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NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION TO RELEASE NIXON TAPES

During this past year, we have heard much about the Nixon tapes and whether they should be made public, or be returned to the Nixon family. This controversy has been somewhat resolved by the recent decision of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to make available to the general public 154 hours of Nixon White House tapes recorded between 1971 and 1973. This announcement is good news to historians and other researchers who are anxious to learn more about this controversial period in our history. So far a total of 400 hours of tapes have been made public by NARA.

NARA'S ELECTRONIC ACCESS PROJECT MAKING PROGRESS

Researchers will be happy to learn that the National Archives and Records Administration continues to place more of its materials online. To access this treasure of information, all you need is a computer and a connection to the

Internet. Once there, you can view documents, photographs, maps and drawings. So far there are over 300,000 descriptions and 20,000 digitized items available on the NARA Archival Information Locator. When this project is completed, you will be able to access all of NARA's holding through a virtual card catalog. The address to the NARA website is: http://www.nara.gov/nara/nail.html

NEWS FROM THE LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE INSTITUTIONAL ARCHIVES

The Institutional Archives has recently added 70 images to its photograph collection. Most of these photographs are of faculty and staff and date back to the 1970s and 1980s. This brings our photograph collection to approximately 900 images.

We recently completed work on the Astoria Center collection. Anyone intereted in learning about this part of the College history is invited to come to the institutional Archives during Normal business hours.