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Re: fixed archival responsibility - reprise



 Lee ( and all )

 My experience has been many librarians, as well as systems folks, now
understand full well that they are using our terminology and just don't
care.

 Steve Fisher
 University of Denver

On Mon, 29 May 2000, Lee Miller wrote:

> I originally posted this query because I was concerned about the use of
> archival terms for what were, to me, non-archival functions. All of us are
> probably used to the technology industries doing this; they have stolen and
> corrupted the archival vocabulary whole cloth. At this point there is
> probably nothing we can do except grin and bear it when a computer
> technician tries to explain to us how they are going to "archive" our data.
>
> But what disturbed me about this document was that it was written not by
> technology mavens but by librarians. To me, it represented the fact that we
> have failed to explain even to compatriots in a related profession what
> archives are and what archivists do (to make matters worse, it was written
> by a university librarian at an ARL library, who should have known better
> than most). If even ARL librarians do not know or care what archival work
> is, what hope do we have of ever making the general public aware of the role
> of archives in society?
>
> Lee
> ==--00--==
>
> Leon C. Miller, Manuscripts Librarian
> Special Collections, Jones Hall, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library
> Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118
> Ph: 504-865-5685, Fx: 504-865-5761
> Leon.Miller@tulane.edu
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