tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-193742722024-03-25T09:57:52.046-04:00The AnarchivistAn archivist considers the profession of archivesGeofhuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04763053227479195348noreply@blogger.comBlogger99125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19374272.post-47632873216312594302023-07-28T20:01:00.003-04:002023-07-28T20:01:39.401-04:00Terry Baxter's Presidential Address to the Society of American Archivist...<iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/vVhPIOagzwo" width="480"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="u73h" data-offset-key="cprp4-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="cprp4-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="cprp4-0-1" style="background-color: #fb9fa8;"><span data-text="true">Ethics is a transitory state (one not always in play or even needed) rather than a state of being, though I can point to colleagues I know who were scrupulously ethical, so far as I can tell, and others (usually higher up in organizations) who seemed to be almost entirely unethical—who lied daily, who sought vengeance against staff for mere peccadillos or oversights, who lied to hurt others, and who (literally) attempted to and sometimes succeeded in destroying people’s lives for nothing but power over another. Let me note this fact so that non-archivists do not assume archivists are naturally immune to sin (to use intentionally a religious term). </span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="u73h" data-offset-key="8mnm7-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="8mnm7-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="8mnm7-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="u73h" data-offset-key="9p54j-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9p54j-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="9p54j-0-0" style="background-color: #fb9fa8;"><span data-text="true">I spent a tiny amount of time with archivists in the last one and two halves of a day, and at each of the two events I attended, the idea of the ethical requirements of archivists arose. That is because Terry Baxter, the current but outgoing (in both senses) president of the Society of American Archivists, was the major speaker at both events: the first a small and incomplete gathering colleagues who ran the Archives Leadership Institute for six year and the second a large event at the formal SAA conference. </span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="u73h" data-offset-key="5a7de-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="5a7de-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="5a7de-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="u73h" data-offset-key="3ujcl-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="3ujcl-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="3ujcl-0-0" style="background-color: #fb9fa8;"><span data-text="true">The crux of these discussions (the first between Terry and me and the second from Terry to a seated assembly of archivists) was the distinction between morals and ethics—at least as I see it. Terry, as the video I present here demonstrates is about love, and I do not suggest Terry is wrong to use the word “love” in this context, even though or especially because, both of us were raised in families directed by their religions to see love as the highest form of human interaction (though the concept of love and the reality of it in practice may not appear to resemble each other at all). </span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="u73h" data-offset-key="7vosi-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="7vosi-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="7vosi-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="u73h" data-offset-key="295p6-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="295p6-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="295p6-0-0" style="background-color: #fb9fa8;"><span data-text="true">Terry and I were both raised in different types of Christian homes, and both of us rejected our respective religions, and the practice of religion. The two of us are similar in our beliefs and tendencies yet quite different as well. </span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="u73h" data-offset-key="2dtk-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="2dtk-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="2dtk-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="u73h" data-offset-key="fdrlh-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="fdrlh-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="fdrlh-0-0" style="background-color: #fb9fa8;"><span data-text="true">As a humanist, Terry sees love as the highest state of a human action, and as I sit here typing, I agree with that. However, we are also both amused by joking, and such jokes can often hurt people when they are not in a state of mind to accept the joke as gentle ribbing or when the joke is too biting, too full of actual teeth or unintentional hurt. </span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="u73h" data-offset-key="9hbk4-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9hbk4-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="9hbk4-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="u73h" data-offset-key="5oq86-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="5oq86-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="5oq86-0-0" style="background-color: #fb9fa8;"><span data-text="true">On the two days this week I saw Terry, he made the argument that love should trump rules forced on us, such as laws and regulations, and that, as an act of love, we would be morally right to ignore those rules when love—meaning showing deep respect for a person’s desperately needed support—was the overriding issue of our concern. </span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="u73h" data-offset-key="pbqd-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="pbqd-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="pbqd-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="u73h" data-offset-key="75q26-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="75q26-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="75q26-0-0" style="background-color: #fb9fa8;"><span data-text="true">Please note I am rephrasing all of this and making assumptions based on what Terry has said. I am not suggesting I am presenting Terry’s thoughts exactly, only reasonably accurately. </span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="u73h" data-offset-key="5qmoe-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="5qmoe-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="5qmoe-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="u73h" data-offset-key="158i-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="158i-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="158i-0-0" style="background-color: #fb9fa8;"><span data-text="true">Let me start with a return to the first night I spoke with Terry. I argued we, as government employees, have responsibilities we accepted when we were hired, and we would be ethically wrong to flout those rules to help even the most desperate person. I told him a story of mine, and it went something like this: </span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="u73h" data-offset-key="72dio-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="72dio-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="72dio-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="u73h" data-offset-key="44erc-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="44erc-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="44erc-0-0" style="background-color: #fb9fa8;"><span data-text="true">The last time I received a call from a person trying to access a birth certificate sealed by the state to protect the identity of the birth mother or both parents, I felt the greatest pain ever in such a situation. The woman who called me did so to help her father, who was quite elderly and simply wanted to know who his mother was. He wanted some connection to the person who made him within her body and made him well enough to live into his old age. I told her we did not have the records, but she could speak to the state’s vital records office and see if the parents had released the automatic hold on allowing access to such records, the chances of that being almost nil. </span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="u73h" data-offset-key="3vrmu-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="3vrmu-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="3vrmu-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="u73h" data-offset-key="2dmos-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="2dmos-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="2dmos-0-0" style="background-color: #fb9fa8;"><span data-text="true">As I sit here, I realize there was a possible way, though I hadn’t thought of it before: I could have told his daughter to have her father take a DNA ancestry test or several from different companies, which would increase the chances she could find a match and be able to identify his own and ever mother. I am a little dazed by this thought coming far too late. I was a government archivist for most of my life, and I never had thought of this, until it was too late. Sure, I never had any responsibilities for vital records, but I had to discuss them throughout my career. </span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="u73h" data-offset-key="865tu-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="865tu-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="865tu-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="u73h" data-offset-key="3m3ph-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="3m3ph-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="3m3ph-0-0" style="background-color: #fb9fa8;"><span data-text="true">I will now give you Terry’s point of view, as I see it. We, as archivists, are not here to put papers in boxes and scan papers and store digital records. We are here to help people. I agree with all the foregoing. </span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="u73h" data-offset-key="adrq0-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="adrq0-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="adrq0-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="u73h" data-offset-key="5kl21-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="5kl21-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="5kl21-0-0" style="background-color: #fb9fa8;"><span data-text="true">Because our focus is on people, we must do what we can to help them, even if we need to bend or break rules. I countered that we are required to follow those rules. We might find a way to bend them, ethically, but we cannot break them. </span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="u73h" data-offset-key="8o3v4-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="8o3v4-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="8o3v4-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="u73h" data-offset-key="2bbqf-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="2bbqf-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="2bbqf-0-0" style="background-color: #fb9fa8;"><span data-text="true">After Terry’s speech today, however—because I listened to him once again—I realized there was a way to be a person of love and moral conviction and a person of ethics. That way would be to break our ethical requirements and to accept—and not even hide—what we have done. If the love we must provide is important enough, we need to break our oaths firmly and openly, with moral devotion and love. </span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="u73h" data-offset-key="asbr-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="asbr-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="asbr-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="u73h" data-offset-key="7qn1q-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="7qn1q-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="7qn1q-0-0" style="background-color: #fb9fa8;"><span data-text="true">I will write more about love, in a different context, later today. </span></span></div></div></div>Geofhuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04763053227479195348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19374272.post-66974518765362688732019-10-26T09:44:00.001-04:002020-08-14T14:31:07.967-04:00In the Light of Day: Rhetoric, Archivists, and the Dream of Dialog<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Truth is an urge more than a
reality. The closer we peer at anything (object, idea, person), the more
complicated that thing appears, the less sure we are of its immalleable
reality. Yet all arguments essentially concern the issue of truth, reality, and
the ever-transmogrifying concept of what we know versus what we see.</div>
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So it is that I have come to consider
Frank Boles’ as-yet-unpublished article, “To Everything There Is a Season,”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=19374272#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
which caused a flurry of controversy upon its preprint release as I was flying
to Austin, Texas, for the Society of American Archivists’ annual meeting. I
will address my thoughts on this paper through the lens of rhetoric, so I begin
with a detour to Syracuse.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When I lived in Syracuse, New
York, many decades ago, I learned accidentally that the art and concept of
rhetoric was devised in Syracuse. Of course, this was a different Syracuse, my
home being the namesake of the other. The real one was the one in Sicily. The
story is that Corax and Tisias created rhetoric, but this is likely false. This
pair of rhetoricians might never even have existed, or they might have been
same person, one broken into two during the inaccurate process of delivering an
account over and over again across generations. Out of a need for an origin
story for the art of rhetoric, we probably created these people.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Rhetoric is often defined as “the
art of persuasion,” which is true enough, but that bare definition debases the
concept. For rhetoric to be true to its essence, it must embody other
characteristics: be based on facts, include a systematic argument, and argue
via the beauty of language. An argument certainly can convince even if
counterfactual, messy, and ugly or mean. Rhetoric requires clarity, maybe even
a bit of truth.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My own rhetoric almost always employs
a peripatetic style, one which traverses various arguments until it somehow
finds itself at its conclusion. My rhetoric often, as it is doing right now,
tells you what it is doing. If you are looking for a linear read, laying out my
thoughts on the Boles essay, this will not be it. If you are looking for
someone to echo your views, this will not be it either. I am floating in the
middle of the warm Sargasso Sea, brown seaweed all around me, and I see
everything both indistinctly and precisely.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=19374272#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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The unsteady rhetoric of the
Boles article is what interested me the most here: how he opened his argument
clearly, detailed his concerns about three strains of archival thinking, suggested
a new way forward—yet did almost nothing to argue for his replacement theory. The
essay concludes as an example of how <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i>
to convince anyone, maybe even those who agree with him.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Near the opening of his argument,
he lays out the three key issues he says must be “addressed to create a mirror
of humanity” that he asserts archivists have generally agreed form the basis
for much of their archival thinking. He mentions this mirror so he can argue
why achieving it is actually an impossibility. The second of these three
aspects of the mirror is, essentially, appraisal. The first time I read the
article, I did not read the footnotes (where a weirdly significant percentage
of his argument resides), so I did not see he had quoted and questioned me at
this point:<o:p></o:p></div>
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The idea that
archivists should be involved at the birth of records is a long-standing thread
within the literature. A recent, and more radical (although perhaps somewhat
rhetorical), example of this thread was penned in 2016 by Geof Huth, who
writes, “I would rephrase this rule to argue that archivists must start their
work, whenever possible, before the point of creation, at the point of
conception.” Geof Huth, “Module 14: Appraising Digital Records,” in Appraisal
and Acquisition Strategies, ed. Michael Shallcross and Christopher J. Prom
(Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2016), 14.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=19374272#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
What surprised me here was that
he did not quite believe that I meant what I had written. (Truth be told, this
does happen to me frequently enough. My ideas occasionally refine a metal not often
in common use.) But later in the same text Boles quoted from, I specifically
noted how it is possible to appraise records before they exist:<o:p></o:p></div>
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At the New York
State Archives, where I used to work, records were occasionally appraised
before creation because archivists working there worked closely with colleagues
in other state agencies who then made them aware of legislation requiring the
creation of records.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=19374272#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Rather than making a “rhetorical”
point, I was making one I believed, one based on my having carried out this
process in the past. What we believe is impossible may indeed be possible, and
that truism might be the aporia that destabilizes Boles’ argument, for his
essay often declares that certain goals of archivists are impossible. My views
differ from his, not because I fully disagree with his—only because he keeps
pushing for a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">real</i> truth, an absolute,
when I am content to tread water among the sargassum, to see what is possible
without discounting the possibility ahead of time. At the same time, I often
agree with him, while simultaneously disagreeing with the arguments that led to
his conclusions.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
I am a realist. I understand
human limitations, archivists’ limitations, and my very own limitations. But I
also believe in trying in the face of possible failure. I believe we must try
to accomplish what we think is not possible, otherwise we will too often hold
ourselves back and fail to make progress. Self-restraint is often the reason we
fail. Once, a member of my staff who had been squeezed into an emotional
crevice because other staff had disagreed with his opinion. His response was to
retreat into himself, to ensure the others won the argument, not to look for
compromise, not to talk to them and question their solutions, not even to
question his own assumptions. As compassionately as I could, I told him, “But
that will only guarantee failure,” meaning we have to be existentialists; we
have to believe there is no hope yet try and try again in the face of our
hopelessness.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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So—oh, yes—back to Boles’
argument. He begins by outlining three touchstone concepts, at least in North
American archivy:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->universal
documentation (“archivists should create a universal record of human activity”)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->social
justice (“social justice should inform archival selection<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=19374272#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
decisions”)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->archival
power (“archivists hold a unique form of power that can be exercised through
appraisal” and this power requires archivists to help create a moral future)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
He then explains why each of
these is impossible:<o:p></o:p></div>
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We will never have the funding to
support universal documentation—and it doesn’t matter if we had the money,
because we don’t know what must be documented, we don’t understand the universe
of records, and we have not established what a representative record is.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
In Boles’ grammar of thought,
apparently, one must know everything about a subject to succeed in that
endeavor. This is—to put it gently—patently ridiculous. Almost never does
anyone have all the funding they need for any large project. That does not mean
they fail at the project; that means the outlines of the project change, the
goals shrink. It does not mean the entire enterprise comes tumbling down upon
us, wiping out all archival activity in its path. It doesn’t mean we merely
fail. We have never known everything about any particular aspect of the world,
no matter how small—and yet we have traveled to the moon, written stories that
raise the hairs on the backs of others’ necks, and, yes, collected vast troves
of archives to help us remember all of the former. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
His last point is of most concern
to me, because it focuses on appraisal. As someone who has spent decades in
appraisal meetings, I can confidently assert that people do not agree on what
records are worthy of indefinite retention. Points of view distort opinion,
personal preferences trump simple reasoning, and yet archivists have created a
relatively good archival record—nothing perfect, but something that holds
together enough of the dust of fact to allow us a glimpse of the multitudinous
worlds now gone from our direct perception. Sometimes, we have saved records of
limited value; sometimes, we have lost or destroyed records of great value.
Still, we have, over all, created a hazy simulacrum of the past, one half-filled
with lacunae and gaps, but one that is workmanlike as a whole—even if totally
inadequate with regard many particulars.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
We cannot merely claim we can
never succeed because we will never be perfect. This embrace of failure is
bracing even to me as a poet who accepts failure as the cost of entry into the
world of words. But I refuse to sign on to it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
We need, as a matter of
principle, to try to document the whole of humanity in general, but to do that
we will have to abandon some records and even abandon any attempt to document
some segments of society (quilling enthusiasts, maybe<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=19374272#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>).
We can still create, however, this holistic documentation of society Boles
finds impossible for us to muster into fact. Our primary purpose, in my mind,
is to decide what to document and to ensure we document across societies,
rather just the same small unrepresentative pockets of those. Strangely, Boles
even appears to believe this himself, because the replacement solution he provides
us (archival diversity) actually intends to solve it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Via a vivid misconstruing of
human nature, Boles argues that archivists cannot focus on social justice
because the definition of what is good and moral—the definition, indeed, of
justice as opposed to injustice—is always in flux and is never agreed upon by
everyone simultaneously. Again, the specter of perfection haunts this idea,
which is further spooked by a rendezvous with the 1800s belief in the morality
of slavery, as buttressed by the Bible itself. He believes that we cannot
define social justice because we can’t get everyone to agree on what it is and
because its meaning will change over time. This idea ignores the fact that
people believe what they believe—thus they do not stop believing in what they
think is right just because someone else does. Certainly, many archivists
believe social justice is a moral obligation to them in their work. We have
ample evidence of this, so why should we ignore this reality based on Boles’
argument?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
We should not.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Boles overlooks other arguments
against a focus on social justice, arguments I have made. First, we cannot
expect every archives will be like every other. In many archives, social
justice would be anathema. As we know well, many people in the United States
somehow believe social justice is merely injustice by another name. Some
religious archives and corporate archives would likely shun a focus on social
justice, fearing such a focus might repel supporters as much as it would gain
them. In many government archives, which naturally (through the natural process
of records creation) are more representative of the whole of society than most
archives, tend to avoid politicized conceptualizations of their work, so as not
to engage the wrath of political factions and which might even lead to a
reduction in their funding. Putting these archives aside, we are left with those
archives most able to run a program based on social justice: a few independent
archives and a solid collection of college and university archives based in
liberal institutions. In such institutions, archivists can often carry out
their work according to their political (and moral) beliefs, yet in all of
these the true goal of the archives is tied to the mission of the parent
institution.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
But there are other arguments
against taking a social justice stance, though not against trying to ensure an
historic record capable of supporting such endeavors. A common repetend of
archivists is “Archives are not neutral,” a clearly factual statement. Archives
are created by humans, and even putatively neutral humans are always influenced
by the lives they have led, the ideas they hold true without evidence, the
realities they believe are real. So archivists are also never neutral. However,
just because we aren’t neutral, does not mean we should highlight that fact by promoting
our political beliefs and inclinations as part of our work. In some
institutions, based on their missions, this would be the right stance to take,
but it would not in many others. Beyond this, taking a decidedly unneutral
stance telegraphs that we will ensure a bias in the selection of records, in our
reference support, in our work overall. We can be proud of our political beliefs
(liberal or conservative) and yet attempt to ensure we lean a little neutral in
our work.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Given this line of argument, I
will note that I am very liberal in my political beliefs, but I’ve had friends
of very conservative stripes for most of my life. And I certainly disagree with
my conservative friends. That’s what we spend much of our time doing together.
