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Topics of the day:

  1. Baker's lecture last night. (3)
  2. Censoring. Flouting our cities' public libraries mission.
  3. RAIN 4/24: Privacy, Preservation and Open Records
  4. Lehman's Hardware - Ohio Amish Country
  5. "Don't Fold Up:  Responding to Nicholson Baker's Double Fold"
  6. FW: doublefold
  7. doublefold
  8. Architectural Records Intern Position -- NYC
  9. Searching for pro-sports film/video footage
 10. Audio. Nicholson Baker. Transcription. Public reporter stenographer.
 11. Scrapbook Preservation Responses
 12. Eleanor Hodgman Porter
 13. Historians/archivists--public policy debates
 14. Seattle City Records Manager job posting
 15. More on N. Baker and Double Fold
 16. Brooklyn Botanical Gardens Library and Archives to fill archivist position

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Date:    Mon, 23 Apr 2001 23:07:58 -0700
From:    Thomas Robinson <hpa@TELEPORT.COM>
Subject: Baker's lecture last night.

Last night in Portland, Oregon, Nicholson Baker addressed a SRO crowd and
explained his book and ideas.  If any archivist or librarian has an
opportunity to hear for yourself what the man has to say, let me assure you
you will not be disappointed.  Baker has been widely maligned and
misrepresented on this list (mostly by people who have not read the book and
have no idea what the basic issues are.)

His main point is that the "double fold" test applied by libraries is a poor
measurement to judge book deterioration.  the test is an exaggeration of the
so-called poor condition.  Microfilming is a good way to access fragile
originals, but is not a substitute for them.  Now that digital imaging is
likely to replace microfilm, the films themselves are not good enough (in
many cases) to produce a quality digital file.  When microfilming, it is not
necessary to destroy a book or newspaper in order to preserve it.  In the
foreseeable future, a new generation of librarians will want access to the
originals so they can be copied again with the best available technology.
His point is KEEP THE ORIGINALS.

Baker has written about how the microfilming industry has manipulated
libraries in a scandalous fashion.  Now, Bell & Howell owns the microfilm
negatives, the originals have been destroyed, and they have a monopoly.  THe
book also discusses how false deterioration data has been used by libraries
to get funding for microfilming. If you examine his math, you may find that
preservation of the originals is more cost effective than microfilming them
in order to discard them.

Read the book and hear him speak, and make up your own mind for yourself.
Many of the people who have posted critically of him based solely on the
book reviews will find they may have been hasty in their judgement.  A good
reading will at least prepare you to field the inevitable inquiries that
your patrons will ask, expecting you to be familiar with the basic issues.
This is a popular book and is selling well.

--
Thomas Robinson
441 NE Jarrett
Portland OR 97211-3126

visit my website at
www.HistoricPhotoArchive.com

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Date:    Tue, 24 Apr 2001 02:12:39 -0400
From:    Don Saklad <dsaklad@GNU.ORG>
Subject: Censoring. Flouting our cities' public libraries mission.

Do your public library officials delay, divert or deny
you access to read public documentation on your public
library with red tape barriers?... Here in the Boston
metropolitan area Boston Public Library President
Bernie Margolis bmargolis@bpl.org http://www.bpl.org
and Cambridge Public Library Director Susan Flannery
sflannery@ci.cambridge.ma.us
http://www.ci.cambridge.ma.us/~CPL keep public library
documentation behind a wall of delay and denial by
their delegated assistants.

Requests for public documents were denied at the
Lexington Reference Desk by CPL Director Susan Flannery
previously as Reference Desk Librarian at the Lexington
Massachusetts Public Library Cary Memorial Library
http://www.carylibrary.org/ even while involved with
the Massachusetts Intellectual Freedom Committee
http://www.masslib.org/


Public libraries users/customers/consumers ,
public libraries personnel and public libraries
unions collective bargaining units labor relations
advocates have been sidelined, marginalized for
asking to read their own public libraries public
documentation


Bernie Margolis and Susan Flannery's tactics contrary
to intellectual freedom principles include

1. extorting punishing fees from you to read public
   library documents.

2. monitoring your reference requests for public
   library documents without responsive reference
   assistance.

3. reporting your reference requests for public library
   documents without responsive reference assistance.

4. inhibiting your requests for public library
   documents with threats of loss of full library
   privileges or with supervisors' and managers'
   threats regarding your position and advancement.

Ironically, the hypocritical environment of our cities'
public libraries hampers the freedom to read in these
important areas of study of public libraries customer
services excellence, management, personnel and labor
relations. It's a circle the wagons mentality. It's the
routine denial by so called intellectual freedom
advocates more concerned with popular issues of
filtering than with their own abridging of others'
rights of access to read. It's a flouting of the
express mission of our cities' public libraries
http://www.ala.org/rusa/stnd_behavior.html


What will you do to open your city's public library to
greater public participation in long range planning
beginning with opening access to the public
documentation of your city public library long range
planning documents?...

