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Saving Historically Significant Records for the City of Austin. Susan K. Soy. What is the Austin History Center?. City of Austin, Austin Public Library Official repository for the City Photographic images, oral histories, city reports and documents, video tape, cemetery ledgers, and more!. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Saving Historically Significant Records for the City of Austin
Susan K. Soy
April 26, 2004 Susan K. Soy ahc_reference@ci.austin.tx.us
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What is the Austin History Center? City of Austin, Austin Public Library Official repository for the City Photographic images, oral histories, city
reports and documents, video tape, cemetery ledgers, and more!
April 26, 2004 Susan K. Soy ahc_reference@ci.austin.tx.us
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Credibility and trustworthiness
Security of the archives Integrity of the archives
April 26, 2004 Susan K. Soy ahc_reference@ci.austin.tx.us
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Significance of the archives
History is happening every day We are part of history What we determine to keep and the
care given to keeping it is a deliberate choice that determines future interpretations of society
April 26, 2004 Susan K. Soy ahc_reference@ci.austin.tx.us
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http://www.cityofaustin.org/ library/ahc
Click to view the video
April 26, 2004 Susan K. Soy ahc_reference@ci.austin.tx.us
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Downtown location
810 Guadalupe Street Next to the Central Library Building512-974-7480Ahc_reference@ci.austin.tx.us
April 26, 2004 Susan K. Soy ahc_reference@ci.austin.tx.us
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Archival appraisal
The process of determining the value and thus the disposition of records based upon their current administrative, legal, and fiscal use; their evidential and informational value; their arrangement and condition, their enduring value,and their relationship to other records
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City staff performs critical first step Systematic record keeping Documentation strategies (Samuels)
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Goals
Avoid wholesale destruction Recognize when to consult with the
archivist Add to the community’s collective
memory
April 26, 2004 Susan K. Soy ahc_reference@ci.austin.tx.us
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Historical significance
– Unique and unavailable elsewhere– Documents a side of a controversial issue– Is legible– Documents the early years of Austin’s
history– Pertains to a unique event in our
community– Is an official publication for the City of
Austin
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Historical significance
Biographical information about officials, staff, local celebrities
Topic that is under documented at the AHC
Map that indicates boundaries - precincts, city, school districts, watersheds
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How do we find this material?
Employees alert us Customers alert us
Pre-1910 Congress & 6th Street
[PICA 19984, Austin History Center, Austin Public Library]
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Examples
– APD - Whitman Papers– PARD - Cemetery ledgers– Health and Human Services - Vital
Records– Families - Pease Family Papers; McCallum
Family Papers– Individuals - Poster artists
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Care of materials
Call with questions People Light Dust Pests Temperature Control
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Discussion
We are everything
Austin, Texas
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Staff
Photo Curator -- Margaret Schlankey
4-7386 Video -- Tim Hamblin 4-7305 Print -- Virginia Kniesner 4-7346 Maps -- Eric Travis 4-7392 Sue Soy -- Archivist 4-7388
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Thanks to you
We will preserve our city’s history
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