Think for a moment about your daily activities and the
records you create. These notes of daily
life: correspondence, emails, tweets, diaries, legal documents, receipts,
photographs, video and sound recordings, can all be considered potential Archival
material when they contain enduring value and enhance a collective public
memory.
How about a college student’s scrapbook
from 1917 or the personal collections of a jazz aficionado? Perhaps a page from the Apollo 11 flight
plan? … A recording from President
John F. Kennedy that reveals as much about being a father as it does about
being president… or a photograph of a little girl and
her bonnet taken during the Civil War.
Each of these historical records contains a lasting,
intrinsic value that speaks volumes about a place and time and the people and
culture that created them. How do our
records created today reflect what we are about? How are we making memories?
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