It means I will listen to views counter to mine and then argue my points. It
means I want to balance politics with friendship, so that communication is
possible even when agreement is not. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
To put this in the context of my
professional life, I began my work in archives at the University at Albany,
SUNY, which focused some of its collecting on public policy records, given that
it was based in the capital of New York. Our collecting there is the first
collecting I knew, and it was nearly unique: we collected opposing voices. We
collected the voices of unions and we collected the records of business
associations. We collected the records of liberal New York politicians and
black rights groups, and we collected the records of the Conservative Party of
New York, which was instrumental in reviving conservatism in the country. Currently,
one of this repository’s most well know metacollections is the Death Penalty
Archive, which includes dozens of fonds of anti- and pro-death-penalty
organizations. Collecting in this way does not at all ensure neutrality—and
indeed that’s not the goal. What this repository does is collect a gallimaufry
of perspectives; it allows us to see the kaleidoscopic views of humans. Its
goal is bringing together competing opinions to allow for dialog; its goal is
to provide entrance to a slice of the world, while also revealing the depth and
diversity of ideas within it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
That is the most we can hope for.
A focus on our own political beliefs might instead nullify our future search
for the past and silence those whose views we disagreed with, leaving us with
no evidence of what they have said.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
And what do we as archivists want
records to be? True? Mirrors of our own beliefs? I would argue the best we can
do is fashion a grey and fragmented mirror of the past, something to show us a
little about that past but never all of it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
I’ve often argued that we
archivists are too liberal—not as humans, but as collectors. We feel good if we
collect something we support, but we sometimes feel distaste collecting records
of people whose beliefs we oppose—so we have (often, not always) focused on
collecting liberal voices while ignoring some conservative ones. We don’t always
accept the truth that the more we have the more we can know. And we shy away
from the fact that even records created by evil people (Boles valuably mentions
the records of the Khmer Rouge) can help others find justice. To my mind,
social justice in archives would mean to collect enough records over enough
ground to allow for the provision of justice in the future—but also to allow
for many other discoveries.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Boles’ argument is one full of
holes at this point, but he also makes a strong point: records are not moral or
immoral. They may represent the actions of an immoral entity, but their uses
can be good or evil, so our collecting must be wide enough to bring in enough
voices to allow us to hear the outlines of the opposing choruses of the past. Yet
Boles dismisses this idea of expansive collecting, in an unfortunate way, by
merely dismissing this urge as a quest for “‘more’ and ‘different,’” even
though that is literally true and accurately what is needed here. This is a low
point in his argument, and to me it feels a little like a reversion to the
“great man” theory of history. His ninth footnote is filled with quotations from
archivists focusing on collecting voices beyond “white men of means,” so the
“more” that he pooh-poohs is “more voices” and the “different” is “different
voices.” His actual claim is that theirs is an insufficient solution, too
cloudy to have any value—yet it is precisely the antidote to centuries
collecting narrowly and myopically. Boles really is arguing against a lack of
precision here, but we don’t really need that precision to know what we need to
do. Perfection, as I say, is impossible.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Boles ends with archival power,
and it is his most strained argument, though I would agree with his conclusion.
Archival power does not reside in the same conceptual bucket for us as universal
documentation (though we don’t really use this term) and social justice. It’s a
rallying cry of sorts, and it’s connected to a handful of basic texts in our
field. Archival power is a reminder to us that we have the power to define the
boundaries of the historical record and that it is a solemn power that will
last beyond our time on earth. It is a reminder that information is power and
that we thus need to manage it carefully and judiciously, without benefitting
some select few over others and while avoiding causing pain to humans whenever
we can. It is a warning that we do have power and that we must use it honorably.
I would argue that to use power in that way, we must act as if we have no
power, as if we were actually neutral. Neutrality to me is a virtue in an
archivist, even though it is also an impossibility.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Boles focuses his argument in this
section of the essay on Mario H. Ramirez’s response to an article by Mark
Greene and on the concept of archival privilege.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=19374272#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> I
don’t even see the point of adding the idea of archival power to this essay.
It’s not a concretized enough concept to allow much purchase for an idea. Boles
does, in the end, caution us against a wholesale acceptance of our putative
power as archivists, and he does help to dissuade us from accepting the
legitimacy of “archival privilege,” as a legitimate instance of that power. Otherwise,
he does little here except defend his deceased friend, Mark Greene and highlight
what I see as the ultimately sad conversation between Greene and Ramirez—one
that helped lead the profession to division rather than understanding, one that
has not led to real dialog.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
What does Frank (if I may)<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=19374272#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
leave us with? Not much to replace what he takes away, though he had no obligation
to provide any replacement, but the strange fact here is that he identifies
replacements in the third paragraph of the essay, without ever expounding on these:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-align: justify;">
The goal of this
article is to argue for the legitimacy of a counterintuitive idea: that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">local autonomy</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">unique archival missions</b> define the purpose of the profession
better than assumptions of universal documentation or social justice rooted in
a notion of archival power. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Archival
diversity</b> is the most feasible way to demonstrate power, serve justice, and
document society as completely as possible. [Emphases mine.]<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Here is the germ of his solution,
one already in place. Within the United States alone, there are thousands of
archives, of various sizes, with divergent missions. We can never expect one
archives to document all of anything (probably not even its own parent
institution). We cannot even hope that archives alone will accomplish this for
humanity; we need other sources of information. Archives are not everything. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
What we can do is realize a
strength of our archival “system” in this country is that it is undesigned to
survive even the catastrophic loss of records. We have so many archives so many
places, that we can lose a node (and, yes, lose the unique records there),
while being assured that there is another node somewhere that can replace that
node, though only in part. We might not be able to document the black liberation
movement in Oakland, but maybe we can still do this for Brooklyn. We will still
see losses of data, but we will continue to have some way to see that slice of
activity of that time somewhere. It might be true—and I would argue it probably
is—that a natural and chaotic system such as this is more robust and durable
than one we could create by intentionally creating one unnatural system or a
set of nodes each with unique information focused on a single body of
knowledge.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Yet this conclusion I’ve handed
to Frank is not the reason for writing this response. My reason is totally
different than that. I wanted to think about Frank’s ideas and pull them apart,
but I’m not in total disagreement with him at all. In fact, I agree with plenty
of his conclusions, though less frequently with his paths to those. My problem
is with his rhetoric, how he inflames a thought rather than provides it, how
there runs a stream of one-way-ism through his thinking. How he loses his way
in his thoughts (as one might claim I am, though my wandering is intentional).<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
When Frank Boles’ essay was
released into cyberspace for us to read, it immediately caused a stir. As I
traveled to Austin this year, my phone streamed tweets decrying this essay, a
couple even making comments about its rhetoric. Most people, however, attacked
the ideas. These voices forced the cancelation of a brown bag talk about this
essay at the conference. Emotions were inflamed, and people did not want to
talk. But I say our only way forward is talking. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
I opposed the cancellation of
that discussion, even though I was sure the conversation would be uncivil in
parts. I also oppose the idea that the Society of American Archivists should
cancel the publication of Boles’ article. His article is flawed, but it is also
thought-provoking. I will note I’ve read many articles in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The American Archivist</i> that were more flawed yet could barely
provoke a new idea or encourage debate. Parts of his argument make me squirm
uncomfortably. But he does not do anything in the article that would require us
to ban the article. Many of us disagree with his conclusions and arguments, but
to my mind that is a reason <i>to</i> publish it. Also, it already exists. We
cannot make it go away. So we need another solution. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
We have to talk to make our way
in this world. We have to talk specifically when we disagree. We have to accept
that most of us are neither good nor bad, just flawed, just flawed. I agree
that many people on earth are literally evil, but I wouldn’t ever argue that
crusty Frank Boles is one of them. Yet I did not write this as a defense of
Frank, and I’m sure it doesn’t read like one. I wrote it as a defense of
dialog.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
In this response of mine, I am
telling Frank (and also exactly you) what I think about his words—not in all
the detail I could have, but in plenty of detail, and I hope reasonably
collegially. I have written this to say that argument should be an exchange of
ideas, one best done on a full stomach. I’m writing this to say, We do not need
to agree all the time. To say, Disagreement is fine. I’m posting this for you
to read because I’m saying that if the tiny archives profession of the world cannot
survive this small amount of disagreement it has forgotten what it is about.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
We do not do our jobs to save the
good and dispose of the bad who have roamed the earth. We do it to save
something of what came before us, to save the thoughts and actions of those
from the past. What others do with that is their business. If the Society of
American Archivists cannot allow this article of Boles’ to be published—because
people disagree with its points—then we have accepted that conversation is not
possible, then we have decided to wait to be told what to believe, then we have
decided we know all we need to know.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 192.75pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
And once the archives profession decides
that, it decides it is no longer needed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=19374272#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <span style="color: black;">Frank J. Boles, “To Everything There Is a Season,” The American
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=19374272#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Please note I am stupefyingly aware of the danger in announcing I am writing an
essay criticizing another’s rhetoric while specifically highlighting the
aspects of my own rhetoric. The way I see the world is that risk is essential
to success, and success in this case will not mean people agree with the
argument I propose. Success will mean more archivists will discuss Boles’ essay
across the divide of their opinions; success would be dialog, and my essay here
is dialog, if nothing else. Even if everyone reading this essay disagrees with
me, the essay might reach some level of success. I believe people must not talk
<i>only</i> to people they agree with. I believe people must talk to those they
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=19374272#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Frank
J. Boles, “To Everything There Is a Season,” The American Archivist 82:2
(Fall/Winter 2019 Preprint): 18, fn 8.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=19374272#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Geof
Huth, “Module 14: Appraising Digital Records,” in Appraisal and Acquisition
Strategies, ed. Michael Shallcross and Christopher J. Prom (Chicago: Society of
American Archivists, 2016), 16. (I certainly would rewrite this clumsy sentence
quoted here if I could.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=19374272#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Boles likes to use “selection” where most of us would say “appraisal.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=19374272#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Honestly, I find quilling enchanting, yet most reading this will have no idea
what it is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=19374272#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Mario H. Ramirez, “Being Assumed Not to Be: A Critique of Whiteness as an
Archival Imperative,” American Archivist 78:2 (2015) and Mark Greene, “A
Critique of Social Justice as an Archival Imperative: What Is It
We're Doing That’s All That Important?” <a href="https://americanarchivist.org/loi/aarc"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The American Archivist</span></a> 76:2
(Fall/Winter 2013), respectively.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=19374272#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> I
do not believe I’ve ever met or spoken to Frank Boles, though I once had a
small email exchange with him. After this essay of his came out, I realize that
email exchange probably occurred during the writing of this essay of his.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">New York Supreme Court Commissions and Depositions
(C–D), 1830–1833, 1848–1910<a href="https://nycourts-my.sharepoint.com/personal/ghuth_nycourts_gov/Documents/OneDrive%20-%20Personal/OneDrive/Essays%20on%20Archives/Brief%20Archives%20Essays/Volume,%20Velocity,%20and%20Value%20(2018-12-11).docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In our age of copious records,
archivists often focus on the volume and velocity of today’s production of
records. The quantity of data appears to expand daily, as does the velocity
with which changes come to records (in the form of data formats, improvements
in distribution and access, and even in the physical tools we touch to make and
see the records). Historically, we have pointed to the ramp-up to the Second
World War as the beginning of this explosion of recordkeeping. We realize that
war was still a war of bodies and machines, of death and other destructions,
but it was also, significantly, a war fought through data. A great general begins
by interpreting data well and then develops plans based on that interpretation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Yet volume and velocity have
always been problems with some recordkeepers, particularly those in government.
In my current role as Chief Records Office of the New York State Unified Court System,
I deal with records of the 1513 currently operating courts<a href="https://nycourts-my.sharepoint.com/personal/ghuth_nycourts_gov/Documents/OneDrive%20-%20Personal/OneDrive/Essays%20on%20Archives/Brief%20Archives%20Essays/Volume,%20Velocity,%20and%20Value%20(2018-12-11).docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
and those of an unknown number of predecessor courts, with records extending
back until at least 1674 (and at most 1620s<a href="https://nycourts-my.sharepoint.com/personal/ghuth_nycourts_gov/Documents/OneDrive%20-%20Personal/OneDrive/Essays%20on%20Archives/Brief%20Archives%20Essays/Volume,%20Velocity,%20and%20Value%20(2018-12-11).docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>). The
extant early records of New York’s courts reveal that their custodians imposed
incomplete order on the records streaming into their facilities. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Partly, this was due to the
formats of the records. Let’s take only one example. Parchments ranged in size
from about one by six inches to three by eighteen feet, and one roll of
attorneys extends for a full 25 feet. With records in such varying sizes,
usually stored rolled, no reasonable system of order was ever imposed on
them—not to this day, where they rest primarily in a ridiculous state of
imposed order that replicates their random storage in pigeonholes as instituted
by mid-twentieth-century custodians. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Volume of human work we can
measure by the volume of paperwork. And we can assume overwork given the
resulting incomplete ordering of the records. Within the penumbra of the Mayor’s
Court papers, a supraseries encompassing dozens of series, there rests the series
I called Sheriff’s Writs, consisting of writs of arrest and execution.<a href="https://nycourts-my.sharepoint.com/personal/ghuth_nycourts_gov/Documents/OneDrive%20-%20Personal/OneDrive/Essays%20on%20Archives/Brief%20Archives%20Essays/Volume,%20Velocity,%20and%20Value%20(2018-12-11).docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> The
varied arrangement of these writs shows that the early custodians, at least
since 1785, had the idea that they should organize these records by year first
and thereunder by the surname of the lawyer requesting the writ (sometimes by
the surname and initial of an attorney if more than one attorney shared a
surname). Although many of these records were discovered piled in boxes with no
order whatsoever, by 1791 the court began to implement a plan for
alphachronological order—a plan designed to reduce the work necessary to find a
single document. Still, this system consistently failed to work, because it required
too much work, too much effort—too much time. Many records remained unsegregated
by attorney’s name. Some attorneys did little work in the court, so their
filings were often merged with records from other attorneys, and we found many
records loose in totally different parts of our storage facility. The records,
as currently arranged by me, give a sense of pristine order—but it is partly an
illusion. I followed the intended order of the court, but I didn’t follow the
original order, since they never fully created the order they envisioned for
the records. The volume was merely too high for them to manage.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Volume and velocity are
intertwined. We experience an increase in volume as an increase in velocity,
merely because more volume necessarily equals more work, thus requiring more
speed, more people—or the cutting of corners. By the 1870s, situations outside
the courts but deeply affecting them (rapid population increase) upped this
velocity. At this point, a dramatic, nearly exponential change in the number of
court cases and the size of filings led to decades of the same, and the
combined effect of the volume and velocity of records led to an entirely new
way to manage records.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the middle of the year 1910,
at the beginning of the courts’ fiscal year, the courts changed from a system
where they segregated records into record types into one where they created a
single series: the case file. This transformed the courts’ ability to function.
