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Archival History Section of the Society of American Archivists:
Bibliography of American Archival History

October 2016

© This is a select edition of a bibliography first released online in
March 2015, and revised in May 2015, August 2015, and August 2016. The online version was a group effort of the Society of American Archivists’ Archival History Roundtable (now Section), which included steering committee members: Alison Clemens, Lorraine Madway, Cory Nimer, Krista Oldham, Kelly Kolar, Robert Riter, and Eric Stoykovich. Dr. David B. Gracy II contributed syllabi which provided many of these bibliographic entries.

Contents

American Archival Developments through 1898…………….1 American Archival Developments after 1898………………..5

1 | B i b l i o g r a p h y o f A m e r i c a n A r c h i v a l H i s t o r y

American Archival Developments through 1898

Barrow, William J. “Black Writing Ink of the Colonial Period.” American

Archivist 11 (October 1948): 291‑307. Online: http://americanarchivist. org/doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.11.4.903256p5lp2g3354

Benavides, Adán. Loss by Division: the Commandancy General Archive of the Eastern Interior Provinces. Austin: Institute of Latin American

Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 1988.

Bradsher, James Gregory. “An Administrative History of the Disposal of

Federal Records, 1789‑1949.” Provenance, Journal of the Society of

Georgia Archivists 3, no. 2 (Fall 1985): 1‑21. Online: http://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/provenance/vol3/iss2/2

Bradsher, James Gregory. “A Brief History of the Growth of Federal

Government Records, Archives and Information, 1789‑1985.”

Government Publications Review 13, no. 4 (July/August 1986): 491‑505.

Available online at cost. Chandler, Alfred D. and James W. Cortada, eds. A Nation Transformed

by Information: How Information has Shaped the United States from

Colonial Times to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Cole, John Y. “A National Monument for a National Library: Ainsworth

Rand Spofford and the New Library of Congress, 1871-1897.” Records

of the Columbia Historical Society 71-72 (1971/1972): 468-507. Available

online at cost. Cookridge, E.H. The Baron of Arizona. New York: John Day Co., 1967.

Coulter, E. Merton. Joseph Vallence Bevan: Georgia’s First Official

Historian. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1964.

Cox, Richard J. “A Century of Frustration: The Movement for a State

Archives in Maryland, 1811‑1935.” Maryland Historical Magazine 78, no.

2 (Summer 1983): 106‑117. Online: http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/ msa/speccol/sc5800/sc5881/000001/000000/000311/pdf/msa_sc_5881_ 1_311.pdf

2 | B i b l i o g r a p h y o f A m e r i c a n A r c h i v a l H i s t o r y

Crisp, James E. “The Little Book That Wasn’t There: The Myth and

Mystery of the de la Pena Diary.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 98,

no. 2 (Oct 1994): 261-296. Online: http://texashistory.unt.edu/ ark:/67531/metapth101216/m1/299/

Densmore, Christopher. “Understanding and Using Early Nineteenth

Century Account Books.” Midwestern Archivist 5 (1980): 5‑20. Online:

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/44631

Dunlap, Leslie W. American Historical Societies, 1790‑1860. Madison:

Cantwell Print Co., 1944.

Duranti, Luciana. “The Odyssey of Records Managers--Part II.” ARMA

Records Management Quarterly 23, no. 4 (October 1989): 3-6, 8-11.

Available online at cost.

Echard, Siân. “House Arrest: Modern Archives, Medieval Manuscripts.”

Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 30, no. 2 (Spring 2000):

185-210. Available online at cost.

Everly, Elaine C. “The Local Impact of the War Office Fire of 1800.”

Washington History (Spring/Summer 2000): 8-10.

Gracy, David B. II. “‘Just As I Have Written It’: A Study of the Authenticity

of the Manuscript of Jose Enrique de la Peña’s Account of the Texas

Campaign.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 105, no. 2 (October 2001):

255-291. Online: http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101222/m1/285/

Gracy, David B. II. The State Library and Archives of Texas: A History,

1835-1962. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010.

Groneman, Bill. Defense of a Legend: Crockett and the De la Peña

Diary. Plano: Republic of Texas Press, 1994.

Hamilton, J.G. de Roulhac. “Three Centuries of Southern Records, 1607

‑1907.” Journal of Southern History 10 (February 1944): 3‑36. Available

online at cost.

