Это библиотека Конгресса
Oct. 9th, 2007 06:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
birdwatcherWASHINGTON POST -- For 36 years -- until his retirement in 2000 -- Whittington worked at the Library of Congress. He started out fetching books and ended up as curator of the Main Reading Room. Along the way, he was given the responsibility of overseeing the library's collection of phone books.
"I was in charge of every phone book in the freaking world," he says.
Working with phone books, he learned how to organize, catalogue and archive a collection. And he took those skills home, where he was building a couple of archives of his own. The first was a collection of R&B and doo-wop music, which now includes 5,000 records. The second was pornography.
"I was in charge of every phone book in the freaking world," he says.
Working with phone books, he learned how to organize, catalogue and archive a collection. And he took those skills home, where he was building a couple of archives of his own. The first was a collection of R&B and doo-wop music, which now includes 5,000 records. The second was pornography.
