Indiana U archivists help save Liberian records

An Anonymous Patron writes News From Indiana where Verlon Stone and Elwood Dunn traveled to Liberia to assess the condition of archival materials, they were alarmed but not surprised by what they found.

Documents stuffed in boxes, piled on shelves and strewn on floors, exposed to the tropical climate and deteriorating from water and termite damage. And a nation so torn by more than a decade of civil war that preserving the past takes a back seat to surviving the present.”