[game_preservation] Swag archive?

[Martin Goldberg]

Henry - I'm certainly familar with a library archive's needs (used to
work at the UW-Milwaukee library myself).  How would things like comic
book collections and the like fall in to that documentation context?
I know the library archive at UW-Milwaukee took a local collector's
donation of a few boxes full of comics (nothing to extraordinary in it
from what I remember), and was always curious as to why.

As far as museums - yes, I've found they're more willing to have this
material on loan for display for portions of time than they are to
house and archive the material themselves.  That's another reason I
took up gathering and organizing this sort of material.  Likewise, to
put items in a documentative context whenever possible - such as the
1981 Asteroids compeition material, which was part of a series of
coin-op competitions Atari held in the US an Canada in '81.


Marty

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Henry Lowood <lowood at stanford.edu> wrote:

> 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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