Prologue Columns
Columns in Prologue Magazine:
Speeches and Writings by David S. Ferriero
Tenth Archivist of the United States
2012
- Prepared Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the Closing Plenary at Wikimania 2012, Lisner Auditorium, George Washington University, Washington, DC.
July 14, 2012
- Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the Independence Day Ceremony, National Archives Building, Washington, DC.
July 4, 2012
- Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) conference. Dallas, Texas.
January 18, 2012
2011
- State of the Archives Address,
December 8, 2011
- Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the North Carolina State Historical Records Advisory Board conference, "From Theory to Practice: Accessing and Preserving Electronic Records and Digital Materials"
November 4, 2011
- Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the 56th annual ARMA International Conference and Expo at Gaylord National Hotel and Conference Center,Maryland.
October 17, 2011
- Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the dedication of the new facility for the National Personnel Records Center and the National Archives at St. Louis in north St. Louis County, Missouri.
October 15, 2011
- Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S Ferriero at the Plenary Session of the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) in Chicago.
August 26, 2011
- Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, Washington, DC.
August 18, 2011
- Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the Triangle Research Library Network Annual Meeting, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
July 25, 2011
- Prepared Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the Archival Education and Research Institute. Simmons College, Boston
July 11, 2011
- Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the WikiMedia Foundation Conference, Simmons College, Boston.
July 9, 2011
- Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the National History Day awards ceremony, Cole Field House, University of Maryland at College Park
June 16, 2011
- Prepared remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the annual Records Administration Conference (RACO) in Washington, DC
May 25, 2011
- Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the Society for Imaging and Technology Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah.
May 17, 2011
- Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the commencement exercises of the University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library Science, Tucson.
May 13, 2011
- Prepared remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the annual conference of the National Genealogical Society in Charleston, South Carolina.
May 11, 2011
- Prepared remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the 35th anniversary observance of the Greater Baltimore Chapter of the Association for Records Managers and Administrators.
May 2, 2011
- Prepared remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero in opening the Media Access to Government Information Conference. Washington, DC.
April 12, 2011
- Prepared Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero for Boston Library Consortium.
April 11, 2011
- Prepared Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the MIT150 Convocation
April 10, 2011
- Prepared Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at Syracuse University
March 28, 2011
- Prepared remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the annual conference of the National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) in Philadelphia
March 1, 2011
- Prepared Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero before the Calderon Foundation in Puerto Rico
February 17, 2011
- Prepared Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
February 10, 2011
2010
- Prepared remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at a dinner for newly-elected senators. Washington, DC
December 15, 2010
- Prepared remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the Bill of Rights Day Naturalization Ceremony. Washington, DC
December 15, 2010
- Prepared remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the inaugural meeting of the Founding Fathers Advisory Committee. Washington, DC
December 13, 2010
- Prepared remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero in introducing a program for the book, Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969. Washington, DC
December 9, 2010
- Prepared remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the Educause Center for Applied Research symposium, Carlsbad, California
December 8, 2010
- State of the Archives Address
December 2, 2010
- Prepared Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero for the symposium, "The Civil War: Fresh Perspectives." National Archives Building, Washington, DC
November 20, 2010
- Prepared remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero in introducing a lecture, "Veterans and the Psychological Impact of War." National Archives Building, Washington, DC
November 19, 2010
- Prepared remarks for Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the CENDI (the Commerce, Energy, NASA, Defense Information Managers Group) workshop:"Mobile Computing: Delivering Content to the Research Community" Washington, DC
November 18, 2010
- Prepared Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the groundbreaking ceremony for the George W. Bush Presidential Library, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
November 16, 2010
- Prepared remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at a book lecture. National Archives Building, Washington, DC
November 10, 2010
- Prepared remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero for a panel discussion at the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC
November 10, 2010
- Prepared remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the annual gala of the Foundation for the National Archives. National Archives Building, Washington, DC
November 9, 2010
- Prepared Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the 6th annual William G. McGowan Forum on Communications, National Archives Building, Washington, DC
November 5, 2010
- Prepared remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the press preview of "Discovering the Civil War, Part 2." National Archives Building, Washington, DC
November 4, 2010
- Prepared remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at a book lecture by Pauline Maier. National Archives Building, Washington, DC
October 29, 2010
- Prepared Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero,"The View from Washington: The First 356 Days," given at the Metropolitan New York Library Council meeting. New York City
October 28, 2010
- Prepared Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero for the annual Richard G. Hewlett Lecture of the Society for History in the Federal Government. "The View from Washington: The First 355 Days." Washington, DC
October 27, 2010
- Prepared Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at a National Archives Assembly panel discussion on the need for an agency historian
October 26, 2010
- Prepared Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at panel discussion, "Political Rules of the Road." National Archives Building, Washington, DC
October 21, 2010
- Prepared remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA "Cultural Institutions in a Digital Age: Are We Losing Our Memory?"