With that intellectual and procedural change, they focused order on the object
of their work (the case) instead of the manner of their work (document type). This
simple change reduced effort and likely led to fewer lost files or delayed
retrievals. Literally, this allowed the courts to walk from one era into
another.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Thus, our story ends well.
Except. . . There is always an “except.” We still have one remaining V. Value per
document, per activity, diminishes as volume grows. Any single document from
1600s British American likely has enough value to be retained because the surviving
documentation from that time is so slight.<a href="https://nycourts-my.sharepoint.com/personal/ghuth_nycourts_gov/Documents/OneDrive%20-%20Personal/OneDrive/Essays%20on%20Archives/Brief%20Archives%20Essays/Volume,%20Velocity,%20and%20Value%20(2018-12-11).docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> But
the same type of record from today’s courts would have almost infinitely
reducing value, at least in the disaggregate. We always face the archival
requirement to assess the continuing value of records, and this professional admonishment—in
the form of the congregated conscience of all archivists—weighs heavier on us
when the records themselves are heavier, when volume nearly exceeds our
physical and intellectual grasp.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Volume is literally a measure of
human activity, but value dilutes as volume expands. Our goal in the present is
to retain for the future the essential documentation of the past. Volume
complicates that, but velocity, in certain ways, may help us in our quest. The
velocity of technological change provides us with challenge and possibility—the
challenge of keeping up with change, but the possibility that that change can
help us overcome our human and physical limitations. Technology is a burden and
a boon twisted together into the one firm rope that may help us manage the data
that overwhelms us.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Because the records we manage
have always overwhelmed us—for some more than others. Because records increase
as human population grows. There is no going back to simplicity. There was never
any simplicity to return to.<a href="https://nycourts-my.sharepoint.com/personal/ghuth_nycourts_gov/Documents/OneDrive%20-%20Personal/OneDrive/Essays%20on%20Archives/Brief%20Archives%20Essays/Volume,%20Velocity,%20and%20Value%20(2018-12-11).docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>archivity furthers<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://nycourts-my.sharepoint.com/personal/ghuth_nycourts_gov/Documents/OneDrive%20-%20Personal/OneDrive/Essays%20on%20Archives/Brief%20Archives%20Essays/Volume,%20Velocity,%20and%20Value%20(2018-12-11).docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> As
the reader might note, the dates I give for this series differ from those listed
by earlier custodians on the faces of the Willis files that illustrate this
essay. We can explain this discrepancy in two ways: first, I have removed from
the series some early records that once rested within it; and, second, the
custodians’ process of dating was to guess. What my caption here does not
clarify is that this series is and was multi-provenancial, post hoc. It is an
artificial series created by the staff of the New York (County) Commissioner of
Records by merging commissions and depositions (two common record types) of
multiple courts into one series. I removed from this series the records of the
Court of Chancery (covering the years 1702 through 1848) and of the New York
Supreme Court of Judicature (covering scattered years in the 1800s up to 1847),
but records of the Court of Common Pleas of the City and
County of New York and the Superior Court of New York City (the latter consisting
of all of the records from 1830 to 1833) remain scattered within. Records are
complicated, and humans often increase their complication—sometimes in
unfortunate and unwitting ways—long after the records were created.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://nycourts-my.sharepoint.com/personal/ghuth_nycourts_gov/Documents/OneDrive%20-%20Personal/OneDrive/Essays%20on%20Archives/Brief%20Archives%20Essays/Volume,%20Velocity,%20and%20Value%20(2018-12-11).docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> This
is my estimate today, based on the thirteen types of courts in our court
system, likely the most structurally complicated one in the world. However, the
Dexter Village Court will dissolve on 31 December 2018, so on 2019 we will
begin with 1513 courts. This number does not include the 62 court-related
entities called commissioners of jurors, which would up the number to 1575.
Nothing is easy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://nycourts-my.sharepoint.com/personal/ghuth_nycourts_gov/Documents/OneDrive%20-%20Personal/OneDrive/Essays%20on%20Archives/Brief%20Archives%20Essays/Volume,%20Velocity,%20and%20Value%20(2018-12-11).docx#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> The
first date is the year of the earliest known (to me) court records still held
by our court system, and the second date is the decade in which the predecessor
Dutch courts were first established.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://nycourts-my.sharepoint.com/personal/ghuth_nycourts_gov/Documents/OneDrive%20-%20Personal/OneDrive/Essays%20on%20Archives/Brief%20Archives%20Essays/Volume,%20Velocity,%20and%20Value%20(2018-12-11).docx#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
Not the killing a person type of execution, but the getting something done
type—in this case the act carried out was usually the collection of property of
a losing party in a civil case to take to the winning party as the means of
satisfying a money judgment rendered by the Mayor’s Court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://nycourts-my.sharepoint.com/personal/ghuth_nycourts_gov/Documents/OneDrive%20-%20Personal/OneDrive/Essays%20on%20Archives/Brief%20Archives%20Essays/Volume,%20Velocity,%20and%20Value%20(2018-12-11).docx#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> Though
I should note that some of these are so disintegrated from their native records
environment that they are difficult to contextualize and interpret with any
degree of surety.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://nycourts-my.sharepoint.com/personal/ghuth_nycourts_gov/Documents/OneDrive%20-%20Personal/OneDrive/Essays%20on%20Archives/Brief%20Archives%20Essays/Volume,%20Velocity,%20and%20Value%20(2018-12-11).docx#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
One final sorry note to this story, given as a footnote: That 1910 cutoff
became a near-universal cutoff. Few standard court records (not counting
naturalizations) were transferred to the archives after that date, which was
the year before the archives opened. This means a number of century-old records
are lost, some burned in a 2015 fire, some lost by inattention. In this
scenario, the possibility of appraisal itself was nearly extinguished. This archives
of ours holds no archival court records arranged in case files—which system of
arrangement was instituted 108 years ago. This story reminds me of a quotation
from Sara Tyack, one that haunts me as an archivist focused on appraisal as our
core activity: “So archives tend to be a mixture of deliberate selection and
survival for whatever reason.” [Tyacke, Sarah, “Archives in a Wider
World: The Culture and Politics of Archives,” <i>Archivaria</i> 52 (Fall 2001): 9.]</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />Geofhuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04763053227479195348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19374272.post-43902829901066335752018-11-04T21:30:00.001-05:002018-11-04T21:30:22.501-05:00The Value of Use, the Use of Value<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Archives do not not begin with the record. The record is an afterthought—something sometimes thought of so late in the archival work process that any idea we had about it will not matter anymore. Records are not created to be archives. People create records merely to document an activity, ranging widely and wildly across the possible activities of humankind. The activity may be a payment, a disquisition on humanity, a poem, the assessment of the cause of a plane crash—literally any thought or activity or datum that a human might document. Yet these records are not necessarily archives. They must be made intentionally into archives.<br />
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This happens through a simple process of thinking, thus via a complex process of imagining the future and always falling short. In a very real sense, records become archives only because some human or congregation of humans determines that a certain set of records must be retained forever (a word without any known meaning)—so we might say these are records that must be retained for a potentially infinite period of time because of their value to humans in the future.<br />
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Good enough. Except that we know nothing about the future beyond the fact that it is coming. We pretend to determine the future merely by making extrapolations based upon how the past has morphed into the present. We do this because it is our only choice. We realize the past is an inaccurate—at best, hazy—predictor of the future, but we have no idea how to determine what will happen in the future, because we are of only one time. We are not of the past nor are we of the future; we are merely beings of the constant and infinite present. That is all we know. After the present occurs, we begin to forget it. Before the future becomes, we can merely guess at what the vague outlines of it might be. And still we are often wrong.<br />
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I am writing these words a couple of days before what in the United States we call a midterm election, which means an election of senators and congresspeople that occurs two years into a President’s term. For months, we have been pummeled with polls and the aggregation of polls, all of which are created to help us determine what the outcome of these elections will be, but all of which are merely guesses about that unknowable future. At a raw, undigested level, the general opinion in the country now is that the Democrats will gain seats in the House of Representatives and form a majority there and that Republicans will maintain their majority in the Senate, likely enhancing it. Race by race, over hundreds of contests, people imagine as facts results that will not be knowable until the future.<br />
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And this is how humans always operate. We believe we can reasonably know the future even when evidence consistently demonstrates we have but rough and inaccurate ways to determine what it will be.<br />
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All of this is a problem for the archivists, because archives begin with appraisal, the process of assessing whether a set of records has enough value to maintain it far into the future. Appraisal estimates the value of records, and records exist before appraisal, but archives come after records—even though any set of records that becomes archives is the same set of records.<br />
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As a test, let us imagine, for a moment, that there exists a set of records of the New York (City) Court of General Sessions, ranging in time from 1694 to 1962, the year this court ceased to exist. Let us believe that this was a lower court of criminal jurisdiction within the City of New York—the boundaries of that city variously realized across these centuries—that it handled numerous significant causes (such as the murder trials of black and Indian slaves after the slave revolt of 1712) and many other insignificant criminal cases across those years. Would the archivist determine it most important to save the famous cases and thus dispose of the others? Would the archivist decide only the earliest records are most important because there remains relatively little documentation of that time period? Or would the archivist conclude that keeping that entire body of records would allow those of us who live in the present and might live into the future a means to see how crimes changed, how the definition of crime changed, and how society changed its entire conception of crime and how to manage it?<br />
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We don’t know the answer to these questions without appraisal, because appraisal is what makes records into archives. Unless someone decides a record is valuable enough to be kept indefinitely, it is just a record, nothing more. Humans have destroyed many records of great value over the years, because they didn’t see their value, didn’t understand their value, or (as is common with businesses and politicians in our era) didn’t want anyone else to see the records and possibly use those against them.<br />
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The records of the Court of General Sessions, may be too easy a case, so let us simply note that archivists must determine that records have value. And let us insist that value is directly—if sometimes chronologically distantly—related to use. Unused records, records waiting for someone to use them, have only potential value—and we keep records, sometimes for decades, waiting for that potential to transform into kinetic value. Sometimes, even often, the records rest within their hoped-for potential without realizing their value. Out of tens of thousands of Civil War pension files held by the U.S. National Archives, many have seen use, but many others may never see any use at all. Because having potential does not necessarily transform into making a difference.<br />
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We archivists are trapped in a present from which we can never escape. Our goal, in the most essential archival process of appraisal, is to achieve the impossible: to identify use not yet evidenced and to identify value not yet recognized, so we can save the most valuable of our multitudinous records and ensure their valuable use in a future we will never experience.<br />
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<br />Geofhuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04763053227479195348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19374272.post-29054158100321822442018-02-04T18:46:00.001-05:002018-02-04T18:46:22.079-05:00An Archivist's Tale<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Tonight, my wife Karen Trivette and I sat down to plan for a podcast in which we will interview archivists. We hope to talk to archivists across the country, and maybe further afield, and archivists of all types, doing all kinds of work. We want to present the broad spectrum of archivists and the records they hold.<br />
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Today we created a prospectus that laid out our goal for the podcast ("Capture the diversity of voices in the archives profession") and our plans (about two podcasts a month, with a set of two questions we will ask everyone). We also purchased all of the equipment we need and have identified a hosting service.<br />
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The hardest part for us was coming up with the title for the podcast. We went through many, at least ten, before ending up with this: An Archivist's Tale. We chose this because it tells the potential listener that every episode will present the tale of an archivist, however she or he wants to present it, so we can hear the voices of our profession and present those voices to the world. </div>
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The first podcast will be Karen and me talking together, so it will be what I call a co-interview of two archivists. We expect our first guest to be Brenda Scruggs Gunn, who now works at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Also, Bob Clark, now of the Rockefeller Archive Center has agreed to join us. I've also spoken to all the members of the Steering Committee of the Archives Leadership Institute about talking to them during those times when Karen and I will be with them this year. </div>
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Records Management, headed by Chief Records Officer Geof Huth (that is, me), began an
inventory in October of 2015 of archival court records held by the Division of
Old Records. That division and its parent entity, the New York County Clerk’s
office, are units of the court system. The general goals of the inventory were
to identify, and organize if necessary, the old court records stored on the
seventh and eighth floors of the Surrogate’s Court Building in lower Manhattan
and to transfer these archival records to archives that could better care for
the records. The storage conditions at the building were not up to par, and the
records had been slowly decaying over the course of the century they had been
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transfer of the records of courts of statewide jurisdiction to the New York
State Archives, which began on the last week of December in 2016 and ended on Friday, January 13th, 2017. During that
week, the New York Times interviewed staff of the Unified Court System and the
State Archives, and the following week a lavishly illustrated feature story
appeared in that paper. Other press soon followed including stories on Fox 5
(WNYW) and WNBC in New York City, and a story by Globo, the major Brazilian
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9, 2017. This was the last of three weeks that State Archives would be
preparing records for transfer and transferring loads of them to its major
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could explain a few of the important details of this project to fellow
archivists and the public. I tagged each posting with my Instagram account and
that of the State Archives. The postings included photographs of interesting
documents, of the old filing equipment that held the records, of State Archives
staff making final preparations of the records for transfer, and of the actual
process of moving the records out of the building. I included a few videos I
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My name is Geof Huth, and I'm the chief records
officer of the New York State Unified Court System, where I oversee the
management of the records of all of our 2500 or so courts, dating from the
1600s to the 21st century. From today through Sunday, I will be posting to the
SAA Instagram account to talk about our 15-monthlong project (and counting) to
inventory ancient court records created in Manhattan and long held by the New
York County Clerk. Stay tuned for details. Pictured are various parchments of
the Supreme Court of Judicature: satisfaction pieces, writs of error, writs of
venire facias juratores, and more. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyarchives/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@nyarchives</span></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/geofhuth/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@geofhuth</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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I first toured the facility holding these ancient
court records on 23 June 2015, discovering some records in disarray and most
paper in a state of serious brittleness. (The tens of thousands of parchments
were in fine shape.) Once we began to inventory the records, I started using
the term "document dust" to refer to the fragments of documents that
had sometimes actually turned, in part, to a fine powder. Given the lack of
climate controls in the space and the impractical arrangement of many rooms for
efficient records storage, we planned to transfer these records to appropriate
repositories, the first being the New York State Archives. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyarchives/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@nyarchives</span></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/geofhuth/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@geofhuth</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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When my staff in the Unified Court System and I
began working with these old court records, we found most of them folded
tightly, wrapped together with red tape, and stored inside tens of thousands or
more Woodruff file drawers. At the time these storage cabinets were installed
(ca. 1911), they were state of the art. They were lockable and considered
fireproof. But the profession has now known their limitations for
generations. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyarchives/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@nyarchives</span></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/geofhuth/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@geofhuth</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Sometimes the accumulation of a century's worth of
dust was heavy on files—even when they had been stored in closed Woodruff files
the entire time. Since we found ourselves with a legitimately dusty archives (a
rarity in the profession), we HEPA-vacuumed the folded paper files as we were
boxing them for transfer from the court system to other repositories. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyarchives/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@nyarchives</span></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/geofhuth/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@geofhuth</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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There is, I admit, some visual beauty, some
esthetic value, in many of these documents, deep within their artifactuality,
as part of their visual presence, enshrined in the ink seeped deep into the
parchment or the fibers of the paper—and I appreciate that, but what I am most
entranced by is how these records allow us to create knowledge—certainly
knowledge of the past, but importantly knowledge that helps guide the future.
