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Provenance Xvi, Sheryl B. Vogt Jan 1998

Provenance Xvi, Sheryl B. Vogt

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

No abstract provided.


Front Matter, Sheryl B. Vogt Jan 1998

Front Matter, Sheryl B. Vogt

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

No abstract provided.


Cruising Contractual Waters: Searching For Laffite In The Records Of The New Orleans Notarial Archives, Sally K. Reeves Jan 1998

Cruising Contractual Waters: Searching For Laffite In The Records Of The New Orleans Notarial Archives, Sally K. Reeves

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

The pirate Jean Laffite is a well known but elusive figure about whom much has been written and much is still unresolved. Laffite studies are especially dynamic today because of the appearance in 1948 of an internally credible but controversial French-language manuscript that purports to be the pirate's own journal. Written largely in Missouri from 1845 to 1850 and recently issued in reprint, the journal contradicts previously accepted evidence that both Jean Laffite and his brother Pierre died in action and were buried in the Yucatan during the 1820s. It paints them instead as living until the 1840s and dying …


Back Matter, Sheryl B. Vogt Jan 1998

Back Matter, Sheryl B. Vogt

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

No abstract provided.


The Journal Of Jean Laffite: Its History And Controversy, Robert L. Schaadt Jan 1998

The Journal Of Jean Laffite: Its History And Controversy, Robert L. Schaadt

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

Whether defined as original order or the history of ownership, provenance is one of the guiding lights of the archival profession, the key that guarantees the validity of documents in the archives. Archival material is rarely questioned, and authorship is seldom a topic of intense discussion. One assumes that the signer of the letter penned it except when secretaries were known to have been employed. Perhaps as a profession, however, archivists are too trusting and rely too often on provenance as a guiding light.


Documenting Industry And Labor In Alabama: Can A Documentation Strategy Model Help?, Martin T. Olliff Jan 1998

Documenting Industry And Labor In Alabama: Can A Documentation Strategy Model Help?, Martin T. Olliff

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

As early as 1997 the Society of Alabama Archivists (SALA) identified a number of topics in Alabama history and culture that were not well documented in the archives in the state. Some of these topics, for example North Alabama's aerospace industry, were just beginning to appear in archival collections. Alabama archivists took note of such fields early enough that the volume of accumulated records did not become a problem. On the other hand, archivists in the state faced enormous problems in coping with the mass of records they already knew existed in other underdocumented fields like labor and industry.


Look Before You Leap: Weaving Preservation Into Appraisal, Acquisition, Accessioning, And Processing Practices, Pam Hackbart-Dean, Theresa J. Montgomery Jan 1998

Look Before You Leap: Weaving Preservation Into Appraisal, Acquisition, Accessioning, And Processing Practices, Pam Hackbart-Dean, Theresa J. Montgomery

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

Often the thrill of adventure and discovery propels archivists to pursue collections. While out in the field, few would pass up the opportunity to acquire an interesting collection that would enhance a repository's holdings or disregard an exciting find such as a love letter from a United States president or a personal diary. Sometimes, however, the excitement of discovery overshadows the daunting task of caring for these collections after they have been acquired. Regardless of the manner in which archival materials are acquired by a repository-whether by law, institutional mandate, purchase, or gift-it is important to evaluate the condition and …


Fresh Focus: Before Archives: Margaret Cross Norton's Childhood, Education, And Early Career, Donnelly Lancaster Jan 1998

Fresh Focus: Before Archives: Margaret Cross Norton's Childhood, Education, And Early Career, Donnelly Lancaster

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

Too often the pressure of the present-day work environment lures archivists into ignoring their professional past ot advancing shortsightedly into the future. To encourage such reflection on the archival enterprise, Provenance includes this section, Fresh Focus. We invite contnl>utors to explore neglected chapters in archival history or to share an original, especially historical, perspective on the current world of archival affairs. Provenance particularly encourages submissions for Fresh Focus from new or student archivists who are, after all, the future of the profession. Following is the second in a series of occasional essays or papers meeting these criteria.


Reviews, Darlene R. Roth, Geoffrey D. Reynolds, Pam Hackbart-Dean, Michael E. Holland Jan 1998

Reviews, Darlene R. Roth, Geoffrey D. Reynolds, Pam Hackbart-Dean, Michael E. Holland

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

No abstract provided.


