Branding your library with Local History: Statewide and National Associations & Publications

The American Historical Association (AHA) is the largest professional organization in the United States devoted to the study and promotion of history and historical thinking. Only the AHA brings together historians from all specializations and professions, embracing their breadth, variety, and ever-changing activity. Whether you work in a museum, library or archive, college or university, government agency, secondary school, national park, or any of the myriad other places that employ historians, an AHA membership should play a vital part in your professional life.

Founded in 1979, the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York, Inc. (A.R.T.) is a volunteer-led not-for-profit organization representing a diverse group of more than 700 archivists, librarians, records managers and those who support archival efforts in the New York metropolitan area. It is one of the largest local organizations of its kind in the United States with members representing approximately 375 repositories.

The New York Archives Conference is an organization that annually brings together archivists, manuscript curators, local historians, and local government record keepers to discuss issues of mutual concern to professional holders of historical records.

Since 1899, the New York Historical Association has been dedicated to the preservation and education of New York State History.

The New York State Archives was established in 1971 and opened its doors to the public in 1978. It is a program of the State Education Department, with its main facility Located in the Cultural Education Center on Madison Avenue in Albany. There it cares for and provides access to more than 200 million documents that tell the story of New York from the seventeenth century to the present.

Founded in 1936, the Society of American Archivists is North America's oldest and largest national archival professional association.

Greater Hudson Heritage Network serves the museum and history communities as a catalyst to:
· Advance professional standards and practices.
· Build the capacity of organizations to meet their missions, and
· Create a network of effective and professional stewards of regional history and culture - now and in the future.