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Just as the verb "archive" now means just "save" and usually is only a 
data-dump with no metadata. Sigh, indeed.

|((|  Ellen Chapman, MLS, MA, CA
|))|  Archives & Manuscripts Department
|((|  University of Hawaii at Manoa Library



On Wed, 8 Aug 2012, Cindy Wolff wrote:

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> Sigh. This falls into the “everyone’s an expert” mode of thinking. RIP,
> Curating. Might as well drop the g.
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> Cindy Wolff
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> From: ARLIS/NA List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lee
> Eltzroth
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 11:30 AM
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> Subject: [ARLIS-L] The word Curate, once elite, now devalued
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> An FY of possible interest: In today's Blouin ArtInfo is this: How the Art
> World's Lingo of Exclusivity Took Root, Branched Out, And Then Rotted >From
> Within 
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> "The verb to “curate” and the title of “curator,” vocabulary that once
> belonged to the art and museum world, have now become overused clichés of
> the social media generation ---"
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> http://tinyurl.com/9nfeedp
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