Australian Confusion

"Traces: Documents, record, archive, archives" by: Sue McKemmish
This reading started out as a lovely venture in to sentimental poetry and ended as a grim history lesson which we all know too well by this point in our lives. A picture or letter, on its own, and taken out of context can lead to embarassing misunderstandings. Oral records which provide insight into the beliefs and passions of the people in a particular time and place in history are vastly important and must be preserved and possibly shared with the world. This is why I get so excited about the possibilities of digitization and integration of systems into hybrid libraries, like Rusch-Feja explained in his Encyclopedic contribution to The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences.