Word: archivist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last, the bottle was unsealed. Barbara Dunbar, director of the historical society, and Archivist Greg Koos used forceps to draw out the little mummies, wrapped in white linen and tied round and round with thread. General McNulta's sense of history turned out to be touchingly immediate. He had left, so elaborately wrapped and labeled...
...page Anton von Webern (Knopf) is the magnum opus of Scholar and Archivist Hans Moldenhauer, 72, in collaboration with his wife Rosaleen. The Moldenhauers do not set out to interpret Webern's personality or evaluate his music. But they furnish such extensive extracts from diaries and letters, as well as such detailed ''work histories'' of the compositions, that their valuable book adumbrates the shape of many biographies and studies to come. It also reflects their recovery of a number of Webern manuscripts-characteristically neat, finely etched documents in which individual notes range over the staves...
...convenient to centralize presidential collections, rather than scatter them across the nation in what Columbia Historian Henry Graff terms "the pyramids of our times." Yet, as the National Archives points out, a quadrennial flood of documents by the millions would probably overwhelm any single institution. Also, as one Government archivist concedes, "not all scholars live in Washington...
...they contemplated making millions of changes in card catalogues. The Harvard-Yenching Library, for example, has more than half a million cards in its catalogue, all recorded in Wade-Giles. "We cannot possibly cope with such a change now," says Librarian Wu. Similarly discouraged was the head archivist of the oriental manuscripts section of France's largest library, the Bibliothèque Nationale, who found Pinyin "unreliable" and, with true Gallic pride, "terrible for French...
...grant, from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, will supply funds for a one-year project enabling archivist Katherine Kraft to work with the National Organization for Women (NOW) in up-dating the library's collection of information on women's organizations, projects director Eva Moseley said in a press release yesterday...