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New State Archivist at the Ohio Historical Society



OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY NAMES NEW STATE ARCHIVIST  COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Charles Arp has been named State Archivist at the Ohio
Historical Society.  In this role, Arp is responsible for all planning,
coordination and administration of the operations of the State Archives.  He
provides leadership on government records issues to the State of Ohio and
OHS, and is responsible for drafting the Society's public records policies.
Arp also plays an active role in the state and national archival community.  The Ohio Historical Society Archives/Library is, by law, the historical
records repository for the state of Ohio.  As such, documents pertaining to
the operation of state and local governments are collected, preserved and
made available to the public by the OHS. The State Archives also assists
local government agencies with establishing records management and archival
programs through the Local Government Records (LGR) Program. Working through
the eight network centers, the LGR Program provides advisory services for
local government agencies' records progams.  Arp resides in Marengo, Ohio and is a graduate of Ohio University with a
B.A. and M.A. in history.  Before his appointment as State Archivist, Arp
had served as Assistant State Archivist at the OHS since 1995.  The state archives is one of several major information resources of the
Society's Archives/Library. Among the written and graphic information held
are documents dating from the settlement of the Northwest Territory in the
late 1700s, extensive Civil War  papers and correspondence and the largest collection of early and modern Ohio
newspapers in the country.  The Ohio Historical Society's web site - www.ohiohistory.org - lists more
than 230,000 of the Archives/Library holdings. In addition, the Society's
Archives/Library staff serves more than 50,000 researchers annually by U.S.
mail, electronic mail, telephone and through personal visits to its reading
room in Columbus. They also conduct extensive conservation activities in
order to preserve materials for the future.  Governmental and local
historical records also are available through the Society's membership in
the Ohio Network of American History Research Centers.

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Jennifer Z. Johnson
Communications Coordinator
The Ohio Historical Society
(614) 297-2312

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