Collaborative
Universities:


Auburn University
http://www.cla.auburn.edu/history


Indiana University
http://www.slis.indiana.edu


Louisiana State University
http://slis.lsu.edu


Middle Tennessee
State University
http://www.mtsu.edu/~pubhist


University of Kentucky
http://www.uky.edu/CIS/SLIS
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Letter of Agreement

THIS AGREEMENT is entered into by and among
  • the History Department at Auburn University, 310 Thach Hall, Auburn, Alabama 36849
  • the School of Library and Information Science, 1320 E. 10th St., LI 011, Bloomington, IN 47405-3907
  • the School of Library and Information Science at Louisiana State University, 267 Coates Hall, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803
  • the Public History Program in the Department of History at Middle Tennessee State University, MTSU Box 23, Murfreesboro, TN 37132
  • the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Kentucky, 502 Margaret I. King Library, Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0039

WHEREAS, the Institute for Museum and Library Services funded Award Number LG-01-02-0078-02, an experimental program known as the Southeast Archives Education Collaborative (SAEC) which shares faculty and students among the participating instructions, and

WHEREAS, the SAEC seeks to fill a void in the archival education in the region by offering students in participating institutions a broad range of archival courses through collaboration and distance education technology, and

WHEREAS, approximately eighty students successfully completed the six classes offered through the experiment between September 2003 and December 2004, with another 38 enrolled during the spring semester 2005, and

WHEREAS, student evaluations have consistently affirmed the value of the experiment, and

WHEREAS, faculty and administrative assessments have consistently affirmed that the SAEC courses have significantly broadened the range of courses in archival studies available to the region’s students, and

WHEREAS, experiment has shown that courses can be offered successfully under the principles of reciprocity.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that we continue the SAEC as an ongoing partnership among the institutions after the grant has ended.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the partner institutions will follow policies/procedures of the SAEC as defined in the SAEC Guiding Principles which they will review annually.

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that the undersigned agree that it is our intent to participate in the SAEC under the terms and conditions of the SAEC Guiding Principles.
“ . . . what do I profess as an archivist? Most simply put: that what we archivists do is essential to the well-being of an enlightened and democratic society
. . .The archival record is a bastion of a just society . . . The archival record assures our rights – as individuals and collectively – to our ownership of our history.
As archivists who maintain the integrity of the historical record, we guard our collective past from becoming the mere creation of “official history.”

—John A. Fleckner, Chief Archivist, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution