"Ford had run the archive, but they decided they were a foundation, not a research library," said Jack Meyers, president of the archive center, which houses the Rockefeller family's materials and records of other institutions.
Bob George, who runs the Archive of Contemporary Music in Manhattan, which has put together exhibitions of vinyl graphics and will be selling thousands of extra LP's and CD's on June 16 and 17 (at 54 White Street in TriBeCa), said this may not be a bad thing.
There's a wonderful phrase I learned years ago from Jonathan Dennis, who runs the archives in New Zealand.
Less than two weeks ago, Mr. Lomax's daughter, Anna Lomax Chairetakis, who runs the archives, and Don Fleming, director of licensing, visited the Carters and presented a platinum album of the soundtrack and a royalty check for $20,000 -- the first installment of what may become several hundred thousand dollars in payments.
For the last six years, while she has been running the yard's archive and collecting artifacts for a museum scheduled to open next year, unexpected gifts have been arriving at her office in a former electronics workshop.
She has had conflicts with the charitable trusts running the homes (and archives) of her two subjects, and a chilly experience with a publisher.
NEW YORK TIMES The Internet Archive's Physical Side | Brewster Kahle, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who founded and runs the Internet Archive, has been saving the physical texts that he digitizes, storing books in a warehouse north of San Francisco, The New York Times reports.
Curiously, one certain source of them is also at BBC Leeds: the station's TV reporter and presenter Ian White is a TVAM anorak and runs the official archive and museum.
A Silicon Valley entrepreneur who made his fortune selling a data-mining company to Amazon.com in 1999, Mr. Kahle founded and runs the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization devoted to preserving Web pages — 150 billion so far — and making texts more widely available.
Kane is a regular collaborator with Jeremy Deller, and together they run the Folk Archive, which collects and collates art ignored by the contemporary art world: embroidered wrestler costumes, hand-crafted protest banners, photographs of sound systems, or revellers on Bonfire Night.
