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A*CENSUS Working Group Breaks New Ground The working group charged with developing and Modern Archives Institute, National Association conducting a comprehensive nationwide census of Government Archives and Records of the archival profession, A*CENSUS, began Administrators, New England Archivists, deliberations about the scope and nature of this Northwest Archivists, Inc., Rare Books and Issue 161 • January/February 2004 unprecedented collaborative effort during its first Manuscripts Section of the Association of College Official Newsletter meeting in Chicago, in mid-November. Funded and Research Libraries, Society of American by the Institute for Museum and Library Services Archivists, Society of American Archivists Tina Miller, circulation manager, issues a new (IMLS), A*CENSUS (Archival Census and Diversity Committee, Society of California Pedley To Deliver Inaugural Voorhees Lecture on March 6 library card to the Librarian of Virginia Nolan Education Needs Survey in the U.S.) seeks to Archivists and Society of Southwest Archivists. Yelich. Current library card holders are being define the universe of archivists currently in the The goal of A*CENSUS is to reach every- —Maps, Charts & Atlases Exhibition To Highlight Voorhees Collection— re-registered and issued new cards that also workforce, determine the knowledge and skills one in the United States who works with function as copy cards. they need to do their jobs now and in the future, archival materials. The project will seek active Mary Sponberg Pedley, Assistant Curator of making the Library one of world’s leading based on her Nebenzahl Lectures given at and provide graduate and continuing education participation from all archival associations in Maps at the William L. Clements Library at map repositories. the Newberry Library in Chicago in SUPPORT THE LIBRARY WITH YOUR programs with baseline data to support recruit- the U.S., as well as many organizations serving the University of Michigan, will deliver the Mary Sponberg Pedley received her doc- October of 2001. She also teaches Latin in UKROP’S GOLDEN GIFT CERTIFICATE ment and training of new archivists. closely allied fields whose members bear significant inaugural Alan M. and Nathalie P. Voorhees torate from the University of London where the Ann Arbor Public Schools. A broad range of archival interests are rep- responsibility for historical records, including Lecture at 3:00 p.m. on March 6 at the she worked with Professor Eila Campbell. Maps, Charts & Atlases: The Alan M. The Library of Virginia Foundation is a resented within the working group, including librarians, local historians, records managers and Library of Virginia. The title of Dr. Pedley’s She is an associate editor of Imago Mundi: the Voorhees Collection at the Library of participating organization and will graduate archival education programs, continu- museum curators. talk is “In Praise of Collecting: The Art of International Journal for the History of Virginia, which runs through July 3, 2004, receive a donation from Ukrop’s Super ing education programs and the following Current plans call for the census to occur dur- Map Making and Map Keeping.” The talk is Cartography and one of the co-editors of will feature more than 50 maps and atlases Markets Golden Gift program based on national and regional organizations: Academy of ing the spring of 2004, with preliminary reports free and open to the public. Cartography in the European Enlightenment, given to the Library by Voorhees. The maps the number of points contributed by Certified Archivists, Association of Moving available by the time of the Society of American The lecture honors Alan Voorhees for his Volume Four of The History of Cartography focus on the Chesapeake Bay but also show our supporters. You may bring your Golden Gift certificate to the front desk Image Archivists, Conference of Inter-Mountain Archivists annual meeting in Boston in August. generous donations to the Virginia not only in the context of in the Library’s lobby or send it to Archivists, Council of State Historical Records Stay tuned to <www.archivists.org/a-census> for Library of Virginia, especially of the Old World but also emerging Heather Krajewski, Library of Virginia Coordinators, Historically Black Colleges and more information about the project. early Virginia and Virginia-related into the New World. They repre- Foundation, 800 East Broad Street, Universities, Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives maps. Alan M. Voorhees, a sent a valuable addition to the Richmond, VA 23219-8000. Conference, Midwest Archives Conference, —submitted by the Institute of transportation consultant and Library’s already rich collection. National Archives and Records Administration/ Museum and Library Services innovator in urban planning, Among the items on dis- has been a long-time benefactor play will be a map of the world of the Library and numerous from the 1493 Nuremberg NON-PROFIT ORG. other