Word: archivist
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...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...
...filing cabinet at 60 Boylston Street that had been locked up and unclaimed for several years. Curiosity as to the cabinet's contents led to the tracking down of its key by Promotion Director Robert B. Donovan. The results of its opening are enough to make an ardent archivist drool with sheer delight...
...Sulzberger's office energies than preserving the paper's financial health. His surprisingly modest office on the Times building's 14th floor?part of a suite that includes a bedroom, bath, conference room and study?is dominated by a massive walnut desk that he commandeered from the Times archivist. Sulzberger is at that desk by 8 a.m. (many Times editors drift in around 11 a.m.; Sulzberger used to be known around the office as "the farm boy"), and spends an hour reading and answering mail. Following the lead of his wife, acquaintances of recent years call him Arthur instead...