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Observations On The Ethics Of Collecting Archives And Manuscripts, Thomas Wilsted Jan 1993

Observations On The Ethics Of Collecting Archives And Manuscripts, Thomas Wilsted

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

Archivists first began codifying their behavior during the 1950s when "The Archivist's Code" was written by Wayne C. Grover for use within the National Archives.1 Reflecting a government archives perspective, it deals with such issues as service to researchers, access to records, avoiding conflicts of interest, and selecting records which can be widely used by researchers. While this code did not deal with any issues relating to institutions collecting personal papers and manuscripts, it was the only document dealing with ethical issues and was widely accepted by archivists and disseminated by the Society of American Archivists. "The Archivist's Code" remained …


The Ethics Of Processing, Virginia J.H. Cain Jan 1993

The Ethics Of Processing, Virginia J.H. Cain

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

There are a number of sections and phrases in the Society of American Archivists's 1992 "Code of Ethics for Archivists" which can help explain issues and try to answer questions related to ethical issues in arrangement and description. These are among the many professional considerations which must weigh into the way in which an archivist administers both processing and an overall archival program.


Front Matter, Sheryl B. Vogt Jan 1993

Front Matter, Sheryl B. Vogt

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

No abstract provided.


Introduction, Maynard Brichford Jan 1993

Introduction, Maynard Brichford

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

Historically, ethics relate to moral principles or values and involve moral obligations or duties. According to Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1966), ethics also means those principles of conduct governing an individual or a profession. Associations have prescribed standards of behavior for their members. Despite contemporary meanings and practices, there are problems in equating standards of professional conduct with ethical decisions. Laws, institutional regulations, and the wide range of conditions in which archival practice is carried out may require decisions that are at variance with optimal conditions and practices.


The Ethics Of Providing Access, Ronald L. Becker Jan 1993

The Ethics Of Providing Access, Ronald L. Becker

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

Archivists today make some of the most difficult ethical and legal decisions at the public service desk. It has always been a difficult process to balance the archivist's legal and ethical obligations to the researcher, to the donors of collections, and to the institution served and, furthermore, to factor in obligations to those who often are not even aware that archives hold materials that impact on their lives. Balancing equality of access for all patrons with institutional needs and requirements is at least as difficult. Despite sincere efforts to limit the acquisition of restricted material, many important and potentially useful …


Provenance Xi, Issues 1 & 2, Sheryl B. Vogt Jan 1993

Provenance Xi, Issues 1 & 2, Sheryl B. Vogt

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

No abstract provided.


"Neither Fish Nor Fowl": The Thurmond Collection As Both Repository And Records Center And Its Effect On The Appraisal Process, James Cross Jan 1992

"Neither Fish Nor Fowl": The Thurmond Collection As Both Repository And Records Center And Its Effect On The Appraisal Process, James Cross

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

An exhibition entitled "The Age of the Marvelous,"1 sought to explain the fascination of sixteenth and seventeenth century European culture with the unusual, rare, and exotic-whether natural or man-made. Among the paintings, natural specimens, rare books, maps, and manuscripts were displayed illustrations of wondrous animals. One common characteristic of these illustrations, whether of mythical or freshly discovered animals from the New World, was that the creature illustrated was often depicted as made up of parts from several different animals.


Provenance X, Issues 1 & 2, Margery N. Sly Jan 1992

Provenance X, Issues 1 & 2, Margery N. Sly

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

No abstract provided.


Processing And Maintaining A Congressional Collection, Mary Boccaccio Jan 1992

Processing And Maintaining A Congressional Collection, Mary Boccaccio

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

The Congressional Papers Roundtable of the Society of American Archivists was organized in 1984 and in recent years has maintained a membership of approximately one hundred individual members representing sixty-five federal and government repositories and private institutions, large, medium, and small in size. In 1990/91, the roundtable conducted a survey of its non-federal government members in order to determine the kinds of institutions that actively were collecting congressional papers and. the levels of processing that were currently being conducted. Thirty-nine percent of the roundtable members responded. The survey dealt specifically with post-World War II congressional papers. This cut-off period was …


Review, Kaye Lanning Minchew Jan 1992

Review, Kaye Lanning Minchew

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

No abstract provided.


