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Re: what do you call your archival storage?



We've never named our storage areas.  Although, in retrospect, the space we just moved out of should have been called "Hades"--it was five stories underground and I always felt like Sisyphus rolling a heavy stone up the mountain of backlog.

We're moving into a new facility in 2003.  I'm thinking of calling it "Bob."

Scott Cline
Seattle Municipal Archives
600 Fourth Avenue, Room 104
Seattle, WA 98104
206-684-8353
http://www.cityofseattle.net/cityarchives

>>> Joy Kingsolver <jkingsolver@EARTHLINK.NET> 03/26/02 12:03PM >>>
We call it "the fridge," esp. when
the HVAC is working at full efficiency.

Joy Kingsolver



As the clock struck 12:09 PM 3/26/02 -0500, Michael Rhode took quill in
hand and wrote:
>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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