I have some old paper material to deal with. You might notice it if you look closely at the right side of my desk.
My hope is to finish going through the last 2ft of this in the next couple hours. I don't expect to succeed.
See, many of the little bleached paper sheets here are also the articles and papers I kept from grad school. But it's time they either serve a new purpose or get to know our local recycling program. Still, I like the topics and I keep getting drawn in.
One of the papers that stopped me as I tried to let it go, was written by one of my professors at the school, "Understanding Electronic Incunabula: A Framework for Research on Electronic Records" by Margaret Hedstrom. Not having known much about archives when I started at SI back in 1998, this was what alerted me to the awareness and forsight some were bringing to the archive field. This brought on the respect for the archivists that has only increased to this day.
ok, back to culling the stack.
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I just picked up a beautiful scanner for $20.00 at a tag sale... Soon I will join you in the quest for electronic archiving. One project is to be able to have those "memory" items for Isa archived, so I don't hand her that moldy box of paper when she turns twenty. It's all about life-portability just right now...
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