Appraisal Of Senator John Williams's Papers, L. Rebecca Johnson Melvin Jan 1992

Appraisal Of Senator John Williams's Papers, L. Rebecca Johnson Melvin

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

Traditionally, appraisal decisions for a congressional collection have been made after the arrival of the collection at a repository. In this case, the collection was the papers of Senator John J. Williams of Delaware. Williams represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1947 until 1970, and was known as "the Conscience of the Senate" for his honest pursuit of integrity in government while serving on both the finance and foreign relations committees. Processing the Williams papers was a dedicated two-year project. A project archivist was hired in 1988 and , shortly afterwards, a technician assistant. The project archivist made …


Back Matter, Margery N. Sly Jan 1992

Back Matter, Margery N. Sly

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

No abstract provided.


Front Matter, Margery N. Sly Jan 1992

Front Matter, Margery N. Sly

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

No abstract provided.


The Acquisition Of Visual Records Relating To Native Life In North America, Jim Burant Jan 1992

The Acquisition Of Visual Records Relating To Native Life In North America, Jim Burant

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

In 1991, the National Archives of Canada made its first deliberate acquisition of art works by an Indian artist, the Kwaguitl David Neel, who had produced a series of serigraphs relating to events concerning native-white relations in Canada. The first work, Life on the 18th Hole (figure 1 ), was inspired by the events at Oka, Quebec, where Mohawk warriors had blockaded a provincial highway and defied first Quebec provincial police and then Canadian federal troops for more than two months in 1990.1 The second work, Just Say No (figure 2), was a commentary on the stand taken by Elijah …


Appraising A Retiring Senator's Papers: A View From The Staff Of Senator Alan Cranston, Susan Goldstein Jan 1992

Appraising A Retiring Senator's Papers: A View From The Staff Of Senator Alan Cranston, Susan Goldstein

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

Congressional records, although defined as personal manuscript collections, are comparable to business records-typically, however, from an office that never implemented any records management. In order to describe the scope of the Cranston project, it is helpful to think of the Alan Cranston Papers as a collection originating in an office that has been in business for twenty-four years and employs over ninety people in four different work sites--the main office in Washington, DC and three California branch offices. This, of course, does not take into account campaign offices that have come and gone over the years as well as the …


Buffalo On The Beaches: Electronic Imaging Of Historical Sources, Richard Condrey, Faye Phillips, Tony Presti Jan 1992

Buffalo On The Beaches: Electronic Imaging Of Historical Sources, Richard Condrey, Faye Phillips, Tony Presti

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

"We called it La Riviere aux Boeuf, that is, the River of Bullocks, by reason of the great number of them there was about it. These bullocks are very like ours; there are thousands of them, ~ut instead of hair they have a very long curled sort of wool." Thus did Henri Joutel in 1685 describe what we believe to be the Guadalupe River in Texas in his "Historical Journal of Monsieur de la Salle's Last Voyage to Discover the River Mississippi."1 The "bullocks," "boeuf ," that Joutel described were American bison. In 1686, near Apalachioca, Florida, and Dothan, Alabama, …


The Status Of Users In Archival Enterprise, Michael Widener Jan 1991

The Status Of Users In Archival Enterprise, Michael Widener

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

T. R. Schellenberg, the dean of modern archival enterprise, set a dual objective for the profession. "The end of all archival effort is to preserve valuable records and make them available for use," he wrote. When Schellenberg wrote these words some thirty-five years ago, archivists were oriented primarily toward the materials they worked with and perceived the users of these materials as a relatively small, elite group of scholars, mainly historians.


Short Subjects: The United States Army Signal Center And Fort Gordon, A Military Archives In Georgia, Kathryn R. Coker Jan 1991

Short Subjects: The United States Army Signal Center And Fort Gordon, A Military Archives In Georgia, Kathryn R. Coker

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

There's a relatively new "kid" archives on the block. It's called the U.S. Army Signal Center and Fort Gordon Archives located in Augusta, Georgia. Augusta is not only the home of the Masters Golf Tournament but also the home of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, the army's communicators since 1860.


