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Week 1 and 2OBJECTIVES: Appreciate the value of archival history in understanding archival institutions, the archival profession, and the nature of records. Obtain a general overview of the history of records, record keeping, and archives. CORE READINGS (items in bold available via RBD Library's electronic reserve system): The following core readings provide a broad overview of the history of records, record keeping, and archives: Cox, Richard J. "The Record: Is It Evolving?" Records and Retrieval Report 10 (March 1994): 1-16. Duranti, Luciana. "The Odyssey of Records Managers." In Canadian Archival Studies and the Rediscovery of Provenance, edited by Tom Nesmith, 29-60. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1993. Holmes, Oliver Wendell. "History and Theory of Archival Practice." In University Archives, edited by Rolland E. Stevens, 1-21. Champaign, Ill.: Illini Union Bookstore, 1965. O'Toole, James M. "The History of Archives and the Archival Profession." Chapter 2 in Understanding Archives and Manuscripts, 27-48. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1990. ________. "Recording, Keeping, and Using Information." Chapter 1 in Understanding Archives and Manuscripts, 7-26. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1990. ________. "The Symbolic Significance of Archives." American Archivist 56 (Spring 1993): 234-55. ________. "On the Idea of Permanence." American Archivist 52 (Winter 1989): 10-25. Schellenberg, Theodore R. "Importance of Archival Institutions." Chapter 1 in Modern Archives: Principles and Techniques, 3-10. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956. ________. "Nature of Archives." Chapter 2 in Modern Archives: Principles and Techniques, 11-16. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956. Taylor, Hugh. "'My Very Act and Deed': Some Reflections on the Role of Textual Records in the Conduct of Affairs." American Archivist 51 (Fall 1988): 456-69. Reprinted in Canadian Archival Studies and the Rediscovery of Provenance, edited by Tom Nesmith , 251-68. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1993. The following core readings argue that the study of archival history is an important component in the field of archival studies: Cox, Richard J. "American Archival History: Its Development, Needs, and Opportunities." American Archivist 46 (Winter 1983): 31-41. ________. "On the Value of Archival History in the United States." Libraries and Culture 23 (______ 1988): 135-51. Craig, Barbara L. "Outward Visions, Inward Glance: Archives History and Professional Identity." Archival Issues 17 (1992):113-24. Nesmith, Tom. "Archives from the Bottom Up: Social History and Archival Scholarship." In Canadian Archival Studies and the Rediscovery of Provenance, edited by Tom Nesmith, 159-84. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1993. O'Toole, James. "The Future of Archival History." Provenance 13 (1995): 1-24. Wallace, David A. "Archivists, Recordkeeping, and the Declassification of Records: What We Can Learn from Contemporary Histories." American Archivist 56 (Fall 1993): 794-814. Pemberton, J. Michael. "The Earliest Records Systems: A Journey in Professional History." Records Management Quarterly 32 (April 1998): 64-70.
WEEK 3 THE ANCIENT WORLD The Origins of Records and Record Keeping
OBJECTIVES: Understand the relationship between record keeping and the development of writing systems in Mesopotamia. Understand the nature of archives and records in the ancient world.
CORE READINGS (items in bold available via RBD Library's electronic reserve system:
Posner, Ernst. "The History of Ancient Archives: Scope, Limitations, and Design." Introduction to Archives in the Ancient World, 1-11. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972.
Schmandt-Besserat, Denise. How Writing Came About. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996.
ADDITIONAL READINGS (items in bold available via RBD Library's electronic reserve system:
Bell, Harold I. "The Custody of Records in Roman Egypt." Indian Archives 4 (July-December 1950): 116-25.
Jones, Tom B. "Bookkeeping in Ancient Sumer." Archaeology 9 (Spring 1956): 16-21.
Posner, Ernst. "The Clay Tablet Archives." Chapter 1 in Archives in the Ancient World, 12-70. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972.
________. "Greece." Chapter 3 in Archives in the Ancient World, 91-117. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972.
________. "Imperial Rome." Chapter 7 in Archives in the Ancient World, 186-223. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972.
