A few digital thoughts,plus one about dancing archivists

 Some thoughts on this sunny Sunday morning:

-Reading this article (“Does Facebook Replace Face Time?”) and thinking about the changing nature of friendships and relationships with regard to digital interaction,I wanted to think a bit more about the impact that digital availability can have from the perspective of archives and users. Certainly in some [...]

Ingesting electronic records–the Bush papers

One of the more exasperating things about travel (and particularly holiday travel) is the dearth of time that I seem to have for sitting down and thinking (and then posting) about things that I want to discuss–and I’ve been doing a lot of traveling over the past few months.  Something that I’ve been thinking [...]

How long will your memory last?

I’m in Chicago this week,attending NEDCC‘s Persistence of Memory conference,and I hope to share some thoughts about that soon,once I’ve digested things a bit.

Until then,a quick article about public records and a recent ruling by the Ohio Supreme Court from the Columbus Dispatch. A brief snippet:

Even deleted e-mail messages [...]

The Culture of Keeper

Why do people keep everything? There are lots of reasons,but the one that I hear most often is:“I might need it again someday.”

On days when I’m frantically switching between two hats (archivist and records manager),that answer both makes sense and makes me tired. Archivists love to keep things. Well,some [...]