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CALL FOR PAPERS and SYMPOSIUM ANNOUNCEMENT 
 
CONF: National Archives Symposium - Looking Backward, Looking Forward 
 
The Society for History in the Federal Government and the National 
Archives Assembly are pleased to announce joint sponsorship of a 
symposium: 
 
Looking Backward, Looking Forward 
 
April 3 - 4, 1997 
National Archives and Records Administration 
College Park, Maryland 
 
Nineteen ninety-seven is the fiftieth anniversary of what many consider to 
be the beginning of the Cold War.  Therefore, a major theme of the 
symposium will be the passage of the National Security Act, which created 
new agencies and procedures having enormous impact upon the Federal 
Government.  Suggested topics include the establishment of these and other 
federal agencies at the time. 
 
In addition, SHFG and the Assembly invite discussion of possible 
directions and problems of historical research in the next fifty years, as 
historians and archivists, long accustomed to simple retrieval of records 
from paper and micro graphics systems, will be faced with complex 
technological issues in preserving and using records stored in a variety 
of electronic formats and systems. 
 
The program committee also welcomes papers and sessions on other areas of 
federal history. 
 
Submit proposals with short vitae of participants by January 1, 1997, to 
either program committee co-chair: 
 
                      James G. Cassedy 
  National Archives and Records Administration 
  Center for Electronic Records 
  8601 Adelphi Road 
  College Park, MD  20740-6001 
  ph:  301-713-6630, ext.  237 
  fax:  301-713-6911 
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  Dr. Rebecca H. Cameron 
  Air Force History Office 
  170 Luke Avenue, Suite 405 
  Bolling AFB 
  Washington, D.C.  20332-8050 
   ph: 202-767-5088, ext.  224 
   fax:  202-767-5527 
 
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