3 | B i b l i o g r a p h y o f A m e r i c a n A r c h i v a l H i s t o r y

Harper, Josephine L. “Lyman C. Draper and Early American Archives.”

American Archivist 15 (July 1952): 205‑212. Online: http:// americanarchivist.org/doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.15.3.26113227n79q5g43

Hood, Clifton. “The Fragmented Past: Archives in New York City, 1804-

1996.” Archives and the Metropolis. Ed. M.V. Roberts. London: Guild

Library Publications in association with the Centre for Metropolitan History, 1998. 147-156.

Jones, H.G., ed. Historical Consciousness in the Early Republic: The Origins of State Historical Societies, Museums, and Collections, 1791-

1861. Chapel Hill: North Caroliniana Society and North Carolina Collection, 1995.

Ketelaar, Eric. The Archival Image: Collected Essays. Hilversum,

Netherlands: Verloren, 1997. Ketelaar, Eric. “Muniments and monuments: the dawn of archives as cultural patrimony.” Archival Science 7, no. 4 (December 2007): 343-357. Available online at cost.

Lokke, Carl L. “The Captured Confederate Records Under Francis

Lieber.” American Archivist 9 (October 1946): 277-319. Freely accessed on December 1, 2015: http://americanarchivist.org/doi/pdf/ 10.17723/aarc.9.4.c736554789t63013

Martin, Thomas P. “Early American Interest in Historical Sources and

Archives.” ALA Public Documents, 1937. 228‑232. Not available online. Muller, S., J.A. Feith, and R. Fruin. Manual for the Arrangement and

Description of Archives. [1898] Trans. Arthur H. Leavitt. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1968.

O’Toole, James M. “Democracy—and Documents—in America.”

American Archivist 65 (Spring/Summer 2002): 107-115. Online: http:// americanarchivist.org/doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.65.1.d144375q84w1w778

Powell, Donald M. The Peralta Grant: James Addison Reavis and the

Barony of Arizona. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1960.

4 | B i b l i o g r a p h y o f A m e r i c a n A r c h i v a l H i s t o r y

Purcell, Aaron D. “Abstractions of Justice: The Library of Congress’s

Great Manuscripts Robbery, 1896-1897.” American Archivist 62 (Fall 1999): 325-345. Online: http://americanarchivist.org/ doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.62.2.34651kg3k10766h0

Riley, Stephen T. The Massachusetts Historical Society, 1791‑1959.

Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1959.

Russell, Bill. “The White Man’s Paper Burden: Aspects of Records

Keeping in the Department of Indian Affairs, 1860-1914.” Canadian

Archival Studies and the Rediscovery of Provenance. Ed.

Tom Nesmith. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1993. 297-324.

Stewart, Kate. “James Madison as an Archivist.” American Archivist 21

(July 1958): 243-257. Online: http://americanarchivist.org/ doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.21.3.l55672532726p783

Teute, Frederika J. “Views in Review: A Historiographical Perspective on

Historical Editing.” American Archivist 43 (Winter 1980): 43‑56. Online: http://americanarchivist.org/doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.43.1.j2705167357u5h h2

Van Tassel, David B. Recording America’s Past: An Interpretation of the

Development of Historical Societies in America, 1607‑1884. Chicago:

University of Chicago Press, 1960.

Winkler, E.W. “Destruction of Historical Archives in Texas.” Quarterly of

the Texas State Historical Association 15, no. 2 (October 1911): 148‑

155. Online: http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531 /metapth101056/m1/153/

Wood, Richard G. “Richard Bartlett, Minor Archival Prophet.” American

Archivist 17 (January 1954): 13‑18. Online: http:// americanarchivist.org/doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.17.1.g176713634180851

Wosh, Peter J. “Keeping the Faith? Bishops, Historians, and Catholic

Diocesan Archivists, 1790‑1980.” Midwestern Archivist 9, no. 1 (1984): 15‑26. Online: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/45404

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Wosh, Peter J. “Bibles, Benevolence, and Bureaucracy: The Changing Nature of Nineteenth Century Religious Records.” American Archivist 52

(Spring 1989): 166-178. Online: http://americanarchivist.org /doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.52.2.403v3142u38177v0

Yale, Elizabeth. “With Slips and Scraps: How Early Modern Naturalists

Invented the Archives.” Book History 12 (2009): 1-36. Available online at cost.

Zhang, Jane. “Recordkeeping in Book Form: The Legacy of American

Colonial Recordkeeping.” Information and Culture: A Journal of History

49, no. 4 (2014). Available online at cost.

