The Charles Babbage Institute is extremely pleased to announce that the new Project Archivist for the records of the Association for Computing Machinery started work on Monday, Sept. 29. Loralee J. Bloom ("Lora") has many years of experience in archives and libraries, including ten years with the Minnesota Historical Society as the Archivist for the records of the 3M Corporation. Lora will be with CBI for nine months, working solely on processing the ACM records, in a position generously funded by the ACM. Materials selected for inclusion in the collection to be held at CBI were identified in two different projects. First, in 2005 then-CBI Archivist Elisabeth Kaplan and then-Assistant Archivist Carrie Seib travelled to the ACM offices in New York to assess currently held materials and make recommendations for long-term retention and preservation. This past summer current CBI Archivist R. Arvid Nelsen went to the new ACM offices to identify the locations of materials previously recommended as well as to consult with various department heads and examine additional materials to be retained. About half of the materials identified for housing at CBI have now arrived at our offices in the Elmer L. Andersen Library on the West Bank of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Materials include (but are not necessarily limited to) minutes, reports, correspondence, and publications from originating units such as Publications, Member Services, the Executive Director's Office, Administration, SIG Services, Marketing, and Policies & Procedures. Further information will be available as collection processing is completed. In addition to a completed online finding aid, the project will also include the creation of a web page on the history of ACM. A physical exhibit and celebration to promote the completed project will be announced later. If you have any questions in the meantime, please direct them to CBI Archivist, R. Arvid Nelsen at nels0307@umn.edu. Thank you R. Arvid Nelsen, Archivist Charles Babbage Institute 211 Elmer L. Andersen Library 222 - 21st Avenue South University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 Office: 612-625-4867 Fax: 612-625-8054 http://www.cbi.umn.edu/ NOTA BENE! Check out the new CBI Blog with Instant Messaging at: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/horow021/cbi/