Word: archiviste
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...television shows to theme parks and tacky gifts, Universal Studios has indicated a return to its film production roots with the re-release of Orson Welles' Touch of Evil. Perfectly timed to debut at the Silver Anniversary of the Telluride Film Festival--incidentally a festival founded by a film archivist--the restoration effort presumably targets our recent resurgence of interest in Americana by restoring a figure, much maligned in his time, to his much deserved position of authority...
...digging nowadays should be a breeze. But is it? "Computers have made the process easier and more accessible to more people," says David Rencher of the Family History Library, but, he points out, they can also perpetuate mistakes, since "it's also impossible to call back information." Cautions archivist Connie Potter of the National Archives: "What with websites, e-mails, faxes and cell phones, people think they are going to find information right away once it's on a computer system. They're not. It's a complex, time-consuming process. You start with one fact, and it can take...
...very focused, from early life on. She would set her mind on something and accomplish it," says William E. King, who went to high school with Dole and now is custodian of her college memories as Duke University Archivist. "You expected her accomplishments and you weren't surprised by them...
Knowles' wife Jane, now the college archivist at Radcliffe's Schlesinger library, says that as a radar-controller in the RAF (Knowles was slightly near-sighted and thus ineligible to fly), her husband learned crisis management skills at a young...
...value of records not only in documenting historical facts but also in preserving essential evidence. For us at the National Archives and Records Administration, the role of preserving and providing access to this essential evidence of history is at the core of our mission. JOHN W. CARLIN, Archivist of the U.S. National Archives Washington...