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Re: what do you call your archival storage?



We call ours the vault as well, but it literally is in an old bank vault
with the heavy combination door and all.  We have off-site storage that we
refer to as the street address and a room near the archives that we call the
ante room (or as I like to call it, the nightmare room).
Christy Johnson
Assistant Archivist
Wells Fargo Historical Services
MAC A0101-026
420 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA  94104
p: 415.396.0218
f: 415.391.8644
e: johnschr@wellsfargo.com <mailto:johnschr@wellsfargo.com>

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Julia Bazar [SMTP:julia@GLBTHISTORY.ORG]
        Sent:   Tuesday, March 26, 2002 11:15 AM
        To:     ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
        Subject:        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

        -----Original Message-----
        From: Archives & Archivists [mailto:ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU]On
        Behalf Of Michael Rhode
        Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 9:09 AM
        To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
        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
        PLEASE NOTE: The archives is closed for renovation effective January
21,
        2002.

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