Will you put on the web your city public library
manuals, for example your personnel manual?...




oo__ dWs

Guide to Problematical Boston Public Library Use
http://GuideToProblematicalLibraryUse.WebLogs.com/Stories

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Date:    Tue, 24 Apr 2001 07:53:26 -0400
From:    "Kurilecz, Peter" <peter.kurilecz@WOODSIDESUMMITGROUP.COM>
Subject: RAIN 4/24: Privacy, Preservation and Open Records

The Times of India 4/23/01
New Act to open up govt records for public scrutiny
http://www.timesofindia.com/today/23mdel3.htm

by Shivani Singh
NEW DELHI: In a country where near-paranoid secrecy has long been the
watchword in governance, the Delhi government hopes that its recently passed
Right to Information Act will cut through the bureaucratic straitjacket that
prevents the ordinary citizen from getting official information.
For instance, a local resident fed up with power-cuts could go to his
nearest DVB office to see whether the new transformer promised by the board
has been put in place. And the records would have to be shown to him. That,
at least, is now the law.


Associated Press 4/23/01
E-World: Berkeley professor has a plan to turn the Net into a vast hard
drive
http://www.al.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?f0114_BC_WS
J--E-World-Computer&&news&newsflash-financial

by Tom Weber
The Wall Street Journal
BERKELEY, CALIF. -- From budget spreadsheets to vacation photos, we're all
piling up vast amounts of digital information. So where's the best place to
keep it all? John Kubiatowicz, a professor at the University of California
campus here, says the answer is easy: everywhere.
Mr. Kubiatowicz believes the way to protect information is to spread it
around. So he and a team of Berkeley researchers are developing something
they call OceanStore, a global information storage system woven into the
Internet. They are essentially trying to build the world's largest hard
drive -- and then make it crash-proof.


Washington Business Journal 4/20/01
Company intranets keep employees on the same page
http://washington.bcentral.com/washington/stories/2001/04/23/smallb3.html

Mie-Yun Lee
If you want to share a document companywide, do you e-mail it to everyone?
Perhaps you make dozens of paper copies instead, giving one to each employee
and filing the extras away. Or maybe you save a master in one of the various
shared directories on your company network.
As your business grows, you'll need to find a more efficient way to share
data. Your employees should have one-stop access to company information such
as HR forms, internal job postings, project timelines and contact databases.
If you don't want workers to have to follow a breadcrumb trail of e-mail
attachments, bulging paper files or folders strewn around the company
server, you need an intranet.


CRMDaily.com 4/23/01
XML gains support as standard net language
http://www.crmdaily.com/perl/story/9152.html

by Geoff Brown
XML (extensible markup language) may eventually become the dominant standard
for storing and sharing documents if its proponents have their way -- a move
that could vastly improve data sharing over the Internet.
Like HTML (hypertext markup language), the widely used language for creating
Web sites, XML is a pared-down subset of SGML (standard generalized markup
language) that is designed especially for Web documents. However, unlike
HTML -- which some say has been stretched way beyond its limits -- XML
allows designers freedom to customize codes, allowing a much greater range
of functionality.



The Digital Chosun 4/24/01 (Korea)
Editorial: Tracing Bank Accounts
http://www.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200104/200104230191.html

The National Tax Service, Fair Trade Commission and Financial Supervisory
Service have the authority to trace banks accounts in exceptional cases
under the Real Name Financial Transaction Law. According to documents
submitted to the National Assembly, in addition there have been hundreds of
blank requests issued by government agencies, which is an horrendous abuse
of power and an infringement of the privacy guaranteed by the constitution.
Furthermore, the blank request system is like a speeding locomotive with no
way to stop damage, or abuse.



Inside China Today 4/23/01
Moscow returns key data on young Mao, Zhou to Beijing
http://www.europeaninternet.com/china/news.php3?id=385669

Agence France Presse
MOSCOW, Apr 23, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse) Key data on 1920s
revolutionary activities in China by later communist leaders Mao Zedong and
Zhou Enlai were returned to Beijing Monday from the vaults of Russia's state
archives where they have languished for decades, ITAR-TASS news agency said.


Irish Independent 4/23/01
Historical papers are in danger of rotting
http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ti=41&ca=9&si=415234&iss
ue_id=4346

THOUSANDS of important historical documents dating back to the time of
Pirate Queen Grace O'Malley in the 1580's are under threat from damp and
rot, writes Tom Shiel.


Nebraska Journal-Star 4/23/01
Homestead wins grant to save historic photos
http://www.journalstar.com/nebraska?story_id=3079&past=

by Stephanie Geery-Zink
Beatrice Daily Sun
Homestead National Monument of America has received a grant to train people
to scan thousands of images from the national park's photograph collection
and file them via computer.
Homestead Superintendent Mark Engler said the $15,000 grant came from the
National Park Foundation for a Senior Ranger Corps. Funds were provided by
United Parcel Service.


San Antonio Express-News 4/23/01
Agent Orange research in peril
http://www.hearstnp.com/san_antonio/bea/news/stories/san/storypage.cfm?xla=s
aen&xlb=180&xlc=225267&xld=180

by Sig Christenson
For more than two decades, Brooks AFB led a trailblazing study into the
health effects of Agent Orange, a herbicide used during the Vietnam War that
some scientists and veterans groups have linked to cancer, birth defects and
other illnesses.
Now, however, 8 million documents at the base risk being lost - a move that
researchers and some in Congress say would hamper any future research
efforts.


