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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Ind. Gov't. - More on "State archives still waiting for new roof"
Updating this ILB entry from Oct. 4, 2009, which quoted a 2009 Indy Star story headed "Archives are at the mercy of nature: So far, efforts to provide rainproof way to store state's treasures have come up dry," along with a 2005 article I wrote for Res Gestae, the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette last Friday, Oct. 21st published a long editorial headed "Dripping on History." It makes a number of good points and concludes:
“It’s embarrassing for me as a native-born Hoosier,” [Curt Witcher, manager of the Genealogy Center at the Allen County Public Library] said. “There is no other state in the union that stores its archives in a leaky warehouse. All other states spend the money to protect their records even in these economic times.”Maintaining the archive of official Indiana records is a primary state duty. The Commission on Public Records should ask the governor to, at a minimum, appoint a task force of public officials and private community leaders to find a better permanent home.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on October 25, 2011 10:02 AM
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