Peggy Noonan: Reliving History--and Learning From It - WSJ.com When you leave an institution your archive you're saying, "I was alive--this is proof," and, "I was successful--here is the evidence." Stephen Enniss is director of the Harry Ransom Center of the University of Texas, which houses extensive collections of manuscripts, individual archives and historical material. I asked him why people leave their papers. "It's a plea for posthumous life," he said. We want to believe our efforts had meaning. "The notion that our papers might be kept suggests the institution has granted a kind of status to the work--it will be studied in future years. By implication your life has been of significance." http://on.wsj.com/1gNPVOQ Source: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303704304579381482225092174?mod=ITP_opinion_0 See if people are clicking on this link: http://on.wsj.com/1gNPVOQ+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA IGP [log in to unmask] Dallas, Texas Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org http://twitter.com/RAINbyte http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/ http://paper.li/RAINbyte/rainbyte http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/archives/ http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/records-management/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterakurilecz Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]