________. "Persia, Alexander the Great, and the Seleucid Empire" and "Record-Keeping in the Parthian and Neo-Persian Empires." Chapter 4 and Postlude in Archives in the Ancient World, 118-35, 224-30. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972.
________. "Pharaonic Egypt." Chapter 2 in Archives in the Ancient World, 71-90. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972.
________. "Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt." Chapter 5 in Archives in the Ancient World, 136-59. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972.
________. "Republican Rome." Chapter 6 in Archives in the Ancient World, 160-85. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972.
Posner, Ernst. "The Athenian Cavalry Archives of the Fourth and Third Centuries B.C." American Archivist 37 (October 1974): 579-82.
O'Toole, James M. "Herodotus and the Written Word." Archivaria 33 (Winter 1991-92): 148-60.
BOOKS:
Chiera, Edward. They Wrote on Clay. Chicago, 1938
Gaur, Albertine. A History of Writing. Rev. ed. New York: Cross River Press, 1992.
Harris, William V. Ancient Literacy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989.
Lord, Albert B. The Singer of Tales. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960.
Martin, Henri Jean. The History and Power of Writing . Translated by Lydia G. Cochrane. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Ong, Walter J. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. London: Methuen, 1982.
Thomas, Rosalind. Literacy and Orality in Ancient Greece. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
MEDIEVAL EUROPE The Transition from the Oral Tradition to the Written Record WEEK 4 (Return to Course Calendar)
OBJECTIVES:
Understand the factors that facilitated the shift "from memory to written record" in medieval England. Understand the implications of the shift "from memory to written record" on the administration of government. Understand the role that records and record keeping played in medieval European society.
CORE READINGS (items in bold available via RBD Library's electronic reserve system:
Clanchy, M. T. "'Tenacious Letters': Archives and Memory in the Middle Ages." Archivaria 11 (1981): 115-25.
________. From Memory to Written Record: England 1066-1307. 2d ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993. Read pages 1-196.
ADDITIONAL READINGS (items in bold available via RBD Library's electronic reserve system:
Clanchy, M. T. "Languages of Record." Chapter 6 in From Memory to Written Record: England 1066-1307, 197-223. 2d ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993. ________. "Literate and Illiterate." Chapter 7 in From Memory to Written Record: England 1066-1307, 224-52. 2d ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.
________. "Hearing and Seeing." Chapter 8 in From Memory to Written Record: England 1066-1307, 253-93. 2d ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.
________. "Trusting Writing." Chapter 9 in From Memory to Written Record: England 1066-1307, 294-327. 2d ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.
________. "Practical Literacy." Chapter 10 in From Memory to Written Record: England 1066-1307, 328-34. 2d ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.
Danet, Brenda, and Bryna Bogoch. "From Oral Ceremony to Written Document: The Transitional Language of Anglo-Saxon Wills." Language & Communication 12 (April 1992): 95-122.
McCrank, Lawrence J. "Documenting Reconquest and Reform: The Growth of Archives in the Medieval Crown of Aragon." American Archivist 56 (Spring 1993): 256-319.
________. "A Medieval 'Information Age': Documentation and Archives in the Crown of Aragon." In Discovery in the Archives of Spain and Portugal: Quincentenary Essays, 1492-1992, edited by Lawrence J. McCrank, 19-102. New York : Haworth Press, 1993.
O'Callaghan, Joseph F. "Origin and Development of Archival Record-Keeping in the Crown of Castile-Leon." In Discovery in the Archives of Spain and Portugal: Quincentenary Essays, 1492-1992, edited by Lawrence J. McCrank, 3-18. New York : Haworth Press, 1993.
O'Toole, James M. "'Commendatory Letters': An Archival Reading of the Venerable Bede." American Archivist 61 (Fall 1998): 166-86.
Taylor, Nathaniel L. "Medieval Catalonian Wills: Family Charter Evidence in the Archives." In Discovery in the Archives of Spain and Portugal: Quincentenary Essays, 1492-1992, edited by Lawrence J. McCrank, 103-34. New York : Haworth Press, 1993.
