Often, when I'm looking for good material for a blog post, I looked to see what materials the Tufts Digital Library has regarding current events. Today, I decided to look for materials about Iran. Of course, I forgot to bargain with the Fletcher School. Because of the Fletcher School and all the great materials they've given us on international politics, the Tufts Digital Library has loads of documents that discuss Iran, and my search was overwhelmed by the plethora of good materials and, to be honest, the unfocused nature of my search.

So I turned my attention instead to something which is on the minds of all Greater Boston folks these days:

The Medford, Boston, and Grafton campuses of Tufts are spending a lot of time damp this summer. I suppose it's good practice for later this month, when the staff of the DCA will get some disaster recovery training in how to rescue materials which have suffered from water damage, like this picture of Edward R. Murrow.

The Secretary of State Office, the Massachusetts Archives, and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission is pleased to announce that the Massachusetts State Historical Records Advisory Board (MSHRAB) has been reactivated.

A State Historical Records Advisory Board (SHRAB) is appointed in each state and consists of at least seven members, including the State Historical Records Coordinator. The SHRAB serves as the central advisory body for historical records planning and for Commission-funded projects developed and carried out within the state, as a coordinating body to facilitate cooperation among historical records repositories and other information agencies within the state, and as a state-level review body for proposals as defined in the Commission's grant program guidelines.

The MSHRAB webpage is still in the process of being updated, but for your reference, the following is a list of current Board members:
John (Jack) Warner, State Archives;
Elizabeth Bouvier, Supreme Judicial Court Archives;
Lori Foley, NEDCC;
William Fowler, Northeastern professor;
Joan Krizack, Northeastern Archives;
Diane LeBlanc, NARA;
Kaari Mai Tari, Westford Town Clerk;
Veronica Martzahl, Tufts DCA;
Megan Sniffin-Marinoff, Harvard Archives;
Gregor Trinkaus-Randall, Mass Board of Library Commissioners;
Shawn Williams, Secretary of State Office