Pub Date : 2022-06-15DOI: 10.31274/archivalissues.13454
J. Ballard, Cara S. Bertram
Appraisal of student records is an essential part of building a complete narrative of a university's history. Within this process, it is important to capture the experiences of underrepresented student groups. A rich source of documentation of both student life and campus diversity comes from the records produced by university ethnic student clubs, cultural houses, and sororities and fraternities with historically minority membership. The formation activities, and dissolution of ethnic student organizations can help to shape an understanding of a university's demographic, social, and political history. Working with and building relationships with organization advisors and student members is important to forming good appraisal decisions of the records they produce. This paper will examine examples from appraisal projects with the Ethnic Student Center at Western Washington University and the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It will also include an analysis of the appraisal of records from ethnic student organizations, discuss the importance of working with stakeholders, and understanding ownership of records.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.31274/archivalissues.15658
Amy Vilz
In 2008, to provide continuity across the profession and acknowledge skills needed for effective stewardship of special collections materials, the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) approved Competencies for Special Collections Professionals. This document explicitly contends that those responsible for special collections materials must be “committed to promoting the appreciation and use of special collections materials to a variety of audiences. . . . ” and “skilled in planning and implementing programs and publications that promote and interpret collections, such as exhibits. . . . ” Indeed, at one time or another, most archivists and special collections librarians face curating a display or exhibit. Despite this, modern resources on exhibit preparation geared to special collections are lacking, leaving staff to glean guidance from general library exhibit publications or to turn to colleagues in the museum field for the most current materials on exhibits. Jessica Lacher-Feldman’s book, Exhibits in Archives and Special Collections Libraries, attempts to fill this void in the literature.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.31274/archivalissues.13206
April K. Anderson-Zorn
Off-campus college and university archives face additional challenges when implementing educational and outreach initiatives. Travel difficulties for patrons, transportation issues for fragile materials, even inclement weather can play significant roles in whether a repository's materials can be used in an educational session in an on-campus classroom. This article explores the challenges an off-campus university archives encounters in incorporating its materials into the campus curriculum. In addition, this article discusses a technology-based solution devised by the university archivist to bring greater access to materials and engage the campus community in interactive archival education.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.31274/ARCHIVALISSUES.13205
Katrina Windon, Amy Leigh Allen
This case study explores how efforts to simultaneously implement a new content management system and a storage management system while preparing and physically moving materials to a new high-density, off-site facility provided unique opportunities and challenges for improving intellectual control of archival materials at the University of Arkansas Special Collections. The authors explore their decision-making process and subsequent outcomes, while offering advice for institutions approaching similar projects.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.31274/ARCHIVALISSUES.13204
Martin T. Olliff, Elizabeth Dill
Institutional archives with community documentation missions face problems of limited resources and community resistance in developing collections. Inspired by field experience and archival literature, the authors propose one possible solution that can be a stand-alone project or an adjunct to traditional collection development. Their distributed archives model envisions one-on-one partnerships between institutional archives and community partners to share authority over appraisal and selection while leaving custody of community collections with their creators. Institutional partners provide leadership, mentoring, and support, while community partners appraise, select, process, arrange, and describe. This article describes the distributed archives model, examines its advantages and disadvantages, and discusses it in relationship with an increased awareness of social justice concerns in archives, postcustodialism, and shared authority over appraisal between community collection creators and archivists.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.31274/ARCHIVALISSUES.13208
William W. Hardesty
Dennis Meissner's Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts is the fourth manual on the topic to be published by the Society of American Archivists since 1977. A longer volume than its Archival Fundamentals Series II predecessor, Meissner's Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts is organized to proceed from basic definitions to the principles of arrangement and description, and then to the practice of each. A chapter on nontextual formats (i.e., photographs, sound and moving image recordings, and digital records) affirms that arranging and describing such materials occurs within the same basic framework as those for traditional paper records. A brief final chapter offers speculation about future change, and a recapitulatory conclusion and six appendices round out the manual. Meissner's clear treatment of fundamental ideas provides a basis for the reader to understand the work of arrangement and description. Throughout, the author offers both concise and practical advice. Among other things, the manual offers lucid descriptions of concepts and practices such as levels of arrangement, multilevel description, and practical and physical requirements for archival processing, as well as a concise guide to arranging and describing born-digital records. Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts successfully fulfills its author's stated goal of providing "a very practical manual" that situates its pragmatic guidance within archival theory (p. 1).
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.31274/ARCHIVALISSUES.13213
Colleen McFarland Rademaker
The title of this anthology of essays sets the readers’ expectation for a very different experience than the book delivers. Neither a set of case studies nor a practical guide to digital preservation, the book is “an exploration of how computers and technology affect our ability to preserve information for the future,” as explained by editor Jeanne Kramer-Smyth (p. xxii). Its 10 essays aim to introduce archivists to the perspectives of professionals working in areas adjacent to digital preservation. Boldly stepping beyond the GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) community, Kramer-Smyth provides a platform for diverse voices with impeccable educational and professional credentials, including a color scientist, a journalism professor, and a legal expert in postmortem privacy.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.31274/ARCHIVALISSUES.13210
David A. Joens
In his August 2008 presidential address, Society of American Archivists president Mark Greene advocated for the creation of a set of shared core values for archivists to follow. He argued that such a set of values would make the vocation more professional, more united, and, ultimately, more empowered. But can these goals be accomplished if the values are not agreed upon or if they are subject to different interpretations and meanings? This is the unstated question in Archival Values: Essays in Honor of Mark Greene, a collection of articles that examine the 11 core archival values that SAA approved in 2011 following Greene's address.
在2008年8月的总统演讲中，美国档案工作者协会主席马克·格林主张建立一套档案工作者共同遵循的核心价值观。他认为，这样一套价值观将使这个职业更专业，更团结，最终更有权力。但是，如果这些价值观没有达成一致，或者它们受到不同的解释和含义的影响，这些目标能实现吗?这是《档案价值:纪念马克·格林的文章》(archives Values: Essays in Honor of Mark Greene)一书中未明确提出的问题。这本文集探讨了2011年格林演讲后SAA批准的11项核心档案价值。
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.31274/ARCHIVALISSUES.13212
J. Mifflin
Markus Friedrich’s volume illustrates the diversity of archival practices in late medieval and early modern Europe. Large institutions associated with royal courts served as models, but archives “had a variety of local . . . causes and manifestations” affecting an increasingly large proportion of the population “on multiple political and social levels” (p. 48). Merchants and municipalities, churches and monasteries, and corporations and rulers all maintained records. The Birth of the Archive is a praxis-oriented study of the history of European archives circa 1200 to 1800, concentrating on developments in Italy, France, and various German-speaking principalities. It looks at how archives in those regions adapted to different contexts and how they functioned over time. Markus Friedrich, a professor of early modern history at Hamburg University, indicates that although a comparative, worldwide study of archival history would be highly desirable, his current investigations do not extend beyond Europe.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.31274/archivalissues.13211
J. Lawler
Archivists new to positions of leadership and management generally experience some anxiety when faced with the challenges and responsibilities inherent in leading archival programs and staff. While managing the day-to-day aspects of a department requires hands-on experience, Leading and Managing Archives and Manuscripts Programs provides a solid foundation upon which archivists new to leadership and management can begin their newfound responsibilities. It also provides seasoned leaders and managers an opportunity to reconsider their own approaches.
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