ComputerUser.com 4/23/01
Linking of federal documents raises privacy fears
http://www.computeruser.com/news/01/04/23/news3.html

Newsbyte
sharing among federal government agencies can help increase efficiency and
lower costs, but it may also threaten the anonymity of sensitive data and
present many new privacy concerns for U.S. citizens, according to a report
by the General Accounting Office (GAO).
In a 172-page report entitled "Record Linkage and Privacy: Issues in
Creating New Federal Research and Statistical Information," the GAO explains
that the increasingly common practice of linking data sets from several
different agencies often creates new information about citizens. That new
data can in turn be used to unwittingly or maliciously identify citizens
whose identity was previously masked by the separation of that data.



New York Times 4/23/01
CNN video archives to become digital database
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/23/technology/23SEAR.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Susan Stellin
CNN, with the help of I.B.M. and Sony Electronics, is taking a big first
step toward a digital TV news library.
Sony and I.B.M. plan to announce a new system today that will convert the
115,000 hours of videotape that CNN, a unit of AOL Time Warner, has
collected the last 21 years, creating a computerized database that will make
it easier to find, retrieve and distribute news clips.



New York Times 4/23/01
>From diary to history books
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Washington-Diary.html?searchpv=a
ponline

Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The man was into everything, knew everyone who counted,
had a measure of success, but never climbed as high on the government ladder
as he might have wished.
Nonetheless, historians care about Benjamin Brown French.
French left behind a written record that opens a wide window on the people
and events of early Washington. His journals make him a much-quoted source
about the drama of the Civil War capital and Abraham Lincoln's White House.



New York Times 4/22/01
Magazine - What they were thinking
Kenneth Mickey, Kansas City, Mo., November 2000
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/22/magazine/22WTWT.html?ex=989036967&ei=1&en=
bb227f460d20d1b2

"I'm in my office, about 150 feet underground. We are inside caves -- well,
they call them caves, but they're really limestone mines. This is a
subtropolis, a metropolis but underground.



New York Times 4/23/01
To preserve dance on film, a passionate infusion of oxygen
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/23/arts/23BENS.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Anna Kisselgoff
Nowadays owadays an American cult idol for hip French film fans is more
likely to be Merce Cunningham than Jerry Lewis, thanks largely to the
CinΘmathΦque de la Danse, a trove of dance films in Paris.
Hardly the usual dance film research archive, the CinΘmathΦque is a movable
feast of new, old and rare dance films repeatedly on show throughout the
world.



The Business Journal 4/20/01
Opinion: Open Secret
http://jacksonville.bcentral.com/jacksonville/stories/2001/04/23/editorial2.
html

The concept of open government sometimes falls at odds with economic
development activities. That's one reason the state provides exemptions to
the Open Records Act regarding business expansion.


Los Angeles Times 4/23/01
Patients can rest easier when it comes to medical privacy issues
http://www.latimes.com/print/health/20010423/t000034442.html

by Benedict Carey
Whether it's a sexual problem, a nervous breakdown or something less
glamorous, most of us have a secret or two in our medical resume that we
don't want buzzing around in some database--at work, say, or a drug
company--where it doesn't belong.



Start Tribune 4/22/01
Report: Responses to open record requests raise question
http://www2.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=84029361

Associated Press
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- Some law enforcement agencies in Brown County
require those asking for public records to pay excess fees or give personal
information that a legal expert says should not be needed, a newspaper
reports.



Star-Herald 4/23/01
Digital imaging lab to be set up at Chadron State College
http://www.starherald.com/Newfront/pages/news3.htm

CHADRON - A corporation that specializes in digital imaging will set up a
laboratory at Chadron State College this summer, and will begin digital
preservation of an early 20th century photography collection housed on the
campus.



St. Louis Post-Dispatch 4/23/01
Freedom to receive information doesn't mean that it's free
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/News/729E8B2C122CD30986256
A3700295666?OpenDocument&Headline=Freedom%20to%20receive%20information%20doe
sn't%20mean%20that%20it's%20free

by Dawn Fallik
Smashed your car in University City? That accident report will cost you $10.
It's cheaper to crash and burn in the city of Union, where $2 will get the
same report.
And if you want to make copies, stay away from St. Ann's city office, where
the first page will cost a whopping $4, followed by $1 for each additional
page. That's compared with the 10-cent-per-copy market rate, according to a
state audit.



Baltimore Sun 4/23/01
A maturing campus keeps eye on its past
http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/howard/bal-ho.hcc23apr23.story?coll=bal%2D
local%2Dhoward

by Jamie Smith Hopkins
Thirty years ago, workers raced to finish Howard Community College's first
building - a spare concrete structure that stood on a nearly bare expanse of
land south of Little Patuxent Parkway.
They didn't make it. Classes started two weeks late for the 850 students.