BOOKS:
Galbraith, V. H. The Making of Domesday Book. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1961.
Geary, Patrick J. Phantoms of Remembrance: Memory and Oblivion at the End of the First Millennium. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.
Hallam, Elizabeth M. Domesday Book through Nine Centuries. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1986.
MODERN EUROPE The Foundations of Modern Archival Theory and Practice WEEK 5 (Return to Course Calendar)
OBJECTIVES:
Understand the development of archival institutions in Europe during the modern era. Understand the development of archival theory and practice in Europe during the modern era, especially the concepts of provenance, respect des fonds, and original order.
CORE READINGS (items in bold available via RBD Library's electronic reserve system:
Brichford, Maynard. "The Origins of Modern European Archival Theory." Midwestern Archivist 7 (1982): 86-101.
Duchein, Michel. "The History of European Archives and the Development of the Archival Profession in Europe," American Archivist 55 (Winter 1992): 14-25.
Palmer, Olga P. "The History of European Archival Literature." American Archivist 2 (April 1939): 69-83.
Panitch, Judith M. "Liberty, Equality, Posterity?: Some Archival Lessons from the Case of the French Revolution." American Archivist 59 (Winter 1996): 30-47.
Posner, Ernst. "Some Aspects of Archival Development Since the French Revolution." American Archivist 3 (July 1940): 159-72. Reprinted in A Modern Archives Reader: Basic Readings on Archival Theory and Practice, edited by Maygene F. Daniels and Timothy Walch, 3-14 (Washington, D. C.: National Archives and Records Service, 1984). Also reprinted in Archives and the Public Interest: Selected Essays by Ernst Posner, edited by Ken Munden, 23-35 (Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1967).
ADDITIONAL READINGS (items in bold available via RBD Library's electronic reserve system:
Duchein, Michel. "Theoretical Principles and Practical Problems of Respect des fonds in Archival Science," Archivaria 16 (Summer 1983): 64-82.
Geller, Lawrence D. "Joseph Cuvelier, Belgian Archival Education, and the First International Congress of Archivists, Brussels, 1910," Archivaria 16 (Summer 1983): 26-34.
Kolsrud, Ole. "The Evolution of Basic Appraisal Principles--Some Comparative Observations." American Archivist 55 (Winter 1992): 26-39.
Komor, Valerie. "In Search of Archives History: Eugenio Casanova and the Suspect Lincoln Letter." Archival Issues 18 (1993): 55-61.
Mullett, Charles F. "The 'Better Reception, Preservation, and More Convenient Use' of Public Records in Eighteenth-Century England." American Archivist 27 (April 1964): 195-217.
Posner, Ernst. "The Administration of Current Records in Italian Public Agencies." Chapter 7 in Archives and the Public Interest: Selected Essays by Ernst Posner, edited by Ken Munden, 98-106. Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1967.
________. "European Experiences in Protecting and Preserving Local Records." Chapter 8 in Archives and the Public Interest: Selected Essays by Ernst Posner, edited by Ken Munden, 107-13. Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1967.
________. "European Experiences in Training Archivists." Chapter 3 in Archives and the Public Interest: Selected Essays by Ernst Posner, edited by Ken Munden, 45-57. Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1967.
________. "Impressions of an Itinerant Archivist in Europe." Chapter 5 in Archives and the Public Interest: Selected Essays by Ernst Posner, edited by Ken Munden, 78-86. Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1967.
________. "Max Lehmann and the Genesis of the Principle of Provenance." Chapter 2 in Archives and the Public Interest: Selected Essays by Ernst Posner, edited by Ken Munden, 36-44. Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1967.
________. "The Role of Records in German Adminstration." Chapter 6 in Archives and the Public Interest: Selected Essays by Ernst Posner, edited by Ken Munden, 87-97. Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1967.
Rundle, Jim. "Public Records as Arsenals of Accountability in Great Britain: An Eighteenth Century Case Study." In Archival Documents: Providing Accountability Through Recordkeeping, edited by Sue McKemmish and Frank Upward, 119-29. Melbourne, Australia: Ancora Press, 1993.