American Archival Developments after 1898

Adkins, Elizabeth W. “The Development of Business Archives in the United States: An Overview and a Personal Perspective.” American

Archivist 60 (Winter 1997): 8-33. Online: http://americanarchivist.org /doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.60.1.qk640m762t10g348

Aiken, Jane. “Histories of the Library of Congress.” Libraries and the

Cultural Record 45 (2010): 5-24. Available online at cost.

Ashdown, Ellen. “Florida’s Black Archives: A Substantial Past.” Change:

The Magazine of Higher Learning 11, no. 3 (1979): 48-49. Available

online at cost.

Assmann, Aleida. Cultural Memory and Western Civilization: Functions,

Media, Archives. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Bahmer, Robert H. “The Archival Function in the States.” American

Archivist 22 (April 1959): 203‑209. Online: http://americanarchivist.org /doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.22.2.w164009223470642

Barker, Carol M., and Matthew H. Fox. Classified Files: The Yellowing

Pages, A Report on Scholars’ Access to Government Documents. New

York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1972.

Barnard, Megan, ed. Collecting the Imagination: The First Fifty Years of

the Ransom Center. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007.

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Barnickel, Linda. “Spoils of War: The Fate of European Records During

World War II.” Archival Issues 24 (1999): 7-20. Online:

http://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/45886

Barritt, Marjorie Rabe. “Coming to America: Dutch Archivistiek and American Archival Practice.” Archival Issues 18 (1993): 43-54. Online:

http://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/45661

[Barrow Laboratory]. “History of the Barrow Lab, or, The Thirty Years that

Revolutionized Paper,” Publishers’ Weekly 189 (April 4, 1966): 72‑80.

Available online at cost.

Bastian, Jeannette Allis. “A Question of Custody: The Colonial Archives of the United States Virgin Islands.” American Archivist 64

(Spring/Summer 2001): 96-114. Online: http://americanarchivist.org /doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.64.1.h6k872252u2gr377

Baumann, Roland M. “Oberlin College and the Movement to Establish an

Archives, 1920-1966.” Midwestern Archivist XIII (1988): 27-38. Online: http://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/45518

Beniger, James R. The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University

Press, 1986.

Beredo, Cheryl. “Archival Allegory? Cultural studies and T.R.

Schellenberg’s Modern Archives: Principles and Techniques.”

Provenance XXVI (2008): 24-37. Online: http://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/provenance/vol26/iss1/3/

Beredo, Cheryl. Import of the Archive: U.S. Colonial Rule of the Philippines and the Making of American Archival History. Sacramento:

Litwin Books, 2013.

Berner, Richard C. “Historical Development of Archival Theory and Practice in the United States.” Midwestern Archivist 7, no. 2 (1982): 103‑

118. Online: http://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/44737

Berner, Richard C. Archival Theory and Practice in the United States: A

Historical Analysis. University of Washington Press: Seattle and London, 1983.

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Birdsall, William F. “Archivists, Librarians, and Issues during the Pioneering Era of the American Archival Movement.” Journal of Library

History 14 (Fall 1979): 457‑479. Available online at cost. Birdsall, William F. “The Two Sides of the Desk: The Archivist and the Historian, 1909-1935.” American Archivist 39 (April 1975): 159-173. Online: http://americanarchivist.org/doi/pdf /10.17723/aarc.38.2.b2t13026qp667526

Blouin, Francis X. “The Two Dimensions of Professional Service: A Reflection on the Life of Robert M. Warner.” American Archivist 70

(Fall/Winter 2007): 401-409. Online: http://americanarchivist.org /doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.70.2.62639204620l21w1

Blouin, Francis X. and William Rosenberg. Processing the Past:

Contesting Authority in History and the Archives. Oxford: Oxford

University Press, 2011.

Bluh, Pamela, ed. Commemorating the Past, Celebrating the Present, Creating the Future: Papers in Observance of the 50th Anniversary of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services. Chicago:

American Library Association, 2007.

Boles, Frank. Selecting and Appraising Archives and Manuscripts.

Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2005.