Baltimore Sun 4/23/01
Pass It On helps preserver small pieces of history
http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/howard/bal-ho.pass23apr23.story?coll=bal%2
Dlocal%2Dhoward

by TaNoah Morgan
Nancy Davis' store is the 7-Eleven of preservation.
Pass It On, a supply store that recently opened in Savage Mill, has products
that will keep silver from tarnishing, paper from decaying and photographs
from yellowing as time metes out its punishment on treasured items.
With her niche-market store, Davis is hoping to fill a void in the
marketplace for average people who want to keep heirloom quilts or priceless
photographs in mint condition, but don't need enough materials to start a
small museum.


Cincinnati Enquirer 4/23/01
Agency improperly withheld Henry pay records, subpoenas
http://enquirer.com/midday/midday2.html

Associated Press
FRANKFORT, Ky. - Payment records and subpoenas related to an investigation
of Lt. Gov. Steve Henry were withheld from reporters in violation of the
Kentucky Open Records Act, the attorney general has ruled.


The Holland Sentinel 4/23/01
Archives examines lives of baby boomer parents
http://www.hollandsentinel.com/stories/042301/loc_0423010003.shtml

by Rachel Izzo
Special to The Sentinel
Juke and Sylvia Becksvoort of Holland sat at their kitchen table recently
and reminisced about their memories of World War II.
"In 1940, I was 20 years old," said Juke, now 81 years old. "So I knew that
I would be a prime target for military service. In August of 1942, I went
into service."



Wall Street Journal 4/23/01
Peering over the hedge becomes a breeze as Web users discover real-estate
databases
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB987990055868554648.htm

by Patricia Davis
PITTSBURGH -- Ron Hartwick hasn't seen some of his friends from Gateway
Senior High School in a long time. He graduated in 1968. But he knows how
much some of them paid for their houses, what their houses look like and how
big they are.
He figures he has checked the online property records of about a hundred
high-school acquaintances and another 900 or so people who live in the area.
He looked up the house he grew up in on Heartwood Drive in Monroeville to
see how many times it has changed hands.




Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management Group
Woodside Summit Group Inc
Midlothian, Virginia
Office: 804-744-1247 x23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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Date:    Tue, 24 Apr 2001 08:53:57 -0400
From:    Daniel Sokolow <DSokolow@NSHS.EDU>
Subject: Re: Baker's lecture last night.

I only want to point out a few things.  I read US News' review (it was more
of an article on the book than a straight review), and they're the only
magazine that actually took the time to talk to archivists and librarians.
LC no longer guillotines books any more, and the double fold test has
apparently fallen out of fashion - points that have not been made in any of
the various reviews we've discussed.

Moreover, I think the intelligent points that have been made on the list are
still true (I won't glorify the unintelligent ones, including ones made by
yours truly) - resources are tighter than Baker admits, and sometimes
choices have to be made.

In case it never made RAIN, here's the URL for the US News article:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/010423/library.htm

DS
______________________________________
Daniel Sokolow, Archives Coordinator
David Taylor Archives
North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System
155 Community Drive
Great Neck, NY 11021
mailto:dsokolow@nshs.edu

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Date:    Tue, 24 Apr 2001 13:05:32 -0000
From:    Butcher Sharon L Contr AEDC/ACS <Sharon.Butcher@ARNOLD.AF.MIL>
Subject: Lehman's Hardware - Ohio Amish Country

I was remiss in giving the correct name of the hardware in Kidron, OH, which
carries non-electric appliances, children's wooden toys, etc.   I
erroneously indicated Kidron Hardware, but meant Lehman's Hardware. Lehman's
is sort of generically called, by some of us Ohioans, as Kidron Hardware.
Lehman's puts out a catalog, for a small fee, and you can contact them at:
www.lehmans.com   or info@lehmans.com, P.O. Box 41, Kidron, OH 44636.  Or
1-880-Get Lehmans (438-5346).

Sharon Lee Butcher
Reference Librarian
AEDC Technical Library
100 Kindel Drive, Ste C212
Arnold AFB, TN  37389-3212
931-454-4430
Fax:  931-454-5421
sharon.butcher@arnold.af.mil

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Date:    Tue, 24 Apr 2001 10:07:46 -0400
From:    "Heard, Thomas" <Thomas.Heard@AIG.COM>
Subject: Re: Baker's lecture last night.

Thank you to Thomas Robinson for the report on Baker's lecture...as someone
who has read Baker's 2000 New Yorker piece on libraries and microfilm...
this is how I see the issues.  A critic like Baker is great-he forces you to
rethink your assumptions and provides an opportunity to see or do things in
a new way or to assure yourself why you do what you do.

1.  The Library/Archives/let's throw in Museum curators too shall we?
professions have not done a good enough job of explaining to the general
public what we do.  This opens the door for critiques like Baker's.  I do
not see these professionals as those who keep everything.  That is
warehousing/logistics.  The point as i see it is to use accepted
professional methods (and not an indivdualized personally/culturally biased
"i know better than you" opinion) to identify that portion which should be
saved and to committ resources to that which can be saved.

If we overuse the message "We Save It" as a group, it makes it easy for
someone like Baker to say-no you don't.  Truth is that different materials
are saved for different reasons and are important for different lengths of
time...  Maybe the message should be "We Save the Important Stuff..."

