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Okay, who's hiding the treasures?



I couldn't help but be amused by the article below in today's RAIN posting.

Who are these silly institutions that had the foresight to preserve these
newspapers, BUT THEN dropped the ball by not realizing "the uniqueness of
what they had" ??   It's not clear if they actually invested money, labor
and space into locating, acquiring, processing, arranging, describing, and
providing access to these historical newspapers -- they may only have
carved out some of their ever-limited space to cold store them.  Yet they
were preserved so that this person could "discover" them.

It's unfortunate that each of our archives don't have such unique treasures
that we could undervalue.

Erik Nordberg
Michgian Tech
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Historic papers found in storage
Kansas historian Regimental uncovers newspapers printed by Civil War
soldiers.
Topeka Capital-Journal 11/20/00
http://cjonline.com/stories/112000/com_papers.shtml
By STEVE FRY
The Capital-Journal
Historian Chandra Miller has uncovered about 100 treasures being stored by
institutions that didn't realize the uniqueness of what they had.
Miller's treasures, uncovered in different archives and depositories, are
regimental newspapers printed by soldiers in the Civil War.

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