The Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, Tucson, which published a comprehensive bibliography of my writings in 2000, also houses my archive -- correspondence files, typescripts, binders with clippings of all my published articles, and much more.
Preparing files for transfer to this repository involves some basic inventory and annotation activity. To my astonishment, somehow the raw materials and trace evidence of my work as a critic, historian, and theorist have turned into what historians call "original source material," whose usefulness for research purposes increases as annotation from this end enables identifying its content and locating it easily.
If you're an aspiring scholar who expects to work with such documents and artifacts, or who does so already, here's a chance to particpate in the process by which they move from the location at which they were produced to the storage and retrieval system that will preserve and make them accessible. Largely a database project, this gives you a hands-on encounter with almost forty years' worth of letters, notes, manuscripts, and other byproducts of the life of a working writer.
