<div dir="ltr">This came through the Western archives listserv and I thought it pertinent to share here. It is in regards to the potential records destruction by the current administration. See the original email below for ways to contact NARA and express your concerns. The deadline is October 29, 2018.<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br>
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----- Forwarded Message -----<br>
From: "Ratliff, Louise" <<a href="mailto:lratliff@library.ucla.edu" target="_blank">lratliff@library.ucla.edu</a>><br>
To: "Ratliff, Louise" <<a href="mailto:lratliff@library.ucla.edu" target="_blank">lratliff@library.ucla.edu</a>><br>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 3:06:20 PM<br>
Subject: FW: [Waml] [IAMSLIC] U.S. Dept of the Interior: Records<br>
Destruction Request<br>
<br>
Forwarding to All Library Staff for the widest distribution of this<br>
very disturbing news. Please feel free to comment, as this records<br>
destruction program will have a negative impact on research.<br>
--Louise<br>
<br>
From: Waml [mailto:<a href="mailto:waml-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu" target="_blank">waml-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu</a>] On Behalf<br>
Of Katie Lage<br>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 1:11 PM<br>
To: Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc. <<a href="mailto:MAPS-L@listserv.uga.edu" target="_blank">MAPS-L@listserv.uga.edu</a>>; waml<br>
<<a href="mailto:WAML@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">WAML@u.washington.edu</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [Waml] [IAMSLIC] U.S. Dept of the Interior: Records<br>
Destruction Request<br>
<br>
Hi all,<br>
You may have seen this on other listservs. The deadline for public<br>
comment to NARA is October 29th.<br>
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-Katie<br>
<br>
Katie Lage, Librarian<br>
MLML/MBARI Research Library<br>
8272 Moss Landing Road<br>
Moss Landing, CA 95039<br>
<a href="https://www.mlml.calstate.edu/library/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.mlml.calstate.edu/library/</a><br>
831-771-4415<br>
[<a href="https://drive.google.com/a/mlml.calstate.edu/uc?id=1jvhtQZSXu7eQ4l7NXGDmtbBs4gnvwOGd&export=download" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/a/mlml.calstate.edu/uc?id=1jvhtQZSXu7eQ4l7NXGDmtbBs4gnvwOGd&export=download</a>]<br>
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Hi all,<br>
<br>
I wanted to alert you to a very disturbing thing happening in the<br>
National Archives world that may severely impact research, especially<br>
historical and scientific research. The Dept of interior is asking for<br>
permission to destroy records about oil and gas leases, mining, dams,<br>
wells, timber sales, marine conservation, fishing, endangered species,<br>
non-endangered species, critical habitats, land acquisition, and lots<br>
more. Basically records from every agency within the Interior<br>
Department, including the Bureau of Land Management, National Park<br>
Service, US Fish & Wildlife Service, US Geological Survey, Bureau of<br>
Safety and Environmental Enforcement, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and<br>
others. This is all content that would normally go to NARA for<br>
collection and preservation. This is disturbing because previous<br>
administrations would obfuscate records by classifying/reclassifying<br>
records. This admin is basically just destroying records so th ey’ll<br>
never be accessible.<br>
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There’s an October 29 deadline for comment to NARA:<br>
<a href="mailto:request.schedule@nara.gov" target="_blank">request.schedule@nara.gov</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:request.schedule@nara.gov" target="_blank">request.schedule@nara.gov</a>> /// fax:<br>
301-837-3698 /// NARA (ACRA), 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park MD<br>
20740-6001. (Be sure to say that you’re referring to<br>
DAA-0048-2015-0003.) Please forward to your networks and researchers<br>
who may be effected.<br>
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More information: <a href="https://altgov2.org/doi-records-destruction/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://altgov2.org/doi-records-destruction/</a><br>
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NARA’s appraisal memo<br>
<a href="https://altgov2.org/wp-content/uploads/DAA-0048-2015-0003_Appraisal_Memo.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://altgov2.org/wp-content/uploads/DAA-0048-2015-0003_Appraisal_Memo.pdf</a><br>
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This is tragic and terrible.<br>
<br>
james<br>
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--<br>
James R. Jacobs< br class="" />US Government Information Librarian<br>
123D Green Library<br>
Stanford University<br>
P: 650.862.9871<br>
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________________________________<br>
Orignal From: U.S. Dept of the Interior: Records Destruction<br>
Request<<a href="http://www.iamslic.org/blog/?p=1013" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.iamslic.org/blog/?p=1013</a>><br>
-- <br>
Anne J. Gilliland, Ph.D., <a href="http://www.dunrunda.co/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.dunrunda.co/</a><br>
Professor and Associate Dean for Information Studies<br>
Director, Archival Education and Research Initiative (AERI), aeri.website<br>
Director, Center for Information as Evidence<br>
Graduate School of Education and Information Studies<br>
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University of California Los Angeles<br>
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520<br>
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