<$BlogRSDUrl$> Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant
Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant
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Monday, June 07, 2004  

Collecting In the Digital Age
http://www.charlestonco.com/features.cfm?id=157&type=ed

Michael A. Keller, publisher of HighWire Press and Stanford University Librarian, says that what librarians should be collecting is the "unique and special... the records of our lives, our institutions, our hobbies, arts, and crafts that would otherwise disappear. We should look for the diaries, the drafts, the sketches, and versions of our artists, poets, and novelists. We should concern ourselves with the creative outputs of designers and architects, of those who are experimenting with the expressive possibilities of technologies and new media. We should worry about the newspaper archives and collections of photographs that might get pulped or discarded, because they no longer offer much to the quarterly reports of profits. We should concern ourselves with local history, with local manufacturing, agriculture, trade and transport. We should offer fire departments and women's clinics, local chamber orchestras and soccer leagues a place to deposit their records. We should let our government agencies know that their records are important, potentially vitally so, and that we expect them to either take care of those records or let us care for them."

posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM
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