Hurray for libraries and librarians everywhere! Just like Oaxaca, you never know what you will find when you turn a corner in a library or archive. And, whether it’s wandering the streets or roaming the aisles, we can’t help but learn a little more about our world and ourselves. We need more occasions for big, goofy smiles. Don’t let your community cut funding to libraries! –spixl
Photos on Flickr of Códice de Santa Catarina.
Laura Matthew on the secret life of primary sources and the responsibility historians have to them, and to each other, when documenting the past.
I have been thinking about how documents are lost, then found.
A week or so ago, my friend and colleague Aims McGuiness from the History department at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (UWM) left me a voice mail message. “There’s this mysterious document at the American Geographical Society Library here at UWM,” he said. “It looks colonial-era, and maybe Mexican. The librarians don’t know what it is, or how they got it. Could you come look at it?”
“Ooh, fun!” I emailed him back (yes, that’s a direct quote). “I can always make time for a lost document.”
Little did I know. A few days later, Jovanka Ristic and Kay Guilden at the AGS Library unrolled in front of me a piece of bark paper on…
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