Organizational history requires a facility to manage, archive and present event details as well as narratives that provide perspective to the events.  While events form a historical thread, storied narratives weave these threads together into a retrospective. The LTER Information Management Committee has recognized that working collaboratively to understand their history is a tool for exploring how they function within the LTER organizational structure.  Such a tool provides valuable input to the development of governance procedures for community-level efforts. The Information Management Committee Governance Working Group is designing and developing HistoryDB as a platform to record and publish significant events related to the development of Information Management within the LTER network. This work is prompted by the recognition of how our future may well be informed if we are able to remember and discuss our past.