This to me is the core of the archival enterprise. Records serve as a foil for
humanity overall and for knowledge from the past that extends that humanity
just a bit further than expected—or even hoped for. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyarchives/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@nyarchives</span></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/geofhuth/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@geofhuth</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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My staff in the New York State Unified Court System
spent a year inventorying and boxing these records, yet we were glad to have
the New York State Archives staff take over and do the penultimate preparations
to transfer these. Here are Dennis Riley, Laura Montgomery, and Clare Flemming
bagging, barcoding, and taping shut volumes for transfer from Manhattan to
Albany, New York—in the first week of the three-week process of moving 1500
cubic feet of records. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyarchives/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@nyarchives</span></a>
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This image of a writ of habeas corpus from the
Supreme Court of Judicature is one of my favorites. The writ (from 1797) merely
requires the mayor, recorder, and aldermen of the City of New York (the judges
of the Mayor's Court) to move a defendant from their prison to a sitting of the
Supreme Court of Judicature to be held in Albany, a city situated at
essentially the opposite navigable end of the Hudson from New York. As an image
it resembles a one-star American flag, but with a serious amount of mousechew
hollowing out that star. This parchment writ even bears witness to its animal
origins (invisible to the Instagram viewer) by the visible remnants of a wound
in its lower right corner. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyarchives/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@nyarchives</span></a>
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After we finished months of inventorying,
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came in and had to determine how to transport sometimes strangely shaped
materials. Here is their efficient process for pulling 38-inch long portfolios
of giant parchments out of their storage cabinets, bagging and sealing them,
labeling them with a barcode, scanning the barcodes and placing the portfolios
in bins for transport to Albany. Pictured are Dennis Riley, Clare Flemming,
Maria Holden, and Monica Gray. I, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/geofhuth/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@geofhuth</span></a> of the
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The inventory of this large body of court records
is 550 pages long and lavishly illustrated with the records themselves. This
document is a detailed finding aid created by archivists in the court system
for archivists in the New York State Archives. One major focus in the inventory
was a reimagination of how archivists can put records in context. The document
identifies twelve types of contextualization used throughout the document. We
created this complex knowing aid (in my terminology) specifically to help the
archivists at the New York State Archives understand and know these records and
thus be better able to assist researchers. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyarchives/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@nyarchives</span></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/geofhuth/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@geofhuth</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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They began with the laborious process of packing 438 huge volumes of the Court of Chancery series entitled Transcriptions of Equity Case Files into Libers. Watch how it works in the course of one minute. [Pictured are Mark Maniak, Clare Flemming, Laura Montgomery, Monica Gray, and Maria Holden.] <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyarchives/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@nyarchives</span></a> <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/geofhuth/">@geofhuth</a> </span><br />
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to the NYS Archives are housed on the 7th and 8th floors of this building,
which is usually referred to as the Surrogate's Court Building. It was
originally referred to as the Hall of Records and was designed to store huge
stores of city, county, and court records. Even today, three sizable and
separate archives are housed in this building: the Division of Old Records,
part of the NY County Clerk's office, a unit of the NYS court system, and the
repository that held these records for over a century; the Municipal Archives
of the City of New York; and, yes, the Surrogate's Court’s extensive archives,
which holds centuries of original wills and related records. I took this photo
from the steps of the Tweed Courthouse, the previous home for these records. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyarchives/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@nyarchives</span></a> <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/geofhuth/">@geofhuth</a></span><br />
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Someone asked me a few weeks ago if I felt a loss
because of the impending transfer of these old and valuable court records to
another archives, one I didn't oversee at all. I replied that our
responsibility as archivists is to the records and the people who use them, not
to our personal satisfaction. The allure of custodianship can sometimes be a
bane, rather than a boon, to the records. A decision to keep the records would
have been wrong. The decision to transfer the records allowed me to meet my
responsibility to the past and the future simultaneously. Because I understand
the value of these records—and their sometimes great beauty—I needed them to be
where they could best be used and preserved. I do not mourn their loss. I
celebrate their transfer. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyarchives/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@nyarchives</span></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/geofhuth/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@geofhuth</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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inventorying were found in complete disarray. Some volumes, over time, had
broken into up to five separate and dispersed pieces, and we had to bring them
back together. Often, the original order of the records was unknown, having
been changed dramatically by neglect or by early 20th-century custodians who
rearranged records, sometimes via the imposition of a complicated
alphachrononumerical arrangement on records they had accumulated from various
courts. Occasionally—as with the writs produced on behalf of the attorney
Quackenbush here—the original order shone through and directed the arrangement
we used for the entire series of records. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyarchives/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@nyarchives</span></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/geofhuth/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@geofhuth</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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This detail of a writ of habeas corpus issued by
the Supreme Court of Judicature in 1766 shows us something about the allure of
old records—not what draws us in intellectually but what affects us
emotionally, even physically. Many modern records, and certainly today's court
records, have a machinic regularity to them: they repeat the same verbal
formulas, as these older records do as well, but they each also look almost
exactly alike. Older records have a patina to them (often, unfortunately, from
decay), a wornness, a sabiness. They show us the human hand over its entire
range, from grace through clumsiness. If they are court records, they bear the
signs of the diplomatics of their age: In this case, the signatures of both the
attorney requesting the writ and the clerk writing it out, the use of parchment
to note (on sight) that this was a writ from a superior court, and two seals—one
a bright red wax seal, and the second of resin. All these features confirmed
the reliability of the record, so that the inferior court receiving the writ
knew the document was authentic and that it must comply with the order
inscribed thereon. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyarchives/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@nyarchives</span></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/geofhuth/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@geofhuth</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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There is something deeply and possibly irrationally
satisfying to archivists about a set of records brought into order and under
control. These records here have also been taped shut into boxes, which have
been labeled with barcodes by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyarchives/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@nyarchives</span></a> staff.
Soon after I took this picture, these boxes traveled over 100 miles to their
permanent home in Albany. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/geofhuth/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@geofhuth</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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The major Brazilian TV network Globo is visiting
tomorrow to do a short piece on this records inventory and transfer project of
ours. Most of the records have already been transferred to the State Archives
in Albany, so I looked through the rolls of attorneys to find mention of Aaron
Burr and Alexander Hamilton. I found them listed a little bit below John Jay,
surrounded by many other famous early attorneys, and separated by only two
others. Burr and Hamilton are always inextricably tied together, yet this
surprise of finding their names together forms part of the allure of archives.
I sometimes think of archival records as a body of forgottenings, an accounting
of activities that have occurred or thoughts that a human has had but that
no-one now remembers. Only the records do, and they remind individuals among us
of our forgottenings, so they can examine these rememberings in new contexts
and retell them to us—so we can understand better the world. So we can create
knowledge that helps us proceed into the as-yet-unknown future with enough
information to make something better of it. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyarchives/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@nyarchives</span></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/geofhuth/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@geofhuth</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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The inventory and finding aid we produced for the
records we are transferring to the State Archives included significant
information on context—including physical and custodial contexts. For instance,
we found photographs of the storage of these records in the early 1900s, so we
added these images to the inventory to demonstrate what we learned about the
storage and care of these records over time. This image of the records strewn
over the floor and placed irregularly on shelves in the basement of the Tweed
Courthouse shows us that the care of these records was lacking even more than
100 years ago. We can actually identify specific volumes in this set of photos,
which tells us how the volumes have deteriorated over the last 110 years or so.
We believe this contextualization and the web of contextualizations we
documented in our inventory will help the new custodians of these records (at
the New York State Archives) better understand these records and better help
people use them. @nyarchives @geofhuth<o:p></o:p></div>
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This document carries the signature of Aaron Burr.
I've seen his signature in person many times, but he wrote this one while his
wife Eliza was trying to divorce him and after he had suffered a stroke—so his
signature here seems to read "A Beers." This divorce was a tawdry
struggle for money, with many interesting details and an ironic finish: Burr
died on the day the court issued his divorce decree. The decree said Eliza
could remarry as if she had never been married but that Aaron could not remarry
unless Eliza had first died. So many ironies here, but this is just a story,
one of thousands upon thousands told in these records. Sometimes, we think
these individual stories are what make these records valuable, and that is
indeed part of their value. But what I see as the overall value of these hundreds
of thousands of records is the cumulative story of all these disputes. The
story of how the courts functioned and changed. The story of how American
litigiousness’ early roots. The story of how a people made a country. The story,
finally, of the definition and redefinition of justice. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyarchives/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@nyarchives</span></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/geofhuth/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@geofhuth</span></a></div>
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The dramatic opening flourish of this page and the
looping gracefulness of its subsequent letters entrance the viewer on sight.
But when we begin to decode its meaning, we are struck by the mundanity of the
text, which does no more than give the date, location, and name of this court.
Yet other unintended and unnoticed meaning always lives within the text. This
entry tells us that courts were sometimes held in individuals' homes, that this
is a circuit court because it's not being held in New York, that the practices
of the time required the clerk to provide basic information in formal and
sinuous ways. Most of the records the New York State Unified Court System is
transferring to the State Archives have moved no more than a mile from their
original sites of creation until this move. But this volume has traveled
hundreds of miles, north along the Hudson, west along the Mohawk, and then back
to New York, a city its caretakers never knew was not destined to be its final
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New York State Archives staff are carefully
transferring card indexes into small "shoe boxes" for transport to
Albany in this bird's-eye view. This process is the slowest of those of these
three weeks of preparation and transfer, because these cards had not been
packed by court system staff first. These indexes were produced in the first
half of the twentieth century by staff of the Division of Old Records. In the
1990s, many of these indexes were transcribed into four large digital
databases, but the Archives is holding on to these card indexes in case
corrections need to be made to the databases. Pictured are Monica Gray above
and Laura Montgomery below. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/realtime/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">#realtime</span></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyarchives/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@nyarchives</span></a> @geofhuth<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sometimes, what we found during this inventory was
stunningly surprising. These parchment writs of error sent from the Supreme
Court of Judicature to the Mayor's Court and back—all to invalidate a ruling of
the lower court—were pressed together so tightly into a bundle that it was
difficult to pry the individual writs from each other's grasp. I've no idea why
these writs, all but two from 1799, were packaged this way, and I was
disappointed to have to disentangle them from their found state, but I needed
to know what they were and people will need to use them unbundled. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyarchives/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@nyarchives</span></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/geofhuth/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@geofhuth</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Jorge Pontual, the reporter from the Brazilian
television network Globo, reads from a paper pleading roll. The interest here
is this is a circuit court record from Albany written entirely in the hand of
the plaintiff's attorney—Alexander Hamilton. What was of even more interest to
Pontual were records of the Mendes family, whose ancestors from Brazil were in
the first group of Jewish immigrants to settle in New York, in the 1600s. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/realtime/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">#realtime</span></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyarchives/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@nyarchives</span></a> @geofhuth<o:p></o:p></div>
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Maria Holden, Director of Archival Services at the
New York State Archives, speaks to the Brazilian TV network about this huge
transfer of records. And the reporter, Jorge Pontual, becomes interested in
doing a followup story about the State Archives' digitization, transcription,
and translation of the Dutch colonial records it holds. After Maria left, the
reporter asked me to tell him when the Archives posts all of this information on
its website. This is how we make archives known, by starting with one story and
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transport by the State Archives were stored in giant bins 18.7 cubic feet in
capacity. The use of these ended up being a very efficient way to move many
volumes of records and small boxes of card indexes from New York City to
Albany. This was just one of the many solutions the State Archives, especially
Maria Holden, devised for this complicated move. Here, Mark Maniak of the State
Archives prepares to tape a bin shut. (Picture by Maria Holden) <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyarchives/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@nyarchives</span></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/geofhuth/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@geofhuth</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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practical and mundane, including such activities as making arrangements with
movers to transport records, arriving before 6:30 in the morning for a move,
and being friendly with the security guards at your building. In this
picture, a moving truck sits behind our building before 6:30 in the morning as
the movers await a 7:00 start time. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/realtime/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">#realtime</span></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyarchives/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@nyarchives</span></a> <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/geofhuth/">@geofhuth</a></span><br />
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The last morning of the last week of the move of
archival court records from lower Manhattan to the State Archives in Albany,
and Archives staff are still cheerful. All of my colleagues at the Archives
have been great to work with—intelligent, accommodating, humorous,
collaborative, and hard-working. Pictured are Clare Flemming and Laura
Montgomery. [Photo by Maria Holden.] <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/realtime/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">#realtime</span></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyarchives/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@nyarchives</span></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/geofhuth/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@geofhuth</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Last night at about 5:30, when the Brazilian TV
crew was wrapping up, I found a cabinet with about a cubic foot of court papers
dating from the 1670s (Mayor's Court pleadings) to the nineteen-aughts (test
results for Typhoid Mary Mallon). Among them were various records we would have
sent to the New York State Archives today, except we didn't have the time to
review them. We expect such discoveries of small stashes of records to continue
indefinitely—until we have reviewed all the million or more case papers in this
large and complicated archives of ours. The goal of archives is order, but the
pull of nature is towards entropy. The contest between these two poles
continues. Illustrated is a Supreme Court of Judicature writ of commission I
discovered today. Such writs assigned commissioners to depose witnesses in
jurisdictions outside New York State. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/realtime/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">#realtime</span></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyarchives/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@nyarchives</span></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/geofhuth/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@geofhuth</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Archives are systems of information, and the
archives here at 31 Chambers Street is a complex interconnected system of
systems. A single court had various interrelated activities and series and that
court's activities interacted with those of every other court—as well as those
of the City of New York and New York County. So it came to pass that I ran
across—only inches from a 1677 pleading from the Mayor's Court—the 1909 test
results for Typhoid Mary Mallon (the latter illustrated here). Only
connect. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/realtime/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">#realtime</span></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyarchives/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@nyarchives</span></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/geofhuth/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@geofhuth</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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It is likely that I would not support this method
of moving a 400- or 500-pound rolling bin onto a truck. Remember: archives are
important but not worth dying or becoming crippled for. I have always pulled
staff off jobs immediately once I thought the work might hurt them. Balance in
archives is understanding the value of humanity and the individual human first
before assessing the value of the record. No record has any value without a
human to use it. And I've worked with these movers for three weeks straight,
and they frequently do work for the court system. I don't want them hurt.
(Photo by Maria Holden.) <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyarchives/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@nyarchives</span></a> <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/geofhuth/">@geofhuth</a></span></div>
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Maria Holden captures on video the last shipment of
records leaving 31 Chambers Street for the New York State Archives in Albany.
By 1:00 in the afternoon, all the records were in the State Archives’ main
building and being unloaded, thus ending the major transfers of these records
to the State Archives. With this set of records in Albany, nearly all of the
extant records of the Supreme Court of Judicature and its four offices and of
the Court of Chancery and its eight circuits have now been brought together for
the first time, making much easier the use of these records across their entire
breadth than has ever been possible before. (This will likely be the only post
I make this week that shows me.) <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyarchives/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@nyarchives</span></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/geofhuth/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@geofhuth</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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This is a view of one row of four rows of large
filing cabinets for index cards that make up the original indexes to many of
the records series held by the Division of Old Records. I captured this image
in the late afternoon, when the sun was low in the sky. When I look at the
cabinets, I think there is a huge number of them. But their size became more
real when State Archives staff began the time-consuming task of moving the
cards into small shoe boxes for storage, when it became clear that the number
of boxes needed had been significantly underestimated, and when staff
transferred the small boxes into only partially filled cardboard bins—each
holding about 15 cubic feet of cards and weighing about 450 pounds. What
archives teaches us hardest is that paper is heavy. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyarchives/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@nyarchives</span></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/geofhuth/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@geofhuth</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Early yesterday morning, long before 7:00, I walked
the four hallways of the eighth floor, which define the perimeter of 31
Chambers Street, to identify the locations of all the large bins full of
records—to make sure nothing would be left behind in that morning's final
transfer. This high up in the building, the only large windows are those that
face into the courtyard—all the outward looking windows are tiny portholes that
work like reverse telescopes, making everything outside seem smaller than they
are to the naked eye. This early in the morning, that giant space, with its
masses of records, also seemed small compared to the larger world almost
invisible to me from this vantage point. But the wood and canvas Willis file
open on the shelf beneath the window reminded me there were millions more
records for us to clean, box, and inventory. The phase of the project that
ended yesterday was the small one. We have about six times as many records,
covering a broader time span, to send to the Municipal Archives. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyarchives/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@nyarchives</span></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/geofhuth/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@geofhuth</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://www.instagram.com/saarchivists/" title="saarchivists"></a>I see custodianship as one of the contexts that allows
us to understand records. Archivists might not internalize this truth
regularly, yet custodianship can affect records dramatically and even
irreversibly. One reason the court system has transferred its huge collection
of historical records of courts of statewide jurisdiction to the NYS Archives
is that we did not have the facilities or resources to protect these records
from further decay. Our inventory of these records deliberately discussed the
context of custodianship, indicating how early custodians often disrupted
original order while creating artificial series, allowed series and their constituent
records to become fragmented, and practiced forms of preservation that wrought
a range of changes upon the records. In the case of these pages of 1786 minutes
from the circuit court of the Supreme Court of Judicature, we see that some
paper infilling process has reduced the readability of the pages, giving them a
ghostly aspect, and causing text from the reverse side of each page to show
through to the other. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyarchives/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@nyarchives</span></a>
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For me, part of the purpose of this inventory and
description project became to test my concept of informational conservation.
