| | 1 | Author: | University of Virginia
Library | Add | | | Title: | Seventh Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1936-37  | | | | Published: | 2005 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IT HAS been the practice in previous reports of this series to relate
archival developments at the University of Virginia and in the Commonwealth
to those in other states and in the nation at large, in order
to keep abreast with the national movement in this field of scholarship.
Events of the past year point to a new era in the science of archives in
the United States, to large-scale co-operation in providing guides to archives
and manuscript collections of all kinds, and to a journal for discussion
of problems and policies. In the care and administration of
their archives some states can boast of notable accomplishments reaching
back several generations; others have undertaken their responsibility
during the present century; and all have had the opportunity of seeking
the counsel of the Public Archives Commission of the American Historical
Association.1
1.Cf. American Historical Association, Annual Report for 1922 (Washington,
1926), I, pages 152-60.
It was the pioneering of this Commission that led
to the founding of the Society of American Archivists during the meeting
of the American Historical Association at Providence, R. I., December
29, 1936; and it is also significant that the first annual meeting of the
new society, June 18-19, 1937, was held in the National Archives Building,
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