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American Archivist 64:2



The latest AMERICAN ARCHIVIST (64:2, fall/winter 2001), edited by Philip B.
Eppard, will be mailed (via USPS third class) early next week to SAA members
and journal subscribers.

This issue features James M. Roth's "Serving Up EAD: An Exploratory Study on
the Deployment and Utilization of Encoded Archival Description Finding
Aids," which won SAA's 2001 Theodore Calvin Pease Award for the best student
paper.

Other thought-provoking articles include:
- "Principles, Methods and Instruments for the Creation, Preservation and
Use of Archival Records in the Digital Environment" by Maria Guercio;
- "Understanding 'Authenticity' in Records and Information Management:
Analyzing Practitioner Constructs" by Eun Park;
- "The Burlington Agenda: Research Issues in Intellectual Access to
Electronically Published Historical Documents," by Elizabeth H. Dow, with
David R. Chesnutt, William E. Underwood,
Helen R. Tibbo, Mary-Jo Kline, and Charlene N. Bickford;
- "Doing the Best We Can?: The Use of Collection Development Policies and
Cooperative Collecting Activities at Manuscript Repositories" by Cynthia K.
Sauer;
- "Experiments in Deaccessioning: Archives and Online Auctions" by Michael
Doylen; and
- "The Archivist as Educator: Integrating Critical Thinking Skills into
Historical Research Methods Instruction" by Marcus C. Robyns.

In addition, the issue also includes two book review essays--"Do Not Fold
Spindle, or Mutilate: Double Fold and the Assault on Libraries" by James
O'Toole and "Making the Records Speak: Archival Appraisal, Memory,
Preservation, and Collecting" by Richard J. Cox--as well as other book
reviews, Council meeting minutes, and the annual index. Select material from
this issue is available online at
http://www.archivists.org/periodicals/aa-toc.asp#64-2

Authors are invited to direct inquiries and submissions to: Philip B.
Eppard, Editor, American
Archivist, mailto:pbe40@csc.albany.edu.

*apologies for cross postings*

Teresa Brinati
Director of Publishing
Society of American Archivists
527 S. Wells Street, 5th Floor
Chicago, IL 60607-3992 USA
312/922-0140   Fax 312/347-1452
mailto:tbrinati@archivists.org
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and to provide leadership to ensure the identification,
preservation and use of the nation's historic record.

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