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Here is a press release from the U.S. National Archives.
I downloaded the press release from the PR On-Line BBS in
Maryland at 410-363-0834. I do not work for the U.S. government.

 National Archives on the Move to College Park, Md.
 To: National Desk
 Contact: Stephanie Allin of the National Archives Office of
          Public Affairs, 202-501-5525

   WASHINGTON, Jan. 4  -- The National Archives,
guardian of the nation's most treasured historical documents, has
begun a massive move of a significant part of its holdings and
services to a new state-of-the-art facility called the National
Archives at College Park, Md.
   The move itself is an extraordinary undertaking.  It will
take an estimated 1,133 tractor-trailer truckloads and approximately
three years to move 765,934 cubic feet of records into the new
building.  It will also require special measures to transport
old and fragile materials to their new home.
   The new facility known informally as Archives II, will provide
improved accommodations, services and a technological
infrastructure to researchers in addition to providing the world's
most advanced archival preservation facility.  Archives II was
completed on time and under budget.  The move is necessary to
accommodate and preserve the ever-growing volume of historically
significant federal records.  A dedication ceremony for Archives
II is scheduled for May 1994.

   The Collection
   Archives II will house a number of the National Archives most
popular holdings.  Among them are all of the permanently valuable
nontextual records of the National Archives -- including more than
seven million still pictures, 11 million charts, maps and aerial
photographs, 112,274 reels of motion pictures and 200,122 sound
and video recordings.  The still picture collection includes such
treasures as photographs taken by Mathew Brady and associates
during the Civil War, work by Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange and
hundreds of thousands of photographs from World War II.  A number
of special collections will be available to researchers at
Archives II, including the Nixon Presidential Materials Project,
the John F. Kennedy Assassination Act Collection and the Supreme
Court Audio Tape Collection.
     State Department, Executive Office of the President, modern
military, Office of Strategic Services and Captured German records
are just some of the more popular textual record groups that will
relocate to Archives II.  Every effort is being made to minimize
the inconvenience to researchers, but record groups scheduled to
move will close for as brief a period as necessary.  For more
information on the move schedule, please contact 202-501-5400.

   The Facility
   The National Archives at College Park will serve as an archives
for the 21st century, protecting and preserving historical
mterials for future generations.  Textual records will be stored
on 520 miles of high-density mobile shelving -- laid end to end,
the shelving would reach from the downtown National Archives
Building in Washington, D.C., to the Gerald R. Ford Library in Ann
Arbor, Mich.  The new facility includes nine of the world's most
sophisticated preservation and conservation laboratories designed
to help care for current holdings and anticipated future
accessions of both paper-based and non-textual records.  The
building incorporates the most advanced pollution and
environmental controls to safeguard its holdings.  The total
records storage capacity of the building is almost two million
cubic feet and can accommodate additional federal records and
other materials into the next century.

   The Institution
   The National Archives and Records Administration is an
independent government agency whose mission is to preserve and
make available to the public the permanently valuable records of
the United States government.  The National Archives maintains
more than 3O facilities nationwide, including nine presidential
libraries, 14 federal records centers and 12 regional archives.
Archives II is designed to complement the downtown National
Archives Building on Pennsylvania Avenue which will continue as a
research and cultural center, housing the Charters of Freedom --
the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights,
materials relating to genealogy, the Civil War and other textual
records.
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   For additional press information, please contact the National
Archives public affairs staff at 202-501-5525.

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