September 15, 2010
Deadline for the Gerald R. Ford Foundation Research Travel Grants. For more information about the grants contact William McNitt.

May 1, 2010
Deadline for the "Gerald R. Ford Scholar Award (Dissertation Award) in Honor of Robert Teeter". For more information about the award contact Christian Goos.

February 24, 2010
The Library has completed the digitization of the entire President's Daily Diary (a total of 9190 pages). The diaries contain a detailed log of all of President Ford's activities during the 896 days he served as President. View the online daily diaries.

February 17, 2010
The Library loaded another two months of the digitized President's Daily Diary to the web site, covering September and October 1976. View the online daily diaries.

February 5, 2010
The Library loaded another four months of the digitized President's Daily Diary to the web site, covering May to August 1976. View the online daily diaries.

February 3, 2010
The Library has opened a new on-line exhibit on the 1974 summit meeting on arms control at Vladivostok, USSR. The exhibit is based on President Ford's description of the summit in his memoir A Time to Heal. Library staff have added digitized copies of key documents and photographs, including declassified "memcons" (memoranda of conversations) detailing the discussions between President Ford and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev at the summit and also preliminary discussions held in Washington and Moscow in the preceding months.

January 20, 2010
The Library loaded another three months of the digitized President's Daily Diary to the web site, covering February to April 1976. View the online daily diaries.

January 4, 2010
The Historian's Office of the Department of State has issued a call for papers for a September 29-30, 2010, conference on American policy and the war in Southeast Asia, 1946-1975. View the Ford Library's subject guide describing our extensive holdings on the Vietnam War.

January 4, 2010
The Library had added PDF files of the typed transcripts of Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns' handwritten journals (diaries) to its collection of digitized documents. These journals cover Burn's role as White House Counsellor and then Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors during the Richard Nixon presidency. View the transcripts.

See News Notes for Ford Library Researchers for the year 2009