What's Past is Prologue

I'm an MLS student on the archives track at the University of Maryland. I found myself posting a lot of articles, photos, links, etc. regarding archives, libraries, books, and other things on my Facebook, and felt it would be better to put these posts in a place specifically for the purpose of creating a fond of sorts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonds), chronically things I find interesting about archives, libraries and books.

Oh and in the interest of citing sources, the title of the blog is from The Tempest by William Shakespeare.

May 9, 2011 10:06 pm
wirrow: ways of seeing

mrbnatural6:

wirrow:

when we’re born people start giving us folders, and label each one with a single word. they celebrate our first folder which is labeled with ‘dada’ or ‘mama’ or some shit like that. we then carry these folders around with us our whole life and every time we experience something that corresponds…

wirrow just made the archivist in me do a little dance. As my friend Trevor says, “Life is complicated…put it in boxes and put a sticky note on it.”

(via bestmatedonnanoble)

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