The Texas Historical Records Advisory Board is requesting your help!

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) has engaged LYRASIS to develop a Small and Diverse Archival Organization Needs Assessment Survey. Your participation in the survey support is critical to understanding the needs of small archives and supporting the field, especially in Texas! 

We believe that “small archives” are generally defined as those repositories with budgets of $100,000 or less and/or holdings of 1,000 cubic feet or less—these are not absolute figures—and repositories should not skip the survey if they have slightly larger budgets or holdings.

We recommend you review the form and your answers with your colleagues before beginning to answer the survey online; we hope to have one survey representing a single institution, and not multiple surveys from a single site. The survey is available at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NHPRC2020

A PDF version of the survey is available here NHPRC.pdf to assist you in drafting answers and prior to entering your information online. You may want to print a PDF of the survey to review and discuss with your colleagues before completing online.

We estimate the survey will take 20 minutes to complete. The survey is editable so that if you close or exit the browser before submitting your responses, you may finish later, but we encourage you to complete it in one sitting.

Confidentiality: Your responses are being collected and analyzed by LYRASIS, an independent, nonprofit, membership organization serving libraries, archives, and museums. They will be kept confidential. Only aggregate results will be reported. Please answer these questions to help us learn about Small and Diverse Archival Organization needs. To submit your answers, you must click on the “Done” button at the end of the survey form.

Please submit the survey by Monday, March 30, 2020 at 5:00 Eastern time.

If you have any questions, please contact Leigh A. Grinstead at leigh.grinstead@lyrasis.org

Thank you for your support on this important project.