The National Archives Assembly Celebrates Archives Week (October 10-16, 2004)
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Archives Week is an annual, week-long observance of the importance of archival and historical records to our lives. Archivists hold special events and activities during the week of the Columbus Day Holiday each year to increase public awareness of the relevance of archives to modern life.  In celebration of Archives Week 2004 (October 10-16), the Assembly and its Outreach Committee invite National Archives employees and members of the public to attend local events that remember "Playing with History: Recreation and Amusement in Archives," this year's theme.  Local events and presentations include:

·        October 13, Wednesday, in lower level Assembly Hall of the City Museum of Washington, DC, Archives Fair 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Lecture 1:30 pm.

The 7th Annual Washington, DC, Metropolitan Area Archives Fair. The Archives Fair will feature exhibits on local, national and world history and will showcase city and regional archival collections. The following repositories will be represented: American Red Cross; Virginia Room, Arlington County Public Library;  Carnegie Institute; Corcoran Gallery of Art;  Washingtoniana Division, D.C. Public Library; Gelman Library Special Collections, The George Washington University; Lauinger Library and Law Center, Georgetown University; The Historical Society of Washington, D.C.; Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University; American Folklife Center and Manuscripts Division, Library of Congress; National Archives and Records Administration; National Museum of Women in the Arts; Archives Center, National Museum of American History, National Air and Space Museum, Art Information Resources, and Freer and Sackler Gallery Archives, Smithsonian Institution; Sumner School Museum and!
Archives; U.S. Marine Corps Research Center; Archives & Manuscripts and Special Collections of Performing Arts, University of Maryland; Felix E. Grant Jazz Archives, University of the District of Columbia.  In addition, a representative of Indus International will be demonstrating a color book scanner that can scan thick books or any artifact up to 7.75 inches thick.

At 1:30 pm there will be a lecture entitled, "Documenting Sports, Recreation, and Ordinary Life in Early America."  Dr. Nancy L. Struna is a full professor at the University of Maryland in American Studies and holds affiliate appointments in Women's Studies and in History. Dr. Struna is the recipient of the first annual (2004-05) Lord Baltimore Research Fellowship from the Maryland Historical Society, to be held in residence at the MHS while researching research on "The Transformation of the Ordinary: The Tavern Industry and Culture."  She will be discussing her research findings that she has published in People of Prowess: Sport, Leisure and Labor in Early Anglo-America (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996), as well as from earlier offerings concerning early American sport and women in sport history.

Directions: Take the Green or Yellow Line Metro to the Mount Vernon Square * 7th Street Convention Center stop and exit onto the corner of 7th and M Streets, NW, and walk south for two blocks to reach Mt. Vernon Square.  You may also take the Green, Yellow, and Red Lines to the Gallery Place * Chinatown stop and exit onto the corner of 7th and H Streets NW, and walk two blocks north to Mt. Vernon Square.  The City Museum is located at 800 K Street NW.

·        October 14, Thursday, National Archives Building, the Jefferson Room, Lecture: 10:00 am to 11:00 a.m.

At 10:00 a.m. in the Jefferson Room of the National Archives Building there will be a lecture entitled "Researching The Baseball Business:  Pursuing Pennants and Profits in Baltimore," with James Edward Miller, author.  Miller, the author of "The Baseball Business: Pursuing Pennants and Profits in Baltimore" (1991, Univ. of North Carolina Press), will speak about his book and his experience researching the Orioles and their fortunes in the modern baseball industry.  As reviewed by Publishers Weekly: "The thrust of our national pastime as a business rather than merely a sport has intensified since the end of World War II, particularly during the last two decades. In this instructive study, Miller looks at the marketing and economics of baseball, focusing on the Orioles of Baltimore. He examines the decline of the team's farm system, caused in part by the spread of television coverage of major league games; by the move of white city-dwellers to the suburbs with the concomitant!
failure of baseball to attract inner-city blacks to the ballpark; and especially by the increased power of the players as the reserve clause was ended and free agency began. The down-and-up fortunes of the Orioles make for a rich story and a profitable read."

Directions: Take the Metro Green or Yellow Lines to the National Archives * Navy Memorial stop and exit onto the Memorial Plaza. Walk one block south to Constitution Avenue, NW, to the National Archives Building entrance.

The National Archives Assembly is an organization of present and former National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) employees who support the development of NARA as the leading archival institution in the world. The Assembly provides a forum for employee communication on NARA policies and programs and also serves to convey its members' views to the Archivist of the United States.  To that end and in support of its educational mission, the Assembly takes an active role each year working with the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference Washington, DC, Caucus in planning Archives Week events.

For further information about Archives Week and the local events, please contact Jennie Guilbaud at (301) 837-1777 or via electronic mail at [log in to unmask]

THEODORE J. HULL
President
National Archives Assembly

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