Cultural Evidence: On The Common Ground Between Archivists And Museologists, Gloria Meraz Jan 1997

Cultural Evidence: On The Common Ground Between Archivists And Museologists, Gloria Meraz

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

Museums and archives represent two of the most durable and long-lived means for perpetuating culture and social memory. Like their sister repository, the library, museums and archives fill long-established and specialized roles in the care of cultural materials. These roles, crafted over centuries of changing responsibilities and pressures, must be reexamined in the face of modem needs, technologies, and expectations. While archival repositories and museums have developed into two distinctive types of cultural institutions, they now find themselves amidst a need to consolidate their efforts and provide the public with a coherent means for accessing the increasingly fragmented and diverse …


The Gamma Project: A Cooperative Cataloging Venture, Beth Bensman, Susan Potts Mcdonald Jan 1997

The Gamma Project: A Cooperative Cataloging Venture, Beth Bensman, Susan Potts Mcdonald

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

Archival and historical organizations have traditionally suffered from a lack of funding and personnel. One way to combat this classic problem is through the development of collaborative grant-funded projects. By bonding like institutions together and creating a cooperative venture with a common goal, institutions can share funds, personnel, and knowledge in an undertaking that provides assistance to all without placing undue stress upon individual organizations.


The Ethics Of Disclosure: The Case Of The Brown And Williamson Cigarette Papers, Kurt X. Metzmeier Jan 1997

The Ethics Of Disclosure: The Case Of The Brown And Williamson Cigarette Papers, Kurt X. Metzmeier

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

The story of the Brown and Williamson Cigarette Papers reads like a screenplay inspired by a John Grisham novel. Scene 1: In late 1992 Kentucky attorney J. Fox DeMoisey receives a bombshell, a banker's box full of documents stolen from the state's largest law firm, Wyatt Tarrant and Combs, by his client Merrell Williams. While working as a paralegal assigned to a project indexing secret documents of his firm's client, the Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company, Williams had furtively copied documents he thought demonstrated that the cigarette maker had deliberately hidden its knowledge of tobacco's lethal qualities, qualities that he …


Turning Pro: Reflections On The Career Of J. Franklin Jameson, Peter J. Wosh Jan 1997

Turning Pro: Reflections On The Career Of J. Franklin Jameson, Peter J. Wosh

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

Over the past two decades archivists have moved to define and codify their own separate and distinct profession, inventing a new language, developing a more intensive and expansive training regimen, and constructing a unique theoretical base. Such efforts may have helped archivists to distinguish themselves more clearly from other disciplines, but this new professional orientation has also produced conflicts with former friends and allies over issues such as governmental policies concerning electronic mail, funding priorities for the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, and Freedom of Information Act requests. The historical profession, too, has undergone significant changes as shifting research …


Front Matter, Sheryl B. Vogt Jan 1997

Front Matter, Sheryl B. Vogt

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

No abstract provided.


Taking A Byte Out Of The Senate: Reconsidering The Research Use Of Correspondence And Casework Files, Naomi L. Nelson Jan 1997

Taking A Byte Out Of The Senate: Reconsidering The Research Use Of Correspondence And Casework Files, Naomi L. Nelson

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

In the mid-1970s, a sustained discussion about the management of modem congressional collections first emerged in archival literature. Much of the debate over congressional collections during the intervening twenty years concerned the appropriate disposition of the voluminous constituent correspondence and casework files. Most archivists agreed that the casework and constituent correspondence records created and filed under the old paper-based system were bulky, hard to use, and of little research value.


Fresh Focus: Carter G. Woodson And The Association For The Study Of Negro Life And History, Eric N. Johnson Jan 1997

Fresh Focus: Carter G. Woodson And The Association For The Study Of Negro Life And History, Eric N. Johnson

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

Too often the pressure of the present-day work environment lures archivists into ignoring their professional past or advancing shortsightedly into the future. To encourage such reflection on the archival enterprise, Provenance launches a new feature in this issue, Fresh Focus. This series of occasional essays opens with a survey of Carter Woodson's pioneering efforts to collect the history of African Americans written by Eric N. Johnson, a student in the archival program at the University of Texas.


Provenance Xv, Sheryl B. Vogt Jan 1997

Provenance Xv, Sheryl B. Vogt

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

No abstract provided.


Back Matter, Sheryl B. Vogt Jan 1997

Back Matter, Sheryl B. Vogt

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

No abstract provided.


Reviews, Susan E. Dick, Anke Voss-Hubbard, Dale L. Couch, L. Rebecca Johnson Melvin, Mark A. Greene Jan 1997

Reviews, Susan E. Dick, Anke Voss-Hubbard, Dale L. Couch, L. Rebecca Johnson Melvin, Mark A. Greene

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

No abstract provided.


