And the steps we've announced will make a difference for Joe and Doug, and all the folks who work here at Metropolitan Archives.

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When the 1930 Census records and those from earlier decades were released, searches largely were confined to people able to trek to National Archives facilities and depository libraries to work through microfilms produced by the Census Bureau in the 1930s and 40s.

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And in May he sent a letter to the Archives of Sexual Behavior, which published his work in 2003, asking that the journal retract his paper.

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His employer, he says, still uses the archives as a source of inspiration for its contemporary work.

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The authors boast of watching the queen at work, interviewing officials from the royal household and of trawling through archives.

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While it appreciates that the immediate priority is to find the missing, and to help the injured and homeless, it places the expertise and network of its member organisations at the disposal of their Haitian colleagues to support their work in assessing the damage to the cultural heritage of their country including libraries, archives, museums and monuments and sites, and subsequent recovery, restoration and repair measures.

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