Young Archivist Gifts

'He keeps a scrapbook of newspaper articles about bathtub injuries.'

At the Museum

"Meet the scribe"

Historical memory is on life support.

"I imagined the Library of Congress would be much bigger."

'You're right. Our old safety files have become a safety concern.'

'The definition of OBSOLETE: old fashioned dictionaries.'

Who should be the next eco-club president? The most vegan? The most carbon neutral? The most into solar? Eco-club. But we need someone who will attract kids to the environmental cause. Then it's obvious. The most popular. Or most athletic!

'...then Johannes Gutenberg built the first bookcase'

Building Sandcastles.

Office worker pushing a pile of papers on trolley.

Letter Collecting Nerd

'From albums to 8-tracks to cassettes to CD's...What a long, loud trip it's been!'

(No caption. Signs on file cabinets drawers read, "Files Saved to Hard Drive," "Files Saved to Disk," "Files Saved to Traveldrive," "Trash.")

Bobbies library of jeans

Catalogue of little books.

"I think I'll keep a diary..."

We have a nice selection of office artifacts, a typewriter, carbon paper, ashtrays, our CEO's last handwritten memo...

Attic of hopes and dreams...

"My Gmail account is full. I can't get any more email." "So?" "I'll miss email. It was so old-timey. You could write hundreds or even thousands of words, with actual paragraphs." "People didn't see any little animations to show them you were typing. They had to actually wonder if you were going to reply." "And the spam was fun. You never got to hear from Nigerian princes while you're checking your texts." "Just delete stuff." "If you delete a few gigs of old emails, you'll be able to get n

It's my biggest project - a database of all my sister's boyfriends.

'Does anyone know where we keep the unwritten rules?'

Megabyte Information Processing Center.

"What I miss during school holidays is not going out on strike every Friday."

"Could you speak a little louder? I'm recording this."

"I've recorded every noise my baby makes, so that when he's older I can play it back and he can tell me what he was trying to say. . .!"

"Coming soon...what I did over summer vacation...the podcast!"

"I'm taking detailed notes of everything, so I can tell my kids what things were really like when I was their age."

Today's alpha-lesson is "Keep a journal." The average person lets life pass them by. The events of their lives fade into nothingness. An alpha knows that long after they're gone, their thoughts and experiences will be of great interest to historians. That's not an original thought. I read it in the papyrus Randus Maximus XIV left in a safe deposit box after he helped conquer Judea.

'The last Doctor to go into medical records has still not been found.'

Magic Ring to gain entry into Tolkien Archive

'Oh,oh, Regina has her lawyer with her.'

"What's this? Now we have to hunt, gather and collate?"

''The Thinker' is an outdated concept.'

Dive in Archive.