ARCHIVIST OF THE HALL OF RECORDS 15

CLASSIFICATION AND SALARY ADJUSTMENTS

I am pleased to report that many inequities in our salary scales
were remedied during the year. We benefitted by the dropping of many
modified titles by the Commissioner of Personnel and the substitution
therefor of numerals: e. g. Senior Archivist to Archivist III, some with
pay raises and some without:

Title change without salary scale adjustment:

Junior Archivist to Archivist II
Senior Clerk to Clerk I

Title change with salary scale adjustment:

Stenographer-Secretary to Secretary III, Scale 11 to Scale 12
Principal Stenographer to Secretary II, Scale 10 to Scale 11
Principal Clerk to Clerk III, Scale 10 to Scale 11
Senior Archivist to Archivist III, Scale 18 to Scale 20

There were in addition several positions for which a pay raise
was granted:

Public Records Examiner, Scale 18 to Scale 22
Manuscript Repair Technician, Scale 10 to Scale 12
Archivist and Records Administrator, Scale 29 to Scale 32

There was one reclassification :

Stenographer, Accounting to Principal Account Clerk I, Scale 8
to Scale 11

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

The Archivist continued to serve during the fiscal year as Chair-
man of the Advisory Committee on the Study of State Archives under-
taken by the Society of American Archivists. By the end of the year,
the director of the study, Dr. Ernst Posner, Professor Emeritus of
Political Sciences of American University, had completed the study and
had delivered the manuscript to the University of Chicago Press. Since
this was an ad hoc committee, it was automatically dissolved on com-
pletion of its work. The Archivist will not refrain from quoting the
opening line in Dr. Posner's study of Maryland: "Operating under
the Hall of Records Commission, the Maryland Hall of Records en-
joys an enviable reputation as one of the leading state archival agencies."