Re: Archives as a profession Along the same lines –
I told a sales person I was an archivist.  He knew what one was.  Then his sales manager came in, laughing, saying “my sales guy told me you were an archivist.  I corrected him and told him it was an Astrologist!”  
I also get “oh, like Indiana Jones?”  No, that would be an archeologist – but at least that is much closer!


On 6/19/06 3:52 PM, "Christina Hostetter" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

I haven’t had that exact conversation but I had an interesting conversation with my great aunt about 5 years ago that went something like this.
 
“Your grandmother told me you went back to school.  What is the degree for?”
 
“I’m getting my degree to become an archivist.”
 
“AN ANARCHIST!!!!!!  I can’t believe they have a degree for that.  Why would a god-loving American like yourself turn to anarchy?”
 
“No, not an anarchist, an archivist.”
 
“(puzzled look)”
 
“a librarian”
 
“that make’s more sense!”
 

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Christina J. Zamon
Archivist
National Press Club Archives
529 14th Street, NW
Suite 480
Washington, DC  20045
202-662-7598
http://www.press.org/library06/archives.cfm
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Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 3:39 PM
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Subject: Archives as a profession

I wonder how many other archivists have encountered this line of conversation at dinner parties, clubs, and social gatherings:

      "So what do you do for a living?"

      "I'm an archivist."

      "An archivist, eh.  Have you designed any buildings that I'd recognize?"

      "Probably not."


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