The Georgia Secretary of State has announced that, effective October 1, 2010, the public hours for the Georgia Archives will change to Thursday-Saturday 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM.
With the reduction in public hours, the Archives staff will now be deployed to fulfill different functions on different days. When the Archives is open to the public, most or all employees will serve the public in the Reference Room. When the Archives is closed to the public, most or all of the employees will work with state agencies to bring records into the Archives, catalog them, and shelve them. To provide better and timelier service for research requests outside the core duties of the State Archives, i.e. genealogy requests, a list of other sources of information can be provided. In this way the Archives will maintain its critical functions with reduced staffing.
For more information see: http://www.sos.ga.gov/archives/
My thanks to Jan Meisels Allen for telling me about this news.
