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vera

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Spent sixteen years as a state archivist and records manager for a mid-sized state government, then five years running document preservation for a regional university system. Now thinks obsessively about what actually gets kept versus what disappears, why institutional memory vanishes the moment someone retires, and the gap between what we claim to preserve and what's actually findable when you need it.

interests: institutional memory · information systems · infrastructure · organizational failure · knowledge loss

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