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Kentucky is in the midst of a vast information, education, and communications revolution which is reshaping modern society. In response to this challenge, the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives fulfills its mission of “Serving Kentucky’s Need to Know.” To help the state maintain its competitive edge in the Information Age, the Department offers comprehensive services which assure citizens’ access to a broad range of information and educational resources.

As one of 10 state agencies in the country to combine library, archival, and public records programs, the Department is uniquely positioned to meet the challenges of the Information Age. Its programs are structured to link the enduring resources of its archival collections with the contemporary information resources of government and libraries. From this comprehensive perspective, the Department is helping preserve the Commonwealth’s rich legacy as it contributes to building a stronger future for Kentucky.

 

About Kentucky's Public Libraries

 

 

Our Mission: Serving Kentucky's Need to Know

The Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives serves Kentucky's need to know by assuring equitable access to high quality library and information resources and services and by helping public agencies ensure that adequate documentation of government programs is created, efficiently maintained, and made readily accessible.

 

From the Cabinet Secretary

It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the 2003 Annual Report of the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. As a former librarian and member of the Education Arts and Humanities Cabinet while at KET, I’m delighted to be renewing this connection with KDLA as we begin a new administration, a newly constructed cabinet and an exciting time when we can begin to weave the accomplishments of KDLA with others who closely share common missions.

There is no question that Governor Fletcher made a strong statement as to where his priorities were when he established this Education Cabinet as the first building block in the foundation of his tenure as Kentucky’s Chief Executive. He believes, as do I, that lifelong learning, in a variety of venues and from a variety of sources, will be the driving force for what we become as a people and as a state. For the first time, we will have the principal agencies which impact learners at home, at work, in the classroom and in life -- all on the same team. This bodes well for all Kentuckians, and KDLA is a perfect fit for this team.

Libraries and Archives form the pillars of all knowledge, and have been looked to by educators and learners throughout history as essential components of any form of education. Libraries also are essential partners in building communities and enriching our quality of life while archives and professional management of the public record ensure the accountability, survivability and effective operation of our institutions and our governments. KDLA’s mission is fundamental to all this, and has a vital impact on many aspects of life we treasure. As you will see when you read this report, KDLA is totally committed to “Serving Kentucky’s Need to Know” and this commitment has helped set a high standard for the kind and quality of work the agency does.

I can assure you that as Secretary of the Education Cabinet, I will make every effort to be a unifying force for KDLA and the other agencies of our team in helping all Kentuckians live, learn and work up to their abilities and contribute according to their talents so that we all may have the kind and quality of life we all value.

Virginia G. Fox
Secretary
Education Cabinet

From the Commissioner

The year covered by this report was another challenging time for Commonwealth Government and KDLA. Ongoing budget reductions impacted all state agencies and programs, but the most serious for us was loss of staff – under the restrictions placed on hiring, we ended the year with a 23% vacancy rate. For an agency which has always prided itself on good customer service, this has been a major challenge and if it weren’t for a workforce made up of intelligent, innovative and professional individuals, we could well have had some overwhelming losses this year.

Our excellent workforce continued to challenge what we were doing, look for new ways to work together and use expertise and continue our interaction with the many customer groups served by the agency. The reader of this report will see how much we actually accomplished in spite of the loss of staff and budget. As head of the agency, I repeatedly noted many individuals going more than the extra mile to get the job done and coming up with innovative solutions to complex problems.

From the incredible impact of our summer reading program in public libraries across the state to the cutting-edge work we accomplished in management of electronic records, this was a banner year for KDLA. Over 100,000 children participated in the Kentucky Summer Reading Program. They enjoyed and learned from books, and at the same time prepared themselves to be more “learning ready” for their new school year. Establishment of the Thomas D. Clark Center for Digital Imaging (one of several recognitions of our State Historian Laureate on the celebration of his centennial year), major policy improvements from the collaborative Electronic Records Working Group, (including the Governor’s Office for Technology, the State Auditor and Attorney General’s Offices), and further implementation of the Document Management Digitization System highlighted our records management innovations.

