Archives Quotes

I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of Independence. I work at the National Archives in Washington.

Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.

This is an important milestone both for the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the American orchestra industry. For the first time, an American orchestra is making available its archives on iTunes and other commercial download sites, finally realizing the promise of the groundbreaking AF of M (American Federation of Musicians) Internet Agreement of 2000.

Kids talk to me and say they want to do musicals again because they`ve studied the tapes of the old films. We didn`t have that. We thought once we had made it, even on film, it was gone except for the archives.

Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince`s archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters.

The historical importance of the survival of these archives cannot be overestimated, ... one of the nation`s great historical treasures.

Finally, a passion for working on archives or records management is obviously essential to performing NARA`s mission successfully.

Research promoted by NARA within a major coalition of Federal and private sector research partners has at last demonstrated that an Electronic Records Archives can be built.

It is a crime that material is being stolen from so many archives for it deprives future researchers insight into the past.