The Daily News picks up on the increasing interest in Occupy Wall Street.
Activists Archivists are largely concerned with digital matters, but support the Working Groups efforts to archive ephemera material as well. The Smithsonian and the New York Historical Society, mentioned in the article, are two institutions that attend our monthly national call.
Occupy Wall Street may still be working to shake the notion it represents a passing outburst of rage, but some establishment institutions have already decided the movement’s artifacts are worthy of historic preservation.
More than a half-dozen major museums and organizations from the Smithsonian Institution to the New-York Historical Society have been avidly collecting materials produced by the Occupy movement.
Staffers have been sent to occupied parks to rummage for buttons, signs, posters and documents. Websites and tweets have been archived for digital eternity. And museums have approached individual protesters directly to obtain posters and other ephemera.
