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Privacy Issues Affecting Lesbian And Gay Archival Collections, Diane Shannon
Privacy Issues Affecting Lesbian And Gay Archival Collections, Diane Shannon
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
Originally, I planned to discuss more broadly in this paper issues of access in lesbian and gay archives. Not only did I intend to research and write about the issues surrounding the confidentiality of information contained in those archives, but also the benefits and losses associated with cooperative agreements between those archives and local community groups, and between the archives themselves. Additionally, I planned to discuss the ways in which a lack of funding at smaller lesbian and gay archives affects their operation (hours of operation, the materials and expertise they use, climate control, etc.). My mechanisms for analyzing all …
Questioning Aesthetics: Are Archivists Qualified To Make Appraisal Or Reappraisal Decisions Based On Aesthetic Judgments?, Kimberly J. Barata
Questioning Aesthetics: Are Archivists Qualified To Make Appraisal Or Reappraisal Decisions Based On Aesthetic Judgments?, Kimberly J. Barata
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
During the appraisal or reappraisal process, an item may be either accessioned into or remain intact as part of a collection owing to its intrinsic value. Judgments regarding the intrinsic value of an item range from the purely subjective to the totally ambiguous. The concept of intrinsic value experienced growing interest from the National Archives and Records Service (NAAS) as they began to embark on a large-scale reformatting project in 1979. Planning for this project raised the issue of whether certain documents should be retained in their original format or be destroyed following reformatting. In response to this issue, NAAS …
Back Matter, Richard J. Cox
Back Matter, Richard J. Cox
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
No abstract provided.
Front Matter, Richard J. Cox
Front Matter, Richard J. Cox
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
No abstract provided.
Studying The Weathervane: Use As A Factor In Appraisal Criteria, Wendy Duff
Studying The Weathervane: Use As A Factor In Appraisal Criteria, Wendy Duff
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
In his 1974 Society of American Archivists presidential address, Gerald F. Ham cautioned archivists against becoming "too closely tied to the vogue of the academic marketplace" otherwise ''the archivist will remain at best nothing more than a weathervane moved by the changing winds of historiography." These wise words of advice reflected concern over collecting activities that responded to the latest research interests rather than a broad knowledge of ''the scope, quality, and direction of research in an open-ended future." But how can archivists predict the future trends of research, especially those in an openended future? Should they even try? Timothy …
Oral History: Provenance And Intellectual Access, David S. Miller
Oral History: Provenance And Intellectual Access, David S. Miller
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
In the second half of the twentieth century, resea·rchers in all fields of study have become more sensitive to documentary gaps, especially the paucity of materials by and about social non-elites. With increasing frequency, oral history projects have been carried out to add these forgotten voices to the historical record and thereby create what may be termed new historical evidence. In the words of one public historian, "a new and integrative paradigm" is crafted out of such initiatives, whereby the oral testimonies of the heretofore ignored are synthesized with the documentation of the powerful. The result is, at least in …
Dancing: Archival Education And Student Research, Richard J. Cox
Dancing: Archival Education And Student Research, Richard J. Cox
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
John Mellencamp's song "Dance Naked" might seem an inappropriate way of introducing four student essays on archival topics, but it happened to be what I was listening to as I put the finishing touches to this essay. As with most popular song lyrics (and I am not repeating Mellencamp's words so as not to offend anyone), these words can be interpreted on a number of levels. Yet, I know that when students work on such essays in their archives courses that they both feel naked in their lack of security about their own knowledge of archival science while sensing a …
Provenance Xii, Issues 1 & 2, Richard J. Cox
Provenance Xii, Issues 1 & 2, Richard J. Cox
Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists
No abstract provided.