Lisa, it occured to me today in my Access Systems and Archives course that you have a large group of young minds that may not know about archives. Along with a bug lecture from Erica, I was wondering if your interested in having your students learn about archives and things. Maybe they are too young, but I know that I did not learn what archives even were until late high school (and mentioned this in class and become the poster child for a youth that did not learn about archives). Kids already learn about libraries and things but archives are scary to them.

I think its largly psychological really. Librarians have always been more social people whereas archivists tend to want to be left alone. Most people that want to spend their time with must old documents are also anti-social. Because of that, archivists are bad at doing outreach. So, Lisa, even if *I* don't do anything with the kids in your school, I am encouraging you to bring the idea of introducing students to archives (not just museums) up at some kind of meeting at your school in the future. I'm not sure how much sense I am making right now, but let me know your thoughts.