Margaret W. Mayall in the AAVSO Archives (Abstract)

Volume 40 number 1 (2012)

Michael Saladyga

AAVSO Headquarters, 49 Bay State Road, Cambridge, MA 02138; mike@aavso.org

Abstract

(Abstract only) AAVSO Director Margaret W. Mayall’s presence in the AAVSO Archives is unique in that it was only by her effort that the AAVSO’s institutional memory survived the organization’s years of struggle. The history of the AAVSO could not have been written thoroughly and accurately without its archival collections. Similarly, the story of Mayall and the AAVSO within that history is not only informed, but is also formed by the materials that she chose to collect and preserve over the years.