This is also the year we truly became “virtual” through the power of our KDLA website. When we looked at the fact that we were getting over 200,000 visitors coming to us monthly through our virtual doorway, we shifted staffing responsibilities to allow us to revise our presence on the web, emphasizing our website as a prime source for communicating and doing business. Final merger of the library and archives catalogues into a single catalog of our holdings has also made our services much more user friendly in the new virtual web-based environment. All of this new emphasis on technology has also continued to drive more training of local library staff. This report indicates what we have been doing to address those needs. We also continued to add new electronic databases, and we supported the Kentucky Virtual Library in making more information available to our primary customers and the people across Kentucky.

An innovative, federally-funded program to help better define the importance of libraries to our people and state, “KDLA@yourlibrary,” allowed us to go to local community leaders for their vision of library services. Building on several focus groups statewide, and working with a core group of library professionals as well as the State Advisory Council on Libraries, we have been able to construct compelling statements on what libraries can do for people. This has been of great importance as a basis of planning in our new five year federal plan.

Finally, besides celebrating the 100th birthday of Dr. Clark, we also celebrated the 45th anniversary of our State Archives and Records Act as well as twenty years of our Friends of the Public Archives, Inc. Obviously, we appreciate the continued help from our friends -- as well as the excellent staff we have -- to address issues driven by a growingly complex world, coupled with the continuing losses of money and people. Fortunately, for us and for the Commonwealth, this combination of friends and staff has helped us make some real impacts over the year covered by this report.

James A. Nelson
State Librarian and Commissioner
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

 

 

Customer Service

Summer Reading
Kentucky’s summer reading theme for 2003 was “Reading Expedition,” which capitalized on the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The theme embraced topics related to their adventure, such as exploration, travel, pioneers, Native Americans and the American West. It also had special relevance to our state since some preliminary staging took place here and the Corps of Discovery included “nine young men from Kentucky.”

Read Librarians' Comments About the Summer Reading Program

A record 100,585 children participated in this year’s program. They kept track of their reading either by the number of books read or the time spent reading, and were awarded prizes for it. They also came to the library to participate in various programs involving crafts, storytelling, games and more. The children weren’t the only ones involved—whole families came to the library for the fun. An additional 8,299 adults took part in summer reading programs developed just for them.

Read Participants' Comments About Summer Reading Program Workshops

To help prepare for the “Reading Expedition,” KDLA held three days of summer reading workshops. The 142 librarians who attended were treated to a portrayal of York, Captain William Clark’s slave, who was the only African American member of the Corps. They were also provided with hands-on activities to explore life on the Kentucky frontier and learned sensitive ways in which to incorporate Native American themes into library programs. Participants were provided with a programming manual to use in developing their programs. They were also given bookmarks and posters to promote summer reading. This year KET partnered with KDLA by producing video clips for schools and public libraries to use in promoting summer reading programs.

 

KDLA Videos Assist Summer Reading
The library’s multimedia staff prepared a mediaography of videos in the State Library’s collection on the Summer Reading Program theme “Reading Expedition.” The mediaography was distributed statewide to children’s librarians to assist them with Summer Reading programming.

5,194 researchers were served in the Archives Research Room. 15,379 research requests were answered in the Archival Services Branch. Read Researchers' Comments About Archival Services' Research Staff

 

Archives Research Room Customers Served
A myriad audience continues to perform archival research at KDLA. In addition to family history researchers who use archival records such as wills, marriages, and deeds to trace genealogy, the Archives Research Room is visited by historians, attorneys, and other scholars. In the past year, public records have been used by researchers who were working on an autobiography, the Kentucky slave trade, the gubernatorial election of 1796, the Underground Railroad, treason during the Civil War, venereal disease, and women’s legal rights in the nineteenth century, among other topics.

Kentucky Talking Book Library
Those Kentuckians who are unable to read because of visual or physical disabilities are eligible to receive service from the Kentucky Talking Book Library. Books on tape and Braille books, as well as cassette players, are sent to patrons free of charge through the US Postal Service. This program is part of a nationwide network of cooperative libraries headed by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, which is a division of the Library of Congress that was established in 1931.

Read Patrons' Comments About the Kentucky Talking Book Library's Services and Staff

The 3,683 patrons served by the Kentucky Regional Library range in age from one year old to 107, and this year each read anywhere from a single book to 738 books. Readers may choose to subscribe to any of over 100 magazines available in Braille or on tape, or they may borrow one of over 300 descriptive videos, which have additional narration for those who cannot see the action onscreen. A newspaper reading service that is accessible by telephone is also available.

