[Dialogue] EI and ICA Global Archives - Thoughts

[R Williams]

Who do I contact to get the Golden CD?

Beret Griffith <beretgriffith at charter.net> wrote:  Colleagues,

Since much of the work documented in the Global Archives includes international work, perhaps the Global Archives might best be kept in the care of ICA International. I assume the Global Archives where housed at Kemper because there wasn't another location permanent enough, or with enough space to house them. I don't have a clue whether ICA International has any interest in taking on the archives.

If the Global Archives were in the care of ICA International I think it might be possible to raise funds to move, sort, catalog and care for them if that actually is of interest to folks. 

I have an affection for the old material because I have experienced material as still relevant and valuable. In 2003 I volunteered, reluctantly actually, to plan and oversee the Member Loan Campaign for the local food co-op Ron and I helped to launch in our community. I went back to some old development notes I had stashed away, from New York Region development days in the '70's, 80's. From one folder got what I needed to do a proposed plan. It took about 30 minutes of looking material over and another hour with a colleague I asked to help me (the recently retired as Acquisitions Librarian for the Library of Congress) to refine the plan. With a team of about nine people, in 2004 we raised a little over $370,000 in member loans over a period of roughly eight months.

I used huge amounts of archival material (much of it in my own files) when I wrote A Chronological History - 1952-1994 of The Ecumenical Institute and The Institute of Cultural Affairs. Over fifty people were a part of giving input to the document and it was proofed by several old hands. That document, along with the fabulous accompanying charts that Brian Stanfield created in 1992, give an overview of the work of EI and ICA over 40 years. Updating it all to the fall of 2006 would be another task. Both the Chronological History text and charts  are in The Repository files - a guide to the comprehensiveness and complexity of the work of EI/ICA over the years. 

When Betty, Marge and Audrey Ayres were working regularly in the archives I occasionally thought of a document I would like to have. A call to them was all it took. The work they did to get us the Golden CD was a heroic job. 

In reference to an earlier note from Pat Tuecke, when I did some work with the Archive Angels around 1996 I do recall seeing the old assignment sheets. The collection is full of treasures. 

By the way I just got the ICA International 2006 Annual Report and it is terrific!

Beret Griffith




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