USA Archives News
Archives partners with Junior League of Mobile
Several months ago the Junior League of Mobile
approached the Archives about donating its records. The two organizations then partnered
to apply for a grant from the Bedsole Foundation for funds to purchase archival supplies
to re-house and organize the Junior League's papers. We should receive word on the success
of the grant by the middle of December. The official donation of the records is pending
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Archives completes
requirements for NHPRC/HRAB grant
On April 6, 2009, the National Historic Publications and Records
Commission, through the Alabama state Historical Records Advisory Board, awarded the
Archives a $2,500 grant. The grant was applied toward supplies to re-house and organize
the Wilson C. Burton photographic collection. The monies arrived and beginning this past
summer, graduate students began working on the collection. To date, 80 percent of the
collection has been re-housed, or an estimate 72,000 negatives. For more on the
collection, please see our guide to photographic collections.
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Archives announces change to scan policy
Effective October 1, 2009, the Archives instituted a new policy
for scans. Scans for for personal use, for computer monitor viewing, or for a web site
viewing are limited to 72 to 96 dots per inch (dpi). Those for inclusion in powerpoint
presentations will not be scanned any higher than 300 dpi. Only scans for commerical
publication or special projects (with the prior approval of the archivist) will be
reproduced at a dpi higher than 300 .jpg.
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