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New SAA Publication
For immediate release from the Society of American Archivists:
AMERICAN ARCHIVAL STUDIES:
READINGS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
edited by Randall C. Jimerson
The 28 essays reprinted in this volume represent important recent American
writings on archives and the role of archivists in modern society. They are
collected here in order to make them more easily accessible to archival
students and practicing archivists, indeed to anyone who wants to explore
archival issues in greater detail than can be found in introductory texts.
These articles provide important perspectives both on basic elements of
archival practice and on fundamental principles in archival theory and
methodology.
Table of Contents
Introduction
American Archivists and the Search for Professional Identity
by Randall C. Jimerson
Part One: Understanding Archives and Archivists
1 "Dear Mary Jane": Some Reflections on Being an Archivist by John A.
Fleckner
2 To Remember and Forget: Archives, Memory and Culture by Kenneth E.
Foote
3 The Symbolic Significance of Archives by James M. O'Toole
4 "Mind and Sight": Visual Literacy and the Archivist by Elisabeth
Kaplan and
Jeffrey Mifflin
Part Two: Archival History
5 Liberty, Equality, Posterity?: Some Archival Lessons From the Case
of the
French Revolution by Judith M. Panitch
6 The Provenance of a Profession: The Permanence of the Public
Archives and
Historical Manuscripts Traditions in American Archival History by
Luke J. Gilliland-Swetland
7 The Blessings of Providence on an Association of Archivists by J.
Frank Cook
Part Three: Selection and Documentation
8 At the "rim of creative dissatisfaction": Archivists and Acquisition
Development
by Timothy L. Ericson
9 Who Controls the Past by Helen Willa Samuels
10 The Documentation Strategy and Archival Appraisal Principles: A
Different
Perspective by Richard J. Cox
Part Four: Appraisal
11 On the Idea of Uniqueness by James M. O'Toole
12 Exploring the Black Box: The Appraisal of University Administrative
Records
by Frank Boles and Julia Marks Young
13 "The Surest Proof": A Utilitarian Approach to Appraisal by Mark
Greene
Part Five: Arrangement and Description
14 The Power of the Principle of Provenance by David A. Bearman and
Richard H. Lytle
15 Description and Reference in the Age of Automation by Avra
Michelson
16 Descriptive Practices for Electronic Records: Deciding What is
Essential
and Imagining What is Possible by Margaret Hedstrom
17 Encoded Archival Description: The Development of an Encoding
Standard
for Archival Finding Aids by Daniel V. Pitti
Part Six: Reference and Use of Archives
18 In the Eye of the Beholder: Archives Administration from the User's
Point of
View by Elsie T. Freeman
19 Facts and Frameworks: An Approach to Studying the Users of Archives
by Paul Conway
20 Understanding Administrative Use and Users in University Archives
by Elizabeth Yakel and Laura L. Bost
Part Seven: Preservation
21 On the Idea of Permanence by James M. O'Toole
22 Archival Preservation Practice in a Nationwide Context by Paul
Conway
23 Preservation Re-Recording of Audio Recordings in Archives: Problems,
Priorities, Technologies, and Recommendations by Christopher Ann
Paton
Part Eight: Electronic Records
24 Reinventing Archives for Electronic Records: Alternative Service
Delivery
Options by David Bearman and Margaret Hedstrom
25 Schellenberg in Cyberspace by Linda Henry
26 Digital Communications: Documentary Opportunities Not to Be Missed
by Anne Gilliland-Swetland
Part Nine: Management
27 Redefining Archival Identity: Meeting User Needs in the Information
Society
by Randall C. Jimerson
28 Keepers, Users and Funders: Building an Awareness of Archival Value
by John J. Grabowski
Randall C. Jimerson is associate professor of history and director of the
graduate program in archives and records management at Western Washington
University, Bellingham, Wash.
AMERICAN ARCHIVAL STUDIES: READINGS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
Published by Society of American Archivists (SAA)
Publication Date: September 2000 ca.650 pp. 6"x9" soft cover
$44.95 (SAA members $34.95) ISBN 0-931828-41-4 product code 395
TO ORDER, contact Rodney Franklin at rfranklin@archivists.org or
312/922-0140 or SAA Publications, 527 S. Wells Street, 5th Floor, Chicago,
IL 60607.
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Society of American Archivists
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