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another interesting reading



All those archivists busily trying to build or improve Web sites or
engaged in digitization projects with the intention of putting up records
on the Web might want to take a look at Sunstein, Cass.  Republic.com.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.  Sunstein a law professor at
the University of Chicago has written an analysis of the egocentric use of
the Internet and its potential impact on community and democracy.
Republic.com provides a good context for understanding how certain
societal groups are using the Web, and while he does not discuss
electronic records directly it is not difficult to wonder how such oline
records will be used.  Of course, Sunstein's book was written prior to
9/11 and the increasing restrictions on digital records offered via the
Web.

There is so much coming out with implications for archivists and others
that it is difficult to keep up with the publications.  I have started to
write a lengthy review of such a book in every issue of the RECORDS &
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT REPORT published ten times a year by Greenwood.
Thus far, here are the reviews:

"Access to Business Archives: Edwin Black's IBM and Records Management,"
Records and Information Management Report 17 (November 2001): 15-16.
[Review of Edwin Black, IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance
Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation (New York:
Crown Publishers, 2001)].

"Scribbling as Records," Records and Information Management Report 17
(January 2002): 15-16. [Review of H. J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers
Writing in Books (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001)].

"Lying About Records," Records and Information Management Report 18
(February 2002): 14-15.  [Review of Richard J. Evans, Lying About Hitler:
History, Holocaust, and the David Irving Trial [New York: Basic Books,
2001].

"Records as Things," Records and Information Management Report 18 (April
2002): 14-16.  [Review of Council on Library and Information Resources,
The Evidence in Hand: Report of the Task Force on the Artifact in Library
Collections (November 2001)].

Richard J. Cox
Professor
Department of Library and Information Sciences
School of Information Sciences
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Voice:  412-624-3245
FAX:    412-648-7001
e-mail: rcox@mail.sis.pitt.edu
homepage: http://www.lis.pitt.edu/~rjc

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