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2000

One major project that draws to a close in 2000 is The Papers of Andrew Johnson, which published its 16th and final volume some 44 years after it began; Johnson was vice president to President Lincoln and when Abe was assassinated became the 17th president--he was impeached but not convicted and sought vindication through his return to the United States Senate (GM)

Archives New Zealand (the national archives of NZ) established as a separate public service department. previously it had been part of the Department of Internal Affairs. (JR)

The ICA Journal Archivum ceases publication and is replaced by Comma: International Journal on Archives (AW)

2001

Congress passes and President Clinton signs P.L. 106-411, which authorizes the NHPRC to receive federal appropriations up to $10 million per year through FY 2005; appropriations for FY 2001 are $6.45 million, later reduced by .22 percent across-the-board rescission to all federal agencies. (GM)

Two publishing milestones occur when a new edition of the Thomas A. Edison Papers go online and selections from the papers of Frederick Douglass, Dwight Eisenhower, Marcus Garvey, Joseph Henry, and George C. Marshall enter cyberspace through the Model Editions Partnership (MEP) website. (GM)

President George W. Bush signs the USA PATRIOT ACT. (RJ)

The journal Archival Science founded with Elizabeth Yakel of Michigan as one of its first editors (from vol. 3). (RJ)

November 1: President George W. Bush signed Executive Order 13233--Further Implementation of the Presidential Records Act, overriding the Act's requirement that unclassified records be made accessible to the public no later than 12 years following completion of the administration. It permitted previous presidents, the incumbent, their families (and added the vice president) to withhold such records and empowered the incumbent to withhold access to a previous president's records even if the latter agrees to their release. (RB)

The European Commission publishes MoReq, the Model Requirements for the Management of Electronic Records. This is rapidly adopted as a de facto standard defining the functionality of electronic records management systems across much of the European Union. It also influences the development of the comparable US standard first pubslished in 1997, US DOD 5015.2 (see above). (MMF)

2002

Scottish Council on Archives founded.

Dr. Elizabeth Dow of Louisiana State University leads the formation of a ground breaking archival education collaborative, the Southeast Archives Educational Collaborative. The SAEC utilizes cutting edge videoconference technology that virtually links multiple campuses and transforms archival education. (JT)

The Mills Archive is set up in Reading, UK to protect and make available to the public records of tradtional windmills and watermills and related technology including muscle power. By 2007 it has attracted 1.5 million documents and images. (RFC)

2003

April 29 - Eric Ketelaar, Professor of Archivistics at the University of Amsterdam, was recognized by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands as an Officer of the Order of Oranje-Nassau. Ketellar was recognized for "his accomplishments as an inspiring educator and as an eminent scholar and legal expert in the field of archives, both in The Netherlands and abroad."

April 14 - military forces of the United States of America refused to intervene when mobs looted and burned the Iraqi National Library and Archives in broad daylight.

The New York State Archives are awarded NHPRC funds for a re-grant program focusing on the impact of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and for underdocumented groups, topics,and activities throughout that state. (GM)

In celebration of the 200th anniversary of the beginning of the grand passage west, The Journals of Lewis & Clark are completed in 11 volumes and published by the University of Nebraska Press. the Lewis and Clark expedition began in late August 1803 and continued to September 2006. (GM)

Journal of Archival Organization founded with Thomas J. Frusciano of Rutgers as first editor. (RJ)

Chapter 97 of the New Hampshire Laws of 2003 changed the name of the "Division of Records Management & Archives" to the "Division of Archives & Records Management." (BNB)

2004

For the first time in its history, the NHPRC receives appropriations totaling $10 million, but that figure drops a little bit through rescission (GM)

Describing Archives: A Content Standard is published. (AL)

The first Masters degrees in Archives and Records Management in the UK to be fully delivered by online distance learning are launched by the University of Dundee. (AB)

2005

Kathleen D. Roe writes Arranging & Describing Archives & Manuscripts. (AL)

Aug 24 - the Cambodian Parliament passed the country's first Archives Law.

New Zealand Public Records Act 2005 passed into law. (JR)

2006

May 16: Agreement was reached by the 11-nation International Commission governing the International Tracing Service archives, Bad Arolsen, Germany, including 50 million Holocaust-era files in 16 miles of shelves, to open access to the archives to Holocaust victims, their families and historians. The U.S lobbied for years to open the archive. Germany and Italy resisted, citing privacy reasons. Opening of the archives is subject to ratification by the commission countries. (RB)

Chapter 275 of the New Hampshire Laws of 2006 inserted the word "integrity" in the mandate for the Division of Archives and Records Management, now requiring for the first time that "a program for the efficient and economical management of state and local records will promote economy, efficiency, AND INTEGRITY in the day-to-day records-keeping operations." (emphasis added, BNB)

2007

Prompted by the DLM Forum (the Document Lifecycle Forum, a community of Public Archives and interested parties in archive, records and document and information lifecycle management throughout the European Union), the European Commission initiates the development of MoReq2 (see MoReq, 2001, above). (MMF)

2008

Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Heritage Archives Roundtable chartered at the February meeting of the Society of American Archivists Council. (RDJ)

3 April - the San Antonio Regional Archivists was reorganized, Bylaws adopted, and officers elected at the first annual meeting, held at the San Antonio Express-News.

April - The University of South Alabama Archives, located in Mobile, Alabama, celebrated its 30th anniversary with a gala event that included the president of the university, former student assistants, major donors, and friends of the Archives. (CE)

June Julie McLeod made the UK's first professor in records management at the University of Northumbria

July - Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Government records became open to the public for access on 1 July 2008 for the first time and Archives ACT was launched on the same date. (WF)

August - San Jose State University's School of Library and Information Science begins the USA's first fully online Master of Archives and Records Administration (MARA) degree, a master's degree focused specifically on archives and recordkeeping.(LL)

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