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Archival misnomers



 ( First read previous "misnomers" posting .... )

 1. That green slimy stuff growing on those papers is NOT really mold.
Your assistant just had jello for lunch and and spilled some.

 2. You really CAN lift several hundred pounds without bending your knees
and run no risk of back injury.

 3. The missing leaf from the Book of Hours you left out on the reading
room table all day when it got busy was REALLY removed by censors in the
tenth century and no one noticed until now.

 4. You CAN leave a valuable collection out on a golf course all summer
and the odds are very good it will NOT be struck by lightning.

 5. The odds of the poisonous snake in your reading room actually biting a
researcher are very small.

 6. No one has actually died from the bite of a rabid animal found in a
manuscript collection in the United States in many years.


 Steve Fisher
 University of Denver

 where spring has sprung ....

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