This type of conservation requires archivists to make records and series whole again,
even to return them to their original order, but also to document the changes
they have made to the records and their arrangement. In this project, I took
boxes of fragmented documents and carefully reassembled them into wholenesses
or as close to that as possible. I brought dispersed pieces of volumes together
(as small as one sheet in size) and recorded how I did that work and what the
pieces were. In this way, a future archivist (one who notices something wrong
with the reconstructed records) can confirm that what appears to be an error
was caused by our actions—and then they can reverse that original conservation
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Records are always surprises. When you think they
are one thing, they turn out to be something else. When you know what they are,
they hold something unexpected within them. I learned most of what I know about
pest damage that affects records during this project. Illustrated is a document
showing flyspeck (what a person on the street might call bug poop—calcified and
ancient in this case). I found only a few examples of this on any records, but
I liked the surprise of it, and the chance to learn something new. Fortunately,
there were no signs of insect infestation in any records, so the archives
receiving them have no cause for worry. I like the visual aspect of this
document, how one end has been irregularly folded over to reveal specks of the
letters of the words folded inside the sheet of paper, how the inkspeck and
flyspeck almost become part of the same message. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyarchives/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@nyarchives</span></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/geofhuth/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@geofhuth</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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The value I most see in records is the value of
aggregation, how sets of records allow patterns to become evident, how
documents within them take turns showing different aspects of their meaning,
how systems of records are more illuminating than individual documents extracted
from a broader recordkeeping context. Most other people, however, are drawn to
the singular, the individual document with characteristics (including
information) that set it apart. Take this view of a deposition collected by a
commissioner working for the Supreme Court of Judicature. Rather than
consisting of nothing but the transcription of verbal testimony, this document
includes a plan showing a house, garden, and piazza—thus adding cartographic information
to the transcribed testimony. This visual information catches the eye and holds
its attention. It may not be the most important information, but it is
arresting because of its unconventionality. And images sell, so we tell stories
with images. Even when we are archivists ourselves. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyarchives/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@nyarchives</span></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/geofhuth/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@geofhuth</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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These opening pages of a rule book of the Supreme
Court of Judicature show the embrittlement of its paper and how the coherence
of the volume has also become at risk. But what interests me most about this is
the illuminating extraneous information in this record. The page begins with an
incomplete name of the court, "Sup Court" (which could indicate the
Supreme Court of the Superior Court). It follows with unnecessary practice
writing the opening phrase for most common rules of the court, it includes a
good pencil drawing of a man in profile, and it rather dramatically makes clear
that this is volume M (for attorneys whose surnames begin with M). What
interests me here is this gives us insight into the clerk himself. The human
context comes through. We learn that he sees this book as his personal
possession, not a record of government. This also tells us that he did not see
the rule books (unlike the more carefully and formally kept minute books) as
that important a record. We can surmise that he didn't expect anyone but
himself to refer to this volume. Records always tell us more than their
creators intended. They always give us information on something beyond their
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This glass-plate negative is one of five we found
that document the state of the storage of these early court records while in
their previous location in the Tweed Courthouse. These photographs were taken
sometime between 1907 when the Hall of Records (now usually called the
Surrogate's Courthouse) opened and 1911 when the building was finally
completely occupied. These are not court records and were not transferred to
the New York State Archives. However, we found and amassed as a series a few
cubic of these, and they document the history of the caretakers of these
records and the management of the records over the twentieth and twenty-first
century. This series of administrative records significantly enhanced our
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When mousechew is extensive and appears across the
fold in a document, dramatic inkblot effects occur. In this case, the gigantic
voids left on the small parchment expunge almost all of the information unique
to this writ of venire facias juratores, which is a writ commanding a sheriff
to assemble a jury for a trial. But voids in individual documents form just one
type of lacuna in this collection of records. Sometimes, entire documents or
volumes are missing. For some years in most folded paper series not a single
document survives. For the period of the Revolutionary War, only a smattering
of documents still exist—though more than many historians had thought, since
the consensus was that the courts failed to operate at all starting from 1777
until the early 1780s. Sometimes decay has caused information to flake off
these records. But what protects the loss of information to some degree is that
these courts had recordkeeping systems that included significant duplication.
So even if this writ here is fragmentary, the writ book for this time will
record the writ, because it was the means used by courts to track writs given
to sheriffs and to ensure their return. That is the beauty of complicated
records systems: they have to connect to one another to function as a system.
So this simple writ serves almost as a hyperlink to point us to the writ book
documenting its creation. And we can find that information easily because the
writ still carries the name of the lawyer requesting the writ and its date—and
because the name of the clerk on this writ confirms what court released the
writ. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyarchives/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@nyarchives</span></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/geofhuth/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">#geofhuth</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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In one case, we found three sets of common rule
books that were formatted exactly as one another: one from the Supreme Court of
Judicature, one from the Superior Court of the City of New York, and one from
the Mayor's Court. Very few of the 250 or so volumes in these series
specifically named the court within the volumes, and we actually began with
about 350 volumes and fragments of volumes. To deal with this complexity, we
collected detailed information on each volume, including the evidence we used
to determine the creating court. We saved this information for the repositories
receiving the records, according to the principle of informational conservation
and because mistakes were possible given the number of moving parts of
information. The sheet illustrated here consists of part of a draft of the
table I created for the Supreme Court's rule books, along with the numerous
additional notes I added one day while trying to verify the creating court. To
me, this sheet resembles the process of creating knowledge: first, learning an
increasing number of disparate pieces of information, then slowly making
connections between those pieces, and finally achieving a state of knowing
something new. In the end, these records proved the apothegm I frequently
tell my staff: The record tells us what it is. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyarchives/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@nyarchives</span></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/geofhuth/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@geofhuth</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Documents are sometimes repaired by their
creators—and also by their custodians. Occasionally, a parchment is repaired
with a dramatic suture that leaves a tight scarlike seam across its surface.
These fixes were likely the work of the clerk himself, and they worked well,
keeping the parchment from tearing beyond the cut and keeping it flat. During
the 1970s, one staff member of the Division of Old Records reported spending
much of his time repairing old records with adhesive tape. We have uncovered
much of this work, which always led to permanent damage. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyarchives/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@nyarchives</span></a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/geofhuth/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@geofhuth</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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The end of the alphabet (via the cover of a common
rule book) brings us to the end of this story. Ours was a story of how staff of
the Unified Court System's Office of Records Management sifted through
centuries of recordkeeping to conduct a still ongoing inventory of archival
court records of New York. So I'd like to thank those who worked on this for
many months. My staff: Jane Chin (my Deputy), Vinny Armerino, Everton Stair,
Terry Wong, and Terry Faison. I'd like to thank the staff of the New York
County Clerk's office for help, counsel, and explanation, including Milton
Tingling (the clerk himself), Joe Van Nostrand (the longtime archivist of these
records), and Bruce Abrams (now a volunteer, but once and recently the
assistant archivist). I would like to thank the Historical Society of the New
York Courts, who have been partners in this project by giving us the help of
Mike Benowitz (who worked on the inventory until he moved to a new job) and by
seeing how this project ties into a joint project of ours to create an online
portal to catalog data on the archival court records of New York State.
Finally, thanks to the New York State Archives for accepting the responsibility
for these records and for their work implementing the move of them to Albany.
My name is Geof Huth, I'm the Chief a Records Officer of the state court
system, and I'm now returning to the much larger phase of this project: the
inventory of records of courts with jurisdiction in Manhattan. These we plan to
transfer to the Municipal Archives of New York City. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nyarchives/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@nyarchives</span></a> <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/geofhuth/">@geofhuth</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>archivity furthers</i></div>
Geofhuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04763053227479195348noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19374272.post-16105527035991253872015-04-01T06:49:00.002-04:002018-11-22T10:10:23.183-05:00"Manufact" Defined<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212f40; font-family: , "helvetica neue" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6000003814697px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For April Fool's day, I present a word in archives that I can find only one citation for in the English language but which was used seriously as a term in that case in our field. Since it is not a term appropriate for the <i>Dictionary of Archives Terminology</i>, I present it here, but in the format of that dictionary.</span><br />
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<strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212f40; font-family: proxima-nova, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6000003814697px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">manufact</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #212f40; font-family: , "helvetica neue" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6000003814697px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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n.</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #212f40; font-family: , "helvetica neue" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6000003814697px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ~ an artifact considered as an object that records and preserves meaning similar to the way an archival record does
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212f40; font-family: , "helvetica neue" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6000003814697px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Related Terms</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212f40; font-family: , "helvetica neue" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6000003814697px; white-space: pre-wrap;">manuscript</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212f40; font-family: , "helvetica neue" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6000003814697px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Synonym</b></span><br />
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Just as a manuscript is </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212f40; font-family: proxima-nova, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6000003814697px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">written</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #212f40; font-family: , "helvetica neue" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6000003814697px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by hand, a manufact is </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212f40; font-family: proxima-nova, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6000003814697px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">made </em><span style="background-color: white; color: #212f40; font-family: , "helvetica neue" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6000003814697px; white-space: pre-wrap;">by hand. Each is a human creation, each records the fact of its manufacture, and each transports meaning into the future for continued use by other humans. The concept of the manufact accepts that all “recordings” (even digital “recordings” of text or image or sound, or physical recordings in the form of objects) exist as physical realities that maintain information over time, thus each must be accorded the respect archivists usually reserve only for the record.
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Washburn, Wilcomb E. “Manuscripts and Manufacts,” <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The American Archivist</em> 27:2 (April 1964): 247. </strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #212f40; font-family: , "helvetica neue" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6000003814697px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The important distinction is not between the written word and the material object but between the specific fact and the general idea. The specific fact may be either in the form of a written document—a manuscript—or a material artifact or “manufact” (if I may be permitted to use an archaic term to demonstrate the close relationship of the artifact and the manuscript). The historian has an obligation to the specific before he plunges into the general, and it is this responsibility that unifies the manuscript and the manufact. </span>Geofhuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04763053227479195348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19374272.post-21140909621322580602014-08-20T21:09:00.000-04:002014-08-20T22:12:17.047-04:00An Address, and the Place the Address Takes Us<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">SAA President Danna C. Bell Just before Her Presidential Address, Washington, D.C. (14 August 2014)</td></tr>
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I am a person of words, of words isolated, of words in roving packs, of words sunk into the soft bedding of the page, of words swirling into my ears. I am the captive of the word, the manner in which it holds and transmits meaning, the shapes it takes upon a screen, the sounds it has in flight.<br />
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For these reasons, a presidential address--any presidential address of any president I must accept as my own--is important to me. The traditional <a href="http://www2.archivists.org/2014/presidential-address#.U_UwloBdW3I">address of the president of the Society of American Archivists</a> as she or he steps down is particularly important to me. There is, after all, the tradition, the notion worn into me by so many long years that at the end of an SAA conference the president looks back at the year just past, the only year of a fruit-fly's-life presidency, and looks outwardly and forward toward the future, at what archives and archives will be, must be, will strive to be.</div>
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So I was distressed, to a visible degree, when Danna C. Bell (now the immediate past president of SAA) reported earlier this year that she did not intend to give a <a href="http://www2.archivists.org/2014/presidential-address#.U_UwloBdW3I">presidential address</a>. Most members of SAA Council urged her to give one. I certainly did. But she was determined. She said that she didn't think it necessary to give an address, and she seemed uncomfortable at the thought of it. </div>
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Think about it: The Society is now growing, it is larger than it has ever been, and the presidential address is delivered in a giant room, with multiple video projections showing the president up close to a thousand people or more. The <a href="http://www2.archivists.org/2014/presidential-address#.U_UwloBdW3I">presidential address </a>at the annual conference of the Society of American Archivists is the biggest speech an archivist will ever give to archivists. It is momentous, after a fashion, and possibly unnervingly so.</div>
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Intended reality, however, changed on us, as it always does. (There is a Borges story where a man imagines all the possible details of how he might be executed so that he might escape death--because nothing in life ever happens as we imagine it will.) Danna decided to give a <a href="http://www2.archivists.org/2014/presidential-address#.U_UwloBdW3I">presidential address</a>, but a very small one, one to only to SAA staff, members of Council, her family, and a few of her close friends. Most members of Council, including me, learned of this change on the Monday of the conference. </div>
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Upon hearing the news, I was both happy and disappointed--happy that there would be an address but disappointed that the address would not be to everyone in attendance at the conference. Because the news of the <a href="http://www2.archivists.org/2014/presidential-address#.U_UwloBdW3I">presidential address</a>, and the location and time, were a surprise, not even every member of Council could attend. At least one had a scheduling conflict, and I don't remember seeing everyone else there. </div>
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In fact, I almost forgot about it, because it wasn't listed on the little app I used to navigate the conference. I remembered at the last moment but still made it on time. Upon walking into the room, a small one, I noted that many of the sessions at this conference were more than ten times larger than that room. There were probably under 100 people in attendance, but they were all people Danna knew well, except for a few extra people who unwittingly followed invitees into the room.</div>
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Once in the room, I chatted with people, reintroduced myself to Danna's mother (whom I'd last, and first, seen when Danna was made a fellow of the Society), and sat talking with Danna's family until the speech began.<br />
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I remain ambivalent about Danna's decision to give her speech in this manner. On one hand, I understand the difficulty some people have speaking in public. (Personally, I can't really understand it, because the bigger the crowd, the more comfortable I am speaking before it. The size of the crowd gives me energy. I pull it out of their bodies.) Still, I like to believe that leadership requires us to push ourselves beyond on areas of comfort. I would have preferred Danna to give a speech to everyone or to explain before the conference why she wasn't.</div>
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I prefer more access to the <a href="http://www2.archivists.org/2014/presidential-address#.U_UwloBdW3I">presidential address</a> than had occurred last week. I want any information at the conference to be available to everyone. I desire the free flow of information for everyone. But I also have to consider the human being Danna is. I'm not really sure she was worried about speaking to such a big crowd, I don't remember her saying that, but many have told me that was the issue. It's possible that she simply didn't want the attention or considered the presidential address a distraction from the serious business of learning and networking. And I say that unironically.</div>
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In her speech, Danna noted that the speech would be taped to "provide access to members and non-members." And she explained that she didn't know if it was necessary to give a presidential address, noting that her "columns and blog posts had given members plenty to consider." Then she said, "But a number of people were aghast at an SAA annual meeting without a presidential address." And she explained that an unnamed member of Council told her she would give a speech "come hell or high water."</div>
