Who should be thinking about saving their personal papers?
1-Artists, writers and composers including those who are not celebrities. 2-Collectors & patrons who make significant contributions to the cultural life of a community. 3-Others whose work embodies significant or unique contributions to a profession, a body of knowledge, or a community. 4-People with no other claim to be remembered than that their personal papers are redolent of life in our time, unique, and therefore of enduring value. The present senior generation will be the last to have written by hand or typewriter as a general practice. With the electronic age has come instant mutability — invisible and impossible to trace — and mass reproducibility of every written thing. To preserve the personal papers of this generation is to guard the privilege of working with unique, one of a kind products of the human hand. 5-Institutions and groups of any size or purpose.
