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the keeper of everything you'll forget and everything you'll wish you hadn't.
means A person who collects, organizes, and preserves historical records and documents so they survive and can be found again.
from From Latin 'archivum' (a written record, a repository of documents), itself borrowed from Greek 'arkheion' — the public office or town hall where official records were kept. That Greek word traces back to 'arkhe,' meaning 'beginning, origin, or rule,' the same root that gives us 'archaic' and 'monarchy.' So the archivist is, quite literally, a keeper of beginnings.
- job title
- deciding what survives to become history
- acid foe
- old paper destroys itself slowly from within
- silence rule
- some records stay sealed for decades by law
- gloves myth
- bare clean hands often beat cotton gloves
- scale
- keeps fragments empires forgot they made
david mccullough — historian and biographer who spent decades archiving and researching american history, author of 7 pulitzer prize nominees
library of congress — u.s. institution employing hundreds of archivists managing 173 million items in washington d.c.
kate turabian — university of chicago citation specialist who created archival standards still used by researchers today