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Her speech I thought was one of the best I'd heard, especially at the end. She demonstrated some oratorial legerdemain, a bit of genius with the tools she was using: words. </div>
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She begin by talking about using primary materials in education, something her life is focused on, and she demonstrated, through personal illustrations in her life, how "we must think about the story," how "we must think of the people behind the documents." She made some of the arguments I myself would make for archives and archivists. She hit some delicate nerves within me and played a bit of music.<br />
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And her ending was beautiful, if extended.<br />
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She began by quoting from, of all places, <a href="http://www.cookman.edu/about_BCU/history/lastwill_testament.html">Mary McLeod Bethune's last will and testament</a>:<br />
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I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. I leave you thirst for education. I leave you respect for the uses of power. I leave you faith. I leave you dignity.</blockquote>
And Danna continued with that anaphoric structure, never letting on that she'd left out the details Bethune had included after each of those opening sentences, which were simply dramatic topic sentences to most of the ending paragraphs of her will.<br />
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Then Danna switched the tables. Bethune was a woman in the present past who was looking forward to a time when she would be dead and people would hear her words as words from the past urging them forward. Danna was a woman in the present giving words in that present as a means to make us move forward toward that wished-for future. What Danna did was wish for the future with us; she wasn't leaving us anything. She was telling us her desires, hoping they'd be ours, encouraging us to think of them as such. Telling us to make them so (as Bethune herself was, from another direction).<br />
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Though, maybe the world of archives seems a less important place than the struggle for racial justice, especially today, I still believe that archives holds some of the promise of that justice.<br />
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In the climax of her <a href="http://www2.archivists.org/2014/presidential-address#.U_UwloBdW3I">presidential address</a>, Danna asked for a world where archives matter more to people. And she gave a wish for the SAA staff, saying that "full-time staff, just like archivists, deserve jobs and living wages, benefits and support." (I loved that human touch, that respect given to a group of people who work hard for the Society and accomplish more than I would ever think possible.) Danna also wished that members would support one another more, finding ways in which we are brought together as one, rather than ways in which we can separate from each other. She said, "We are a strong, vital, powerful group with great minds and passionate hearts." And I believe it. I believed her. I see it.<br />
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In the end, I don't know for sure why Danna didn't want to give a <a href="http://www2.archivists.org/2014/presidential-address#.U_UwloBdW3I">presidential address</a> or why she gave her speech this way, but I accept that this venue, that small crowd, might have made it possible to give a speech as good as the one she gave. I'll take what I can get. I'll accept what is lost if what replaces it seems sufficient.<br />
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And this speech seemed more than good enough. And it is available on line for all to see, to hear. We can all watch it. And we can watch it again. I'd move the dial to the last eight minutes of the speech. I'll listen to that again. I already have tonight.<br />
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I am a man of words, of my word, and I'll accept these words from Danna as a gift to archivists. I'm happy for the gift.<br />
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Earlier today, I wrote to Danna to explain that I'd be writing this little essay, to say that I'd explain my thoughts about the speech and its manner and place of birth. Danna seemed curious about what I'd have to say, so I was glad I didn't surprise her with this.<br />
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Yet I continue to wish I had heard this <a href="http://www2.archivists.org/2014/presidential-address#.U_UwloBdW3I">presidential address</a> in a grand hall, even if that meant I'd miss a chance to see her mother again or meet her aunts and uncles. I wish everyone had had the chance I had to hear this live and in person, even if not as intimately as I had. <br />
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I'm sitting teeteringly between two poles of thought. But I'll let the more hopeful thought win out.<br />
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<i>archivity furthers</i></div>
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Geofhuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04763053227479195348noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19374272.post-77594648805570992742014-04-25T14:01:00.001-04:002014-04-25T14:01:51.990-04:00Attending S10 Remotely<br><div><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">1. Go to <span style="text-decoration: underline;">https://archive.webex.com/archive/j.php?MTID=m8fda032f7acda77058ae15de91b297fa</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">2. If requested, enter your name and email address</p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">3. If a password is required, enter the meeting password: Webharvest1</p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">4. Click "Join".</p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;">5. Follow the instructions that appear on your screen.</p></div><div><br></div>Geofhuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04763053227479195348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19374272.post-74021692564265530302014-03-06T23:11:00.003-05:002014-03-10T22:57:09.865-04:00My Introduction to the 2014 Archives Leadership CohortI'm Geof Huth, Director of Government Records Services at the
New York State Archives, where I've worked (in six different positions)
for the past 23 years. Random notes about myself:<br />
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I'm a native Californian, descendant of multiple '49ers (none
athletes). I've lived in five states, nine countries, and four
continents, and I don't have a favorite country. <br />
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I know too much about beer, so bring homebrew (which I don't make). I am serious half the time. <br />
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I climb fast. I live in the world of archives because I'm passionate
about it, and I'm passionate about electronic records more than is
seemly. <br />
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I am a poet, visual and otherwise, mostly working in
forms of poetry you will not have heard of. My shortest poem is one
punctuation mark long.<br />
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My work has been shown in Bergen, Norway. I was a small but active part of the 1980s zine revolution.<br />
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Cliff
Hight is one of my favorite people, and ALI14 will be my first time
seeing him outside of an SAA conference, even though we graduated from
the same library school. <br />
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Natalie Baur is one of the few people I know who knows the South
American card game Telefunken, though the version she plays is
considerably different from my Bolivian version. <br />
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I've never
played a musical instrument, but I can provide you with recordings of my
playing. I sing constantly, even at work, as my secretary can tell you,
but the only song I know all the words to is "Happy Birthday." <br />
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One of the most respected craft breweries in the country
is in Decorah, and I know the way there. As Terry Baxter has, I lived a
good deal of my childhood in the tropics.<br />
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My first
professional job was as a labor archivist. I consider myself a records
manager, and I see archives as part of records management.<br />
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I am known to tell jokes. Language is my medium and element. <br />
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I keep my home at 52 degrees Fahrenheit in the winter (511.67 degrees Rankine). I have a general interest in clothing and color.<br />
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In 2008, I attended the first instance of ALI in Madison, Wisconsin. I
firmly believe you'll all have a great time at ALI, because I know the
people who will be working with you, I've read about all of you, and
because there is also something that happens at ALI to bring people
together and inspire them.<br />
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I write too much. I talk too much.</div>
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All of this is true. Be well, and see you in 101 days!<br />
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<i>archivity furthers</i> Geofhuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04763053227479195348noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19374272.post-35317701375099793822013-08-20T22:44:00.001-04:002013-08-20T22:44:04.512-04:00Escape from New Orleans<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">firewater (at Pat O'Brien's) (17 August 2013)</td></tr>
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My thought tonight is to begin to remember a little of New Orleans, specifically the Society of American Archivists' conference there last week, and to begin to stitch together a story. I begin with the night before leaving New Orleans because a story told in the proper order is not a story at all.<br />
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I found myself, at a point that night that was almost late, walking down Bourbon Street, a street known for rowdiness--and this was a Friday night. When I asked why we were walking down Bourbon Street, the answer was, "Because everyone wanted to," yet no-one expressed that want in such a way that I could hear it, which is understandable. The noise at Pat O'Brien's was huge and wavelike, surging at me, trapped as I was against a metal fence, pinned in by chairs to either side of me, the table--everything was metal--preventing my escape forward, if I'd wanted to escape.<br />
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Strangely, I'd found myself at Pat O'Brien's in much the same way. I had just started reviewing the beer selection* at Ralph & Kacoo's again with my friend Scott Goodine, the provincial archivist of Manitoba, when suddenly Rachel Vagts told me we were leaving. The "we" was not exactly clear at the time, but it ended up being much of the steering committee and both of the staff from the Archives Leadership Institute (@ Luther). I still ordered my beer and stood at the bar talking to Scott, but soon "we" were indeed leaving, so I had the bartender dump my remaining beer in a styrofoam cup and I hit the streets of New Orleans with my first open container of alcohol.†<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Walking the Streets of New Orleans with a Styrofoam Cup of Beer (17 August 2013)</td></tr>
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Pat O'Brien's was wild with the noise of talking and music and waterfirefountains, and we were there (I learned during the walk) for hurricanes, a common New Orleanian drink that consists of lots of sweet juice and some alcohol--the latter which appears to always be imperceptible through the sweetness. Once there, we sat at a round metal table and talked. About anything. Sometimes archives. Sometimes the fact that I never slept and never have had a hangover. Sometimes about where we were. Always about anything.<br />
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The reason I go to SAA each year‡ is to learn, and much of what I want to learn is about people I know or don't yet know. Archivists may be a strange and ruly-unruly breed, but there is something exhilarating about being together with 1650+ of one's closest colleagues and friends and talking in a language not many people know. I go to SAA to have a great time, to learn as much as I can, to help others learn whatever it is that I know, and to make jokes. (The last may be related to having a great time.)<br />
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And I go there to make sure SAA thrives. I've been a member continuously since October 1988, when I was in graduate school beginning my life as an archivist, and I do what I can to make SAA thrive so that I can help archivists thrive. And maybe it's because some of them are my friends, and because I am somehow free at SAA to feel the power of humanity, the power of friendship, but also that of the purpose and passion of archivist, of the drive to do good well.<br />
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In what seemed like almost no time at all, we were finished with our work at Pat O'Brien's, the massmind of my friends having decided (again, outside the range of my perception) that it was time to leave, and we left the facility from the other side of its majuscule L, foot-tall hurricane glasses in hand (courtesy of Rachel--and I had two, since I took the one Terry Baxter left behind). Suddenly, we were on Bourbon Street's riot of noise and light and flesh, watching people vomit as they walked, watching people take their three-year-old children by the hand through the throng, watching the sign blinking "LIVE LOVE ACTS."‡‡ In the accordioning mass of people, which we snaked through as well as we could, we occasionally broke into individual pearls of humanity, separate from our friends, but we would soon pull back into a line of limbs curving through the crowd.<br />
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Eventually, we exited Bourbon Street, where people barely made room for a police car, lights rolling, that was trying to inch its way through the humanity. So what did we do first? Look for food for the next morning's meeting, something happening on Sunday, my last session of the conference, even if post conference, the Archives Leadership Institute's Practices Workshop, another round of connection, another attempt to bring ourselves together, another venue for linking, our final chance at building more relationships between us as we try to unravel the mystery of making and keeping the light of archives burning at the start of the twenty-first century. (But that's another story, if maybe not the next.)<br />
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Later, back at the hotel, I packed my suitcase, and lay in bed watching the middle of a poor comedy, wanting to see how it ended even though it was clear what the ending would be. But I gave up, I relented, I poured myself into my weariness. And I dreamed of connections, of people, of how archives is always about people, about relationships, about the blurry boundaries between ideas, about how we are all one in our multiplicity of differences, about intertwingularity, about arrangement and description.<br />
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Only connect. <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">* NB: Do not visit New Orleans for the beer. The beer in and near the state of New Orleans is never much good. But if you must go to New Orleans for the beer, go to the Avenue Pub on St Charles, which has an excellent selection of fine brews, because they almost entirely ignore nearby beers. I provide you this information as a beer aficionado.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">† Hint #2: Do not carry a glass container of alcohol on the streets of New Orleans, not even an empty glass made of glass. The fine for that is $500, which explains all the broken glass on Bourbon Street.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">‡ At what I too too often note is at grave personal expense (the pocketbook variety here, not physical). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">‡</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">‡ As I explained to Terry, "love" means "sex" in this context, but I wasn't sure it was an accurate description of what might have awaited us. </span><br />
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<i>archivity furthers</i>Geofhuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04763053227479195348noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19374272.post-15194129540046137652011-10-06T23:18:00.002-04:002011-10-06T23:30:13.059-04:00Preparing for a Daylong Workshop in Cheyenne, Wyoming<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Still Life at a Home in Cheyenne, Wyoming (6 October 2011)</td></tr>
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<i>SpringHill Suites, Room 109, Cheyenne, Wyoming</i><br />
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Today, I flew to Chicago and then I flew to Denver, and from Denver I
drove to Cheyenne, Wyoming, under a sky that really did seem bigger than
the same sky as seen from the eastern part of the country. The reason
for this trip is to give a workshop on electronic records tomorrow to 136 people from Wyoming and Colorado. This will be my biggest in-person workshop ever, and by a long shot (I did have an audience of 1,000 once for a webinar, but this is people in one place).<br />
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I spent an enjoyable evening tonight with members of the board of the local ARMA chapter, and tomorrow will be my presentation in celebration of Archives Day in Wyoming. I'm hoping to have the energy tomorrow night to report on what happened, because I think it's interesting to see what happens when one of us archivists flies around the country to talk about what we do.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Members of the Cheyenne ARMA Chapter with Geof Huth</td></tr>
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<span id="goog_1935687110"></span><span id="goog_1935687111"></span>Geofhuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04763053227479195348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19374272.post-14110954254325761342011-01-31T20:33:00.002-05:002011-01-31T20:49:11.039-05:00MARA Colloquium: What My Career Has Taught Me<b>DATE:</b> Tuesday, February 1, 2011<br />
<b>TIME:</b> 5:30-6:30 (PST) – 8:30-9:30 (EST)<br />
<b>WHERE:</b> Live from Schenectady, NY, via Elluminate<br />
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<b>URL:</b> <a href=" https://nexus.sjsu.edu:443/join_meeting.html?meetingId=1267553020900"><br />
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<b>PASSWORD:</b> mara<br />
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Deciding to join the field of archives and records management is a strange one, a rare career choice, but one filled with many interesting challenges and fruitful rewards. Geof Huth will discuss his own career, how he chose to enter the field, and how he took advantage of opportunities to create a rewarding career but one not at all like the one he had imagined for himself. He will discuss what newcomers to the field need to think about and be prepared to do to find their own surprising careers.<br />
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With two decades’ experience in the field, Geof Huth is an authority on best practices in records management in government. He currently serves as the Director of the New York State Archives’ Government Records Services, ensuring the development and delivery of quality records management and archives services to local governments and state agencies across the state. These include direct advisory services, records center services, retention scheduling, and publication and workshop development. He speaks frequently around the country and the state about records management and archives.<br />
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Apart from his archives and records management interests and responsibilities, Geof is well known as a ‘visual poet.’ Check out his dbqp: visualizing poetics blog: <a href="http://dbqp.blogspot.com/">http://dbqp.blogspot.com/</a><br />
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RSVP: Although virtual seating is unlimited, I’d appreciate an estimate of the number of participants. Please respond to Dr. Pat Franks at patricia.franks@sjsu.edu if you plan to join us.<br />
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ELLUMINATE: If you have not used Elluminate before, a student guide is available to help you prepare: <a href="http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/software/elluminate/students/">http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/software/elluminate/students/</a></b><br />
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<i>archivity furthers</i>Geofhuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04763053227479195348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19374272.post-12899583663556475402009-10-07T23:54:00.002-04:002009-10-08T00:03:02.184-04:00Five Questions for Geof HuthI'll be giving a little talk next month at the fortieth anniversary conference of the Society of Georgia Archivists, and SGA asked a few of the speakers at the conference to answer a handful of questions about archives, for publication on their blog.<br /><br />I've ignored this dear blog of my own for so long, since other responsibilities and interests have eaten away my time, that I thought I should repeat these questions here, in the hope that doing so might encourage me to do a little more thinking about archives in this space. Whether this tactic works or not to motivate me, I had a good time answering these questions:<br /><br /><br /><strong>How did you become an archivist?</strong><br /><br />At some point early in adulthood, I had a couple of degrees in English clutched in my fist and no interest in making the next step and earning a PhD in the field. I found myself in need of a career, so I faced a decision that thousands of people have had to make over the course of human history: Do I become an archivist or a lexicographer? My interest in lexicography, which continues to this day, grew out of my interest in language and the magical way in which discrete sets sounds or markings could carry so much meaning. My interest in archives grew out of my early work as a genealogist, where the only valuable research—I soon came to discover—came from using actual records. Of course, both fields have an abiding focus on detail and thoroughness, which helped make my decision more difficult.<br /><br />But my life experiences made my ultimate decision simple. One day in a small town in rural France, I stumbled across a critical church book, a book I didn’t know existed in a town I had not planned to visit, and that changed me. The process of finding the book was happenstance. My father and I had stopped at a church to ask directions to the next town, and the priest there suggested we look through his books. The book itself was tossed in a cabinet filled with books and papers askew, and the ink was flaking off its pages, leading me to wonder how much longer the volume would last.<br /><br />I became an archivist because I decided that this field held more opportunity than lexicography did, and that proved to be a correct conclusion. But I really became an archivist because I decided that people needed something better than happenstance to find a record, because I realized that records needed to be cared for if we wanted them to last and be used into the future, and because archives is a humanistic enterprise: We keep records not for the records themselves, but for the people who need them. Although central to our imagination, records are almost ancillary to our mission because those records have value only to the degree that people need them, to the extent that the records serve humanity, in big and small ways.<br /><br />So I am an archivist because I’m passionate about the interplay between the record as a continuing embodiment of humanness and the humans whose lives and work and passions can be supported by those records.<br /><br /><br /><strong>What's changed the most since you became an archivist?</strong><br /><br />I am just old enough so that my training for my MLS included only cursory coverage of electronic records. In 1988, there were still a few people at school who did not have computers of their own, and people were a little unsure about what this electronic world was going to be and how it was going to affect our lives. So although there have been many changes to the profession since I became an archivist—a greater reliance on standards, a healthy broadening of the archival profession, and clear progress towards greater professionalism—the biggest change is that huge and often sleeping giant in our midst: electronic records and our crying need to manage them well. The question of “forever,” the question of permanence haunts us deeply with electronic records, and we still feel incapable of dealing with electronic records.<br /><br />And that self-doubt shows. Most of us struggle to deal with electronic records. A few hope to avoid them altogether. Many probably believe that electronic records do not have the allure, the ineffable attraction of paper records or, better yet, records on parchment—yet these all are merely signs of human activity, each filled with the same blood and life that any other record of the same type holds. If anything will define our era of archives, if anything has the greatest potential to leave our tender throats exposed to the sharp blade of criticism, it is how we address this huge necessary change in our work. This is our greatest challenge, and one that we have to be up to. We cannot lose this battle. The signs everywhere demonstrate that we are experiencing a digital sea change at this very moment. Digital photography far outstrips traditional photography. A current blockbuster best seller is selling better on Amazon.com as an e-book than in paper. And most of the recorded information in the world is born digital and often dies without ever touching paper. If we don’t teach ourselves how to manage electronic records, we will be incapable of fulfilling our broad mission to document human activity. The recorded world, the world of unique and fleeting records, the world that we are responsible for preserving, will disappear.<br /><br /><br /><strong>What's stayed the same (for better or worse)?</strong><br /><br />Even in the face of enormous change over the last twenty years, I’m sure that much has remained unchanged, but what I think about most in this regard is us. As archivists, we are sometimes too cautious for our own good. Why? Because we know that we are each an essential link in a profound chain of responsibility, and because we know that our mistakes could very well have negative consequences that will last forever. Any record lost or destroyed on our watch is likely a record that will never be seen again, so caution is our byword. But caution can take us only so far. At some point we need to be fearless, we need to take calculated risks, we need to accept (for instance) that we might fail if we try to preserve electronic records. Yet if we do nothing, we know we will fail, and we cannot guarantee failure. What we, as archivists, have to learn, even if it goes against our general nature sometimes, is how to take risks and how to advocate for necessary change in our organizations. <br /><br /><br /><strong>How did you become interested in electronic records?</strong><br /><br />As computers arrived in our lives, I became interested in them for what they could do for us, for how they could change our lives, so I experimented early with computers to figure out how they might support a different kind of writing, provide greater control over page design, and allow for the creation of kinetic poems for the screen. And this last interest made me someone interested in the knotty problems of digital preservation back in 1986. Starting back then, before I was an archivist or thinking of becoming one, I developed a plan for preserving the first significant collection of early digital poems, the Canadian poet <a href="http://www.vispo.com/bp">bpNichol’s “First Screening."</a> To ensure the preservation of these poems, I preserved, as well as I could, the original 5.25-inch diskette that held them and a backup copy I had made, I printed out the computer code, and I created a videotape of the poems playing on a screen. What I failed to do was save the code electronically, but I saved enough for a dedicated group of people to reproduce the original experience of watching these poems move on screen. I was the only archivist in this endeavor.<br /><br />My interest in electronic records, you see, grew out of a personal interest in preserving digital experiences of what it is to be human. What I didn’t want to lose was that sense of what we were as humans at any point in the digital past. For some people, the digital world is somehow inhuman and soulless, but I do not see it in that way. The digital is what makes us unique as animals. The digital is simply another way in which we express ourselves. I like to tell people that <a href="http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2006/06/digital-text-human.html">digital records are those records that best represent us</a> because they, like us, require electrical impulses to be. <br /><br /><br /><strong>What advice do you have for new archivists or those interested in the profession?</strong><br /><br />My first bit of advice to new archivists is “Don’t limit yourself.” When I was in library school, my goal was to work eventually in literary manuscripts. And I have seen a literary manuscript or two in my career, but those opportunities to work in that particular field never materialized. Instead, work in government records did, and work with a broader records management focus but centered in an archival framework. What I have found is that this work is exciting, various, challenging, and that it has allowed me to work with hundreds, if not thousands, of people over my career. The flexibility I had, borne originally merely out of a desire to pay my bills, proved more than worth it in the end. My other bit of advice is to take pride in what we do as archivists, and by that I don’t mean that we should take pride in how we care for records (though we must do that as well). I mean that we must realize, accept, and prize that we are service workers, that we serve, every day, human beings. There is no higher calling.<br /><br /><i>archivity furthers</i>Geofhuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04763053227479195348noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19374272.post-30961003296178876892008-11-08T13:07:00.001-05:002008-11-08T13:07:12.510-05:00Post-Blogging PostRob Jensen came to the blogging session afterwards to explain that he and others at the MARAC registration desk were reading the live blogging Arian Ravanbaksh, John LeGloahec, and I were doing at the session, even leaving a comment on one. That's live blogging. <br /><br /><I>archivity furthers</I>Geofhuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04763053227479195348noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19374272.post-52698882690163300692008-11-08T12:58:00.001-05:002008-11-08T12:58:35.391-05:00Blogging Blogging: Q&A<I>Crowne Plaza, Room 1104, Silver Spring, Maryland</I><br /><br />Questions about the session focus primarily on how to manage their own blogging. <br /><br />Kate notes that bloggers will have to keep preservation in mind, since the service provider does not. <br /><br />There was a question about whether people are addressing the issue of reuse of blog comments by the institutions with the blog. <br /><br />Another asks if researcers might be worried about the reference blog, since they might be proprietary about their research and not want others to use it. Jim notes that the researcher are not told about the blog but neither are their names or research projects named.<br /><br />Question: Any problem with having a blog on a collection related to a living person. Elizabeth Hull notes that they have not had such problems, even from High Morton's family. <br /><br />In answer to another question, Jim notes that they are working to convert their old reference files to the new system but that this is not a priority. <br /><br /><i>archivity furthers</I> Geofhuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04763053227479195348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19374272.post-63981522974841661802008-11-08T12:45:00.001-05:002008-11-08T12:45:36.396-05:00Blogging Blogging: Gerencser<I>Crowne Plaza, Room 1104, Silver Spring, Maryland</I><br /><br />One blogging problem in this session I just downladed a blogging app, which works reasonably well but doesn't save drafts, so I just lost an almost complete posting because I switched to another program on the iPhone for a second. Hence no posting on Elizabeth Hull's presentation. <br /><br />Jim Gerencser is nose discussing thee Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections reference blog. He is talking about how to manage data related to remote reference requests better than over the prior paper process. <br /><br />There new solution was for the results of the reference transaction to be posted on the blog. One advantage of this is that a user might find their way to Dickinson College while searching for the same information. As Jim says, "Google is God nowadays." Another advantage of this blog is to allow the results of the reference event to be easily searchable by staff re-searching for the same information. <br /><br />(The two laptop bloggers have been shut down by lost battery power, but I go on thumbing against the iPhone, borne forward ceaselessly into the future.)<br /><br />Jim shows us the blog postings, which retain the confidentiality of the researcher. They are always careful to include proper nouns for the valuable use with search engines. Blog postings include links to finding aids and other resources and they use tags to allow a user to find all the postings on the same topic. Commenting is allowed, but they have never received a comment and don't expect much use of commenting. Interestingly, users who could not find the finding aid have found the blog. These blog entries are quite simple and to the point, reducing the language primarily to searchable essentials.<br /><br />The system also tracks the specific fees charged and researcher name (although these are not posted to the blog), allowing the to run statistics, such as those identifying the general topic (genealogy, local history, etc.) of the requests. They use Drupal to manage this blog.<br /><br />Refeence stories are cuatomizable, findable, searchable, linkable, taggable, and obtainable. They hope in the future to have scanned images of retrieved records included in the system, just as they currently have detailed information on location of the material. <br /><br /><I>archivity furthers</I> Geofhuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04763053227479195348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19374272.post-5397003610642079552008-11-08T11:38:00.002-05:002008-11-08T11:56:08.594-05:00Blogging Blogging: TheimerAt MARAC blogging on an iPhone about a session where Kate Theimer is mentioning me. Kate talks about types of archival blogging: processing blog, institutional news blog, and personal opinion blog. She discusses the simple technology for the blogger and the features and functionality you can choose for a blog. Her opening discusses some basics about bringing traffic to a blog: announcements elsewhere, getting on a thematic aggregator (like ArchivesBlogs), and linking to other blogs. Kate notes that she gets comments even from Europe and that she has a book deal even because of the blog. She notes that blogging is publishing, a very public venue, which a blogger need to keep in mind. She notes that some bloggers include much personal information, but that is a personal choice. Her point appears to be to advise the beginning or potential blogger about archives. <br /><br />She ends by "pretending" to like the three of us (LeGloahec, Ravanbaksh, and me) because we are livebligging the session. <br /><br />archivity furthersGeofhuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04763053227479195348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19374272.post-20812371226162997322008-09-04T20:23:00.002-04:002008-09-04T20:49:08.311-04:00Of Archives and Poetry Redux<em><a href="http://slimwindows.blogspot.com">Tom Beckett</a> and I have continued our conversation about poetry and archives, and I've decided to post that part of our conversation in the interest of completeness:</em><br /><br /><br /><strong>Tom Beckett:</strong> I worked on <em>The Difficulties</em> for 10 years. That magazine, that project, was literally a part of daily life for 10 years. That’s a pretty substantial commitment of energy, time and money. There were a few years of figurative hangover as the intoxication of that involvement faded, as well as a subsequent sobering up to the realization that many people I’d been in touch with weren’t interested in communicating with me now that I was no longer doing a magazine.<br /><br />The 1990s were rough years for me. There were financial issues, family issues. I was having problems with depression. No one seemed to be interested in my writing.<br /><br />I sold my archive to Yale in November of 1997. Months before that I had been invited to lunch by Alex Gildzen and Brad Westbrook, both of whom then worked in Special Collections at Kent State University Library. They made a pitch for me to donate my papers to Kent State. I refused, saying that I would do so only if they built a larger collection around it. I knew Kent State University’s poetry holdings and knew that there was very little material by the writers most important to me. As much as I would have liked to work with Alex and Brad, the context of KSU’s library just didn’t make sense as a repository for my papers.<br /><br />At one point I sent a letter to Bob Bertholf at SUNY Buffalo asking if his institution might be interested in purchasing the material and named a cash figure which was on the high side, no doubt—a feeler. I thought his response was sort of condescending, but then I always had that feeling when hearing from Dr. Bob.<br /><br />Finally, I wrote to Yale and told them roughly what and how much I had. I said, and this was really low balling a figure, that they could have it all for $7500 and postage. They accepted immediately. I bought bankers boxes and shipped it all off. After I received payment I had no further interaction with Yale.<br /><br />$7500 is the most money I’ve ever had one time. I used it to buy my first brand new, internet-capable, computer, some office furniture, and to settle a couple of debts.<br /><br />I sold my archive because I needed the money, because I couldn’t take care of the material, and because I needed to exorcise the experience of having done <em>The Difficulties</em> and move on to whatever the next phase of my creative life might me. And I had a feeling that that computer, that connection to the internet, might have something to do with whatever was going to happen next.<br /><br />I also sold the archive because, after years of laboring in obscurity, I felt somewhat hostage to it, and wanted it out of our household<br /><br />I’m guessing, Geof, that you’re probably somewhat horrified by the way I dealt away <a href="http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/MSS_PreliminaryLists/difficul.htm">my “archive.”</a> I thought that Yale, with its resources and staff, would probably handle the materials responsibly. Even if they didn’t understand the context(s) within which it had been created. I also felt an emotional connection with Yale since it is the repository of Gertrude Stein’s papers.<br /><br /><strong>Geof Huth:</strong> I’m not horrified at all with how you managed your papers. You actually seem to have made sound decisions the entire way. You wanted your records to live in a place that gave them some context, which is something that archivists look for all the time: records have more meaning in context with other records that were created along with them, and they have more value if maintained somewhere that includes other records that put them in historical context. The University at Buffalo’s collection would have been a reasonable home for these papers, allowing them the greater context of all the other poetry and poetry collections there. You reduced your asking price when you asked Yale, based on your response to Bertholf, and then you assured your records a home in a respected repository with a serious focus on poetry. Even Stein counts as context in this case, since so much of what she did informed the entire language poetry movement. Your asking price was probably a little low—since Yale accepted it without reviewing the records in much detail—but repositories buy very few manuscript collections, so you did well.<br /><br />Dealing with one’s papers is always an emotional issue because personal papers are tied up with an individual’s identity and aspirations. These papers can document success or failure, capture the ambition of the person who created them, and tell us something about who that person was. When we surrender our papers to an archives, we do so because our lives are going in a different direction, because we are ready to relinquish part of our lives to memory, or simply because we need to make space in our homes. Our papers are the secondary embodiment of ourselves, and we treat them as we do with that in mind. When you decided to destroy some of your blogs or drafts of your poems, you did so knowing you were destroying a tiny record of yourself, a part of yourself. When you decided to sell your papers to Yale, you decided what part of your life was worth saving, from your point of view, even if you did not want to liver with that part of your life anymore. And all of it is good. We cannot judge such personal decisions from afar. We might disagree with people’s decisions about their personal papers, but we have to accept them. These decisions are, in the end, objective fact, the firm hand of reality, squeezing tight.<br /><br /><i>archivity furthers</i>Geofhuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04763053227479195348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19374272.post-12890555675249932252008-09-03T00:20:00.004-04:002008-09-04T20:51:00.041-04:00Of Archives and PoetryAs I approach the night when I'll begin to recall again the events of SAA 2009, I have decided to post a few words I've posted elsewhere, words that intermix two strands of my life (archives and poetry), and words that begin to examine a layperson's experiences with archives and archivists:<br /><br /><br /><br />Today, Tom Beckett posted <a href=" http://slimwindows.blogspot.com/2008/09/i-periodically-like-to-give-some.html">his response to my last question I sent him in our yearlong interview of each other</a>. What follows below is my answer to his request: “Talk, if you would Geof, about the importance of archives to you, personally.”<br /><br /><br />The reason I am interested in archives is because, without them, what happens is what you say has happened to you: “That history has pretty much faded from the front of my brain.” Archives are concrete and permanent systems of memory, the best (though imperfect) replacements for the memories of human beings, which fade over time and disappear with the death of the memory’s host.<br /><br />I used to care nothing for archives. Instead, I was interested in perfection. So as I moved from place to place, I would discard almost everything I made at the place I was leaving. When you move from continent to continent, there’s a great desire within you to reduce your life to its essentials, so every time I moved I would destroy whatever writings or art of mine I thought unimportant. I destroyed my failed retelling of “The Three Little Pigs” (which I wrote during my few weeks in second grade in Millbrae, California), my school records from Ontario, the commonplace books and school newspaper articles I wrote in Bolivia, the humorous stories I wrote in Ghana, my diaries from Tennessee. Each of these I came to find unnecessary because the writing was no longer as good as I had wanted it to be, or the work was already done and needed no memorialization. I regret all those destructions because I’ve lost those memories, and those records. I’m left with fragmented recollections that but murmur a past I want to hear clearly.