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Question about restrictions



Hello all --

For a second time in as many weeks, I have a question that I hope the
members of the list can help me answer.

We've come across a small collection in our archives that houses survey
records of students from various BIA Indian Day Schools.  The students
were 4th - 8th graders, and the surveys were taken in 1959 - 1960.  The
information contained in the surveys is often very personal in nature.
There is NO acquisition information about the survey responses.  We
don't know how they got here or where they came from or when. (Don't you
just love collections like this?)

Here is my question:  what kind of restrictions, if any, should be put
on this collection?  Because of the date of the survey, some of the
people could still be living.  We have no plans to digitize this
information or to publish it in any way; but I wonder if we should put
some further kind of restrictions on research use, because of the
potentially sensitive nature of the information and the possibility that
some of the survey subjects could still be alive?

Many thanks for responses either to me directly, or posted to the list.

Regards,
Amy Cooper

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Assistant Professor Amy Cooper
Archivist/Special Collections Librarian
I. D. Weeks Library
The University of South Dakota

Phone: 605-677-8867     E-Mail: alcooper@usd.edu

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