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Re: A solution to our image problems!? HUMOR



How about this one Maggie...a researcher stumbles into the wrong room at the
Archives and finds all those records that amateur genealogists have accused
us of hiding for years actually do exist!  And underneath them is Jimmy
Hoffa!  Scandal, public statements, Congressional hearings, grim-faced
reference archivists taking the fifth, teary-eyed little old ladies sharing
their pain about not being able to join the Mayflower Society.....

Could be a movie in this.

Art "We're two people short this week and it's a madhouse" Dostie

-----Original Message-----
From: Margaret Yax [mailto:myax@CINCYMUSEUM.ORG]
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 2:37 PM
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: A solution to our image problems!?


Good afternoon everyone -- you may consider this a Monday funny or, Heaven
forbid, another opportunity to discuss the much-lamented stereotypical image
of the quiet, dusty archivist.

In one of the weekend issues of the Cincinnati Enquirer, a columnist wrote
about how the typical image of the accountant has benefitted from the
Enron/Anderson scandal.  She suggested that the scandal turned their image
from boring, passive, "milktoast" types into good guys, bad guys,
scapegoats, criminals and a number of other colorful characterizations.

Ergo, what we evidently need is a good old-fashioned scandal to change our
image.  Any thoughts?  Fire away.

Maggie Yax, Archives Manager
Cincinnati Museum Center
Union Terminal
1301 Western Ave.
Cincinnati, OH 45203
513-287-7066
myax@cincymuseum.org

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