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Vol. 25:2 ISSN 0160-8460 Summer 1997
Recent Records Products and Documentary Editions
Records Products
The following products from records projects funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) have been recently released. Information concerning availability has been provided.
- Room 106, Materials relating to online databases at the Boston College Libraries, including the Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. Library, which received NHPRC Grant No. 95-028 for a library access project. For information, contact Kathleen M. Carney, Associate University Librarian, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. Library, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167-3810; e-mail carneyk@bc.edu; telephone (617) 552-4470; FAX (617) 552-0599.
- Steven Davidson and Gregory Lukow, editors, The Administration of Television Newsfilm and Videotape Collections: A Curatorial Manual. Los Angeles: American Film Institute and Miami: Louis Wolfson II Media History Center, 1997. ISBN 0-9649097-0-7. For information or inquiries about this publication, contact the Louis Wolfson II Media History Center, 101 West Flagler Street, Miami, FL 33130; telephone (305) 375-1505; FAX (305) 375-4436; or the National Center for Film and Video Preservation, American Film Institute, 2021 North Western Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90027; telephone (213) 856-7637; FAX (213) 856-7616.
- Electronic Records Research and Development: Final Report of the 1996 Conference held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, June 28-29, 1996. Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1997. Sponsored by the University of Michigan School of Information and the Bentley Historical Library, and funded by NHPRC Grant No. 96-12. This report is available online at http://web.archive.org/web/20011202013103/www.si.umich.edu/e-recs/Report/FR0.TOC.html .
- The Filson Club Historical Society has provided copies of finding aids for 232 individual collections. For information on these finding aids, contact James J. Holmberg, Curator of Manuscripts, The Filson Club Historical Society, 1310 South Third Street, Louisville, KY 40208; telephone (502) 635-5083; FAX (502) 635-5086. Among the collections are the papers of James William Abert, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Elizabeth Kathleen Hansbrough, John Wesley Hunt, Josiah Stoddard Johnston, Benjamin La Bree, Jefferson Francis Marion Lee, William Thomas McElroy, John Hunt Morgan, Alfred Pirtle, William Hamilton Pope, Elliott Warren Rice, Frank B. Russell, Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, John Cleves Short, Henry Smith Slaughter, William Earl Stivers, James Taylor, Alexander Tippett, John Wilson Townsend, Hiram Wingate, and Bennett Henderson Yandell.
- West Virginia Historical Records Advisory Board, compiler, An Appeal For Future Generations: West Virginia Historical Records Assessment Report, and An Appeal for Future Generations: West Virginia Historical Records Strategic Plan. Charleston, 1997. For information, contact Fredrick H. Armstrong, State Coordinator, State Archivist and Director, Archives and History, The Cultural Center, 1900 Kanawha Blvd. East, Charleston, WV 25305-0300; telephone (304) 558-0230, extension 164; FAX (304) 558-2779. These materials are available online at http://www.wvlc.wvnet.edu/history/ wvsrap.html.
Documentary Publications
The following products from documentary editing projects supported by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission have been received since January 1997.
The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution. Vol. 4: Ratification of the Constitution by the States: Massachusetts (1) (State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1997)
The Papers of Jefferson Davis, Vol. 9 [January-September, 1863] (Louisiana State University Press, 1997)
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 32 [March 1-June 30, 1780] (Yale University Press, 1996)
Families and Freedom: A Documentary History of African-American Kinship in the Civil War Era [Abridgment of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation] (The New Press, 1997)
John Franklin Jameson and the Development of Humanistic Scholarship in America. Vol. 2: The Years of Growth, 1859-1905 (University of Georgia Press, 1996)
The Papers of George Washington, Confederation Series, Vol. 5 [February -December 1787] (University Press of Virginia, 1997)
The Papers of George Washington, Confederation Series, Vol. 6 [January- September 1788] (University Press of Virginia, 1997)
