COPAR

Cooperative Preservation of Architectural Records

COPAR was established in 1973 to encourage the preservation of records threatened with loss or destruction, and to serve as a national and international clearinghouse of information on the location, preservation, and cataloging of these documents. To achieve these goals COPAR offers guidelines for the formation of local and state groups otherwise known as Committees.

COPAR National Effort

Library of Congress Center for Architecture, Design and Engineering

C. Ford Peatross, Prints and Photographs Division

Library of Congress

Washington, DC 20540-4730

202-707-8695; FAX 202-707-1486/6647

cpea@loc.gov

COPAR Committees and their contacts:

Arkansas

Director of Special Collections

(currently vacant)

University of Arkansas Libraries

Fayetteville, AR 72701-1201

501-575-5577

California (San Francisco Bay; State of CA)

Waverly Lowell, Curator

Environmental Design Archives

College of Environmental Design

University of California

230 Wurster Hall #1820

Berkeley, CA 94720-1820

T: 510/642-5124; F: 510/642-2824

wlowell@uclink4.berkeley.edu

Connecticut

Mary Donohue,

Survey and Grants Director, Connecticut Historical Commission

860-566-3005 ext. 320

mary.donohue@po.state.ct.us

http://webapps.lib.uconn.edu/CtCOPAR/

Metropolitan Washington (Washington, DC and metropolitan Washington areas of Maryland)

Position currently vacant. Please refer to National COPAR for more information.

Maryland

Walter Schamu, AIA

Shamu, Machowski, Doo & Associates

1001 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, MD 21201

410-685-3582

smda@erols.com

Massachusetts (Boston area and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts)

Ardys Kozbial, President

617-495-5674

akozbial@gsd.harvard.edu

MassCOPAR

P.O. x 381393

Cambridge, MA 02238

Michigan

Tawny Ryan Nelb

Nelb Archival Consulting, Inc.

5610 Woodberry Court

Midland, MI 48640-6929

989/631-1011

wnyrn@aol.com

New Orleans (City of New Orleans, Parish of Orleans)

Sally K. Reeves,

New Orleans Notarial Archives Research Center

1340 Poydras St., Suite 360

New Orleans, LA 70112

504-680-9604; 504-680-9607 (fax)

skrnona@gnofn.org

New York (New York City)

Catha Grace Rambusch

430 East 20th Street, Suite MB

New York, NY 10009-8201

212-677-4185

North Carolina

NCSU Libraries, Special Collections

North Carolina State University

Box 711, D.H. Hill Library

Raleigh, NC 27695-7111

919-515-8119; 919-515-3628 (fax)

Pennsylvania (Philadelphia; Commonwealth of Pennsylvania)

Bruce Laverty

The Athenaeum of Philadelphia

219 S. Sixth St.

Philadelphia, PA 19106-3794

Laverty@PhilaAthenaeum.org

http://www.philaathenaeum.org/morearchive.html

Texas

Beth J. Dodd, Curator

Alexander Architectural Archive

The General Libraries

The University of Texas at Austin

P.O. Box P (BTL200 S5430)

Austin, Tx 78713-8916

512-495-4504

dodd.beth@mail.utexas.edu

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/apl/aaa/txcopar.html

Utah

Peter L. Goss,

Associate Vice President

VP for Research

John R. Park Bldg.

201 S. Presidents Circle Rm. 210

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, UT 84112

801-581-7236

goss@vpres.adm.utah.edu

Virginia

Richard Guy Wilson,

Commonwealth Professor

Architectural History,

University of Virginia

P.O. Box 400122

Charlottesville, VA 22904-4122

Office 434-924-6462

Rgw4h@unix.mail.virginia.edu