Monday, February 27, 2006

This article

should be of interest to those of you down 'Bama way. These are the sorts of discoveries archivists love to make. Somebody says something about a storage closet, and all of a sudden you're hip deep in a treasure trove of archival material.

It actually happens to me occasionally. I had a conversation with someone at one of our hospitals, and she said in passing "Oh, I just send stuff to the basement." Basement is a magic word to an archivist, and down I went. I discovered piles of medical board stuff, departmental reports - all the kinds of things I depend on.

Anyway, there's also (as I imagine some of you may know already) a full section on it at the paper's website.