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