Thursday, January 26, 2006
I tuned into this NPR : Motown Building Razed for Super Bowl Parking story in the middle the other day. How is it possible that such a big company had no records management program?? How did they leave so much of their corporate archive behind? (Ugh, I wanted to link you to a good definition of records management, but I had blocked out Dr. M's class and The Claw: I forgot that it's very bureaucratic!! See ARMA or NARA for instance. It's just a system for taking care of your business or club or society or agency papers and electronic records and stuff for legal requirements and for historic purposes.)
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The Claw pops up when you least expect!!
It is amazing how much we remember from that class. Although, 10 pages of notes per class will do that to a person.
The Claw! The Claw! AAAAH!
Pray, explain this "Claw" for us non-library-sciences majors...
P-Max.
You mean "Prey" I think, with a title such as The Claw!
Well, I hate to out CNB. . . . But: we're both note-taking nerds. And our archives management class instructor had an old-fashioned teaching style. He had all the knowledge. He lectured it at us in great paragraphs, for hours at sitting, in a drafty room in Marist Hall. C and I frantically scribbled nearly every word. Something about his style made it difficult to pick out headings and main points. I couldn't think what to cut. We hand wrote, and wrote, until our keyboard-weakened hands curled up into little pen-grasping claws.
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