![]() ![]() ![]() Everything will be history someday, and if anything, the pace has quickened. Our collections, be they analog or digital, stored on shelves or in the Cloud, are the amalgamated memory of our field. While their exposition of history was delightfully idiosyncratic, their understanding of memory was spot on.Īs information professionals, whatever our exact job title, memory is at the heart of what we do. However, both were Oxford graduates, and Sellar was a schoolmaster for some years. Yeatman, authors of 1066 and All That, ever worked as librarians. When does today become “History,” with a capital H? It is a dilemma that all of us-librarians, archivists, informationists, whatever-have all faced: what do we need to remember, and for how long. ![]() Many years ago, two British humorists wrote (facetiously, but not altogether inaccurately) that “History is not what you thought. ![]()
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