"The archive is grounds for meditation. The brain wanders while one sits waiting for the next box to be called up or while culling through reams of irrelevant correspondence, waiting for a pattern to emerge or seeking a certain gem.
"But not all archives are the same. In recent months, my daydreaming in various facilities has yielded a recurrent question: What would constitute the Ideal Archive?"
Christopher Phelps answers this question in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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