Boles, Frank, and Mark A. Greene. “Et Tu Schellenberg? Thoughts on the Dagger of American Appraisal Theory.” American Archivist 59

(Summer 1996): 298-310. Online: http://americanarchivist.org /doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.59.3.k3x81g0852825l31

Booms, Hans. “Society and the Formation of a Documentary Heritage: Issues in the Appraisal of Archival Sources.” Archivaria 24 (Summer

1987): 69-107. Online: http://journals.sfu.ca /archivar/index.php/archivaria/article/view/11415/12357

Bozeman, Pat, ed. Forged Documents: Proceedings of the 1989

Houston Conference. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books, 1990.

Bradsher, James Gregory, and Michele F. Pacifico. “History of Archives

Administration.” Managing Archives and Archival Institutions. Ed. James

Gregory Bradsher. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. 18-33.

8 | B i b l i o g r a p h y o f A m e r i c a n A r c h i v a l H i s t o r y

Brand, Katherine E. “The Place of the Register in the Manuscripts Division of the Library of Congress.” American Archivist 18 (January

1955): 59‑67. Online: http://americanarchivist.org /doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.18.1.944j073130x05710

Brooks, Philip C. “Archives in the United States During World War II,

1939‑1946.” Library Quarterly 17 (October 1947): 263‑280. Available online at cost.

Brower, Philip P. “The U.S. Army’s Seizure and Administration of Enemy Records Up to World War II.” American Archivist 8 (January 1945): 191‑

207. Online: http://americanarchivist.org /doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.26.2.rn33101m715x6226

Brown, Matthew G. “The First Nixon Papers Controversy: Richard Nixon’s 1969 Prepresidential Papers Tax Deduction.” Archival Issues 26

(2001): 9-26. Online: http://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/45978

Brown, Richard Harvey, and Beth Davis Brown. “The Making of Memory:

The Politics of Archives, Libraries and Museums in the Construction of

National Consciousness.” History of the Human Sciences 11, no. 4

(November 1998): 17-32. Not available online.

Browne, Henry J. “The American Catholic Archival Tradition.” American

Archivist 14 (April 1951): 127‑139. Online: http://americanarchivist.org /doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.14.2.pjm262r15583l606

Bryan, Mary G. “The Georgia Department of Archives and History.”

Georgia Historical Quarterly 36, no. 1 (June 1952): 137-143.

Bryan, Mary G. “Trends of Organization in State Archives.” American

Archivist 21 (January 1958): 31‑42. Online: http://americanarchivist.org /doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.21.1.f337278p02327336

Burke, Frank G. “Manuscripts and Archives [History of NUCMC].” Library

Trends 15 (Jan. 1967): 430‑445. Online: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/6322

Burke, Frank G. “The Beginnings of the NHPRC Records Program.”

American Archivist 63 (Summer 2000): 18-42. Online: http:// americanarchivist.org/doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.63.1.fr07u63646825565

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Burnette, D. Lawrence. Beneath the Footnote: A Guide to the Use and Preservation of American Historical Sources. Madison, State Historical

Society of Wisconsin, 1969.

Burton, Antoinette. Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of

History. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005.

Butterfield, Lyman H. “Archival and Editorial Enterprise in 1850 and in 1950: Some Comparisons and Contrasts.” American Philosophical

Society Proceedings 98 (June 15, 1954): 159‑170. Available online at cost.

Butterfield, Lyman H. “Bostonians and Their Neighbors as Pack Rats.”

American Archivist 24 (April 1961):141‑159. Online: http:// americanarchivist.org/doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.24.2.t041107403161g77

Cappon, Lester J. “The National Archives and the Historical Profession.”

Journal of Southern History 35 (November 1969): 477‑499. Available online at cost.

Caravella, Tony. “The Laws of War and the Destruction of Cultural

Property in the Iraq War 2003.” Archives and Manuscripts 32 (May

2004): 106-136. Available online at cost.

Carleton, Don E. “A Cooperative Urban Archives Program: The Houston

Metropolitan Research Center.” Midwestern Archivist 6 (1982): 177-195.

