Date Posted: Friday, October 14th, 2011

Over the next few weeks in celebration of Archives  month we will be hosting guest bloggers. They will share their point of view and stories from the archives. 
Today’s blog is from Stephen Marz, the Archives Director.

2011 Archives Month Proclamation
2011 Archives Month Proclamation

 

During October the Delaware Public Archives celebrates American Archives Month…so what’s an Archives and what’s an Archivist….taking each of these words apart…we get arch—a structure that spans a space while supporting weight (e.g. a doorway in a stone wall) and ives or ivist—a loose meaning word from Latin meaning instrument…put it all together and it’s a building or person that leads you to something….come visit us at the Archives and talk to an Archivist and let us lead you to Delaware’s public recorded history!