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 Title:  Eleventh annual report on historical collections, University of Virginia Library, for the year 1940-41  
 Published:  2006 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: IN June 1940, when the disastrous Battle of France was running its course and invasion of Britain was impending, the President of the United States declared that a national emergency existed and Congress at his request voted large appropriations to launch a program of defense. A larger segment of the American people began to take the war seriously and some leaders in various fields of activity undertook to make preparations for any eventuality. Archivists and custodians of historical manuscripts were particularly fortunate in having the problem of preparedness brought to their attention by the president of the Society of American Archivists, Dr. Waldo G. Leland, at their fourth annual meeting held in Montgomery, Alabama, November 11-12. Dr. Leland spoke from long experience with archival problems at home and abroad and from his service as secretary of the National Board for Historical Service in Washington, D. C., during American participation in the first World War.1 1.Waldo G. Leland, "The National Board for Historical Service," American Historical Association, Annual Report for 1919 (3 vols., Washington, 1923-24), I, 161-89. In his presidential address on "The Archivist in Times of Emergency,"2 2.The American Archivist, IV, no. 1 (Jan. 1941), 1-12. he discussed the custodian's responsibility for the safety of the records in his establishment and for the preservation of materials produced during the emergency and basic for subsequent historical writing. As a result of certain specific suggestions made by Dr. Leland to the Society, four committees were appointed: one on the Protection of Archives against Hazards of War, another on Emergency Transfer and Storage of Archives, a third on the History and Organization of Government Emergency Agencies, and a fourth on Collection and Preservation of Materials for the History of Emergencies. These committees went to work promptly at their respective tasks, the first two conferring with the Historical Records Survey to obtain WPA labor for a survey of available depositories. The third committee began plans for the compilation of a handbook of federal World War agencies, including their organization, activities, and records, and requested the cooperation of the National Archives, where most of these records are housed.3 3.Ibid., IV, no. 3 (July 1941), 210.
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