[Dialogue] Values for the Archives

Tue May 19 22:05:58 EDT 2009

Wonderful thought!  I "contributed" my teachers guild notes years ago, but so many others are present, plus what has happened since.
I am working on a complicated project with a core group, and one of the leaders took me aside and said he was quitting the effort, as I listened, a mist stirred inside me, maybe a song, "long march long, there is no right nor wrong". . . and I said aha, sent an email about the dark night and long march, and within 8 hours (I was in Germany at the time) I was able to hand him some great stuff from Bill Grow.
Later, he smiled at me and said he had used some of the imagery with the core group.  So, there are many further inventions and much that is already digital.

Jim Wiegel

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--- On Tue, 5/19/09, Marilyn R Crocker <marilyncrocker at juno.com> wrote:

From: Marilyn R Crocker <marilyncrocker at juno.com>
Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Values for the Archives
To: dialogue at wedgeblade.net
Date: Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 5:50 PM

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.
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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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