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Education / Collaboration / Professionalism / Volunteerism / Advocacy
Click here to go to a printable membership form
Are you and your organization devoted to collecting, preserving, or interpreting the history of your community? Would you like to connect with a statewide network of other local history professionals and volunteers to share ideas, develop new skills, and promote the interests of history organizations in Ohio? The Ohio Local History Alliance (Alliance), is for you!
Organized in 1960 under sponsorship of the Ohio Historical Society, the Ohio Local History Alliance is composed of local historical societies, historic preservation groups, history museums, archives, libraries, genealogical societies, and local historians throughout the state involved in collecting, preserving, and interpreting Ohio’s history.
The Ohio Local History Alliance coordinates programs and opportunities that help local historians...
...share ideas.
...gain skills.
...preserve and present the history of Ohio’s communities.
...promote local history through a statewide network.
The Ohio Historical Society / Ohio Local History Alliance Partnership
Since its founding, the Ohio Local History Alliance has worked closely with the Ohio Historical Society. Though separate organizations, we share a common goal: to encourage preservation and presentation of Ohio’s heritage. We are linked by this common purpose and by the belief that through collaboration we can be more effective in meeting our shared goals.
The staff of the Ohio Historical Society’s Local History Office provides administrative support and resources for all Ohio Local History Alliance programs. This mutually beneficial relationship is just one example of how cooperation yields good things for Ohio’s history and heritage community. Joining the Ohio Local History Alliance is another example.
You and your organization can help make history happen by joining the Ohio Local History Alliance today!
Membership Catagories
- Organizational Membership Organizational Members of the Ohio Local History Alliance receive these benefits:
The Local Historian
As an Ohio Local History Alliance member, you’ll receive six bimonthly issues of our newsletter, The Local Historian, featuring "how-to" articles, upcoming programs, grant opportunities, news about people in the local history community, job announcements, and news from local history and heritage organizations throughout the state. And, as an Organizational Member you can have The Local Historian sent to your members or board, too, at the low rate of $15 per subscription. Ask about this service.
Savings on Networking Opportunities at Our Spring Regional Meetings and Fall Annual Meeting and Conference As an Ohio Local History Alliance member, save when you register for our:
Regional Meetings, held in 10 regions throughout Ohio in March, April, and early May. Attend the one near you, or any of the meetings in other regions. Meet and share ideas with others active in local history and heritage organizations, and expand your skills and expertise in such areas as collections management, exhibit design, archival administration, preservation, conservation, and fundraising.
Annual Meeting and Conference, a statewide gathering of Ohioans who share a passion for community history and heritage, held in the fall. Attend two days of sessions designed to expand your skills in collecting, preserving, and interpreting local history; visit our Local History Showplace of ideas; and enjoy many opportunities to meet and network with others active in local history groups and communities throughout Ohio.
Lending Library
Click here to visit our online catalog and borrow by mail from hundreds of specialized publications on all areas of history-and-heritage-organization operations, including organizational and board development, fundraising, communications, membership, volunteer development, collections, conservation, preservation, exhibits, and interpretation.
Eligibility for Our Annual Ohio Local History Alliance Awards recognizing outstanding educational projects, programs, and publications produced by history and heritage organizations throughout Ohio and the people who make them happen. Awards are presented during a special event at the Ohio Historical Society / Ohio Local History Alliance Annual Meeting and Conference.
Best of all, Organizational Memberships are transferable. When you join the Ohio Local History Alliance as an Organizational Member, your organization's membership benefits all of your volunteers, board members, and staff. They qualify for discounts when registering for the regional meetings, annual meeting, and other programs, and when purchasing Alliance publications.
- Individual Membership Individual members of the Ohio Local History Alliance receive most of the benefits of Organizational Members: six bimonthly issues of The Local Historian, discounts on registration for the Spring Regional and Fall Statewide Annual Meeting and Conference, regular email updates, access to Alliance's Lending Library, and eligibility for Alliance awards.
The only person who receives an Individual Member's discounts, however, is the member listed on the Alliance membership card. Individual membership benefits are not transferable.
Organizational Membership is the way to go for extending the benefits of membership in Alliance to everyone in your local historical organization, including board members, volunteers, and paid staff.
Other Services:
Your membership also helps make the following Ohio Local History Alliance services possible:
- History Project Ideas and Lesson Plans for Teachers and Historical Societies, useful to teachers and organizations planning educational programs to get young people excited about Ohio's past.
- Free Alliance Self-Help Kits for members, including our New Organization Self-Help Kit and Oral History Introduction Kit.
- Click here to visit the blog of the Ohio Local History Alliance for up-to-date local history resources, information, and details about Alliance activities.
Join the Ohio Local History Alliance Today!
Organizational Membership
Organization with operating budget over $200,000 a year: $100
Organization with operating budget of $100,000-$200,000 a year: $75
Organization with operating budget of $25,000-$100,000 a year: $60
Organization with operating budget under $25,000 a year: $35
Individual Membership
Local history benefactor: $50 and up
Individual member: $35
Student: $15
Click here, print out the membership form, fill it in, and mail it to:
Ohio Local History Alliance
c/o Ohio Historical Society
Local History Office
800 E. 17th Avenue
Columbus, Ohio 43211-2497
ph: 614.297.2340 or toll free 1.800.858.6878
fx: 614.297.2233
localhistory@ohiohistory.org
www.ohiolha.org
Alliance blog http://oahsm.blogspot.com
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