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For Whom? | Archivist Alison
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Information is worth little without context. I have been doing a lot of thinking recently about the imagined audiences we have for our collections. In this moment, I mean the audiences that will confront our collections after we are gone. Some things we keep for our children because these particular objects “belong” to them or were made by them. This is sometimes how people approach the problem of saving their children’s art. Do we not sometimes make an effort to preserve some sort of physical representa...
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What is the keeper-purger spectrum? | Archivist Alison
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Information is worth little without context. What is the keeper-purger spectrum? This site is about the ways that human beings deal with the important collections of recorded information that they gather around them in the course of their lives. It is not about making sure that we are all doing it in the same way. In my experience, I have found that people have natural tendencies towards keeping or destroying their stuff. If something I say sounds unreasonable to you, it may very well be because it is ad...
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Cultural Organology | Ethnomusicology, musical instruments, archives, vegetables, food, and other stuff | Page 2
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Ethnomusicology, musical instruments, archives, vegetables, food, and other stuff. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Who’s Writing Here? Newer posts →. This year, we have fallen farther into the gardening trap. We’re not increasing the plot size (yet! But we are planning for more veggie varieties and starting some from seed. So far the seeds are started for the cabbage (an Asian variety of. Called “Mei Ching Choi”) and onions (. Of the “Ailsa Craig” variety). 8220; Starting Seeds Indoors.
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jesseajohnston | Cultural Organology
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Ethnomusicology, musical instruments, archives, vegetables, food, and other stuff. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Who’s Writing Here? Moondog in NYC (photograph sourced courtesy of Bibliolore). Louis T. Hardin, known to all as Moondog. Was celebrated among New Yorkers for two decades as a mysterious and extravagantly clothed blind street performer; but he went on to win acclaim in Europe as an avant-garde composer, conducting orchestras before royalty. Remember those cabbage sprouts.
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