2.  Keeping everything is bad because everything is not important.  The
attempt to keep everything endangers the ability to keep anything.
Each decision to commit resources to item/project/collection A is ALSO a
decision to not commit those resources to B,C,or F.  Keeping resources
ignores the fact that there are professionals who can help thresh out the
wheat from the chaff.

Think of the effort to preserve the 1812 flag at the Smithsonian.  Should
every object get this level of preservation? Even if the resources were made
available? No

3.  One thing I will look for when I do read the book is any attempt by
Baker to address how to go about saving everything.
-paper/information explosion and the volume question
-what is an "original" newspaper in 2001?
-what role should industry/publishers/authors even- play in preserving their
work?  Baker's current book is published by Random House, part of media
giant Bertelsmann AG.  See here for info on their media empire with an net
profit of 600 Million + per year
http://www.hoovers.com/co/capsule/1/0,2163,40661,00.html

Interested in all your thoughts...


        [Heard, Thomas]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Robinson [SMTP:hpa@TELEPORT.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 2:08 AM
> To:   ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject:      Baker's lecture last night.
>
> Last night in Portland, Oregon, Nicholson Baker addressed a SRO crowd and
> explained his book and ideas.  If any archivist or librarian has an
> opportunity to hear for yourself what the man has to say, let me assure
> you
> you will not be disappointed.  Baker has been widely maligned and
> misrepresented on this list (mostly by people who have not read the book
> and
> have no idea what the basic issues are.)
>
> His main point is that the "double fold" test applied by libraries is a
> poor
> measurement to judge book deterioration.  the test is an exaggeration of
> the
> so-called poor condition.  Microfilming is a good way to access fragile
> originals, but is not a substitute for them.  Now that digital imaging is
> likely to replace microfilm, the films themselves are not good enough (in
> many cases) to produce a quality digital file.  When microfilming, it is
> not
> necessary to destroy a book or newspaper in order to preserve it.  In the
> foreseeable future, a new generation of librarians will want access to the
> originals so they can be copied again with the best available technology.
> His point is KEEP THE ORIGINALS.
>
> Baker has written about how the microfilming industry has manipulated
> libraries in a scandalous fashion.  Now, Bell & Howell owns the microfilm
> negatives, the originals have been destroyed, and they have a monopoly.
> THe
> book also discusses how false deterioration data has been used by
> libraries
> to get funding for microfilming. If you examine his math, you may find
> that
> preservation of the originals is more cost effective than microfilming
> them
> in order to discard them.
>
> Read the book and hear him speak, and make up your own mind for yourself.
> Many of the people who have posted critically of him based solely on the
> book reviews will find they may have been hasty in their judgement.  A
> good
> reading will at least prepare you to field the inevitable inquiries that
> your patrons will ask, expecting you to be familiar with the basic issues.
> This is a popular book and is selling well.
>
> --
> Thomas Robinson
> 441 NE Jarrett
> Portland OR 97211-3126
>
> visit my website at
> www.HistoricPhotoArchive.com
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Date:    Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:30:06 -0500
From:    Susan Fox <sfox@ARCHIVISTS.ORG>
Subject: "Don't Fold Up:  Responding to Nicholson Baker's Double Fold"

The May/June issue of Archival Outlook, which just went to press, will
contain an essay by Richard Cox entitled, "Don't Fold Up:  Responding to
Nicholson Baker's Double Fold."  This essay is also posted on our web site
at http://www.archivists.org/news/doublefold.html



Susan E. Fox, CAE
Executive Director
Society of American Archivists
527 S. Wells St.
Chicago, IL  60607
312-922-0140
mobile:  312-617-7015
E-Fax 801-720-0078
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Date:    Tue, 24 Apr 2001 10:53:51 -0400
From:    "Kurilecz, Peter" <peter.kurilecz@WOODSIDESUMMITGROUP.COM>
Subject: FW: doublefold

The following is posted on the behalf of Richard Cox whose original email to
the list was rejected.

Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management Group
Woodside Summit Group Inc
Midlothian, Virginia
Office: 804-744-1247 x23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Cox [mailto:rcox@mail.sis.pitt.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 10:43 AM
To: Kurilecz, Peter
Subject: RE: doublefold


Hi, Peter

I tried to post and I got one of those rejection notices about email
compatibility, etc.

Here is what I posted that got rejected -- if you want to send it along
asap, please feel free to --

I have followed the thread of discussion on the listserv about Nicholson
Baker's book, DOUBLE FOLD, with interest.  Having read the book and most
of his other related writings, I, too, have been concerned by the nature
of many of the postings that reflect NOT having read the book and some
substantial misinterpretations of what Baker represents.  The public
attention being devoted to this book represents both a challenge and
opportunity for us.

For the record, I have written a fairly lengthy review of the book,
forthcoming in SAA's ARCHIVAL OUTLOOK, but now available at the SAA web
site -- "Don't Fold Up: Responding to Nicholson Baker's DOUBLE FOLD" -- at
http://www.archivists.org/news/doublefold.html.  I hope the review helps
archivists to sort out all the hype related to the book.

