach Committee each year and distributed to many public libraries, historical societies, and archives free of charge in advance of November. Additionally, Archives Week is promoted nationally at the annual meetings of the Society of American Archivists.
Check back with us for additions to the list of scheduled activities in the New England region.
Archives Week 2007 - November 4-10
Archives Week 2006 - November 5-11
The following Archives Week proclamations have been issued by the Governors of Connecticut, Maine, and Rhode Island:
Connecticut Archives Week Proclamation
Maine Archives Week Proclamation
Rhode Island Archives Week Proclamation
Archives Week 2005 - November 6-12
To celebrate Archives Week for 2005, New England Archivists is holding two "Archives on the Road" events on Saturday, November 5. Professional archivists will be on hand to examine family papers, and explain basic preservation, conservation, and storage techniques. Both events are open to the public and free of charge.
The following Archives Week proclamation has been issued by the Governor of New Hampshire:
New Hampshire Archives Week Proclamation
Location: Morse Institute Library (public library), 14 East Central Street, Natick, Mass.
Date: Saturday, November 5th
Time: 2-4 pm
http://www.morseinstitute.org
Contact: Karol Bartlett, Special Projects Librarian, 508-647-6400 x1528
Location: Cape Ann Historical Society, 27 Pleasant Street, Gloucester, Mass.
Date: Saturday, November 5th
Time: 2-4 pm
http://www.capeannhistoricalmuseum.org
Contact: Ronda Faloon, 978-283-0455
Archives Week 2004 - November 7-13
To celebrate Archives Week 2004, the Outreach Committee held Archives on the Road programs at The Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich and Brandeis University. Please see the Archives on the Road Previous Events page for a description of these events.
The Outreach Committee is also pleased to announce the following Archives Week proclamations have been issued by the State Governors of Maine, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Vermont. The following Archives Week 2004 proclamations are still available for review:
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Maine
Vermont Public Radio broadcast news on Vermont Archives Week in November, 2004. To read a transcript of that broadcast, click here.
Archives Week 2003 - November 2-8
To celebrate Archives Week 2003, the Outreach Committee held an Archives on the Road workshop at The Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich. Please see our Archives on the Road Previous Events page for a description.
Other local events included the distribution of Vermont Gallery & Museum Alliance paper conservation posters by the New Hampshire Archives Group (NHAG) during Archives week.
We are also pleased to announce the following Archives Week proclamations were issued by the State Governors of Maine, New Hampshire and Rhode Island.
The proclamations are still available for review: Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire , Rhode Island (Senate, House)
Archives Week 2002 - October 19-26
The October 19-26 New England Archives Week culminated with the New England Archivists joint meeting with the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) in Poughkeepsie, NY (Oct. 24-26).
Archives Week bookmarks were created by NEA's Outreach Committee and distributed to many public libraries, historical societies, and archives, and were free to the public.
New England State Governors' 2002 Archives Week Proclamations included: Massachusetts, New Hampshire.
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