Yax, Maggie. "Arthur Agarde, Elizabethan Archivist: His Contributions to the Evolution of Archival Practice." American Archivist 61 (Spring 1998): 56-69.
BOOKS:
Cantwell, John D. The Public Record Office, 1838-1958. London: HMSO, 1991.
Muller, Samuel, J. A. Feith , and Robert Fruin. Manual For the Arrangement and Description of Archives. Translation of the 2d ed. by Arthur H. Leavitt. New York; H. W. Wilson Co., 1940.
Vincent, David. The Culture of Secrecy: Britain, 1832-1998. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
NORTH AMERICA Historical Consciousness and Historical Societies WEEK 6 (Return to Course Calendar)
OBJECTIVE:
Understand the early development of historical societies and historical editing in the U.S. and their relation to modern archival institutions.
CORE READINGS (items in bold available via RBD Library's electronic reserve system:
Callcott, George H. "The People Discover the Past." Chapter 2 in History in the United States, 1800-1960: Its Practice and Purpose, 25-53. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1970.
Tucker, Louis Leonard. "Massachusetts." In Historical Consciousness in the Early Republic: The Origins of State Historical Societies, Museums, and Collections, 1791-1861, edited by H. G. Jones, 1-28. Chapel Hill: North Caroliniana Society, 1995.
Van Tassel, David. "The Rise of Historical Societies, 1790-1815." Chapter 6 in Recording America's Past: An Interpretation of the Development of Historical Studies in America, 1607-1884, 59-66. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960.
________. "Historical Societies: Bastions of Localism, 1815-60." Chapter 10 in Recording America's Past: An Interpretation of the Development of Historical Studies in America, 1607-1884, 95-102. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960.
________. "Documania: A National Obsession, Locally Inspired, 1815-50." Chapter 11 in Recording America's Past: An Interpretation of the Development of Historical Studies in America, 1607-1884, 103-110. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960.
ADDITIONAL READINGS (items in bold available via RBD Library's electronic reserve system:
Bryan, Charles F., Jr. "Virginia." In Historical Consciousness in the Early Republic: The Origins of State Historical Societies, Museums, and Collections, 1791-1861, edited by H. G. Jones, 79-91. Chapel Hill: North Caroliniana Society, 1995.
Cappon, Lester J. "American Historical Editors Before Jared Sparks." William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, 30 (July 1973): 375-400.
Cox, Richard J. "Other Atlantic States: Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, and South Carolina." In Historical Consciousness in the Early Republic: The Origins of State Historical Societies, Museums, and Collections, 1791-1861, edited by H. G. Jones, 102-24. Chapel Hill: North Caroliniana Society, 1995.
________. "A Rationale for Historical Editing Past and Present." William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, 23 (January 1966): 56-75.
Fishel, Leslie H., Jr. "Wisconsin." In Historical Consciousness in the Early Republic: The Origins of State Historical Societies, Museums, and Collections, 1791-1861, edited by H. G. Jones, 162-87. Chapel Hill: North Caroliniana Society, 1995.
Heslin, James J. "New York." In Historical Consciousness in the Early Republic: The Origins of State Historical Societies, Museums, and Collections, 1791-1861, edited by H. G. Jones, 51-58. Chapel Hill: North Caroliniana Society, 1995.
Jewett, Henry J. "The Archive War of Texas." Debow's Review 26 (May 1859): 513-23.
Kane, Lucille M. "Manuscript Collecting." In In Support of Clio: Essays in Memory of Herbert A. Kellar, edited by William B. Hesseltine and Donald R. McNeil, 29-48. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1958.
Lemmon, Alfred E. "Trans-Mississippi States: Arkansas, California, Iowa, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Oregon, and Tennessee." In Historical Consciousness in the Early Republic: The Origins of State Historical Societies, Museums, and Collections, 1791-1861, edited by H. G. Jones, 188-216. Chapel Hill: North Caroliniana Society, 1995.
