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South Sudan Archivists Battle Rats, Termites, Time In a steaming hot tent in South Sudan’s capital, papers that have survived rats, termites and almost five decades of civil war burst out of overstuffed sacks and litter the floor between mountains of files that contain a new nation’s entire history. Archivist Yusef Fulgensio Onyalla heads a team tasked with turning these documents and shards of paper into archives. They cover everything from maps and constitutions to cases of suspected witchcraft and the magazine subscriptions of former British rulers. http://bit.ly/M8H0rB Source: http://www.voanews.com/content/south-sudan-archivists-battle-rates-termites-time/1363777.html See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/M8H0rB+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA [log in to unmask] Richmond, Va http://twitter.com/RAINbyte http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/ http://paper.li/RAINbyte/rainbyte http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/archives/ http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/records-management/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterakurilecz Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra