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Reviews, Critiques, And Annotations, Virginia J.H. Cain, Richard M. Kesner, Glen Mcaninch, Ron Chepesiuk, W. Tony Coursey, Robert C. Dinwiddle, Nicholas C. Burckel Jan 1985

Reviews, Critiques, And Annotations, Virginia J.H. Cain, Richard M. Kesner, Glen Mcaninch, Ron Chepesiuk, W. Tony Coursey, Robert C. Dinwiddle, Nicholas C. Burckel

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Continuing Education And Information Management: Or, The Monk's Dilemma, Frederick J. Stielow Jan 1985

Continuing Education And Information Management: Or, The Monk's Dilemma, Frederick J. Stielow

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The biases in the preparation of archivists in this work are much the same as Lawrence McCrank in his "Prospects for Integrating Historical and Information Studies." Like McCrank, this paper assumes the proper direction for archivy is a synthesis between library and historical training. But today that juncture is no longer sufficient, for the techniques of information management must also be added to the mixture. Only at such a nexus can a distinct profession and professional studies in the fullest definitions of those terms emerge. With the onset of the computer age, archivists can simply no longer ignore the methodologies …

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Archival Preservation: Continuing Education For The Working Archivist, Michael Holland Jan 1985

Archival Preservation: Continuing Education For The Working Archivist, Michael Holland

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A recent exchange of letters in the American Archivist highlights the conflicts between the two schools promoting preservation education in the archival world today. Mary Lynn Ritzenthaler speaks for the commonsense school, which has also been represented most ably by George Cunha and Robert Patterson. They are dedicated to 'action now', because, to quote Patterson, "the library and archives professions cannot afford to wait for the professional conservator to appear before taking up the battle against decay: we must organize to take action ourselves." Ritzenthaler was responding to Christine Young's contention that a highly trained, highly skilled conservator is the …

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Kentucky's Machine-Readable Challenge, Richard N. Belding, Larry G. Forston Jan 1985

Kentucky's Machine-Readable Challenge, Richard N. Belding, Larry G. Forston

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For many reasons, the history of the management of records in machine-readable form in Kentucky state government has been short and sporadic. The Public Records Division of the state's Department for Libraries and Archives has long been aware of problems related to appraising and preserving machine-readable records (MRR), but lack of staffing and expertise has forced it to postpone confronting these issues. The widespread use of MRR by state agencies, however, has made it impossible for the division to assist them with appropriate records management and archival procedures without dealing in some way with these records.

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Review Essay: Bibliographic Introduction To Optical Storage Publications For Archivists And Libraries, Glen Mcaninch Jan 1985

Review Essay: Bibliographic Introduction To Optical Storage Publications For Archivists And Libraries, Glen Mcaninch

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This bibliographic introduction is a guide to the study of optical storage in the 1980s. It is designed to enable the reader to keep current on this fast changing technology by providing an annotated list of places to look for information, rather than listing all entries for the topic. Though optical technology is several decades old, the use of optical disks for storage has been feasible on a commercial level only in the last five years.

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An Administrative History Of The Disposal Of Federal Records, 1789-1949, James Gregory Bradsher Jan 1985

An Administrative History Of The Disposal Of Federal Records, 1789-1949, James Gregory Bradsher

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From 1789 to 1985 the federal government has created some 170 million cubic feet of records. At the end of 1984 it had accumulated over 40 million cubic feet of records, including 1.4 million cubic feet of permanent archives in the custody of the National Archives. Thus, 130 million cubic feet of federal records have been destroyed. Most of the destruction, about 120 million cubic feet, took place subsequent to the creation of the National Archives and Records Service (NARS) in 1949 and to the passage of the Federal Records Act of 1950. The success the federal government has experienced …

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Strategies For Archival Action In The 1980s And Beyond: Implementing The Saa Goals And Priorities Task Force Report, Richard J. Cox Jan 1985

Strategies For Archival Action In The 1980s And Beyond: Implementing The Saa Goals And Priorities Task Force Report, Richard J. Cox

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This essay is written by an archivist primarily for archivists, but its content concerns a subject--the preservation of America's documentary heritage--that is important to a much wider audience. Archivists have long recognized that theirs is a profession with a broad mandate handicapped by far too limited resources. In the past few years, through a series of major investigations and reports, archivists have learned the extent of the threat to historical records in the United States caused by their profession's own weaknesses. Some will undoubtedly bristle at that last sentence and argue that numerous other reasons exist for the poor condition …

