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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.
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