Provenance Xiv, Sheryl B. Vogt Jan 1996

Provenance Xiv, Sheryl B. Vogt

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

No abstract provided.


Front Matter, Sheryl B. Vogt Jan 1996

Front Matter, Sheryl B. Vogt

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

No abstract provided.


Personality Types Of Archivists, Charles R. Schultz Jan 1996

Personality Types Of Archivists, Charles R. Schultz

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

Carl Gustav Jung, the Swiss-born psychiatrist, developed the modern concept of psychological types, preferences with which individuals are born that form the foundation of their personalities. Soon after Jung's work appeared in English translation, an American researcher, Katharine Briggs, began detailed studies of Jung's work. She, along with her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers, devoted nearly two decades to developing ways to measure the preferences of individuals in order to determine their types and the strength of their preferences. Their collaboration resulted in the creation of a survey instrument, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), which has been given to millions of …


Reviews, Mark A. Greene, H. Andrew Phrydas, Frank T. Wheeler Jan 1996

Reviews, Mark A. Greene, H. Andrew Phrydas, Frank T. Wheeler

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

No abstract provided.


Distance Researching Via The Internet: A Researcher's Perspective, Gillian North Jan 1996

Distance Researching Via The Internet: A Researcher's Perspective, Gillian North

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

In 1995, an advisory panel asked a group of grad.uate students in Britain whether it was viable to undertake doctoral research in the field of American Studies given that the majority of the material they would require was likely to be housed three thousand miles away. By its very nature a doctoral dissertation relies heavily on primary source material, exactly the type of material that would appear to be out of the reach of the long distance researcher. How could they hope to carry out the amount of research needed to fulfill the requirements of a Ph.D., with the twin …


Back Matter, Sheryl B. Vogt Jan 1996

Back Matter, Sheryl B. Vogt

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

No abstract provided.


Archives At The Millennium: Diversity, Community, And The World Of Learning, Linda M. Matthews Jan 1996

Archives At The Millennium: Diversity, Community, And The World Of Learning, Linda M. Matthews

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

My theme today is building our future. By future, I do not mean five or ten years from now, when we will have entered a new millennium, but next week and next month. For as soon as we say future in this fast moving age, it is here. Our future is defining and analyzing the problems and opportunities that face us, developing joint solutions, working together to make each of us stronger.


Diversity And Traditional Collections At Rutgers University, Ronald L. Becker Jan 1996

Diversity And Traditional Collections At Rutgers University, Ronald L. Becker

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

With the establishment of both regional and national ethnic, gender, cultural, and religious collections, the concept of diversity in archives encourages a fragmented world. This is one in which a researcher has a few clear-cut options--go to a women's repository to do research on women, a labor collection for labor history, an African-American archives for African-Americans, and so forth. However, time has demonstrated that no repository has a comer on the market for diversity which can also be found in holdings of what are often referred to as "traditional collections." Such repositories, whose primary objective is to document state and …


Building User-Oriented Web Sites For Archives, R. Phillip Reynolds Jan 1996

Building User-Oriented Web Sites For Archives, R. Phillip Reynolds

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

For years the banking industry did not consider electronic services for customers as "real" business. Then in 1994, a study entitled "New Paradigms in Retail Banking" by the Bank Administration Institute (BAI) and First Manhattan Consulting Group revealed that more than half of all retail banking transactions occurred by way of an electronic medium. People were no longer going to their branch offices, but conducted business with their phones, PCs, and ATM cards. Suddenly banking executives stopped asking "Why should we offer electronic services?" and started asking "Why aren't we offering electronic services?" This same revolution in thought is inevitable …


Reviews, Clarece Martin, Pamela M. Witte, Greg Colati, Tammy Harden Galloway Jan 1995

Reviews, Clarece Martin, Pamela M. Witte, Greg Colati, Tammy Harden Galloway

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

No abstract provided.


Gophers In The Archives: Planning And Implementing An Archives And Records Management Gopher, Michael Holland, Elizabeth Nielsen Jan 1995

Gophers In The Archives: Planning And Implementing An Archives And Records Management Gopher, Michael Holland, Elizabeth Nielsen

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

The archival community is within the early and unsettled stages of an important transition in information access as an increasing number of repositories and records management programs utilize powerful communications tools such as the Internet Gopher, Cello, and Mosaic. By the spring of 1994, the authors identified well over a dozen academic institutions that had made descriptive guides to historical materials or records management information available through the Internet. Among the first repositories to make historical records descriptions available in this way were Johns Hopkins University, Wheaton College, Trent University, and the University of Virginia. Internet resources dealing with historical …