Greg Koos wrote:
>>...The key point is to keep intellectual control over the bulk of the
records....  Xeroxing and the making copy negatives of the photgraphs will
solve the problem - from an archival veiw point....  As far as who has the
"original signed document" who cares - its the information we are after
folks!<<


Why not simply put everything on CD-ROM and burn up all that nasty paper--it
takes up so much room, after all.  Just think--no more mylar, or acid-free
mounting tissue, or buffered interleaving paper...

No, Greg.  The whole POINT is to preserve and make accessible the original.
 It's what separates an "archive" of original materials from a "library" of
secondary sources.

--Melanie Solomon