Part Two: The RecordTwo sets of heavy rolling shelves, one aisle, and about 450 years apart from Doctrinale Puerorum, an intrepid searcher would find 20 or so archival boxes of vertical files. We briefly discussed the role of these files in our last blog post, The Rare and the Record, and we could likely write a host of dissertations on the role—both past and present—of these files. To briefly recap, a vertical file consists of often non-traditional, loose-leaf research material compiled by librarians and archivists that were stored i...
