[game_preservation] Swag archive?

[Henry Lowood]

Marty,

Remember that I'm in a library, not a museum.   I would expect there to 
be (potentially) more interest from museums in this sort of material, 
even if just for exhibition value.  In a library, we are more focused on 
value as documentation, and that's difficult with this kind of stuff if 
there is no archival context. 

Henry

Martin Goldberg wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Henry Lowood <lowood at stanford.edu> wrote:

>   

>> and I probably wouldn't accept

>> them (as curator), even as a donation from me, unless they were part of a

>> larger collection that provided some context.

>>     

>

> That's probably the exact reason why I started archiving this sort of

> material as part of E2M.  Because the larger organizations, museums,

> etc. generally don't for those reasons.  And unfortunately, that's

> also why much of the material I have from ex-employees, etc., would

> have wound up in the garbage if I hadn't.

>

> Marty

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Henry Lowood, Ph.D.
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