1.   Cataloging will be a daunting task, research and archives director Debi Murray said as she surveyed the stacks of boxes.

2.   Meanwhile, archives directors say they are moving forward and not set back by the fire.

3.   The archives director, a former KGB agent, was about to retire and could not accommodate their requests.

4.   Like Armstrong, Oberlin College archive director Roland Baumann is more accustomed to receiving historic artifacts as gifts than bidding on them.

5.   Split between pro-Russian Reds and the Whites, the country experienced a bloody civil war with no reliable records of atrocities or victims, archive director Kari Tarkiainen said.

6.   This fall it will begin offering a graduate degree program in film archiving, says archive director Tim Kittleson.