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    The Organization and Status of Archival Training in the Downloaded from http://meridian.allenpress.com/american-archivist/article-pdf/11/2/154/2742821/aarc_11_2_4178j71382770886.pdf by guest on 30 September 2021 United States1 By KARL L. TREVER The National Archives EN years ago the newly-formed Society of American Archivists created a Committee on Training, instructing it "to consider the Teducation and training appropriate for those desirous of entering the archival profession . and to promote projects for making such training available."2 In November 1945 the Society joined the American Association for State and Local History in appointing representatives to a National Council on Specialized Scholarly Techniques, an organiza- f tion dedicated to the task of facilitating the training of persons inter- ested in entering archival or historical society work.3 These actions, when noted together, suggest the need for reviewing the development of training facilities during the past decade and for appraising their usefulness to the profession. At the second annual meeting of the Society, the Committee on Training presented its "Preliminary Report."4 It expressed complete agreement with the European emphasis on the need for a historical, legal, and linguistic background in archival work and recommended that training in the United States should be provided for persons pre- paring for two classes of archival positions: (1) student candidates for archivist first class, i.e., those planning careers as directors or staff officers of major archival establishments, and who would be recruited from the level of training required for the doctor of philosophy in American history or political science; and (2) student candidates for archivist second class, i.e., those who aspired to directorships of minor establishments or to employment as lesser officials in larger agencies, 1Read at the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists, October 25, 1946.
  • The First Year of the First Archival Science Course in Japan

    The First Year of the First Archival Science Course in Japan

    The First Year of the First Archival Science Course in Japan YAYOI TSUTSUI Abstract: Gakushuin University in Tokyo started a course of Archival Science at Graduate School of Humanities in April of 2008. It offers a master’s course training archivists and a doctorial course for researchers. This is brand- new in Japan. The presenter is one of eight master candidate students, who joined all classes given in the first year, including the two-week internship featured the course. She introduces the archival studies’ classrooms of five professors and eight instructors. She refers to other disciplines of Gakushuin in Humanities, Political Studies, and Library Science. She also experienced some training workshops. Along with the faculty, the students enjoyed the study tours granted by a foundation to Okinawa and Korea where they learned about advanced archival systems of actual repositories. On June 24, the bill on management of public records was enacted by the National Diet of Japan. The Government prepared this bill on the basis of the final report of the expert panel titled “Ideal Management of Official Documents as Records Passing through Time – Now we Tackle the Issue as a National Project – “. Both Houses of the Diet pass additional resolutions dealing with the archival profession. Students closely watched this movement. Reviewing a brief history of the archival science in Japan, expectation and significance of this new course under such circumstances will be discussed. About the author: Yayoi Tsutsui is a student of Master’s course of Archival Science at Gakushuin University as well as a homemaker with three children.
  • Archival Studies Pathway — Required and Recommended Courses

    Archival Studies Pathway — Required and Recommended Courses

    Archival Studies Pathway — Required and Recommended Courses If an MLIS student takes the foundational course and 15 credits of the recommended courses, this career path will meet Society of American Archivists recommendations of at least 18 credits archives-related coursework for graduate programs in archival studies.1 REQUIRED MLIS CORE (16 CREDIT HOURS) LIS 60010 The Information Landscape 3 LIS 60020 Information Organization 3 LIS 60030 People in the Information Ecology 3 LIS 60040 Information Institutions and Professions 3 LIS 60050 Research and Assessment in Library and Information Science 3 LIS 60280 Master’s Portfolio in Library and Information Science 1 FOUNDATIONAL COURSE (3 CREDIT HOURS) LIS 60652 Foundations of Recordkeeping in Society 3 STRONGLY RECOMMENDED COURSES LIS 60510 Digital Technologies I: Data Fundamentals 1 LIS 60511 Digital Technologies II: Internet Fundamentals 1 LIS 60631 Introduction to Digital Preservation (prerequisites = LIS 60510 and 60511) 3 LIS 60635 Cultural Heritage Informatics 3 LIS 60654 Preservation and Conservation of Heritage Materials 3 LIS 60657 Theory and Methods of Archival Acquisition, Selection and Appraisal (prerequisite = LIS 3 60652) 1 The Society of American Archivists maintains guidelines, last updated in 2016, for Graduate Education Programs in Archival Studies, which may be found on the SAA website. https://www2.archivists.org/prof-education/graduate/gpas 1 LIS 60692 or Practicum—Libraries and Information Centers or Master’s Internship in Library and 2-3 60092 Information Science LIS
  • Counterpoint a Forum for Archival Debate and Discussion

