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1950

Sep 5 - President Harry Truman signs the Federal Records Act. (RJ)

US National Records Management Council publishes the first Guide to Federal Records Retention - USA (AAA)

1951

Archivum, the journal of the International Council on Archives begins publication. (AW)

Nebraska State Historical Society begins microfilming newspapers and manuscripts. (TMM)

1953

The Borthwick Institute of Historical Research founded in York, UK.

Archives Department established within the NSW State Library's Mitchell Library (Australia). (AW)

1954

National Library and Archives of Egypt founded. (RJ)

Commonwealth Archives Division (Australia) establishes Adelaide regional office. (AW)

TR Schellenberg, Director of Archival Management at the US National Archives, spends 6 months in Australia on a Fulbright Scholarship. (AW)

1955

ARMA International established

Brisbane regional office of the Commonwealth Archives Division (Australia) established. (AW)

The Austin - Travis County Collection (Austin, Texas) is established by the Austin Public Library and eventually grows to become the Austin History Center, Austin, Texas (SS)

Archives and Manuscripts, the Australian archival journal, begins publication. (AW)

1956

Naremco Services Inc. - USA - founded by Robert Shiff - successor to National Records Management Council (AAA)

Theodore R. Schellenberg publishes Modern Archives: Principles and Techniques (JT)

August 7 - "Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict" went into force.

Louisiana State Archives founded by State Archives and Records Act. (RJ)

Separate Archives Department created within the State Library of Victoria (Australia). (AW)

1957

Archives Act passed into law in New Zealand, establishing in law the National Archives of New Zealand as part of the Department of Internal Affairs. (JR)

Perth regional office of the Commonwealth Archives Division established in Western Australia. (AW)

1958

Michigan Archival Association founded. (RJ)

1959

Archivist appointed to the Queensland State Library. (AW)

Archival School at the National University of Cordoba, Argentina was founded. (AS)

1961

Australian National Library Act separates out the Archives Division as the Commonwealth Archives Office within the Prime Minister's Department. (AW)

Chapter 266 of the Laws of New Hampshire of 1961 created the Records Management Division within the Department of Administrative Control [later known as Administrative Services]. Funding was also provided for the building of a new building to house both the Archives and the Records Center (about 19,00 cubic feet of records). (BNB)

The Mitchell Library's Archives Division given independent existence as the Archives Authority of New South Wales. (AW)

1962

The Inter-Departmental Committee on Commonwealth Archives established to review the basis for existing archives policy in Australia and to make recommendations to the Prime Minister. (AW)

1963

The New Hampshire State Archives Building opens housing both the State Archives and the Records Center. The first Director of the Division of Records Management and Archives, Edwin H. Hunt, is hired. (BNB)

Peter Scott joins the Commonwealth Archives Office (Australia). (AW)

1964

System of archival control based on the series rather than the record group introduced into the Commonwealth Archives Office (Australia). (AW)

July 28 - Public Law 88-383 launches the NHPC grant program; $350,000 appropriated to fulfill goals. (GM)

The Inter-Departmental Committee on Commonwealth Archives makes its final report to the Prime Minister, Robert Menzies. (AW)

1965

Society of Archivists (UK) begins publication of the Journal of the Society of Archivists. (RJ)

1966

Peter Scott publishes, "The Record Group Concept: A Case for Abandonment", the first of his seminal articles on the Australian 'series system', in the October volume of American Archivist. (AW)

NHPC gives project support to The Expeditions of John Charles Fremont, a study of the explorer and the Republican Party's first presidential candidate, in 1856. (GM)

1967

Society of Austrian Archivists founded. (HB)

1968

Society of Ohio Archivists founded

1969

Society of Georgia Archivists founded. (RJ)

The National Archives and Records Service (NARS) (now NARA) begins publication of Prologue: The Journal of the National Archives. (RJ)

The Records Management Association of Australasia (RMAA) founded. (KW)

