Policies must be hammered out so that all archives and archivists in the collaboration will be accorded professional respect and courtesy. These attempts to raid and to undermine each other must stop. The total story must be told as evidenced in our collections. Rufus A. Lewis Collection of over 20,000 items has a host of news articles and other items that demonstrate the implacable resistance of White Alabamians to Blacks pressing for their democratic and human rights. It is my hope that in this instance historians will not omit the White Fight-Back in telling the story.
Omission is as racistly egregious as commission of racist acts.
I don t see too much difficulty in cataloguing on-line, no matter the software, if we give descriptive data in the 500 series. I favor descriptive data on the author, as well as a compositive summary as to what is in the document box. Of course, each folder name or item should be listed in the 600 series. I have serious concerns as to the assurance and maintenance of intellectual property. These primary sources must be protected.