Mason, Philip P. "Trans-Mountain States: Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Ohio, and Tennessee." In Historical Consciousness in the Early Republic: The Origins of State Historical Societies, Museums, and Collections, 1791-1861, edited by H. G. Jones, 125-61. Chapel Hill: North Caroliniana Society, 1995.
Silvestro, Clement M. "Other New England States: Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont." In Historical Consciousness in the Early Republic: The Origins of State Historical Societies, Museums, and Collections, 1791-1861, edited by H. G. Jones, 29-50. Chapel Hill: North Caroliniana Society, 1995.
Stitt, Susan. "Pennsylvania." In Historical Consciousness in the Early Republic: The Origins of State Historical Societies, Museums, and Collections, 1791-1861, edited by H. G. Jones, 59-78. Chapel Hill: North Caroliniana Society, 1995.
Van Tassel, David D., and James A. Tinsely. "Historical Organizations as Aids to History." In In In Support of Clio: Essays in Memory of Herbert A. Kellar, edited by William B. Hesseltine and Donald R. McNeil, 127-52. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1958.
Whichard, Willis P. "North Carolina." In Historical Consciousness in the Early Republic: The Origins of State Historical Societies, Museums, and Collections, 1791-1861, edited by H. G. Jones, 92-101. Chapel Hill: North Caroliniana Society, 1995.
Winfrey, "The Texan Archive War of 1842," The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 64 (October 1960): 171-184,
BOOKS:
Brown, Richard D. Knowledge Is Power: The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700-1865. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989
Burnette, Lawrence O. Beneath the Footnote: A Guide to the Use and Preservation of American Historical Sources. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1969.
Dunlap, Leslie W. American Historical Societies 1790-1860. Madison, Wis.: n.p., 1944.
Sung, Carolyn Hoover. "Peter Force: Washington Printer and Creator of the 'American Archives.'" Ph.D. diss, George Washington University, 1985.
Tucker, Louis L. Clio's Consort: Jeremy Belknap and the Founding of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1990
NORTH AMERICA The Evolution of Records Technology and Record Keeping Practices WEEK 7 (Return to Course Calendar)
OBJECTIVES:
Understand how records technology and record keeping practices have evolved in North America. Understand the relationship between the growth of public and private bureaucratic institutions and the growth in the complexity and quantity of records and record keeping systems. Understand the relationship between technology and record keeping practices.
CORE READING:
Yates, JoAnne. Control through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.
ADDITIONAL READINGS (items in bold available via RBD Library's electronic reserve system:
Craig, Barbara L. "Hospital Records and Record-Keeping, c. 1850-c. 1950. Part I: The Development of Records in Hospitals." Archivaria 29 (Winter 1989-90): 57-87. "Hospital Records and Record-Keeping, c. 1850-c. 1950. Part II: The Development of Record-Keeping in Hospitals." Archivaria 30 (Summer 1990): 21-38.
Daniels, Maygene. "The Ingenious Pen: American Writing Implements from the Eighteenth Century to the Twentieth." American Archivist 43 (Summer 1980): 312-24.
Dunae, Patrick A. "Promoting the Dominion: Records and the Canadian Immigration Campaign, 1872-1915." Archivaria 19 (Winter 1984-85): 73-93.
Gray, Carolyn. "Business Structures and Records: The Dominion Power and Transmission, 1896-1930." Archivaria 19 (Winter 1984-85): 152-61.
Lowe, Graham S. "'The Enormous File': The Evolution of the Modern Office in Early Twentieth-Century Canada." Archivaria 19 (Winter 1984-85): 137-51.
Lubar, Steven. "'Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate': A Cultural History of the Punch Card." Journal of American Culture 15 (Winter 1992): 43-55.
Mackenzie, Kenneth S. "Canadian Postal History Sources." Archivaria 9 (Winter 1979-80): 151-77.
McCalla, Douglas. "Accounting Records and Everyday Economic Life in Upper Canada." Archivaria 19 (Winter 1984-85): ___-___.
McGaw, Judith A. "Accounting for Innovation: Technological Change and Business Practice in the Berkshire County Paper Industry." Technology and Culture 26 (October 1985): 703-25.