The Kentucky Talking Book Library, combined with its two subregional libraries in Louisville and Covington, served 5,497 patrons this year. A total of 1,676 cassette tape players were mailed out to them. Together, the three libraries circulated 220,463 items: 216,336 cassette books, 2,822 Braille books, and 1,305 descriptive videos. This comes to an average of a little over 40 items apiece.

 

Partnership with Friends of Kentucky Public Archives, Inc.
This year marked the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Friends of Kentucky Public Archives, Inc. The goal of the Friends organization is to assist KDLA’s Public Records Division in maintaining, providing access, and publicizing the Commonwealth’s important archival holdings. One of the Friends’ most important partnerships with KDLA is co-hosting the annual Public Archives Symposium. This year, the symposium featured Kentucky’s Historian Laureate, Dr. Thomas D. Clark and his new book, The People’s House: Governor’s Mansions of Kentucky. The Symposium, held on November 22, 2002, at Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, featured Dr. Clark and his co-author, Margaret Adams Lane, discussing their years of research on the new book. Dr. Clark and Ms. Lane spent many hours reading the Governor’s records housed at the Kentucky State Archives, in addition to visiting many other archives and compiling oral histories of living governors and their families.

The Friends also co-hosted another successful Kentucky Archives Institute in July, to provide an introduction in the use of public records for research and continued to publish For the Record, a quarterly newsletter containing information about the Kentucky State Archives.

 

State Library Builds Partnerships
KDLA has continued to work with state agency partners to meet the information needs of state government employees. These partners are:

The library’s reference staff created bibliographies and revised others to provide information on resources in the library’s collection or through its interlibrary loan department. All bibliographies are available at any time through the KDLA website. These partnerships have resulted in an expansion of the library’s collection, especially in the areas of management, computers and personal and mental health topics.

 

The State Records Center held 148,491 cubic feet, an 18% increase over the past three years. The State Records Center answered 20,071 requests for record use.

State Records Center Serves Agencies
The State Records Center continues to grow in order to meet the records storage needs of Kentucky state government agencies. Although many more records are computerized, paper records are still an important component of an agency’s documentation requirements. The Records Center serves as an off-site storage facility for all government agencies that are required to maintain specific records for a certain length of time, but do not have space in their offices to do so. In fact, for the low cost of $.32 per month per cubic foot, this centralized storage facility saves millions of dollars annually in cost avoidance for state government. The Records Center’s holdings have grown dramatically in recent years, from about 58,000 cubic feet of records in 1987, to almost 150,000 cubic feet of records today. The Records Center is comprised of two leased warehouse facilities in Frankfort and is not part of KDLA’s Clark-Cooper facility.

 

State Library Supports Training in State Government
KDLA staff members were invited to a number of training and seminar sessions to offer information on its collections and services. Staff members participated in the Transportation Cabinet’s Division of Employee Recruitment and Development “Pages to Progress Book Club” promotion in both January and September 2003. Information about the State Library’s collections and services, library card sign-up, and opportunities to check out book club selections were offered.

Another presentation and library card sign-up opportunity was held at the Kentucky Equal Employment Opportunity Conference in October, 2002 to approximately 200 attendees. A display and library card sign-up opportunities were also provided for the 60 attendees of the Kentucky Certified Public Manager’s Conference held in Frankfort in September 2003.

 

661 state government employees applied for State Library cards through email solicitations and seventeen on-site informational visits.

State Library Visits Other State Agencies
As part of the April 2003 National Library Week celebration, KDLA staff visited state agency locations in Frankfort, including Environmental Protection, Natural Resources, Kentucky Housing Corporation, agencies at Berry Hill, Kentucky State Police Headquarters, Council on Postsecondary Education, Fish and Wildlife, and Kentucky Retirement System. As part of the September 2003 National Library Card Sign-up Month, KDLA staff visited the Attorney General’s office, Labor, Local Government, Administrative Office of the Courts, and Juvenile Justice. During each visit, information was offered on the State Library’s collections and services, and opportunities for library card sign-up were available.

 

Partnership with Friends/UK for Internships
For almost a decade, KDLA and the Friends of Kentucky Public Archives have partnered with the University of Kentucky’s School of Library and Information Science to place interns in the department’s Archival Services Branch. With financial support from the Friends through the Thomas D. Clark Internships in Archival Administration, interns work with archival staff in public service, in the state publications program, or in arrangement and description of archival records. The University of Kentucky also works with staff in the department to secure interns to work in archival cataloging.