Back Matter, Margery N. Sly Jan 1991

Back Matter, Margery N. Sly

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

No abstract provided.


Front Matter, Margery N. Sly Jan 1991

Front Matter, Margery N. Sly

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

No abstract provided.


The Development Of The Jimmy Carter Library's Audiovisual Collection, David J. Stanhope Jan 1991

The Development Of The Jimmy Carter Library's Audiovisual Collection, David J. Stanhope

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

The audio-visual (AV) collection of a presidential library offers the world a unique record of the life and times of a United States President and his administration. The nature of presidential AV records also creates a considerable challenge for the Office of Presidential Libraries within the National Archives and Records Administration. To meet the needs of the president, the public, and future scholars, special archival policies and practices must be implemented when dealing with presidential AV records. The development of the Jimmy Carter Library AV Collection presents an excellent case study of the policies, programs, and problems involved in administering …


Short Subjects: Archival Automation: A Brief Look At Two Systems, Frank T. Wheeler Jan 1991

Short Subjects: Archival Automation: A Brief Look At Two Systems, Frank T. Wheeler

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

While computers and automation have seemingly taken over, they have slowly and painfully crept into the archives. Automated on-line catalogs are replacing the manual card catalog and control over numerous collections and record groups has become easier. Some have argued that automation is not a positive step for an archives. These arguments will lessen as archivists begin to integrate automated systems into their daily routines of cataloging and collection maintenance.


Review Essay: Archivists And The Use Of Archival Records; Or A View From The World Of Documentary Editing, Richard J. Cox Jan 1991

Review Essay: Archivists And The Use Of Archival Records; Or A View From The World Of Documentary Editing, Richard J. Cox

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

The past decade has been a time of new calls for reassessment of the archival reference function and analysis of the use of archival and historical records. Like bookends, we have on the one side a series of statements arguing for institutional studies of users and on the other calls for national approaches to the problem of understanding the use of America's documentary heritage. Despite the strong calls, there has been little response to either side. Ann Gordon's study, also called the Historical Documents Study, for the National Historical Publications and Records Commission is a rare star in the constellation …


Provenance Ix, Issues 1 & 2, Margery N. Sly Jan 1991

Provenance Ix, Issues 1 & 2, Margery N. Sly

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

No abstract provided.


Short Subjects: How To Catalog Negatives Without Money, Ted Ryan Jan 1991

Short Subjects: How To Catalog Negatives Without Money, Ted Ryan

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

One of the dilemmas facing visual materials archivists is the rising cost of properly cataloging and preserving their images. By their very nature, photograph and ·negatives are expensive to reference and store.


Project Jukebox: An Innovative Way To Access And Preserve Oral History Records, Gretchen L. Lake Jan 1991

Project Jukebox: An Innovative Way To Access And Preserve Oral History Records, Gretchen L. Lake

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

This article will introduce oral history curators, archivists, librarians, researchers, and others interested in the preservation and accessibility of oral history recordings to a fascinating project at the Alaska and Polar Regions Department, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. Project Jukebox is an exciting, unique approach to age-old problems of preservation, storage, and retrieval of oral history records. Using state-of-the-art technology, Project Jukebox allows a researcher to find an appropriate interview, to listen to the interview, to look at historical photographs relative to the interview, to locate the site of the interview on a map, and when available, …


Reviews, Critiques, And Annotations, Ann S. Ritter Jan 1991

Reviews, Critiques, And Annotations, Ann S. Ritter

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

No abstract provided.


Provenance Viii, Issue 1, Margery N. Sly Jan 1990

Provenance Viii, Issue 1, Margery N. Sly

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

No abstract provided.


Back Matter, Margery N. Sly Jan 1990

Back Matter, Margery N. Sly

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

No abstract provided.


Front Matter, Margery N. Sly Jan 1990

Front Matter, Margery N. Sly

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

No abstract provided.