Nesmith, Tom. "'Pen and Plough' at Ontario Agricultural College, 1874-1910." Archivaria 19 (Winter 1984-85): 94-109.
Owen, David. "Copies in Seconds[: A Popular History of Photocopying Technology]." Atlantic Monthly, February 1986, 64-73.
Russell, Bill. "The White Man's Paper Burden: Aspects of Records Keeping in the Department of Indian Affairs, 1860-1914." Archivaria 19 (Winter 1984-85): 50-72.
Wosh, Peter. "Bibles, Benevolence, and Bureaucracy: The Changing Nature of Nineteenth Century Religious Records." American Archivist 52 (Spring 1989): 166-78.
________. "Review Essay: Going Postal." American Archivist 61 (Spring 1998): 220-39.
Yates, JoAnn. "Internal Communications Systems in American Business Structures: A Framework to Aid Appraisal." American Archivist 48 (Spring 1985): 141-58.
Yeandle, Laetitia. "The Evolution of Handwriting in the English Speaking Colonies of America." American Archivist 43 (Summer 1980): 294-311.
BOOKS:
Anderson, Margo J. The American Census: A Social History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.
Burke, Colin. Information and Secrecy: Vannevar Bush, Ultra, and the Other Memex. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1994.
Chandler, Alfred D. The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1977.
Cortada, James. Before the Computer: IBM, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the Industry They Created, 1865-1956. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Johnson, Roxanne Therese. An Analysis of the Early Record Keeping in the Du Pont Company, 1800-1818. New York: Garland, 1989.
Petroski, Henry. The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstances. New York: Knopf, 1990.
Thornton, Tamara P. Handwriting in America: A Cultural History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
Wosh, Peter J. Spreading the Word: The Bible Business in Nineteenth-century America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.
NORTH AMERICA The Establishment of Archival Agencies WEEK 8 (Return to Course Calendar)
OBJECTIVES:
Understand the development of state, provincial, and local archival repositories in the United States and Canada. Understand the establishment and development of national archival agencies in the United States and Canada.
CORE READINGS (items in bold available via RBD Library's electronic reserve system:
Bradsher, James Gregory. "A Brief History of the Growth of Federal Government Records, Archives, and Information 1789-1985." Government Publications Review 13 (July-August 1986): 491-505.
Cox, Richard J. "Alabama's Archival Heritage, 1850-1985." Alabama Review 40 (October 1987): 284-307.
Eastwood, Terence M. "Reflections on the Development of Archives in Canada and Australia." In Archival Documents: Providing Accountability Through Recordkeeping, edited by Sue McKemmish and Frank Upward, 27-39. (Melbourne, Australia: Ancora Press, 1993.
Jones, H. G. "Local Government Records in Microcosm." Chapter 7 in Local Government Records: An Introduction to Their Management, Preservation, and Use, 120-35. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1980.
________. "Local Governments and Their Records." Chapter 6 in Local Government Records: An Introduction to Their Management, Preservation, and Use, 107-19. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1980.
________. "Records Management in Perspective." Chapter 1 in Local Government Records: An Introduction to Their Management, Preservation, and Use, 3-22. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1980.
Posner, Ernst. "The Genesis and Evolution of American State Archives." Chap. 1 in American State Archives. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964.
Walch, Timothy, ed. Guardian of Heritage: Essays on the History of the National Archives. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration..
Wilson, Ian E. "'A Noble Dream': The Origins of the Public Archives of Canada." Archivaria 15 (Winter 1982/83): 16-35. Reprinted inCanadian Archival Studies and the Rediscovery of Provenance, edited by Tom Nesmith, 61-84 (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1993).
ADDITIONAL READINGS:
Atherton, Jay. "The Origins of the Public Archives Records Centre, 1897-1956." Archivaria 8 (Summer 1979): 35-59.
Beyea, Marion. "Records Management: The New Brunswick Case." Archivaria 8 (Summer 1979): 61-77.
Bradsher, James Gregory. "An Administrative History of the Disposal of Federal Records, 1789-1949." Provenance 3 (Fall 1985): 1-21.