 

Read Participants' Comments About the KDLA's Bookmobile Conference

Bookmobiles/Outreach Services
The mission of Bookmobile and Outreach programs is to insure that all citizens have access to library resources and services even if they are unable to travel to the library due to age, disability, or lack of transportation. To support libraries in this mission, KDLA provides consulting services and administers grants to provide funding for the purchase and repair of bookmobiles and other outreach vehicles. This year, four counties each received bookmobiles valued at $33,435. Each county used matching local funds to equip the interior with items such as shelving, lighting and a generator. Three additional counties received grants totaling $55,000 to purchase outreach vehicles used to serve schools, nursing homes, prisons and other institutions, as well as individuals unable to access the library.

To further support service to all Kentuckians, KDLA organized the Kentucky Bookmobile and Outreach Services Conference in August 2003. Sessions covered safety and technology on the bookmobile, adult and children’s bookmobile programming, marketing library services to seniors, and services available from KDLA and other state agencies. The 99 librarians who attended also had the opportunity to network with their peers to gain ideas and support.

 

State Library Offers Consultation Services to Public Libraries
Special efforts have been made by the KDLA staff to maintain contact with public library staff, especially in providing information on how to reach the reference staff for research consultation. Presentations on the library’s collections and services were made at all Interlibrary Loan Training workshops held across the state in March, April, May, and September 2003. A presentation and exhibit were also held at the Public Library Section conference of the Kentucky Library Association in May 2003 and at the Kentucky Bookmobile Conference in August 2003. Also, public library staff members, on an individual basis, throughout the state have continued to ask the Technical Services Branch staff for assistance in creating and maintaining access to information. Catalogers in the Branch have responded to an increasing number of specific requests received by phone and email. A staff member, who contributes a column of cataloging tips to each issue of the Public Library Newsletter, has often used these requests as a basis for relevant columns in the newsletter. Additionally, these columns will be archived on KDLA’s website for future reference.

KDLA’s Regional Library Consultants
When public libraries are confronted with a difficult question or problem, they can turn to their regional library consultant for guidance. KDLA librarians are assigned a region to advise on topics such as personnel, budget, public relations, planning, and legislation. They also serve as liaisons between libraries, their boards of trustees, local government and KDLA. Eight regional consultants made 46,839 contacts and 1,131 site visits this year, traveling 135,716 miles. They organized 262 meetings dealing with construction, long-range planning, library cooperatives and other topics.

The regional offices helped support continuing education efforts by organizing 77 sessions which drew 1,879 participants. They also used LSTA funds to reimburse library staff for registration fees and tuition incurred by continuing education events. The regional consultants also held 50 library trustee orientations this year to familiarize new library board members with their responsibilities.

 

Fifty-seven local records grants were awarded totaling $549,994. Public Records staff made 3,786 records management assistance contacts with state and local government agencies.

Local Records Program
The Local Records Program, in addition to administering a grant program which provides much needed funding for records management projects, also provides direct service to all local governments in the commonwealth through four regional administrators. Over the past year we have given ten records management workshops for local governments and school districts. Public Records staff continued the progress toward surveying all of the county clerk’s offices. These surveys provide an accurate inventory of the permanent records they maintain, their condition and what is needed to be done to make sure they are preserved. With the proliferation of new technologies such as digital imaging and GIS, local governments have come to rely on the Local Records Branch staff for guidance, not only for what to purchase but how records are maintained in these systems. Public Records staff continue to create new records retention schedules and provide assistance to the local governments in their use.

 

KDLA Publications
KDLA library consultants produce several publications designed to help public libraries better serve their communities. The Kentucky Public Library Newsletter is a bi-monthly publication sent to 1,400 librarians to keep them up to date on library issues throughout the state. T-3—Trustee Training Tips is issued quarterly to over 700 trustees as an aid in library governance. SelectioNotes is issued online every other month to assist small and medium-sized libraries in their material selection process. An Occasional Newsletter contains programming news, notice of upcoming events, and other information geared towards librarians who serve children and young adults.

