Hi everybody,

I'm new. My name is Dean Smith and I'm a reference librarian at Austin
Public in Texas. I'm here because I'm on the records management
committee and I've volunteered to inventory and organize our electronic
records. EEEEEK! (That's a professional technical term.) So I'm learning
up.

Thanks Mr. Kurilecz for this BBC article. It's about what we do--the
library is trying to be down with the kids and socially network. We
tweet and we blog and we Facebook, and part of my project is going to be
to take a look at all that info we send out and see if it's saved and
how it's saved and whether we need to worry about it.

So I've been a listserv member less than a day and I've learned
something already! Now can somebody tell me how to get a listserv digest
instead of single e-mails?


Dean Smith
reference librarian
Austin Public Library
512.974.7330 office
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Subject: Why everyone has to be a historian in the digital age

BBC News - World News America - Why everyone has to be a historian in
the
digital age

*Historians have always had the arduous task of finding scraps of
history
with which to tell us about the past, but today we are creating a vast
wealth of information. So how will historians in the digital age decide
what
is important?*

We know very little, for example, about the Sinagua. A people who lived
in
what is now Arizona, from the 8th to the 15th centuries.

Aside from their complex cliff dwellings they left behind few clues
about
how they lived, which makes piecing together a clear picture of their
culture near impossible.


 http://bbc.in/aHT5Ld



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