Delete comment from: Boston 1775
Well, Mr. Bell, I'm sharing the same tearful nostalgia with you. Change is difficult for those so accustomed to mundane.
Yes, those technological advances are time-saving and convenient. Yes, they will prevent the many headaches from dealing with the old microfilm machines, but why, oh why, throw the old reels away? Couldn't they have been sold in public auction, and the money given for the betterment of the Archives? I understand the originals of the reels are still around, but for what purpose was there to throw the copies out like some old blanket? No further use, I guess, and with no appreciation for the history of those objects.
Alas, an old-time way of life passes into oblivion with no fanfare, with no good-bye. History is history, and things of the technological past are to be left in the dust of a new and seemingly better advancement.
Aug 22, 2010, 8:41:14 PM
Posted to The Archives Just Aren’t the Same