________. "An Administrative History of the Disposal of Federal Records, 1950-1985." Provenance 4 (Fall 1986): 49-73.
Craig, Barbara. "Records Management and Ontario Archives, 1950-1976." Archivaria 8 (Summer 1979): 3-33.
East, Dennis. "A Lesson in Archival Reality: A Commentary on Donald Ratcliffe's 'The Mystery of Ohio's Missing Presidential Election Returns, 1804-1848.'" Archival Issues 17 (1992): 145-49.
Garrett, Mitchell B. "The Preservation of Alabama History." North Carolina Historical Review 5 (January 1928).
Leland, Waldo Gifford. "The Prehistory and Origins of the National Historical Publications Commission." American Archivist 27 (April 1964): 187-94.
Ormsby, William G. "The Public Archives of Canada, 1948-1968." Archivaria 15 (Winter 1982/83): 36-46.
Ratcliffe, Donald. "The Mystery of Ohio's Missing Presidential Election Returns, 1804-1848." Archival Issues 17 (1992): 137-44.
Simpson, Robert Reynolds. "The Origins of the Alabama Department of Archives and History." Alabama Review 34 (Summer 1974): 155-70.
Swift, Michael D. "The Canadian Archival Scene in the 1970s: Current Developments and Trends." Archivaria 15 (Winter 1982/83): 47-57.
Winfrey, Dorman H. "The Texan Archive War of 1842." Southwestern Historical Quarterly 64 (October 1960): 171-84.
BOOKS:
Finch, Mary A. "Thomas McAdory Owen: Preserver of Alabama History." Master's thesis, Auburn University, 1991.
Gondos, Victor, Jr. J. Franklin Jameson and the Birth of the National Archives, 1906-1926. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981.
Jones, H. G. For History's Sake: The Preservation and Publication of North Carolina History, 1633-1842. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1966.
________. The Records of a Nation: Their Management, Preservation, Care, and Use. New York: Athenaeum, 1969.
Lesser, Charles H. South Carolina Begins: The Records of a Proprietary Colony, 1663-1721. Columbia, S.C.: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1995.
McCoy, Donald R. The National Archives: America's Ministry of Documents, 1934-1968. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1978.
Noggle, Burl. Working with History: The Historical Records Louisiana and the Nation, 1936-1942. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981.
Simpson, Robert Reynolds. "The Origin of State Departments of Archives and History in the South." Ph.D. diss, Univ. of Miss., 1971.
Warner, Robert M. Diary of a Dream: A History of the National Archives Independence Movement, 1980-1985. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1995.
NORTH AMERICA The Development of Archival Theory and Practice WEEK 9 (Return to Course Calendar)
OBJECTIVES:
Understand the development of the records management by archivists in the United States. Understand the concept of primary and secondary value as articulated by T. R. Schellenberg. Understand the concepts of "historical manuscripts tradition" and "public archives tradition" in archival history and their relation to modern archival practice. Understand the Canadian contributions to the development of archival theory in North America.
CORE READINGS (items in bold available via RBD Library's electronic reserve system:
Barritt, Marjorie Rabe. "Coming to America: Dutch Archivistiek and American Archival Practice." Archival Issues 18 (1993): 43-54.
Berner, Richard C. "Historical Development of Archival Theory in the United States." Midwestern Archivist 7 (1982): 103-17.
Burke, Frank G. "The Future Course of Archival Theory in the United States." American Archivist 44 (Winter 1981): 40-46.
Nesmith, Tom. "Archival Studies in English-speaking Canada and the North American Rediscovery of Provenance." In Canadian Archival Studies and the Rediscovery of Provenance, edited by Tom Nesmith, 1-28. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1993. Note: read only first section, pages 1-11.
Schellenberg, T. R. "The Appraisal of Modern Public Records." In A Modern Archives Reader: Basic Readings on Archival Theory and Practice, edited by Maygene F. Daniels and Timothy Walch, 57-70. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Service, 1984.
