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Re: (erielack) ELHS Board of Directors Statement and Selection Critira for New Archives Location

This thread is getting very interesting, I think I'll just sit back and 
watch how it goes. :-0

Fred Stratton
MP. 7.2 NS Asheville line
Salisbury, NC


>From: Charles_Walsh_@_Berlex.com
>Reply-To: "EL Mail List" <erielack_@_lists.elhts.org>
>To: "EL Mail List" <erielack_@_lists.elhts.org>
>Subject: Re: (erielack) ELHS Board of Directors Statement and Selection 
>Critira for New Archives  Location
>Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 10:01:13 -0500
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>Dear Paul and List,
>
>All due respect to yourself, since you're the messenger, but the message
>below gives me the sense of a Decree from Mt. Olympus (perhaps minus the
>rays of sun poking through the clouds and the voice of Mighty Zeus reading
>the Proclamation).  All kidding aside, I don't buy the argument that the
>Directors are in some way prohibited from discussing the issue of the ELHS
>Collection in this or any other forum in the oft chance that non-ELHS
>members may see, or even worse, comment on what the Directors say.
>(Horrors!)  Personally, as a member of this organization I want to hear
>what each individual Director has to say, not some sterile and
>carefully-worded distillation of the Board's "thinking" on the subject.  In
>all fairness, I don't disagree with much of what is in the statement,
>although the zinger is--and the message that comes through crystal
>clear--is that the Board (not necessarily the members) wants control,
>control--and control--of the Collection.  Why?  (And I've read the "why" in
>the statement, but I still ask...WHY?)
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>If that question gets answered (or at least explained) by the individual
>board members, I'll be satisfied.  But not until then.
>
>Chuck
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>              "Paul Cappelloni"
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>The following statement will be posted to the ELHS website
>http://www.erielack.org <http://www.erielack.org/>   under the News and
>Events section within the next few days.  This is also been posted to the
>ELHS Members Yahoo Group.
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>The Archives Steering Committee and the Board of Directors of the Erie
>Lackawanna Historical Society are working to move the Society's archives to
>a location that meets all of the Society's criteria.  Those criteria, and
>the reasons behind them, are:
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>  1) The facility must offer full-time professional staffing, adequate 
>space
>for the collection, and modern climate and fire-control systems at a cost
>that is affordable. A professional archives facility offers the best
>opportunity for access to the collection by our members, for work by our
>curator, for conversion to electronic media, and for protection to our
>collection from loss or damage.
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>2) The Society must maintain control over the collection. If the Society
>loses ownership of the collection, it cannot assure access to the
>collection
>for members or the public, cannot set pricing on reproductions, does not
>get
>the revenue from reproductions, cannot control what is kept in the
>collection or disposed of, and if the institution gets into financial
>trouble as a governmental entity (which all of our candidate locations
>are),
>it can warehouse the collection with ELHS having no say in the matter.
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>3) The location should be in a community on or near the route of the Erie
>Lackawanna and the staff of the candidate location must have a demonstrated
>interest in having this collection added to existing, relevant collections.
>This criterion helps make the collection relevant to the institution
>housing
>it, giving it an added incentive to be interested and involved with the
>Society's collection and not "just a warehouse" for it.
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>4) The facility should be no farther west than it is now at Akron, and
>inland from the extreme eastern end of the railroad. This eases access
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>for members.  These are the same criteria that were used when The
>University
>of Akron was selected as the location for the archives.
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>Cleveland State University, Youngstown State University, and Steamtown
>National Historic Site are among the locations that are under
>consideration.
>Each institution has significant advantages and at least one significant
>disadvantage which will weigh in the decision process.  In addition, there
>are changes underway at the University of Akron that have opened the remote
>possibility that the collection could remain at that institution under an
>improved relationship.  Other potentially-viable locations have been
>eliminated because they completely fail to meet one or more of the above
>four criteria; however, members are welcome to propose other locations,
>provided they do meet the Society's criteria.  Candidates for consideration
>should be sent, with contact information, to Archives Steering Committee
>chair Larry DeYoung at larry.deyoung_@_verizon.net.
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>We welcome the interest and participation of our members, but the ELHS can
>not and typically does not conduct its business on open email lists that
>include non-members. Information is conveyed to the membership in the ELHS
>quarterly newsletter, The Extra Board.  Additional announcements and
>information can be found on the website referenced above and/or the ELHS
>Members Yahoo Group. The ELHS Board of Directors meets twice a year, once
>at
>the Eastern Spring Meeting and once at the Annual Convention. These
>meetings
>are open to the membership.  The next opportunity to attend a board meeting
>will be April 1, 2007, at 10:00 AM  at the Parsippany, N.J., Holiday Inn,
>immediately preceding the 2007 Eastern Spring Meeting.
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>Paul Cappelloni
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>President, ELHS
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>pcap.bprr_@_verizon.net
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