    Counterpoint a Forum for Archival Debate and Discussion

    Counterpoint A Forum for Archival Debate and Discussion Archival Education In the last issue of Archivaria, Edwin Welch scathingly denounced library school op- tions in archival science, but seems to know little if anything about them.' As the "librarian" who, according to Dr. Welch has taken over "the archives op- tion" from "the archivist who established it," I should like to set the record straight.' The course referred to in Welch's footnote was already established before he even entered the archival profession! There are now two courses in the programme and, because of the high student demand, it is likely that more will be offered in the future. My courses are designed to give future librarians an introduction to a sister profes- sion which shares some of the aims, problems and practices of librarianship. They might also profitably be taken, as an appetizer, by someone considering a career in ar- chives, but this is not their primary purpose and I am certainly not presumptuous enough to consider them as adequate training for the archival profession. That these courses are given in a School of Library and Information Science does not mean that I see no difference between the training and qualifications required by archivists and librarians or that I advocate a common training programme as Working Group 111 did. There is some common ground, and there might be a case for archival education to be undertaken in the same institution as library education, especially in the present economic circumstances. The sharing of facilities by two academic disciplines, and mutual co-operation in developing and teaching those parts of their subject matters which overlap, does not imply any subordination of the one to the other.
  • Tacit Narratives: the Meanings of Archives ∗

    Tacit Narratives: the Meanings of Archives ∗

    Archival Science 1: 131–141, 2001. 131 © 2001 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. Tacit Narratives: The Meanings of Archives ∗ ERIC KETELAAR University of Leiden and University of Amsterdam; The Netherlands Visiting Professor 2000-2001, University of Michigan (School of Information); Oude Turfmarkt 141, 1012 GC Amsterdam, The Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected] Abstract. Archivists and historians usually consider archives as repositories of historical sources and the archivist as a neutral custodian. Sociologists and anthropologists see “the archive” also as a system of collecting, categorizing, and exploiting memories. Archivists are hesitantly acknowledging their role in shaping memories. I advocate that archival fonds, archival documents, archival institutions, and archival systems contain tacit narratives which must be deconstructed in order to understand the meanings of archives. Keywords: archival science, mediation, narratives, postmodernism, social memory New Possibilities A critical approach is at the heart of archival endeavor. Its even postmodern: did not the father of postmodernism, Lyotard, equate postmodernism with incredulity in meta-narratives, in grand schemes? We could also say with Anthony Giddens: tradition no longer works and cannot be cited as the rationale for our actions. Giddens’ post-traditional social order is not one in which traditions disappear – far from it. Traditions become open to interroga- tion and discourse. Such a post-traditional society is a global society, where traditions
  • Select List of Archival Terminology

    Select List of Archival Terminology

    SelectListofArchivalTerminology ACCESS 1.Therightoropportunityoffinding,consulting,orapproachingdocumentsand/orinformation. Seealso:ACCESSIBILITY;INTELLECTUALACCESS;RESTRICTEDACCESS 2.Themethodofplacingdataintoandretrievingitfromcomputermemory. ACCESSIBILITY Theavailabilityofarchivalmaterialforconsultationasaresultoflegalauthorizationandthe existenceoffindingaids.Seealso:ACCESS;INTELLECTUALACCESS;RESTRICTED ACCESS ACCESSPOINT Aname,term,orcodeunderwhichadescriptiverecordmaybesearchedandidentified. ACCESSION 1.Theformalacceptanceintocustodyandrecordingofanacquisition. 2.Anacquisitionsorecorded.Seealso:ACCRUAL ACCRUAL Anacquisitionwhichisadditionaltoaseriesalreadyheld. ACCUMULATION Thenaturalprocessbywhicharchivesaremadeandreceivedinthecourseofaffairsofany kind.Seealso:COLLECTION ACQUISITION Anadditiontotheholdingsofanarchivalrepositoryorrecordscentre. ACQUISITIONPOLICY Anofficialstatementissuedbyanarchivalinstitutionidentifyingthekindsofmaterialsitwill acquireandtheconditionsortermswhichaffecttheiracquisition. ACTIVERECORDS SeeCURRENTARCHIVALDOCUMENTS 1 ADMINISTRATIVECONTROL 1.Theexerciseofauthorityovermaintenance,use,disposition,andaccessibilityofcurrent archivestocarryonthefunctionforwhichtheywerecreated.Seealso:CONTROLLING AGENCY;CREATOR;CUSTODY 2.Themeansofphysicallylocatingtheholdingsofrecordscentresandarchivalinstitutions throughnumberingandlisting.Seealso:INTELLECTUALCONTROL ADMINISTRATIVEHISTORY Thatpartofafindingaidwhichillustratesthestructure,functions,andactivitiesofthecreatorof thematerialdescribedtherein.Seealso:CREATOR