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,

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.

http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/babbage

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

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.

Tom

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