Comments on: How to Be a Missionary, 1936 (2 of 2)

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:00:05 +0000

Ray, my repository has branch offices in hampers, trash cans, and dumpsters all over the world. Feel free to deposit your old socks in the most convenient!

Old paper connected with Mormon history is handled only by my central headquarters — please ship direct.

By: Ray

Ray — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:33:12 +0000

Oh, and I agree with Jami. Epic rant.

By: Ray

Ray — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:32:38 +0000

Ardis, have you considered creating your own “local repository” and sending out calls to send YOU any of these old records that nobody else wants? I have some old socks if you are willing to expand your collection to more than just important documents.

By: Jami

Jami — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:52:20 +0000

Ardis, have I mentioned how much I love it when you rant? Articulate, precise, impassioned. Fine ranting indeed!

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:09:06 +0000

Ouch! They have only one chance for material like that, and it’s gone forever. What a loss to the whole church who, in the future, might need that record for an illustration of how Primary worked, but won’t be able to find it in a local repository (or in the local dump, where somebody else might have placed it after having been turned down by the Archives).

By: Maurine Ward

Maurine Ward — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:17:05 +0000

Ardis,
Not only are things not on the shelves,but the acquisitions dept doesn’t even want some historical items. Last year I had two large Primary scrapbooks (that all of the early primary organizations were asked to keep) from my ward that were in danger of being destroyed. There were snapshots of every Primary class and teacher, all identified, for years and years. There was a day book with the minutes of the Primary organization in the ward,and several years of minutes. They were wonderful historical records.

One of the archivist informed me that the person over acquisitions didn’t want any of that type of record anymore, and I would be better off to find a local repository to place them in. So I did!!

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:06:33 +0000

Thank you, Justin. It seemed like a book that should have been online somewhere, but I didn’t find it by googling.

And who needs the library’s old closed stacks stuff, anyway?

(Me, that’s who.)

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:04:17 +0000

...and the Deseret News's 1886 edition.

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:51:43 +0000

BTW, BYU's RSC's edition of Manuscript Found can be read here.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:33:23 +0000

“Bear ye one another’s burdens.” Galations 6:2

Maybe not what Paul had in mind, but I feel surprisingly relieved to have unloaded that … despite, perhaps, having slightly terrified Researcher, slightly awed Steve, and sending Justin scurrying to document this instance of Newspeak. Yes, Justin, you have accurately translated the newsroom doubletalk.