1970

Irish Society for Archives founded. (KM)

NHPC publishes a three-volume edition of The Papers of George Mason, Revolutionary War Patriot. (GM)

Aurelian Sacerdoteanu published Archivistica, the first Romania manual for archival science. (BFP)

1971

Society of Southwest Archivists founded. (RJ)

January Jean Favier Les archives(translation by Nobuyuki Nagao) was published in Japan (DJI)

Society of California Archivists founded. (RJ)

The Society of American Archivists starts sections for narrowed interest in archives. The first section on record is the Business Archives Section, founded this year. (RJ)

December - Romania adopted the Decree 472 on the National Archival Fond. (BFP)

1972

Midwest Archives Conference (MAC) founded

Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) founded. (RJ)

Publication of Georgia Archive (now Provenance) begins as the first publication of a peer-reviewed archives journal by a state or regional association. (RJ)

February - Oliver Wendell Holmes retires after 36 years in public service, including more than 10 as Executive Director of the NHPRC. (GM)

Ernst Posner's book Archives in the Ancient World is published. (DD)

1973

W Kaye Lamb, former Dominion Archivist of Canada, begins review of the Commonwealth Archives Office (Australia). (AW)

Commonwealth Archives Office (Australia) opens a regional office at Darwin, in the Northern Territory. (AW)

Victorian Public Records Act establishes the Public Records Office as an independent body within the Chief Secretary's Department (Australia). (AW)

1974

December 22 - Congress redesignates the National Historical Publications Commission as the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). (GM)

The Lamb Report on the Commonwealth Archives Office, Development of the National Archives, published.

As a consequence of the Lamb Report, the Commonwealth Archives Office is renamed Australian Archives. (AW)

Australian Archives establishes Tasmanian regional office in Hobart. (AW)

March - First meeting of the Japan Society of Archives Institutions in Saitama Prefectural Archives, Japan.(DJI)

1975

Institute of Certified Records Managers founded.(AAA)

Bureau of Canadian Archivists holds its first meeting. (RJ)

Hofstra University Board of Trustees decides in its Feb. 19th meeting that what is needed is an Archivist to keep the official record of the University. In 1977 the announcement of the opening of the University Archives is made by the Provost.(GS)

Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) established at a meeting held in Canberra, at the Australian National University. (AW)

Professor Robert Neale becomes first Director of the Australian Archives (in office until 1984). (AW)

1976

The Center for Dubuque History was established at Loras College as the largest regional repository in the Tri-State area.(MG)

Louisiana Archives & Manuscript Association founded. (RJ)

1977

David Gracy II writes Archives and Manuscripts: Arrangement & Description. (AL)

Archives of the Catholic Diocese of Nashville founded. (DD2)

SAA grows to the point that it needs an executive director to run the routine business of the association. The Council appoints Ann Morgan Campbell as the first executive director. (RJ)

Northwest Archivists, Inc. founded. (BKJ)

1978

Bhaktivedanta Archives founded in Los Angeles, CA, USA

Portland, Oregon is awarded a grant for the first year of a three-year project to develop model urban archives programs; central records of Portland's government appear to have been retained since the first council meeting in 1851. (GM)

Archives Bill introduced into the Australian Senate in June. (AW)

Kansas City Area Archivists (KCAA) formed. (EHD)

The University of South Alabama Archives formed. (CE)

1979

Society of Colorado Archivists formed (in 1992 merged with Wyoming archivists to form the Society of Rocky Mountain Archivists). (RJ)

NHPRC begins to respond to scholars' interests in women's history, African American history, Native American history, and new kinds of social, scientific, and cultural history (GM)

Chapter 256 of the New Hampshire Laws of 1979 moved the Division of Records Management & Archives from the Department of Administrative Services to the Department of State. Additionally, the statute also provided for the Division to be administered by the newly created position of State Archivist. Frank C. Mevers was hired as the first State Archivist. (BNB)

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