Mark,
A case of "Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter?"
This is just the sort of uninformed, stereotypical mush which perpetuates
unhelpful images of similarly dusty & musty archivists / librarians /
curators!* It also patently misunderstands the role of archives in
preserving as well as facilitating access to material. A further point is
that although very worthwhile, our NOF projects can but serve to draw
attention to the greater corpus of material by facilitating virtual access
to small representative samples of the "perhaps millions" of gems referred
to.
Never let the facts get in the way of a good sound byte: I particularly
enjoyed the phrase "consigned to years in storage..." - very Count of Monte
Cristo.
(*delete as appropriate)
Regards,
Nigel Rudyard
Project Manager, Spinning the Web
Central Library
St. Peter's Square
Manchester
M2 5PD
Tel: 0161 236 1995
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Weaver" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 1:32 PM
Subject: BBC News story - "Building a Digital Museum"
> I found the following story on the BBC News website relating to the NOF
digitisation projects:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1919000/1919330.stm
>
> The first couple of paragraphs begin with "Buried in dark vaults, cellars,
and musty store rooms all over the UK are thousands, perhaps millions of
historical and cultural gems."
>
> "Ancient documents and books, archaeological records and finds, old
photographs and drawings; all of them consigned to years in storage because
there simply isn't anywhere to show them to the public."
>
> Ah well, better get back to my musty storeroom/state of the art repository
(delete as applicable) and do some scanning...
>
> Mark Weaver
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