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From: http://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/archives20050828.shtml#102347 Further down the blog author, Terry Teachout, writes: "A question to anyone in the New Orleans area who is familiar with the situation on the ground: is anything known about the condition of the Hogan Archive at Tulane University? This is one of the most important collections of primary-source jazz documentation in the world, and I'm starting to get questions about it from scholars. Has it survived the flood, and if so, in what condition?" This only strengthens my view that the #1 priority for archives of unique materials should be to digitize them -- and if possible make the digital copies *publicly available* so they can be mirrored in various digital archives worldwide (as the Internet Archive does.) Jon Noring