Documenting the Physical Universe:Preserving the Record of SLAC from 1962 to 2005
Since 1905, Albert Einstein's ''miraculous year'', modern physics has advanced explosively. In 2005, the World Year of Physics, a session at the SAA Annual meeting discusses three institutional initiatives--Einstein's collected papers, an international geophysical program, and a research laboratory--to examine how physics and physicists are documented and how that documentation is being collected, preserved, and used. This paper provides a brief introduction to the research laboratory (SLAC), discusses the origins of the SLAC Archives and History Office, its present-day operations, and the present and future challenges it faces in attempting to preserve an accurate historical record of SLAC's activities.
- Research Organization:
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515
- OSTI ID:
- 877198
- Report Number(s):
- SLAC-PUB-11737; TRN: US200608%%116
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Invited talk at 69th Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists (SAA 2005), New Orleans, Louisiana, 14-20 Aug 2005
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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