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Re: RAIN-Guliani Papers



Maybe it's too soon for the list to be getting activated, but I hope to see
the response to this form the archival community. My background as an
archivist is not imposing (1 1/2 years processing the papers of a composer
in the American music section of NYPL) but I do have a healthy distrust of
public figures in general who manipulate access to primary material and of
the ex-mayor in particular. Having survived as a citizen of NYC during his
reign, his entire record, in my opinion, does not qualify him as deserving
a good deal of trust in this area. Does anyone else feel that a public
figure who was widely perceived as controlling every aspect of his public
image and severely restricted access of any sort while in office, can only
be expected to follow the same path in private life? Please read the
article from RAIN (there was also one in the Jan 25 NY TIMES) and let me
know if this is some sort of normal arrangement that I am unaware of in my
archival ignorance.

Peter "my biases are no secret" Hirsch
Cataloger
phirsch@nypl.org
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
40 Lincoln Center Plaza
New York, New York  10023
(212) 870-1728

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