To add further to this rather cosmic subject, I recently finished
Jacques Derrida's "Archives Fever" - a book I can't begin to claim that
I fully understand. But Mr. Derrida left me with an interesting concept:
Archives are a "commencement", and are more about the future than the
past. What we collect now informs our future; and that collection is a
subjective art, no matter how objective we attempt to be.

I'm not sure I'm entirely comfortable with that observation, although
subjectivity has long been understood in historiography, even
journalism, as being unavoidable.

Dwight Wallis, CRM
Records Administrator
Multnomah County Records Management Program
1620 SE 190th Avenue
Gresham, OR 97233
phone: (503)988-3741
fax: (503)988-3754
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