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<p class=MsoNormal>Hello everyone,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/babbage">http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/babbage</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>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.” <a
href="http://www.tomandmaria.com/tom/Writing/ACMHistorySources.pdf">http://www.tomandmaria.com/tom/Writing/ACMHistorySources.pdf</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Tom<o:p></o:p></p>
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