substantial amount of disagreement on this Advisory Group.
exactly how to get you a representative committee.
I don't know
Maybe you would choose
the people from the assessment group that you would like to serve on that
committee.
(Laughter)
MR. CHURCH:
I would prefer not to.
OR. CAROTHERS:
This raised hand is not to volunteer --
CHAIRMAN MOSELEY: Oh, thank you very much.
DR. CAROTHERS:
-- but I would like,
if I may, to have a couple of
minutes?
10
CHAIRMAN MOSELEY:
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DR. CAROTHERS:
Yes.
I would like to address a question to Mr. Warriner.
12
At one time, sir, you typified your collection as a manuscript collection
13
rather than as an archives.
14
DR. WARRINER:
15
DR.
Would you consider that to be true today?
Yes.
CAROTHERS:
Now
my
understanding
‘is
that
in
a
manuscript
16
collection, basically every document or manuscript is indexed individually
17
and separately.
Is that your practice in your operation?
18
DR. WARRINER:
19
DR.
Yes.
CAROTHERS:
I will
point out to the committee that that is an
20
enormously costly way to do business in terms of time, effort, and money.
21
It provides you with the finest possible index because every single piece
22
of paper is indexed onto your data base, and you can find it, hopefully,
23
relatively easily by one method
24
indexing which
are not
25
don't provide
the
26
Mr. Fradkin, who wish to do research.
so
same
or
another.
laborious
facility
There are other ways
and costly,
for
retrieval
all-be-it-not
to
people,
27
Have you investigated that possibility and rejected it?
28
MR. NUTLEY:
Yes.
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so,
such
of
that
as