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Folklore And Oral History: Exploring Subject Indexing, Pamela Dean Jan 1985

Folklore And Oral History: Exploring Subject Indexing, Pamela Dean

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Catalogs, indexes, inventories, retrieval systems, and finding aids are a major part of any archives and, as any archivist knows, they can also be a major problem--both to devise and to maintain. Handling oral materials can present some special problems, and there seems to be no one best system for repositories of folklore and oral history collections. Each institution has had to devise its own methods in response to the different types of material it contains and the different ways this material may be used. A recent project at the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History (NAFOH), at the …

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Short Subjects: Archives And Records Management In The Federal Government: The Post-Gsa Context, Linda Vee Pruitt Jan 1985

Short Subjects: Archives And Records Management In The Federal Government: The Post-Gsa Context, Linda Vee Pruitt

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On 19 October 1984, President Ronald Reagan signed the National Archives and Records Administration Act of 1984, separating the National Archives from the General Services Administration (GSA) and reestablishing the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) as an independent agency. This legislation attempted to resolve the two long-standing dilemmas: the relationship of archives and records management in the federal government and the placement of the National Archives within GSA.

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Provenance Iii, Issue 2, Sheryl B. Vogt Jan 1985

Provenance Iii, Issue 2, Sheryl B. Vogt

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Short Subjects: News Reels, Glen Mcaninch Jan 1985

Short Subjects: News Reels, Glen Mcaninch

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Provenance Iii, Issue 1, Sheryl B. Vogt Jan 1985

Provenance Iii, Issue 1, Sheryl B. Vogt

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Front Matter, Sheryl B. Vogt Jan 1985

Front Matter, Sheryl B. Vogt

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Short Subjects: Time Management For Archivists, Joseph W. Constance Jr., Robert C. Dinwiddie Jan 1985

Short Subjects: Time Management For Archivists, Joseph W. Constance Jr., Robert C. Dinwiddie

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Practically everyone writing on the subject of time management believes that the key to good management of work time is doing the most important job now. Some managers spend much energy on low-priority jobs, leaving little or no time for the really essential ones. Beginning to regain control of work time, therefore, requires an appreciation of what Alex MacKenzie has called "time wasters.l Three time wasters that are at or near the top of many lists of the most notorious--telephone use, meetings, and mail handling procedures--can be defeated using simple methods.

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Short Subjects: News Reels, Glen Mcaninch Jan 1985

Short Subjects: News Reels, Glen Mcaninch

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Back Matter, Sheryl B. Vogt Jan 1985

Back Matter, Sheryl B. Vogt

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Back Matter, Sheryl B. Vogt Jan 1985

Back Matter, Sheryl B. Vogt

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Front Matter, Sheryl B. Vogt Jan 1985

Front Matter, Sheryl B. Vogt

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Documentation Strategies For The National Legislature, William W. Moss Jan 1985

Documentation Strategies For The National Legislature, William W. Moss

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share a common interest in the survival of a useful record of the United States Congress, the national legislature. Historians, the Library of Congress (LC), the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the Society of American Archivists (SAA), political scientists, and indeed the Congress itself, all share a need, and it is hoped a desire, for an accurate and comprehensive record of the significant activities of the national legislature and its members. These several "parties at interest," however, have tended to work in a piecemeal fashion, without common standards and certainly without a common strategy. It is even sometimes difficult …

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Archival Programs In The Southeast: A Preliminary Assessment, Edie Hedlin Jan 1984

Archival Programs In The Southeast: A Preliminary Assessment, Edie Hedlin

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In February of 1981, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), a small federal funding agency located within the National Archives and Records Service, made a large bet on what Jimmy the Greek would surely have declared to be an archival longshot.

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Front Matter, Ellen Garrison Jan 1984

Front Matter, Ellen Garrison

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State And Regional Archival Organizations Serve The Southeast, Virginia J.H. Cain Jan 1984

State And Regional Archival Organizations Serve The Southeast, Virginia J.H. Cain

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The Southeast may well claim to be home to more state and regional archival activity than any other region of the United States. Six state archival organizations are headquartered in the Southeast, while two others border on this area. Two regional archival organizations affect the Southeast, and the third oldest state organization and the oldest regional organization may be found here as well.

