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Re: Please excuse this rant, raving,thing that I have going on t oday, but I'm very tired and cranky,BU



Suppose you were processing a collection and you encountered a memo from the
executive of your organization tht said: "Linda: Please peruse the attached
clippings. These articles make some excellent points that we should
incorporate into our latest policy."

Would you throw out the attached clippings? If you do, researchers will be
right to curse your name. And in fact, many clippings in archival
collections were put there for a reason by their creators, and are an
organic part of the file.

Thomas J. Wood
Archivist
Archives/Special Collections LIB 144
University of Illinois at Springfield
P.O. Box 19243
Springfield IL 62794-9243
217-206-6520 | wood@uis.edu | http://www.uis.edu/library/lib-arch

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