I appreciate SAA asking me to write the review and I appreciate any
comments people might want to make regarding my forthcoming debate with
Mr. Baker.  People can also read another lengthy essay of mine concerning
Mr. Baker's "Deadline" article (the one on the newspapers) at "The Great
Newspaper Caper: Backlash in the Digital Age," First Monday 5- (December
4, 2000) available at http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_12/cox/.  I
also co-authored an essay partially responding to his 1994
"Discards" article as With Jane Greenberg and Cynthia Porter.  "Access
Denied: The Discarding of Library History." American Libraries 29 (April
1998): 57-61.


Richard J. Cox
Professor
Department of Library and Information Sciences
School of Information Sciences
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Voice:  412-624-3245
FAX:    412-648-7001
e-mail: rcox@mail.sis2.pitt.edu
homepage: http://www.lis.pitt.edu/~rjc

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Date:    Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:08:09 -0400
From:    Richard Cox <rcox@MAIL.SIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject: doublefold

I have followed the thread of discussion on the listserv about Nicholson
Baker's book, DOUBLE FOLD, with interest.  Having read the book and most
of his other related writings, I, too, have been concerned by the nature
of many of the postings that reflect NOT having read the book and some
substantial misinterpretations of what Baker represents.  The public
attention being devoted to this book represents both a challenge and
opportunity for us.

For the record, I have written a fairly lengthy review of the book,
forthcoming in SAA's ARCHIVAL OUTLOOK, but now available at the SAA web
site -- "Don't Fold Up: Responding to Nicholson Baker's DOUBLE FOLD" -- at
http://www.archivists.org/news/doublefold.html.  I hope the review helps
archivists to sort out all the hype related to the book.

I appreciate SAA asking me to write the review and I appreciate any
comments people might want to make regarding my forthcoming debate with
Mr. Baker.  People can also read another lengthy essay of mine concerning
Mr. Baker's "Deadline" article (the one on the newspapers) at "The Great
Newspaper Caper: Backlash in the Digital Age," First Monday 5- (December
4, 2000) available at http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_12/cox/.  I
also co-authored an essay partially responding to his 1994
"Discards" article as With Jane Greenberg and Cynthia Porter.  "Access
Denied: The Discarding of Library History." American Libraries 29 (April
1998): 57-61.


Richard J. Cox
Professor
Department of Library and Information Sciences
School of Information Sciences
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Voice:  412-624-3245
FAX:    412-648-7001
e-mail: rcox@mail.sis2.pitt.edu
homepage: http://www.lis.pitt.edu/~rjc

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Date:    Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:12:47 -0400
From:    "Chore, Susan" <Chore@FRICK.ORG>
Subject: Architectural Records Intern Position -- NYC

THE FRICK COLLECTION
FRICK ART REFERENCE LIBRARY
                                                                =09
                                                        Architectural
Records Preservation Project

Internship

The Frick Collection, located at 1 East 70th Street in New York City, =
is
seeking a qualified graduate student for a paid internship to undertake =
the
review and organization of a portion of the architectural records
documenting the planning, construction and subsequent modifications to =
The
Frick Collection and the Frick Art Reference Library buildings =
(exterior and
interior) dating from c. 1909 through the present. =20

The Frick Collection was designed and built by Carr=E8re & Hastings c.
1909-1914.  The mansion was modified 1931-1935 by John Russell Pope and
opened as a museum at the end of 1935.  The Frick Art Reference =
Library,
also designed by John Russell Pope, was built between 1931 and 1935.  =
As
part of the review and organization, the student will need to survey =
the
records, sort them, prepare an inventory and advise on the preservation =
of
at least a portion of them.

The intern will report to the Archivist of The Frick Collection and =
Frick
Art Reference Library, who will supervise the project, with the =
assistance
of other Collection and Library personnel.

STARTING DATE: ASAP

QUALIFICATIONS:  Experience working with architectural records and =
historic
preservation.  Course work in architectural preservation

SALARY: Competitive, 14 to 21 hours per week.  No benefits.

CONTACT:                        Sally Brazil
                                Archivist
                                Frick Art Reference Library
                                10 East 71st Street
                                New York, NY  10021
                                (212) 547-0648 or e-mail: brazil@frick.org
                                fax: 212-879-2091

 April 24, 2001

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Date:    Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:57:44 -0700
From:    "Bunker, Kevin" <kbunker@SS.CA.GOV>
Subject: Searching for pro-sports film/video footage

Dear Archives Colleagues:

A request has come before my eyes from a co-worker in California State
Archives on behalf of a friend:

What is the best way to track down archival collections of vintage US
pro-sports film and video, "covering anything from football, basketball to
pro-wrestling and Roller Derby?" I believe the original requestor is
interested in finding collections that will provide duplicate footage or
video copies of historic visuals.

Please reply directly to my co-worker, Juan Ramos via e-mail:
jramos@ss.ca.gov.

Many thanks, all!

Kevin V. Bunker
Student Assistant
CA State Archives
Student Assistant
California State Archives

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Date:    Tue, 24 Apr 2001 13:07:46 -0400
From:    Don Saklad <dsaklad@GNU.ORG>
Subject: Audio. Nicholson Baker. Transcription. Public reporter stenographer.

