Good morning all
Once more Peter Kurilecz' RAIN news service on the US archives listserv
comes up with useful items. I quote 2 references below with web urls - LA
Times predictably contrasts email with the old 'musty dusty olde archives'
cliche but shows some attempt to get to grips with the issues, Irish Times
concludes with fascinating details on Clinton's pets.
Sarah
Los Angeles Times 01/16/01
So much e-mail, so little space
The U.S. government is grappling with how to store the White House's
millions
of electronic epistles. And they're not all from Monica
http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20010116/t000004274.html
by J. Michael Kennedy
When Bill Clinton hands over the presidential reins to George W. Bush on
Saturday, the National Archives will be inundated with every e-mail written
during the last eight years by everyone from the president down to the
lowliest White House aide. Besides offering researchers all kinds of
titillating possibilities (Monica, Whitewater, Travelgate, etc.), it will
also be the biggest digital avalanche ever. A staggering 40 million e-mails
will wind up at the National Archives. And that's just the beginning.
The Irish Times 01/11/01
Clinton papers find new home in Arkansas
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2001/0111/wor4.htm
by Patrick Smyth in Washington
Woe betide the future students of the Clinton legacy. No president in US
history has accumulated so much paper work - 77 million pages of documents,
all of them now on the move to the site of the President's chosen archive
site in his home state of Arkansas. Even Ronald Reagan only accumulated some
50 million pages.
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Public Record Office
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Surrey TW9 4DU
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