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Re: what do you call your archival storage?



I've always refer to it as the "vault" -- even when it is just a barely
temperature controlled and only slightly secure room -- Since my first
training was with the vault's at the Schlesinger Library.  Of course there
the remote storage (as opposed to off-site) was called the "pool vault"
because the room used to house the Radcliff College Swimming Pool.  You get
to it from the main library by a labyrinthine series of tunnels and passages
through the basements of at least two other buildings.

Julia Bazar
Special Projects Librarian (Archivist)
GLBT Historical Society of Northern Ca.
973 Market Street, Suite 400
San Francisco, CA  94103
415-777-5455

julia@glbthistory.org
http://glbthistory.org

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Subject: what do you call your archival storage?


A writer friend of mine asked:

"Is there a pet name for the file storage room, some jokey monicker that's
 not to obscure for the outside world to comprehend? Y'know, like "morgue"
in
 the newspapers?"

Unfortunately, I just use 'the stacks'  which isn't very interesting.
Anyone else have something good for him?

Thanks,

Mike

Michael Rhode, Archivist
Otis Historical Archives
National Museum of Health and Medicine
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Washington, DC 20306-6000
202-782-2212; FAX 202-782-3573
http://natmedmuse.afip.org/
http://natmedmuse.afip.org/collections/archives/archives.html
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2002.

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