cultural institutions. Chronicle, a 1535 edition of U.S. POSTAGE Voorhees and his wife, Nathalie, Ptolemy’s Geographia, John PAID received the 2000 Philanthropic Speed’s 1625 America with those 800 East Broad Street RICHMOND, VA Award from the Library of known parts in the unknown Richmond, VA 23219-8000 PERMIT NO. 1088 Virginia Foundation, and the worlde, the first map to show South Reading Room, where the California as an island, the rare M ‒J , Library’s maps are stored, is 1675 chart of the Chesapeake named for Nathalie P. Voorhees. Bay, Pascaerte vande Virginies His recent gift of 34 maps and a dozen atlases series published by the University of Chicago Van Baya, by Pieter Goos, the 1755 John and books is the basis for Maps, Charts & Press. Her research interests lie in cartography Mitchell Map of the British and French Atlases, an exhibition at the Library opening in France and England in the 18th century Dominions in North America, Vaugondy’s on March 1. The Library of Virginia has an and her most recent book will be published map of America (1768) and the first edi- extensive collection of more than 60,000 this year as The Commerce of Cartography tion of Lewis Evans’ A general Map of the maps, including both standard reference the map trade in eighteenth-century Paris Middle British Colonies, in America (1755). maps and more than 5,000 extremely rare and London, also published by the manuscript and printed historical maps, University of Chicago Press. The book is VETERANS CAN REQUEST FREE COPY OF SEPARATION NOTICES Processing of the World War II Separation Notices collection at the Library of Virginia was completed this year. Beginning in November, World War II veterans and their next- 800 East Broad Street of-kin were able to request free copies of their World War II Separation Notices from the Richmond, VA 23219-8000 Library. The Library’s collection of 250,000 notices includes information on veterans (804)692-3592 • www.lva.lib.va.us who were discharged between 1942 and 1950 who were seeking employment in Virginia. Janice M. Hathcock, Editor Most of the notices are for military personnel who were born or raised in Virginia prior Amy C. Winegardner, Graphic Designer Peter E. Broadbent, Jr., Board Chair to the war and returned to Virginia after their discharge from the service. Nolan T. Yelich, Librarian of Virginia In 1973 a devastating fire at the National Personnel Record Center in St. Louis destroyed approximately 16 to 18 million Official Military …see Notices, pg. 4 Library Receives Historic Pump House Drawings RECENT GIFTS On October 28, 2003, the Historic Richmond pump water from the James River and owner, nestled in the attic of Riley’s home. Foundation donated to the Library of Virginia Kanawha Canal into the Byrd Park reservoir for They contacted HRF, current stewards of the Library Receives Two Interesting Gifts Foundation, on behalf of Jim and Michele city use. The only structural drawing in the col- Pump House property, who in turn contact- While visiting family in South Carolina a staff member found an early Miller & Rhoads catalog Riley, 17 engineering drawings that document lection shows an elevation of the wainscoting ed the Library of Virginia. in an antiques store in Camden. The Mail Shopper is dated September 1, 1916. This first issue the pumping equipment formerly located in and glass for the North wall of the second story. Since coming to the Library of Virginia, of the catalog featured housewares. The cover directs potential shoppers to, “Write us for what Richmond’s Byrd Park Pump House. The Byrd Park Pump House served the public these unique drawings have been scanned you want, whether you see it in the Mail Shopper or not.” This is the earliest Miller & Rhoads Pump House Superintendent Alex Delaney in two very different ways, with a rare combi- and stored on CD-ROM, and copies were catalog held by the Library. Neither the Valentine/Richmond History Center collection nor the executed most of the ink-on-linen drawings nation of a first floor pumping station and a created for public use. The originals have Virginia Historical Society own an earlier Miller & Rhoads catalog although the Valentine has a that date between 1884 and 1907. The firm of second floor open-air dance hall. been placed in acid-free housing and are now more extensive collection of material about the department store. The Mail Shopper catalog has [William F.] Tanner and Delaney Engine The facility went idle in the mid-1920s, part of the Library’s Architectural Drawings been added to Special Collections because of its scarcity and good condition. Company of Richmond carried out the earliest and the city of Richmond sold the machinery and Plans Collection. The Library of Virginia The second gift seems to prove that a dedicated benefactor keeps on giving even long after drawing for the machinery at the 1882 Gothic from the water works for scrap during World encourages other Virginians who discover his death.
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