Obama Presidential Center innovates with its online archive proposal
“Obama has been a game-changer from the beginning. If you see the presidential libraries of current living presidents, you’ll see how those centers have evolved. … Going digital is a natural progression of lessons learned from those entities.” ~Adrena Ifill This is a quote from a great discussion that I had with Chicago Tribune reporter […]
Fire Alert – The perils of archives
In Buenos Aires a fire destroyed an archive of corporate and banking industry documents and took the life of nine first responders.ay. The fire at the Iron Mountain warehouse took hours to control and at least half of the sprawling building was ruined despite the efforts of at least 10 squads of firefighters. Read more […]
Historic Post Offices are up for sale…maybe
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/congress-wants-delay-in-selling-of-historic-post-offices-until-federal-report-is-completed/2014/01/20/52c5c50c-7f07-11e3-93c1-0e888170b723_story.html
Happy 85th Birthday!
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.