Afeni Shakur Quotes

Far from being dead, physical media has years of life left and must be preserved because there is no better alternative.

So we should preserve it. I don't think that digital storage is necessarily a good thing, but I definitely think that digital manipulation is interesting.

A library is thought in cold storage.

I definitely am concerned with preservation. For me, what's interesting is the archival state, or how long oil paintings last.

In the Iraq war, for instance, so much of the information is digitized and can easily be wiped out. That will make it very hard to write accurate histories. Also, there's a much greater opportunity for suppression of information before it can even be archived.

We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and in poor preservation, we were obliged to refuse admission until some preparation was made to safeguard the objects.

I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.

Not only the Archivist alone but all who work for NARA are designated custodians of America's national memory.

Even as the Internet has revived hope of a universal library and Google seems to promise an answer to every query, books have remained a dark region in the universe of information. We want books to be as accessible and searchable as the Web. On the other hand, we still want them to be books.

If there was a day that history was not recorded, then the history of one hundred days would be in peril.

There can be no history without archives.

Kissinger's monopoly on this historical record has driven many scholars to distraction. Groups of lawyers, scholars, journalists and archivists have used pronunciamento, lawsuit, and other crowbars in a usually vain effort to open Kissinger's Library of Congress cache.

I think writing is an act of remembrance, I think that Instagram is an act of remembrance, and I think curating a show is an act of memory, too.

I have never met a document I don't like.

Some archives and record offices are housed in your local museum or library; others have their own stand-alone building. Wherever they are, they are a treasure trove.

I called it 'Historian' because I feel like most of my creative efforts are efforts to capture something or to document it.

The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to the public. They challenge us and ask us to question our assumptions about the past or the world around us.

Film, if properly cared for, will last almost 100 years, but digital will not.

No one loves an archive better than I do. I can smell a good one half-a-block away - all that brittle papyrus dust is music to my nostrils.

What is not recorded is not remembered.

I realized the importance of archiving. So I save key pieces from my collections, as well as any red-carpet things that become iconic. I always ask for that stuff back. I'm like, "It's going in my archives."

What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers?

Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten.

I have everything in boxes. Thousands of those tapes. I've saved everything.

I'm a preservationist, I believe in preserving history intact, but I also enjoy the technological advances which have been made.