Are AT&T archives on the line?

Anonymous Patron writes “Sunday’s Star-Ledger (NJ) reports that the merger with SBC Communications has some experts worried about the future of AT&T’s archives. The collection documents the history of telecommunications and includes Alexander Graham Bell’s patent for the telephone. From the article: “They’ll drag in the dumpster, says A. Michael Noll, a communications professor at the University of Southern California and former scientist with AT&T’s Bell Labs in Murray Hill [NJ]. “One thing we know about mergers — the survivor has to destroy the DNA of the victim…””