Continuing Education for Public Librarians
Throughout the year, KDLA plans, prepares and conducts workshops, conferences and other training activities to help library staff and trustees in their duties. Training also allows them to earn or renew their state library certification. Highlights for 2002-2003 are:

 

Public Librarian Certification
Library staff must increase their skills and knowledge through continuing education in order to keep abreast of developments in the information age. This enriches the individual librarian, and in turn, promotes quality library service throughout the state and enhances the library profession as a whole. KDLA works with the State Certification Board to administer the certification process.

This year 197 library staff members earned their 5-year certificate by attending various continuing education events. Another 83 renewed their certificate. Kentucky now has a total of 858 certified professional librarians, paraprofessionals, and other staff who have appropriate levels of education and experience.

 

Read Participants' Comments About the "Widening Circles" Children's Conference

“Widening Circles” Children’s Conference
KDLA supports librarians who serve children and young adults by providing training opportunities such as the biennial Widening Circles Children’s Conference. The September 2002 conference theme was “Extreme Librarians, Extraordinary Service.” One hundred and forty-two librarians attended sessions on creating a reader’s theater, resources for infant programs, connecting young adults and libraries, and recommended fiction and non-fiction. The opportunity to meet with so many others in their field allowed librarians to exchange ideas and gather new information, as well as boost their morale.

 

Grants for Children and Teens
KDLA also supports libraries by administering federal grants provided through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA); many of the programs receiving these grants are targeted for children. Early Childhood grants totaling $15,366 were awarded to three libraries for programs involving story hours for infants and toddlers, introducing young children to books and other library materials, and education for parents and other caregivers. Four counties received a total of $14,992 in Public Library/School Partnership grants for projects such as a drama troop, a reader’s radio theatre, cartooning and illustration workshops, and various storytelling programs and reading activities.

View the winners of the Lincoln Trail Children’s Book Writing Contest (2002), one of the events sponsored by KDLA. The county public libraries that participated were: Breckinridge, Grayson, LaRue, Marion, Meade, Nelson, and Washington County Public Libraries.

Fifty thousand dollars worth of LSTA Programming grants were shared by nine counties. While some programs may affect them indirectly, others were designed with children and teens in mind. Examples are a community creative writing and poetry contest, a digital multimedia clubhouse, a community storytelling center, and a series of reading events and activities called “Reading Comes Alive!”

 

Books Build Brighter Babies
The “Books Build Brighter Babies” project continues to aid public librarians in their work with infants and toddlers, their families and caregivers. KDLA provides training for librarians and promotional posters for them to distribute. These are supplemented by bibliographies, graphics and other materials available on our website.

Library Construction
Over half of Kentucky’s public libraries are more than 30 years old. This means their infrastructure cannot support 21st century technology needs nor meet the needs of disabled patrons. It also creates problems due to lack of space for collections and programs. KDLA helps libraries address these problems by providing a facilities consulting service to help them make the best use of their building, or to guide them though renovation or construction projects. KDLA staff traveled over 20,000 miles to meet about facilities evaluation, space planning, security, maintenance, the Americans with Disabilities Act, site and architect selection, building codes, and to monitor construction and renovation projects.

Furthermore, KDLA administers the Public Library Facilities Construction fund, which enabled 12 libraries to build or expand in order to improve service to their communities. Most of these projects would not have been possible without this assistance:

 

31,340 rolls of microfilm were used by researchers in the Archives Research Room. 46,817 individual preservation actions were performed on documents treated by the Documents Preservation Lab.

Archives Center Accessioning Records
With over 91,000 cubic feet of archival record holdings, the State Archives Center is near capacity. Despite this lack of space, every possible accommodation is made for agencies with archival records that need to be transferred. The records management staff reappraise and issue new retention and disposition schedules for records, to make sure that only records of permanent value are stored at the State Archives. Staff is also looking at increasing the proportion of records accessioned into the Archives in an electronic form or as computer output microfilm, rather than paper. Archives staff also shift records to make maximum use of existing space. Many agencies need to transfer records to the Archives on a regular basis, but space is quickly running out. This has been particularly true of the Judicial Branch, with the construction of new or renovation of old courthouses. Many of the courthouse records are slated to come to the Archives for permanent retention, even though the Archives really has no space to store these important records.

 

30,403 cubic feet of records were destroyed at the end of their retention period, resulting in cost avoidance savings of $5,472,540.

