Volume 21 Issue 2
March/April 2014
Long Island Archives
Newsletter of the Documentary Heritage Program
Long Island Library Resources Council
LILRC NEW YORK STATE ARCHIVES DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE PROGRAM
What is the LILRC Documentary Heritage Program?
The Documentary Heritage Program (DHP) is a statewide program established by law to ensure the survival of New
York's documentary heritage by providing financial support and guidance to the not-for-profit organizations that hold,
collect and make available the state's historical records.
Who does the DHP serve?
New York State-based not-for-profit organizations including, but not limited to, archives, libraries, historical societies,
museums, and other organizations that hold historical records, and collect and make them publicly accessible, may use
the DHP's regional services and apply for DHP Grants. For further information about services provided, please contact
the Regional Archivist.
LILRC will be presenting two DHP workshops during the winter-spring period:
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Introduction to Arrangement and Description of Historical Materials on March 12, 2014.
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How to Create a Finding Aid for Historical Materials on April 2, 2014.
Information about these and all LILRC continuing education workshops may be found on the LILRC homepage at:
www.lilrc.org or in the Continuing Education Program brochure for January through June 2014.
THE 19th ANNUAL ARCHIVES MONTH CONFERENCE
Hold the Date: October 10, 2014
The year 2014 marks the 100th Anniversary of WWI (1914-1918), the “Great War” in Europe. The Conference will
focus on “The People of Long Island” and their participation in WWI. See further information about WWI in the
History Corner of this newsletter.
LILRC REGIONAL DIGITIZATION PROGRAM
The program “Long Island Memories” is now entering the 12th year of providing access to Long Island’s history and
may be visited at: www.longislandmemories.org. The program has seen constant growth over this period of time and is
now a part of the New York State 3R’s digitization program, New York Heritage, and will soon become a part of the
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
The DPLA Digital Hubs Program is designed to establish a national network out of the over forty state/regional digital
libraries and myriad large digital libraries in the US, bringing together digitized content from across the country into a
single access point for end users, and an open platform for developers.
The DPLA Service Hubs are state or regional digital libraries that aggregate information about digital objects from
libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions within its given state or region. Each Service Hub
offers its state or regional partners a full menu of standardized digital services, including digitization, metadata, data
aggregation and storage services, as well as locally hosted community outreach programs, bringing users in contact with
digital content of local relevance.
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LILRC will once again present the three required workshops for participation in its Regional Digitization Program
starting in May and June with the final workshop “Hands On” training in the use of ContentDM software to be presented
sometime in the summer of 2014. Please refer to the LILRC Continuing Education Calendar.
SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARCHIVISTS ANNUAL CONFERENCE
The Society of American Archivists will meet this year at the Marriott Hotel, Wardman Park in Washington, D.C. from
August 10-16, 2014.
HISTORY CORNER:
Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of WWI 1914-1918 “The War to End All Wars”.
Although Imperialism, Nationalism, and Militarism in the early 20th Century led up to World I, the immediate cause was
the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his
wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg on June 28, 1914 in Sarajevo, capital city of Bosnia . The Archduke and his wife
were killed by Gavrilo Princip, member of a Serbian freedom fighter group.
Escalation of threats and mobilization orders followed the incident, leading by mid-August to the outbreak of the “Great
War” in Europe in 1914. The United States joined the conflict in 1917 primarily due to the death of 128 Americans and
over 1,900 other passengers aboard the passenger ship Lusitania when it was sunk by a German U-boat. A second cause
was the Zimmerman Note, a telegram intercepted and deciphered by British intelligence, which was written by German
Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann. The Note was a coded message sent to Mexico, proposing a military alliance
against the United States.
Zimmermann sent the telegram in anticipation of the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare by Germany on
February 1, 1917, an act which Germany predicted would draw the neutral United States.into war. It also offered aid to
Mexico to invade the United States to recapture territories that it had lost to the United States, that included Texas, New
Mexico, and Arizona. The obvious threats to the United States contained in the telegram swayed American public
opinion against Germany and helped convince Congress to declare war against Germany in 1917.
The total number of military, and civilian casualties, missing in action military, and missing civilians, in World War I is
estimated at over 37 million, making it one the deadliest conflicts in human history. At least 2 million died from
diseases, such as the Spanish flu. To learn more about WWI on Long Island, please visit the Patchogue Medford Library
website at: http://www.pmlib.org/lihistorywwi.
Virginia D. Antonucci-Gibbons, Regional Archivist, Long Island Library Resources Council-DHP,
627 N. Sunrise Service Rd., Bellport, NY 11713-1540
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 631-675-1570 x 204
Fax: 631-675-1573