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  • strengthen relations with others in allied disciplines and with organizations and institutions having mutual interests in the preservation and use of our recorded heritage.

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SSA established the Community Outreach Fund in 2015 to support outreach events or programs that promote archives to the general public. SSA has set aside $1,000 per year to support such endeavors.
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The Society of Southwest Archivists and the Society of American Archivists created the SSA-SAA Emergency Disaster Assistance Grant Fund—a fund established to address the stabilization and recovery needs of archival repositories that are directly affected by natural disasters.

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Today in the Archivist’s Daybook

October 20, 2020

  • Home Movie Day

    October 20, 2020

    Home Movie Day. For cultural institutions collecting regional materials, this event presents an excellent opportunity to reach out to the holders of vulnerable family films, to offer them preservation advice and assistance, to make your repository known as a potential home for their materials, and to showcase the home movies already in your collections.
    http://www.homemovieday.com