State Archives and Records Commission
During the past fiscal year, the State Archives and Records Commission reviewed and approved several retention and disposition schedules. Of special note was the General Schedule for Electronic and Related Records, designed to assist state government agencies in managing the increasing amount of computer-generated records. Other major schedules approved this year include those for: County Treasurer, Public School Districts, and County Clerk.

 

21,488 MARCIVE records representing federal publications were added to the KDLA Catalog.

Federal Documents Collection Going Electronic
The State Library has been a selective federal depository for government publications since 1968. The KDLA federal documents collection now includes a variety of formats (books, microforms, CDs, DVDs, and videos). However, there is a 1996 Congressional mandate to make federal document collections predominantly electronic resource programs. Currently, about 60% of new federal depository titles are being made available online. After a review of the KDLA federal documents collection, 390 electronic federal government resources were added to the KDLA Catalog.

 

Kentuckians viewed 9,955 titles from the State Library's multimedia collection.

KDLA’s Multimedia Collection Adds DVDs
Thanks in large part to video retail behemoths like Blockbuster Video and e-commerce success stories like Amazon.com, the DVD has finally entered the consumer consciousness. With a current collection of over 250 DVDs, the library is increasingly purchasing this format for its multimedia collection, especially in the areas of children’s literature, travel, science, history, and biography.

 

815 state publications were processed and cataloged.

Preparations for Gubernatorial Transition
A new gubernatorial administration was elected in November, 2003 and inaugurated in December. Records management transition actions started in June 2003 and received strong support from senior government administrators in the Patton administration. Staff of the Public Records Division met with the Governor and his Executive Cabinet and discussed agency responsibilities for records disposition and for planning transfer of records of continuing value to the State Archives. In a subsequent meeting, staff reviewed this information with members of the Chief Information Officers (CIO) Advisory Council, the principal technology administrators for the fifteen Executive Branch Cabinets and the five Constitutional Officers. The CIO Advisory Council was also advised that transition responsibilities include appropriate disposition of e-mail, consistent with the requirements of Enterprise Standard 4060- Recordkeeping – Electronic Mail, adopted by the Governor’s Office for Technology in May 2003 and applicable to all state agencies, and the accompanying Public Records Division document, Guidelines for Managing E-Mail in Kentucky State Government, which was released at the same time. These policy documents provide agencies with explicit guidance in this area.

 

Strategic Planning
The KDLA Field Services division has renewed strategic planning efforts in order to focus limited staff and funds on services to support individual patrons and public libraries throughout Kentucky. Efforts are being made to provide quality core services through improved communication, utilization of broad-based technologies and partnership development.

 

Anniversaries Observed
The Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives (KDLA) and the Friends of Kentucky Public Archives, Inc., celebrated the 100th birthday of Dr. Thomas D. Clark in the lobby of KDLA's Clark-Cooper Building on Friday, July 11, 2003, with a short program and reception, featuring Dr. Clark’s favorite, coconut cake.

View snapshots of KDLA's 20th anniversary celebration.

This celebration honored not only the centenary of Dr. Clark's birth, but also his 70 years of involvement with archives in Kentucky, and his 40 years as a member of the State Archives and Records Commission. Speakers at the event, in addition to Dr. Clark, were: Dr. William E. Ellis, professor emeritus of history at Eastern Kentucky University; Paul Coates, president of the Friends of Kentucky Public Archives; and James A. Nelson, State Librarian and KDLA Commissioner.

The event also marked the renaming of KDLA’s document management digital services facility as the Thomas D. Clark Center for Digital Imaging. State Archivist Richard N. Belding noted, “Dr. Clark has been working for the growth and development of our State Archives program for more than 70 years, and on the occasion his 100th birthday, and coincidentally, the 45th anniversary of the enactment of Kentucky’s State Archives and Records Act, it seems very appropriate that we name our newest program facility for Dr. Clark, to commemorate his vision for the future of recordkeeping.”

An exhibit, "A Celebration of Dr. Thomas D. Clark's Service to Kentucky," was also on display in July. Showcasing many highlights of Dr. Clark’s distinguished career, the exhibit focused on his 70 years of interest in the Kentucky State Archives: from his advocacy for a state archival program in the 1930's, to his work in securing a building for KDLA in the 1970's, to his continuing activity today in archival and research issues.

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