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Mary,
Why don't you ash the California State Archives if they will accept
your collection of data. This sounds like something right up their alley.
Tom
At 09:16 AM 11/13/2007, you wrote:
>Good morning Histarch-ers.
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>After 25 years operating a small business we are out of space and faced with
>a dilema. We have accumulated tons of material. Excavation fieldnotes,
>level records, etc. are filed with the collection at archives but
>we also have
>copies in house. On a survey level we have all the pencilled site
>records and
>maps from the field effort and notes, although the information is included
>in reports that are filed at various places and copies of
>fieldnotes are with
>agencies who contracted with us in the first place. Getting
>a storage locker
>to stick boxes in isn't really feasible. Trying to scan 25 years of
>projects also isn't feasible, and who knows how long the e-data
>will last on a cd?
>We have two schools of thought here. One is that since copies of excavation
>data are with collections we can dispose of the in-house duplicates by
>shredding. The survey material is no where but here, but was
>reproduced in reports
>that are filed at various agencies or repositories so can also be shredded.
>The other "school" screams PRIMARY DATA - DO NOT DESTROY!!! Suggestions?
>
>Mary L. Maniery
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