[Dialogue] Values for the Archives

[Marilyn R Crocker]

Gordon and other guardians of the archives,

As we, the OE, envision how to capture the luster of ever-deteriorating
treasure in the basement of Kemper, so Joe and I envision what fate might
lie before the multiple file cabinets of EI/ICA/OE files that we have
dutifully moved from place to place to place, lo these many years.

We are wondering, is there a way we (collectively) might be able to
identify and fill gaps in the official archives with the gifts of items
from our dispersed family archives?  Otherwise we're thinking the whole
lot may get chucked given the "down-sizing" time of life we are all
entering, or "the dumpster strategy" that our kids would likely choose if
they were the ones left "holding the files."

Insights and offers would be appreciated!

Marilyn


Marilyn R. Crocker, Ed.D
Crocker & Associates, Inc.
123 Sanborn Road
West Newfield, ME 04095
(207) 793-3711


On Mon, 18 May 2009 22:54:06 -0700 Gordon Harper
<gharper1 at mindspring.com> writes:
Bill --

Thanks so much.  A superb contribution to all our thinking about how we
handle this valuable resource.  Really appreciate the thought you've
given it and the conclusions you've reached.

Look forward to hearing the thoughts of others --

Gordon


Bill Parker wrote: 
Greetings to the People of the Order,

I want to initiate a conversation before the Archive Meeting at the end
of this month. The conversation is about some Principles concerning the
Archives. Let us consider the notion of values. What are our values as we
relate to the Archives. It seems there are three primary values: 1)
Preservation; 2) Accessibility; 3) Flexibility, basically in that order.
Why these three values? These are the ones needed to avoid unintentional
and unnecessary damage to the Archives, to have maximum search and
retrievable capabilities into any subject of interest in the Archives,
and to have the reflexibility for anyone to access the Archives without
being capable of changing the original configuration, which would be the
physical location of each page. Why these three values?
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