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Re: Stupid question, probably



Question, though - for Mr. Sokolow - do you not have a trustees collection
that this could be added to, intact, without dismantling it?0  I guess,
depending on content, I tend to think that even a self-weeded donation tells
us something, historically, about what the person believed was important
from his/her career.
Just asking.
Anna Truman
Records Specialist/Archivist
University of Cincinnati

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dean DeBolt" <ddebolt@MAIL.UWF.EDU>
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Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: Stupid question, probably


> Daniel's question is worthy of answering!  Our whole philosophy of
> keeping a group of records intact is that it reflects the mind of the
> person or organization.   If I get a collection that does reflect the
> person in that it does include correspondence, letters, etc., then that
> philosophy makes sense.   But if I get -- in an organizational setting --
> a box of Dr. ZXY's papers and all that is there are organization
> publications, minutes of meetings, etc. -- none of these authored
> by the person or reflecting some exercise in judgemental saving
> (like say saving only those articles about his personal interest in
> cloning archivists) ... I don't have a problem placing them in the
> appropriate files.   Even more so if I know that it is a purged
> selection and probably purged by others as Daniel suggests.
>
> Dean
>
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