Slogan - Slogan Kearsipan
Slogans on archives:
- The preservers of history are as heroic as its makers. (Pat Neff, Governor of Texas and President of Baylor University)
- Archives are forever
- History alive
- Preserving history
- Making heroes
- What's past is prologue. (William Shakespeare in "The Tempest". Also, chiseled onto the edifice of the National Archives of the United States.) [Reference information contributed by Peter Gunther]
- The great use of a life is to spend it for something that outlasts it. (William James) [Contributed by Mark Lambert]
- Preserving our past and flourishing in the future. (Debbie Edmondson)
- The written word endures - be sure to create it and preserve it. (a NARA poster)
- History is Everything. [Contributed by Valerie A. Metzler]
- It depends on those who pass
Whether I am a tomb or treasure
Whether I speak or am silent
The choice is yours alone.
Friend, do not enter without desire.
(Verse by Paul Valery on the wall of a library & archives in Paris.) [Contributed by Joe Anderson] - An archive is a dump without the seagulls. (Shoe, 1990) [Contributed by Bart Ryckbosch]
- Glory is acquired by virtue but preserved by letters. (Petrarch) [Contributed by Ellen Chapman]
- Archivists are like Mechanics, no one wants to give them money or the time of day until something breaks when they become God's amongst men. (Alex Rankin) [Contributed by Bob Coghill]
- People say I'm a packrat. They may be right. But I prefer the term archivist. (McNeely 16 Dec. 1995) [Contributed by Bob Coghill]
- Of all our national assets, Archives are the most precious; they are the gift of one generation to another and the extent of our care of them marks the extent of our civilization. (Arthur G. Doughty, Dominion Archivist, 1904-1935) [Contributed by Bob Coghill]
- Those who do not remember the past are condemned to relive it. (Santayana) [Contributed by Lynn Smith]
Slogans on Records Management
- Information is power
- Time is money
- Records should earn their keep
- The future is in the making, not the waiting
- Control your records before they control you
- ...not all information is created equal !! (Larry Medina)
- For the Record...Information becomes far more a commercial commodity, ephemeral, instant, disposable, yet powerful, indispensable, and sought after. It'll be an interesting ride, but can we cope? (Bruce Montgomery, Univ. of Colorado)
- Behind every successful manager is a Records Manager
- Records are food for thought, not for mice. (A student of the Department.)
- Appraisal is the acid test of where a person stands in the archival world. (Marc Wolfe)
- Information is the currency of democracy. (Thomas Jefferson)
- To Keep or Not to Keep... Is that Your Question?
- To shred or not to shred; that is the question. (Peter Kurilecz)