<br /><br />So what should you think about The Difficulties Archive? (though I’m surprised to see Yale use the work “Archive” to describe this collection. We would usually call this “The Difficulties, Records” or, maybe “The Difficulties, Archives,” but we almost never use “Archive” in this manner). You should think that it is a privilege to have someone think enough of your creation (<i>The Difficulties</i> and the community it supported) to accept the responsibility to preserve it and make it accessible. You should be pleased that these records will endure past your time on this planet and continue to document an important sliver of American poetic history. You should be happy that the Beinecke, one of the most prestigious archives in the country, has identified your records as being valuable enough to include in its Collection of American Literature. You should understand that, whether you were paid for this collection or not, you received from this attention some little taste of immortality. <br /><br />After checking online for this collection I discovered that the <a href="http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/MSS_PreliminaryLists/difficul.htm">“Difficulties Archive, ca. 1977-1997”</a> consists of ten boxes of materials, including correspondence, production files, manuscripts, and copies of the magazine and other printed materials. The accession number for this collection (19971120-a) appears to indicate that this collection arrived on 20 November 2007 and was cataloged five days later. The preliminary catalog record for this collection notes the names of five correspondents: Bob Gregory, Jessica Grim, Ted Pearson, Jane Somerville, and John Wellman. This I found a little strange, since my choice for correspondents to highlight—based on fame and length of correspondence—would be Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, David Bromige, Robert Creeley, Lyn Hejinian, Susan Howe, Leslie Scalapino, and Ron Silliman. It seems that the person doing the preliminary box and folder list didn’t know much about late twentieth-century American poetry, since the list includes mention of Larry Eigder and Pete Gavick, among other unknowns. <br /><br />I was surprised to find a listing for “‘Geoff Huth’ poetry journals and papers pertaining to them.” I seem to have slipped, even if often slightly misspelled, into archives all across the country. It is as if I’m a virus slowly spreading, preparing to become an epidemic.<br /><br />And that is the purpose of archives: to keep the virus of art, history, information alive, to infect the brains of our successors with knowledge otherwise unknowable.<br /><br />Tom, so far during this interview you’ve merely mentioned your work on <i>The Difficulties</i>, yet this was a signature creation in your career in poetry—to which I personally would add your blogging (which transformed your writing and persona), <i>Vanishing Points of Resemblance</i>, and your selected poems, <i>Unprotected Texts</i>. Tell me more about working on <i>The Difficulties</i>. Why did you begin it? How did you get started? What were the joys and frustrations of that work? What did you see as the project that it was? What did this experience do for you personally? And why did you bring it to a close? <br /><br />Also, tell me about the archives you created. What was in it? Why didn’t you destroy it as you have periodically destroyed “manuscripts, notebooks, computer files, blogs”? How were you contacted about your archives? And what was that experience of working with archivists like? As an archivist, I’m quite interested in knowing how an archivist worked with someone I assume knew little about the world of archives beforehand.<br /><br /><i>archivity furthers</i>Geofhuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04763053227479195348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19374272.post-76067469024522244812008-08-29T23:59:00.002-04:002018-07-09T08:41:10.950-04:00SAA 2008: Day 3<i>InterContinental Mark Hopkins, Room 625, San Francisco, California</i><br />
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Once again, I must demur. There is no way for me to catch up tonight, or to give any adequate review of the day's events. Not yet.<br />
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But let me give just a few thoughts on Mark Greene's presidential address. First, great introduction. I wrote down some of Dennis Meissner's roast-like introduction to Mark Greene, and I'll report on some of his choice comments soon enough. <br />
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Second, Mark Greene focused as we might have expected he would: on a preliminary assessment of a values statement for archivists. His style of writing and reading aloud is a bit heavy (including numerous quotations from the literature), but his main points about our values were generally sound. I have quibbles, and I'll get to those, and I would have included some different values, and this initial attempt of his is a bit rough. But what Mark did was present what some of the main issues are for us, and on the way he pointed out how we have failed in our quest to be who we are, something I notice frequently enough. Many of his points were ones I've thought of myself, so I had quite a large amount of agreement with what he said, and made an effort to congratulate him after the speech. Rightly so, the speech received a hearty round of applause.<br />
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More on all of this once I have the time.<br />
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<i>archivity furthers</i>Geofhuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04763053227479195348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19374272.post-6162327200636858102008-08-28T23:59:00.000-04:002008-08-29T04:07:14.043-04:00SAA 2008: Day 2<i>InterContinental Mark Hopkins San Francisco, San Francisco, California</i><br /><br />Too many activities tonight to allow me time to recall my day, but I'll start catching up tomorrow.<br /><br /><i>archivity furthers</i>Geofhuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04763053227479195348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19374272.post-73262793738603981092008-08-28T03:53:00.007-04:002008-08-28T05:29:00.917-04:00SAA, Day Two<em>Intercontinental Mark Hopkins Nob Hill, Room 625, One Nob Hill, 999 California Street, San Francisco, California</em><br /><br />I moved to San Francisco today from my base in Burlingame. The Society of American Archivists' conference begins with some vehemence today, so I chose this as the day to move into town. My major role today, and my only official one, was to make the SAA 2009 Program Committee's announcements in a couple of meetings.<br /><br /><br /><i>Local Government Records Roundtable</i><br /><br />The first meeting where I gave my shpiel was the Local Government Records Roundtable. The message was simple, and I tried to encourage the local government archivists to think of sending in session proposals, since there will be a bit of a focus on government archives, considering that this will be a joint meeting with the Council of State Archivists (CoSA).<br /><br />I attend this roundtable meeting every year, and I am always struck by how many non-local-government archivists, such as myself, are in the audience. A major role in my job is providing support to local government records programs across the state of New York, so I have an abiding interest in local government archives. And there are other archivists from State Archives that show up at these meetings for precisely the same reason as mine. What is interesting about this is that we almost outnumber the local government archivists, and this is a yearly occurrence. Also, there were a number of local government archivists from nearby, as often happens. Many local government archivists have trouble finding funding to attend a conference across the state, but are able to attend conferences nearby. But this leads to a weaker sense of belonging and a small pool of local government archivists to serve SAA. From my point of view, this is a problem in need of a solution.<br /><br /><br /><i>Records Management Roundtable</i><br /><br />The Local Government Roundtable ended early, so I attended the last have of the Records Management Roundtable (again, records management is a big part of my job responsibilities). Outside the session room, I met <a href="http://recordsjunkie.blogspot.com/">Russell James</a>, who heads up this roundtable and had done much to energize the group. It is remarkable what one person with drive and passion can do, and Russell is one such person.<br /><br />I did miss most of this roundtable meeting, but I arrived in the middle a presentation by my friend David George Shongo, who was talking about the archives and records management program he had developed for the Seneca Nation over the past five years. David's stories about his accomplishments with this program are always interesting because they highlight both the continuing problems of the archivist and the lone arranger, but with a little dollop of added interest because of the cultural issues added to that. For instance, for reasons I cannot completely recall, many of the records of the nation are located in two spots, in duplicate--not to serve as vital records backup but to address concerns of different members in the tribe for access to the records.<br /><br />When I entered the room, David was talking about fingerprints, about how most of us see our fingerprints but think nothing of them, but that he sees his fingerprints and realizes that the creator filled him with human energy and as that energy surged through his body it swirled around in his fingertips and served as a record of that embodiment of life force. He explained that that is why our hands, our most creative physical parts, are so important: because they can make things, because they are the center of our energy.<br /><br />I see David in New York, but also at conferences. Last year, at SAA, I was standing with him while Elizabeth Adkins was talking about the need for diversity in the profession. I looked around the room and noted that (from my vantage point) I could see only white people except for him, and we talked about that for a bit. We saw it as an issue, as something to work on, and David gave me a copy of the "Protocols for Native American Archival Materials" to read. This past May, I saw David at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference in Chautauqua, New York, and he opened the meeting. Outfitted in traditional Seneca dress, he opened the meeting with a few words in English and many in Seneca. Although probably no-one in the audience could understand him, it was a powerful reminder of the cultural heritage of New York, one little seen but not at all disappeared.<br /><br />David went on to explain how his operation worked, always interspersing his explanation about access and other archival activities with interesting additions, a Seneca flavor. He noted that he sometimes sings a song in Seneca to help himself find documents that have gone missing--though he also noted that he rarely has to sing that song. He noted that most of his work is focused on paper records, but that his executive body wants him to scan everything--until they learn of the price of doing that. But he noted that the tribe sees itself as always doing everything from the creator. He calls his transfer documentation the "crossing over the fire" (for reasons I didn't catch, but again this is a reference of cultural significance to the Seneca.<br /><br />Finally, David's talk was about culture, and of importance to all of us. He referred to himself as "a caretaker of old words and old customs." Note the second part of that phrase. He noted how he, a person of the MTV generation, must learn to balance cultures: the native with the Western. And he noted that he has found it important to see the different departments he works with as different clans and to take the individual cultures of those clans into account while working with them.<br /><br /><br /><i>Lone Arrangers Roundtable</i><br /><br />I spent only a little time with the Lone Arrangers Roundtable today, and most of what I did was make a call for session proposals for next year. Once again, I made particular note of how they could fit their proposals into the theme for the conference, "Sustainable Archives." From what I could see of this group, they are being quite ably led, and I was happy to see how most of the meeting was dedicated to small group activities--real taking among real people. After this meeting, a number of them went out to dinner together, which seems like a great idea for other roundtables to emulate.<br /><br /><br /><i>Baseball at AT&T Park</i><br /><br />Next, I went to baseball. This was complicated by my having to find my tickets (still in the possession of Nancy Melley) and my father (taking the train in from Burlingame). I had never been to AT&T Park before, even though I was born 15 miles south of here. I had been to Candlestick Park, though not in many years. I have to say that I loved this park. It's right on the water, with a great view of the Bay Bridge and the bay itself. It is fairly spacious inside with a promenade along the edge of the stadium that leadsfrom first base to center field.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0JRu-ZAxwUD5kWHaDQwwgLSpbQ4PLWV_c5HsLJOxvLEweV8fhCFu7kexExxtWHvRr7cV3k7xNRlGiCu5BsUR-Mqjo4dHB6ftU-VUYFxfWSDBl4gi_ia4PMFCioifUIQ6R6yPj3Q/s1600-h/2008.08.27+JAL+Tours+Welcome,+AT&T+Park,+SF,+CA.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239486905145391298" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0JRu-ZAxwUD5kWHaDQwwgLSpbQ4PLWV_c5HsLJOxvLEweV8fhCFu7kexExxtWHvRr7cV3k7xNRlGiCu5BsUR-Mqjo4dHB6ftU-VUYFxfWSDBl4gi_ia4PMFCioifUIQ6R6yPj3Q/s400/2008.08.27+JAL+Tours+Welcome,+AT%26T+Park,+SF,+CA.JPG" border="0" /></a> <br />Those of us in attendance tonight were there because of the beneficence of John LeGloahec, a joyful NARtian, who has been organizing trips to ballgames during SAA meetings for many years. John could not be with us tonight, but he was missed. And for him I present this picture that welcomes his own "JAL Tours" (though I can't remember was JAL stands for).<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiurhTCa4eZBs_0k4xSgZd0T77Zuc28BNoSV_oLBe0Dnpd_Rf-GjJEVIlZr8Z9hy63JsA9PSpeic60Hw2uOJlHFZ2vDmC95DQ6yrft2x5J5zpLFvxBnOrW7e200W8f8FvWVP-o2Mw/s1600-h/2008.08.27+Scott+Handing+Out+Awards,+AT&T+Park,+SF,+CA.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239486910672430258" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiurhTCa4eZBs_0k4xSgZd0T77Zuc28BNoSV_oLBe0Dnpd_Rf-GjJEVIlZr8Z9hy63JsA9PSpeic60Hw2uOJlHFZ2vDmC95DQ6yrft2x5J5zpLFvxBnOrW7e200W8f8FvWVP-o2Mw/s400/2008.08.27+Scott+Handing+Out+Awards,+AT%26T+Park,+SF,+CA.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />One of the traditions of these tours is the handing out of awards, which gets longer every year. This year, I received only one award. Not a great showing. Without John in attendance, Scott took over the honors.<br /><br />Everyone in attendance had a great time at the ballpark, and the crab sandwiches behind centerfield were great. Get the Crazy Crab Sandwich, if you have to choose between the two options.<br /><br /></p><i>archivity furthers</i>Geofhuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04763053227479195348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19374272.post-11605889435491010762008-07-01T12:31:00.006-04:002008-07-01T12:51:21.955-04:00The End of June and Everything After<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPY5qba8Hk2F4KDx28_6L6dpobE_Es0rAI9JPr1W5K4YFXDMgH7mMfc1-xtP_L3WuBDYmvMM01Pc_dsZhtOL873LMysaA8Sww_deqLKZnjwtJX6ljD2NQXuNrhWEem-vnfqVeixg/s1600-h/photo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPY5qba8Hk2F4KDx28_6L6dpobE_Es0rAI9JPr1W5K4YFXDMgH7mMfc1-xtP_L3WuBDYmvMM01Pc_dsZhtOL873LMysaA8Sww_deqLKZnjwtJX6ljD2NQXuNrhWEem-vnfqVeixg/s400/photo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218084570503429970" border="0" /></a><center><b>Poster that Welcomed Tom Hyry Back to Yale (30 June 2008)</b></center><br /><i>The Great Dane Pub & Brewing Company, Dane County Regional Airport, Madison, Wisconsin</i><br /><br />A sidetrip to West Lima, Wisconsin, has kept me in Wisconsin for a few days longer than everyone else who participated in the Archives Leadership Institute, but the effects of the institute continue. Tom Hyry sent me his greetings, along with the sign above that greeted him on his return to work. The now onymous commenter Erik Nordberg also sent word. Rosemary Pleva Flynn noted that I switched two people's names around in the caption of one of the photos I posted, so I will correct that soon. Donna McCrea sent me a couple of emails from Montana, supported my idea for the third word of our leadership institute "motto." (I'm tentatively going with "Extensibility Nimbility Intertwingularity.") And Jane Pearlmutter informed all of us that she has set up an online space for us in Learn@UW, her university's online courseware. <br /><br />That last bit is most important, but so are all the connections we've made. As a group, we have felt a responsibility to make something more out of this opportunity. Our ultimate goal is not ourselves individually but all of us collectively, the profession as a whole. We have no set plans, but we need to continue our thinking together and figure out what of value we as a concentrated group of archivists might do for the profession. We do this not because we see ourselves as a chosen people, but because we have been privileged by this opportunity and this privilege requires a giving back. We seem, at least, to believe that together, even though our ideas do not always move in one unified direction. As our process of considering what we can valuably do carries forward, I'll make some notes about that progress, though I'll also keep in mind the needs we might have to consider ideas in private until we believe we've refined them sufficiently for a wider public. It may certainly be that we never do anything flashy, that we merely codify ways in which we as individuals can give a little back to the profession.<br /><br />And now that I post my motto for this blog, I wonder if "archivity" might need to be part of our motto.<br /><br /><i>archivity furthers</i>Geofhuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04763053227479195348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19374272.post-32393253101671167532008-06-30T23:27:00.001-04:002008-07-01T00:43:50.127-04:00Archives Leadership Institute, Day Eight<i>Dreamtime Village, West Lima, Wisconsin</i><br /><br />Day 8: 28 June 2008<br /><br />This is the last day.<br /><br /><b>Managing Change</b><br /><br />Peter Gottlieb opened with a discussion of change. He identified two kinds of change: incremental and crisis. Then he discussed his own crisis of change, having to do with a simultaneous change in the culture of the Wisconsin Historical Society along with a huge fiscal crisis, which together created a perfect storm of crisis change. The details he gave of the story highlighted how difficult managing change can be. One important point he made was that he made sure to inform people about what was going on throughout this crisis. He noted that sharing information always helps organizations, even thought it reduces one’s choices for action. <br /><br />He described the roles of a leader regarding change as to increase staff’s capacity to adapt to change and to give hope and inspiration to staff. He then quoted from the film, <i>The Shawshank Redemption</i>: “Hope is a good think, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” He ended by urging us to make time and space for grieving and to encourage the heart to deal with change.<br /><br /><b>Change Management</b><br /><br />Next up was Fynnette Eaton, talking about change management. She discussed dealing with resistance to change, the obstacles to change management and its goals, and the hallmarks of effective change—but I want to focus on what she opened with: the phases of transition. She claimed these phases were ending (which is often seen as a loss and a goodbye), followed by the neutral zone (a chaotic time where no-one knows quite what is going on, and ending with a beginning (the new chapter). She noted, as I will now, that the beginning is the last part, which I found a valuable point to stress.<br /><br /><b>An Ending</b><br /><br />Today was a short day, which was a relief, as everyone was tired. We had worn ourselves out by now, and we needed not a rest but a bit of coasting. We spent our last session evaluating the institute and suggesting changes for next year, and we wish those who follow us much luck.<br /><br /><b>Lunch</b><br /><br />A few of our classmates had to leave before lunch, but most of us stayed, leaving piecemeal from this last meal together. As each of us left, we waved and hugged and said goodbye and noted that we’d be together again sometime. And so we might. Only time—and we know this—will tell.<br /><br />We have plans for those of us who will be there to meet at SAA in San Francisco this August, and we will soon be working on a little change management project of our own, as we band together to move forward with our plans for ourselves and the profession. <br /><br />Sometime this week I hope to post a few ending thoughts on the institute, not by recounting what happened during our week together but by considering it and evaluating it.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJhQ9awmKluJQpy9nx2ssXUXOGeunXcQYnmal6d0uidiO1HgdubupwWQXWodJS5MoUD49uBQH0XxVlqby9sR95w2LUW3Fqfg-1raLur-4-UH_qzya-KH6KxGfkm8EWSjTDu2nM_A/s1600-h/2008.06.28+Lake+Mendota,+Madison,+WI.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJhQ9awmKluJQpy9nx2ssXUXOGeunXcQYnmal6d0uidiO1HgdubupwWQXWodJS5MoUD49uBQH0XxVlqby9sR95w2LUW3Fqfg-1raLur-4-UH_qzya-KH6KxGfkm8EWSjTDu2nM_A/s400/2008.06.28+Lake+Mendota,+Madison,+WI.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217527603780508450" /></a><center><b>A Final View of Lake Mendota, Madison, Wisconsin (28 Jun 2008)</b></center><br /><b>Thought for the Day</b><br /><br />An old saying of mine appropriate for the day: Change is good, but folding money is better.<br /><br /><i>archivity furthers</i>Geofhuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04763053227479195348noreply@blogger.com0