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The Appalachian Oral History Project: Then And Now, John R. Williams, Katherine R. Martin Jan 1984

The Appalachian Oral History Project: Then And Now, John R. Williams, Katherine R. Martin

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The Appalachian Oral History Project (AOHP) is a product of its time, resulting from the social unrest during the Vietnam war, the Kennedy-Johnson war on poverty, and the growing awareness of grass roots history. History from the mouths of the people, as academicians and laymen alike were becoming aware, detailed events and perspectives different from those generally found in history textbooks. Political and economic events on a national or international scale often assumed an insignificant status in people's everyday lives. It was the personal event or achievement which held true meaning and historical impact for those who cared to recall.

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Perspectives And Forecasts, Jerrold Lee Brooks, Joyce Lamont, Charles E. Lee, Jesse C. Mills, Philip F. Mooney, Gayle Peters, Mattie U. Russell, Edward J. Tribble, Anne S. Wells Jan 1984

Perspectives And Forecasts, Jerrold Lee Brooks, Joyce Lamont, Charles E. Lee, Jesse C. Mills, Philip F. Mooney, Gayle Peters, Mattie U. Russell, Edward J. Tribble, Anne S. Wells

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As the twenty-first century approaches it is accompanied by dramatic changes for the South. Southerners have been inundated with demographic, technological, and social developments which have exercised and will continue to effect dramatic changes in the traditional southern life-style. Once sleeping villages have become busy cities complete with shopping malls and burgeoning industry. All white public schools, businesses, and even churches have yielded to pressures for social equality and racial integration. An equable climate and multitudinous recreational and retirement opportunities have magnetized millions of Americans from the Northeast and Midwest, luring them to the Southland. All of these developments will, …

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Short Subjects: News Reels, Glen Mcaninch Jan 1984

Short Subjects: News Reels, Glen Mcaninch

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Bit By Bit: Microcomputer Applications By Archivists In Four Southeastern States, Glen Mcaninch Jan 1984

Bit By Bit: Microcomputer Applications By Archivists In Four Southeastern States, Glen Mcaninch

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As archivists in Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Kentucky began to automate in the early 1980s, most found microcomputers much more to their liking than main-frame computer systems or book-oriented network systems. Few archivists in the region were using computers before microcomputers were developed in the mid-1970s. The smaller computers that were marketed during this period allowed users in the region to adapt programs easily to their individual needs at minimum cost. However, the limited capacities of the first microcomputers have pushed archivists, as they move into the 1980s, to buy larger microcomputers or small minicomputers.

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Reviews, Critiques, And Annotations: Guides To Manuscript Collections In The Southeast: A Bibliography, W. Tony Coursey, Robert D. Bohanan Jan 1984

Reviews, Critiques, And Annotations: Guides To Manuscript Collections In The Southeast: A Bibliography, W. Tony Coursey, Robert D. Bohanan

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Short Subjects: Entropy And Archival Disorder, Terry Abraham Jan 1984

Short Subjects: Entropy And Archival Disorder, Terry Abraham

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In Spite of its direct impact on archival science, the concept of entropy has never been assimilated into the rich body of archival theory. This is undoubtedly the result of its apparent negative impact on archival activities. Entropy, according to a physicist friend of Ben Ross Schneider (author of Travels in computerland), "means ...that you can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the game... " And the game is "man versus chaos."

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Group Processing: Planning And Management Strategies, William E. Brown Jr. Jan 1984

Group Processing: Planning And Management Strategies, William E. Brown Jr.

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Group processing projects present a series of challenges which demand a wide range of technical and administrative skills from archivists. These are met with varying degrees of success. Often, this is the first opportunity for an archivist to test his knowledge and skills in a supervisory position. Professionals who lack the necessary complement of skills, or who are unable to blend these skills to fit the needs of a project, operate at a distinct disadvantage for themselves and their employers. The following discussion of group processing components outlines some of the advantages and disadvantages associated with each phase and describes …

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Review Essay: Oral History: A Selected Bibliography, Norma Myers Thomas Jan 1984

Review Essay: Oral History: A Selected Bibliography, Norma Myers Thomas

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