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Re: Archives in the News



Either that or they used their
super-hero-supersonic-archivists'-extra-sense-of-what's-vital-for-all-future
-societies (and genealogists).

"It's all about appraisal"

n

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Nan Curtis
Supervisor, Visual Resources Collection
University of Michigan Media Union Library
B474A Media Union
2281 Bonisteel Blvd.
Ann Arbor, MI  48109-2094
phone (734) 763-5485 fax (734) 764-4487
ncurtis@umich.edu
http://www.ummu.umich.edu


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>From: "Richard G. King Jr." <kingr@U.ARIZONA.EDU>
>To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
>Subject: Re: Archives in the News
>Date: Fri, May 11, 2001, 3:06 PM
>

> Nan et al,
> Uh-huh.  And just how would the stumbling archivist KNOW that that particular
> material had not been turned over in a trial that happened sometime ago?  Big
> sign on it that said "Important stuff we forgot to turn over to the defense in
> the trial of the century.  Archivist, please contact defense attorney's after
> execution?"  Dick King
>
> Nan Curtis wrote:
>
>> The thing that caught my attention was the NPR article this morning wherein
>> the interviewee (can't remember his name), said that the archivists
>> "stumbled" across the documents.  I could only envision a group of
>> archivists tripping over a large stack of papers.  Gee, I like to think of
>> my daily work processes as more than just blindly blundering and stumbling
>> about the place.
>>
>> --
>> Nan Curtis
>> Supervisor, Visual Resources Collection
>> University of Michigan Media Union Library
>> B474A Media Union
>> 2281 Bonisteel Blvd.
>> Ann Arbor, MI  48109-2094
>> phone (734) 763-5485 fax (734) 764-4487
>> ncurtis@umich.edu
>> http://www.ummu.umich.edu
>>
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>> >From: Dean DeBolt <ddebolt@MAIL.UWF.EDU>
>> >To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
>> >Subject: Archives in the News
>> >Date: Fri, May 11, 2001, 12:42 PM
>> >
>>
>> > The online CNN news article about discovery of the FBI
>> > files on Timothy McVeigh that were not turned over to the
>> > prosecution, includes the following sentence:
>> >
>> > Justice officials said the documents -- which included some of the original
>> > notes of FBI investigators which were never transcribed -- were discovered
>> > by an FBI archivist as the materials in the case were compiled, and that it
>> > was still unclear how the papers were missed.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Dean
>> >
>> > Dean DeBolt
>> > University Librarian
>> > Special Collections and West Florida Archives
>> > John C. Pace Library
>> > University of West Florida
>> > 11000 University Parkway
>> > Pensacola, FL  32514-5750
>> > Tele:  850-474-2213;   Fax:  850-474-3338
>> >
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