Nicholson Baker  newsrep@gwi.net
http://www.gwi.net/~dnb/newsrep.html

Massachusetts Simmons College
james.matarazzo@simmons.edu
http://www.simmons.edu/gslis/about/index.html


James M. Matarazzo  Dean
Massachusetts Simmons College

Reply To:
dsaklad@gnu.org


Dear James M. Matarazzo,




Information from the upcoming event is important to
very widespread constituencies.

Please record the audio and make available via your web
links this audio of the May 16 2001 event with
Nicholson Baker
http://www.archivists.org/news/doublefold.html

or arrange for a public reporter stenographer to
transcribe the text of the event to your web links
or both !  http://www.copleycourt.com/



Reply To:
dsaklad@gnu.org



Kind regards,
oo__ dWs

Guide to Problematical Boston Public Library Use
http://GuideToProblematicalLibraryUse.WebLogs.com/Stories



Cc:
Henry Scannell  BPL Microtext Curator
hscannell@bpl.org
http://www.bpl.org/WWW/microtext/index.html

John Devine  BPL Newspapers
jdevine@bpl.org
http://www.bpl.org/WWW/newspaper/index.html

Bernie Margolis, BPL President
bmargolis@bpl.org
http://www.bpl.org/WWW/trustees.html

foi-l@listserv.syr.edu
http://listserv.syr.edu/archives/foi-l.html

archives@listserv.muohio.edu
http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html

recmgmt-l@lists.ufl.edu
http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html

allregions@mlin.lib.ma.us
http://www.mlin.lib.ma.us/cgi-bin/lwgate/BOSTON/archives/


and other colleagues, librarians, archivists,
records managers, etc.

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Date:    Tue, 24 Apr 2001 14:04:03 -0400
From:    Dominic Grandinetti <domi67@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Scrapbook Preservation Responses

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<P>Below are the responses I received from my Scrapbook Preservation question.&nbsp; Thanks for your help.</P>
<P>Dominic Grandinetti/American Jewish Historical Society</P>
<P>Scrapbook Preservation Responses:</P>
<P>1. Contact the Northeast Document Conservation Center - http://www.nedcc.org - they have sponsored a number of workshops dealing with scrapbook preservation.</P>
<P>2. NEDCC's leaflet on storage and handling practices includes a section on scrapbooks -</P>
<P>http://www.nedcc.org/plam3/tleaf41.htm</P>
<P>3. Basic information about scrapbook preservation can be found on the Eastman Kodak site -</P>
<P>http://www.eastman.org/4_educ/4_prsrv.html</P>
<P>4. Works relating to preservation - http://www.Tulane.edu/~wclib/susan.html</P>
<P>5. Library of Congress - Preservation Basics - <A href="http://palimpsest.standford.edu/byauth/zucker/zucker1.html";>http://palimpsest.standford.edu/byauth/zucker/zucker1.html</A></P>
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Date:    Tue, 24 Apr 2001 14:36:08 -0400
From:    Kathleen M Delaney <kdelaney@ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU>
Subject: Eleanor Hodgman Porter

Folks:

I have a patron searching for information, possibly correspondence,
scrapbooks, membership memorabilia and ephemera, related to the "Pollyanna
Clubs" or "Glad Clubs" that grew from the fan following of Eleanor
Hodgman Porter (1868-1920), author of "Pollyanna."

We have searched OCLC; RLIN; and  major search engines.

The patron seeks the correspondence of the "fans" rather than that between
Miss Porter and her publishers, or husband. He is aware of several
collections of her papers, including manuscripts at the University of
Virginia; Dartmouth College, and other "scattered Archives," but has been
unable to ascertain if Miss Porter's "fan mail" survived for preservation.
He is particularly interested in the "development of the Glad Clubs"
through the correspondence, he believes to be vast, among Miss Porter's
fans.

He also would be interested in contact with individuals who may have
knowledge of family members who belonged to these "Glad Clubs." All of
this is for scholarly research.

Should you have or know of any collections of this "fan" material, please
contact me at kdelaney@acsu.buffalo.edu

Many thanks,

Kathleen M. DeLaney
Assistant Librarian/ Archivist
University at Buffalo Archives
420 Capen Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, New York 14260-2200, USA
e-mail: kdelaney@acsu.buffalo.edu
tel: 716-645-2916
fax: 716-645-3714

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Date:    Tue, 24 Apr 2001 16:15:58 EDT
From:    Maarja Krusten <Maarja@AOL.COM>
Subject: Historians/archivists--public policy debates

I am interested in finding a discussion List that includes private and public sector subscribers and covers archival and historical research issues.  Does anyone know of such a List?  I worked for 14 years as a federal archivist and have been working for the past 11 years as a federal historian.  I've been unable to find a Listserv that satisfactorily combines both fields.

The Archives and Archivists List touches on interesting issues at times but rarely if ever delves deeply into public policy issues (the Kyl and Lott amendments on government declassification; the difficulty of ensuring the creation and preservation of records in the era of the delete key; assertions, such as those by former White House counsel Lloyd Cutler, that public officials are increasingly reluctant to take notes or create deliberative documents in Washington, and so forth).

