Today I found homes for some lost files in the folklore collection. It really is a hodge-podge of faculty research, publications, and administrative files for the Folklore Department. The conundrum is how these files wandered so far from their homes to begin with. Well, no matter how it happened, I have started to reunite these files with their proper place. Everyday I'm getting a little bit closer to having the folklore collection in shipshape. 
Documents out of context are a common problem in Archives, and it is sitution we spend a good deal of time addressing. In the case of our Folklore records, this is a major problem particularly since the records have been moved around so often during their lifetime. Phil
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