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SI 110 - 3/29/07
archives and records
hold officials accountable
think about public stuff
cincinati underground railroad museam
detroit was key point to cross into canada
FBI and CIA records
tightly guarded
30 years
judicial discovery
if records are needed for a court case
access to records
do we have access?
can we find it?
classifications
where it came from
migration of records
written documents
only need literacy
hardware and software
making stuff irretrevable
can we read them?
examples
home shows during world war in france
monk missunderstanding bible to say "celebrate"
j edgar hoover
dedicating himself to chasing communism
had dirt on every politician
"do not file" files
weren't subject to search
orality to textuality
oral tradition
homer's illiad and odyasy
stories spread through retelling
memory person in the community
can evolve over time
can be re-written
narrative
lends itself to hero mindset
immediate freezing of memory
what gets kept?
paper takes up space
convervation efforts are high
newspapers
disintigrate
stored on microfilm
problems
software and hardware dependecy
no such thing as original anymore
photoshopping
accountablitity more difficult
when was this document originally created?
what did it look like when it was created?
was it edited
probenance
records stored where they were created
keeps context
records make more sense in context
quotes
"paper is where information goes to die"
government records
patriot act
records hidden
pre-emptive arrest
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