In a message dated 10/16/2006 7:25:22 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
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It was  proposed by Patrick Garrow, Ph.D., here that a central
repository for all  the archaeology conducted under "public" review be
placed where other  researchers could look at the reports. I seem to
remember for NYC those  reports were once going to be available in
public libraries, perhaps the  idealism of the day then, a new part of
the City Planning Commission's city  charter empowered evaluation


Pat probably did not realize the scope of collections down here. The State  
of California operates Information Centers at which we have all signed 
contracts  promising to send them copies of our consulting reports. The South Coast  
Information Center here has a bank of file cabinets and book shelves loaded 
with  report on the 16,000+ archaeology sites that have been discovered since  
environmental laws passed in 1969. Some governments keep their own libraries of  
reports they generate, such as the "Tech Reports Library" where I used to 
work  (five of those wide drawer file cabinets that stand 6-feet tall). If one 
copy of  all reports written in America were sent to the Smithsonian 
Institution, they  would need a new wing building to house them all.
 
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.