Today, governmental archivists and manuscript collectors—both private collectors and collecting repositories—are in conflict and competition for government documents that come out of private hands and
A specialist on archives, Dow (library and information science, Louisiana State U.-Baton Rouge) writes for lone archivists who find that the material arriving these days includes floppy disks for comp
Many archivists work in a repository that cannot consider publishing its inventories on the World Wide Web at this time. They have watched the growing use of the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) for
How to Weed Your Attic explains why there may be value in items stored in basements, attics, and similar places and describes how to identify historically important documents and artifacts. It gives a
