79 Quotes About Archives

It's going to be the archives and it's going to be the generational copies that they never get back.

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.

I think tape's going to be around a long time, but it's being repositioned. We're still going to need tape to hold older backups and longer term archives because it's still the most inexpensive way to do that. The difference is that tape will be the second tier of backups, not the first tier anymore.

Using that one slip of paper, and knowing my great grandmother's and great grandfather's names, I was able to go to the National Archives and trace the family through the census.

We're aware of the city's interest in keeping the regional archives in Fort Worth.

There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes.

We want to try to work together (with the city) on this. Archives and History always likes to find win-win situations.

I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.

It was the collection that put (the university's) special collections and archives on the map. I knew about the archives here through the work that Neal had done.