Notes and Queries
The Archives-Library Division of The
Ohio Historical Society is pleased to
announce the opening of the Michael
DiSalle Papers to the public. DiSalle
was governor of Ohio from 1959 to 1963.
The collection contains 391 boxes of
material covering, in part, DiSalle's
years as governor; the national elections
of 1960, 1964, and 1968; the Ohio
gubernatorial elections of 1956, 1958, and
1962; as well as material dealing with
DiSalle's early career as a member of
the Ohio House of Representatives, and
Director of Price Stabilization from
1950 to 1952. A more complete inventory
is available in the Society's library.
The Society of American Archivists has
begun a comprehensive archival
security program. Major facets of the
project will be supported by a $99,690
grant from the National Endowment for
the Humanities. Ann Morgan
Campbell, Executive Director of the SAA,
will direct the project and Timothy
G. Walch has joined the Society's
Chicago staff as associate director of the
program. He will assume primary
responsibility for implementation of various
phases of the work plan. Kathryn M.
Nelson will be program assistant for the
project.
The staff is now involved in a
large-scale investigation of the nature and
extent of the archival security problem
and of possible solutions. Legal and
technical experts, manuscript dealers,
as well as archivists and manuscript
curators, will be consulted.
The agenda for the program is as
follows. A registry of missing manuscripts
will be established by spring 1976. A
format will be devised within the next
few months and solicitation of listings
will begin by the end of this year. A
special section of the SAA Newsletter
will be devoted to security develop-
ments. Eventually, distribution of
security news will be broadened to include
non-member, interested parties. By fall
1976, a consultant service will make
competent experts available to archival
institutions to advise them in the
areas of security systems, internal
archival procedures, legal problems, and
other aspects of archival security. The
project will culminate in 1977 with the
publication of an archival security
manual.
For further information please write to
the Associate Director, SAA Archival
Security Program, Society of American
Archivists, Box 8198, University of
Illinois, Chicago Circle, Chicago,
Illinois 60680.
The Berkshire Conference of Women
Historians is pleased to announce the
award of its annual prizes for the best
article and book published by a wo-
man. The prize for the best article was
awarded to Mary Martin McLaughlin
for her "Survivers and Surregates:
Children and Parents from the Ninth to
the Thirteenth Centuries," in the History
of Childhood, edited by Lloyd de
Mause. This year two book awards were
given, one to Kathryn Kish Skier for
her Catherine Beecher: A Study in
American Domesticity (Yale University
Press), the other to Lois Green
Schwoerer for No Standing Armies! (Johns
Hopkins Press).
The next prize will be awarded in June,
1976, for a book and article pub-
lished in 1975 by a woman historian.
Submit two copies of all entries to Gab.