Coming Soon To A Digital Archive Near You

Recently I have been spending some time trying to impose order and completion to the Barn library, which might be a fancy way of saying I have been throwing away boxes full of paperwork from my career at the Smithsonian.  My departure was six years ago, and at this point I am pretty certain I no longer need any organizational files from that era.  As a result I have about a dozen cubic feet of fire-starting material.

An unexpected(?) result of all this commotion has been that I’ve (re)discovered a number of things I have written over the years.  Not Schwarzian by any measure, but a fair pile nonetheless.  Articles in magazines, chapters of books, handouts for presentations, and monographs for newsletters, etc.  While the Writings page of donsbarn.com already has a goodly number of these missives, there are even more that have not arrived there yet.  So I have set up my ancient laptop and scanner to capture these electronically and make them ready to post both on the blog and in the “Writings” section.

I should have the first one ready to go in a couple days, and hope to post a new one each week.

Oh, and I am working on readying some more material for the Shellac Archive as well.  I still have a full “banker’s box” of material to scan.  All tolled I have about 8,000 pages of shellac stuff.