[SIGCIS-Members] ACM archives going to CBI

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Dear Tom:

I believe you refer to the Charles Babbage Institute, since I am unaware of 
any Charles Babbage Association.

On Jul 19 2008, Thomas Haigh wrote:

>Hello everyone,
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> The ACM has announced that its archives will be going to the Charles 
> Babbage Association. That's a great development for anyone wanting to 
> write the history of professional identity in computing or the 
> institutional development of computer science. I'd heard this informally 
> some time ago, but I now see that an official press release went out a 
> couple of months ago.
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>http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/babbage
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> I remember from the early days of the ACM History Committee back in 2004 
> that the historians on the panel were very much pushing this as by far 
> the most useful thing the association could do to further historical 
> work. I tried to explain the importance of archives in my own 2007 
> Communications of the ACM article "Sources for ACM History." 
> http://www.tomandmaria.com/tom/Writing/ACMHistorySources.pdf
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>I imagine the papers will take some time to catalog but it might not be too
>soon to start thinking about their potential for future research projects.
>I'm sure the CBI staff will let us know when they are ready for use.
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>Tom
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Bob Seidel
History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
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