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“What a lovely way
to spend a weekend,
sorting through
dusty files and
riffling through old
papers, photos and
memorabilia. Okay, it
may not be everyone’s
cup of tea, but there
will be some of you
who understand.”

Collating the Archives – fun, fun, fun!

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a smaller premises, the opportunity presented itself to have the
historical records of the club reviewed. We have some historical
records but not necessarily in a well organised order. In fact, not at
all! The Ulysses Club has a lot of what was termed “archives.”
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not necessarily of interest, or suitable for saving. We have a lot of
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well meaning members, we do not necessarily discount it.
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Professional archivists and historians generally understand archives
to be records that have been naturally and necessarily generated
as a product of regular legal, commercial, administrative, or social
activities.

In general, archives consist of records that have been selected for
permanent or long-term preservation on grounds of their enduring
cultural, historical, or evidentiary value. Archival records are
normally unpublished and almost always unique, unlike books or
magazines of which many identical copies may exist. This means
that archives are quite distinct from libraries with regard to their

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