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Preserving the History of Modern Chemistry (2016)

Brashear, Ronald S. (Author)

Pages: 28-34
Publication date: 2016
Language: English

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Today I want to provide a broad overview of the issues that concern how we can preserve the history of chemistry and chemical engineering starting in the late 20th and 21st centuries. I don’t have time to go into great detail as this is a complex subject, but I hope I can begin a discussion on the matter. I expect that many of these issues are not new to you, but it is rare to discuss them all together as a distinct problem set, so I hope you find this to be a useful exercise. I believe this topic to be of particular interest to us at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) because we should take the lead and set the example of how to collect the history of science and technology among collecting institutions. Today I hope to cover many of the issues involved in collecting, preserving, and making accessible to historians a variety of materials: (1) archives, (2) printed materials, (3) physical locations and material culture, (4) digital materials, and (5) oral histories.

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