One would think these issues would be of great interest to historians, since they are so dependent on good records management and archiving, but I'm having trouble finding a List that reflects this.  I recently posted to the H-Diplo list several times between 4/17 and 4/24/01 but found a disappointing amount of stovepiping or insularity on that List.  In fact, none of the the scholars who subscribe to H-Diplo seemed interested in learning about the challenges faced by government archivists and historians in Washington.  So I'm looking for a List that is more conducive to exploring these issues.

In answering critics of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), I posted a defense of the agency on H-Diplo and noted "To be useful, any criticism of NARA must take into account all the sources of pressure on the agency and look for ways to protect it, not tear down the agency."  Only two scholars responded and neither addressed the sources of pressure on the Archives.  One charged that NARA was too timid and should be replaced by a new declassifying agency; the other (Hayden Peake) wrote that "There is no need to gain insight into NARA's problems, it is the solution to the scholars' problems that require attention."

Does anyone know of a List where historians are interested in gaining "insight into NARA's problems" and are willing to debate public policy issues related to public access and records managment?   Conversely, is there a List that discusses the public policy challenges faced by government historians and archivists in more depth than does Archives and Archivists?  Please post to the respective lists (this is being double posted to Archives and Archivists and to H-Diplo) or off-list to me, as you prefer.
Maarja Krusten (Maarja@aol.com)

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Date:    Tue, 24 Apr 2001 13:31:14 -0700
From:    Scott Cline <Scott.Cline@CI.SEATTLE.WA.US>
Subject: Seattle City Records Manager job posting

Please find posted below a job announcement for the newly established =
position of City Records Manager for the City of Seattle.  Feel free to =
share this colleagues, other listservs, friends, family, strangers on the =
street, etc.  Please respond to the the address and email in the announceme=
nt and not to me.  Thanks.

Scott Cline
Seattle Municipal Archives
600 Fourth Avenue, Room 104
Seattle, WA 98104
206-684-8353

***********************************************************

CITY RECORDS MANAGER
CITY OF SEATTLE, WA

General Description:  The City of Seattle seeks a highly qualified =
professional to manage the newly-created City-wide Records Management =
Program.  The successful candidate will report to the City Clerk and work =
closely with the City Archivist.  The City Records Manager will develop =
City-wide records management policies and procedures; hire and supervise =
two records analysts; develop training and workshop materials, and conduct =
training of city staff; identify issues and work with appropriate City =
staff on solutions for electronic records management issues; provide =
technical assistance to City departments on records creation, management, =
and disposition; review departmental records retention schedules; oversee =
auditing of records management compliance by departments; serve on =
City-wide committees related to records issues; and work closely with the =
City Archivist to ensure the preservation of archival records.

Qualifications:  Required qualifications are a masters degree in history, =
library and/or information science, or a related field, with advanced =
coursework in archival and records management theory and methodology; =
minimum five years of full-time, progressively responsible, professional =
records management experience; experience surveying, classifying, and =
appraising records, and experience writing records retention schedules; =
knowledge and experience in the management of electronic records and =
recordkeeping systems; excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal =
skills; experience and/or familiarity with PC-based computer systems and =
software including word processing and database management systems; and =
ability and willingness to lift heavy containers (up to 40 pounds) on a =
regular basis.  Preferred qualifications include professional experience =
in a government records program; professional experience in an archives =
program; and records management certification.

Salary Range:  $53,641 - 80,451, with excellent benefits.

How to Apply:  Send letter of application (no longer than two pages) =
addressing all required qualifications; current resume; and names, =
addresses, and telephone numbers of three references to Susan Brown, City =
of Seattle, Office of the City Clerk, 600 Fourth Avenue, Room 104, =
Seattle, WA 98104; e-mail to susan.brown@ci.seattle.wa.us  Mailed =
applications must be postmarked by May 25, 2001 and e-mailed applications =
must be received by this office by 5:00 p.m. May 25, 2001.

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Date:    Tue, 24 Apr 2001 15:05:17 -0700
From:    Jennifer Jones <jejukes@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: More on N. Baker and Double Fold

I was doing some checking on Baker's title and looked
at amazon to see what they had on it.  Maybe it will
fuel the fire too much, but I think all of us should
take a look at the reviews submitted by the general
public that has read this book.  They are not very
forgiving to us in the profession and maybe we need to
realize that whether we think we are doing right or
not, Baker is probably all most people have ever heard
on the subject.  Debating amongst ourselves is good,
but we must find ways to make sure our patrons and the
public understand that we have research behind our
decisions and we try to do the best we can with the
resources available.  I do not have a solution, maybe
the debate should turn to how to get our message out
instead of just whether someone is right or wrong.

Jennifer Jones
Reference Librarian
North Augusta, SC

=====
Jennifer E. Jones
1810 Woodhill Trail
Augusta, GA 30909
706-739-0852
jejukes@yahoo.com

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Date:    Tue, 24 Apr 2001 23:30:06 -0400
From:    Michael Ravnitzky <mikerav@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Subject: Brooklyn Botanical Gardens Library and Archives to fill archivist
         position

I heard that the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens Library and Archives is seeking
to fill a - new - full-time archivist position.  If anyone has a copy of the
job posting, perhaps they can post it.

Michael Ravnitzky
mikerav@ix.netcom.com

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