ADDITIONAL READINGS:
Blouin, Francis X., Jr. "Convergences and Divergences in Archival Tradition: A North American Perspective." In Second European Conference on Archives: Proceedings, edited by Judith A. Koucky, ____-____. Paris: _____, 1989.
Carroll, Carman V. "David W. Parker: The 'Father' of Archival Arrangement at the Public Archives of Canada." Archivaria 16 (Summer 1983): ___-___.
Cook, Terry. "The Tyranny of the Medium: A Comment on 'Total Archives.'" In Canadian Archival Studies and the Rediscovery of Provenance, edited by Tom Nesmith, 403-14. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1993.
Evans, Max J. "Authority Control: An Alternative to the Record Group." American Archivist 49 (Summer 1986): 249-61.
Fenyo, Mario D. "The Record Group Concept: A Critque." American Archivist 29 (April 1966): 229-39.
Hyam, Grace Maurice. "The National Manuscript Inventory." Archivaria 9 (Winter 1979-80): 195-207.
Reynolds, Robert D., Jr. "The Incunabula of Archival Theory and Practice in the United States: J.C. Fitzpatrick's Notes on the Care, Cataloguing, Calendaring and Arranging of Manuscripts and the Public Archives Commission's Uncompleted 'Primer of Archival Economy.'" American Archivist 54 (Fall 1991): 466-82.
Scott, Peter J. "The Record Group Concept: A Case for Abandoment." American Archivist 29 (October 1966): 493-504.
Smith, Jane F. "Theodore R. Schellenberg: Americanizer and Popularizer." American Archivist 44 (Fall 1981): 313-26.
Smith, Wilfred I. "'Total Archives': The Canadian Experience." In Canadian Archival Studies and the Rediscovery of Provenance, edited by Tom Nesmith, 133-50. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1993.
BOOKS:
Bearman, David. Towards National Information Systems for Archives and Manuscript Repositories: The National Information Systems Task Force (NISTF) Papers, 1981-1984. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1987.
Berner, Richard C. Archival Theory and Practice in the United States: A Historical Analysis. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Schellenberg, T. R. The Management of Archives. New York: Columbia University Press, 1965.
________. Modern Archives: Principles and Techniques. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956.
Thornton W. Mitchell, ed., Norton on Archives: The Writings of Margaret Cross Norton on Archival & Records Management (Chicago, 1975.
NORTH AMERICA The Development of the Archival Profession (In progress as of 3/30/99) WEEK 10 (Return to Course Calendar)
OBJECTIVE:
Understand the origins, development, and present status of the archival profession in the United States.
CORE READINGS (items in bold available via RBD Library's electronic reserve system):
Gilliland-Swetland, Luke J. "The Provenance of a Profession: The Permanence of the Public Archives and Historical Manuscripts Traditions in American Archival History." American Archivist 54 (Spring 1991): 160-175.
Birdsall, William F. "The Two Sides of the Desk: The Archivist and the Historian, 1909-1935." American Archivist 38 (April 1975): 159-173.
Goggin, Jacqueline. "That We Shall Truly Deserve the Title of `Profession': The Training and Education of Archivists, 1930-1960." American Archivist 47 (Summer 1984): 243-54.
ADDITIONAL READINGS:
Cook, J. Frank. "The Blessings of Providence on an Association of Archivists." American Archivist 46 (Fall 1983): 374-99.
Cox, Richard J. "Professionalism and Archivists in the United States." American Archivist 49 (Summer 1986): 229-47. Reprinted in Richard J. Cox, American Archival Analysis: The Recent Development of the Archival Profession in the United States (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1990), 22-52.
Leland, Gifford. "The First Conference of Archivists, December 1909: The Beginnings of a Profession." American Archivist 13 (1950): 109-20.
Pacifico, Michele F. "Founding Mothers: Women in the Society of American Archivists." American Archivist 50 (Summer 1987): 370-89.
Russell, Mattie U. "The Influence of Historians on the Archival Profession in the United States." American Archivist 46 (Summer 1983): 273-85.
BOOKS:
Cox, Richard J. The First Generation of Electronic Records Archivists in the United States: A Study in Professionalization.. New York: Haworth Press, 1994. |