October 20, 2010
- Prepared Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the Best Practices Exchange: Libraries and Archives in the Digital Era. Phoenix, Arizona
October 18, 2010
- Prepared remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the Volunteers Recognition Ceremony, National Archives Building,Washington, DC
October 13, 2010
- Prepared Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the USS Constitution Museum, Boston (Charlestown), MA
October 13, 2010
- Prepared remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero for the conference, "Future of the South." Washington, DC
October 5, 2010
- Prepared Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the Best Practices Exchange: Libraries and Archives in the Digital Era. Phoenix, Arizona
September 30, 2010
- Prepared remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the "Conference for Parliamentarians-Balancing Openness and the Public Interest in Protecting Information" as part of Canadian Right-to-Know Week. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
September 28, 2010
- Prepared remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero in Sofia, Bulgaria, at a conference hosted by the National Academic Library Information System.
September 24, 2010
- Prepared remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the International Conference of the Round Table on Archives in Oslo, Norway.
September 16, 2010
- Prepared remarks made at the American Political Science Association course "An Introduction to Archival Research," in the National Archives Building, Washington, D.C.
September 1, 2010
- Prepared remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, for the transfer of original copies of the Nuremberg Laws to the National Archives.
August 25, 2010
- Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero as the keynote address at the annual meeting of the Federation of Genealogical Societies. Knoxville, TN
August 18, 2010
- Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the enactment of Social Security. Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N. Y.
August 14, 2010
- Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the joint annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists, the Council of State Archivists, and the National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators. Washington, D.C.
August 12, 2010
- Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at a pre-conference in the implementation of the Encoded Archival Context — Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families schema. Washington, D. C.
August 9, 2010
- Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the media preview of the Grace Tully Collection of papers of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Washington, D.C.
July 28, 2010
- Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero on the observance of the 75th anniversary of the Federal Register Act. Washington, D.C.
July 26, 2010
- Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero for the media preview of the Office of the Federal Register’s new online feature, Federal Register 2.0. Washington, D.C.
July 15, 2010
- Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the July 4 Ceremony, National Archives Building, Washington, DC
July 4, 2010
- Prepared Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at a ceremony marking the 150th anniversary of establishment of the Government Printing Office. The event took place in Harding Auditorium at the GPO.
June 23, 2010
- Prepared Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the National Declassification Center Open Forum, National Archives Building.
June 23, 2010
- Prepared Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh. Event sponsored by Friends of the [North Carolina] Archives.
June 14, 2010
- Prepared Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero. Time Capsule Ceremony, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis County, MO
June 2, 2010
- Prepared Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the Smithsonian Institution’ s Archives/Libraries Program in Washington, DC
May 26, 2010
- Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the
Association of Centers for the Study of Congress Seventh Annual Meeting, Center for Legislative Archives, National Archives Building, Washington, DC
May 21, 2010
- Prepared Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the annual Records Administration Conference (RACO), Washington, DC
May 12, 2010
- Prepared Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the annual Conference of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency in Lancaster, Pa.
May 5, 2010
- Prepared Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero as part of Duke University School of Law panel discussing "The Law is ‘America’s Operating System:’ Should it be open source?"
April 28, 2010
- Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the press preview for the exhibit, "Discovering the Civil War," National Archives Building, Washington, DC,
April 27, 2010
- Prepared Remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the E-Records Forum, Austin, Texas.
April 20, 2010
- Prepared remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero at the Department of the Treasury, Washington, DC,
April 1, 2010
- Testimony of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero before the Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services and International Security of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on the subject of "Removing the Shroud of Secrecy: Making Government More Transparent and Accountable.",
March 23, 2010
- Prepared remarks of Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero, "Losing Our Memory," as part of the Provost's Lecture Series, Duke University,
March 22, 2010
- Prepared Remarks of Archivist of the United States David Ferriero at the New York State Archives event, "2010 Open Government in the Digital Age Summit" in Albany N. Y.
March 19, 2010
- Remarks of David S. Ferriero upon his Swearing In as Tenth Archivist of the United States,
January 13, 2010
2009
- State of the Archives Address,
December 3, 2009
- Testimony of David S. Ferriero,
Defining and fulfilling the mission of the National Archives and Records Administration
December 16, 2009
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