Title & Author:

A modern archives reader : basic readings on archival theory and practice / edited by Maygene F. Daniels and Timothy Walch.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Archives and Records Service, U.S. General Services Administration, 1984.

Description:

xv, 357 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-346) and index.
1. The European tradition. Some aspects of archival development since the French Revolution / Ernst Posner -- Reflections of an archivist / Hilary Jenkinson -- 2. Pre-archival functions. Archivists and records managers : variations on a theme / Frank B. Evans -- Records management and the walking archivist / Patricia Bartkowski -- Archival Janus : the records center / Herbert E. Angel -- 3. Records appraisal. The appraisal of modern public records / T.R. Schellenberg -- Appraising machine-readable records / Charles M. Dollar -- No grandfather clause : reappraising accessioned records / Leonard Rapport -- Intrinsic value in archival materials -- 4. Archival acquisition. Good sense and good judgement : defining collections and collecting / Mary Lynn McCree -- Archival collection development : building a successful acquisitions program / Richard M. Kesner -- A primer on manuscript field work / Virginia R. Stewart -- The gift and the deed / Trudy Huskamp Peterson -- 5. Arrangement. Archival principles of arrangement / T.R. Schellenberg -- Archival arrangement--five different operations at five levels / Oliver W. Holmes -- Organizing photo collections : an introspective approach / Nancy E. Malan -- Aural and graphic archives and manuscripts / Ralph E. Ehrenberg -- 6. Description. Efficient finding aids : developing a system for control of archives and manuscripts / Lydia Lucas -- The preparation of inventories at the National Archives / Edward E. Hill -- The place of the register in the manuscripts division of the Library of Congress / Katharine E. Brand -- Subject guides / Virginia C. Purdy.
7. Reference. Reference / George Chalou -- The illusion of omniscience : subject access and the reference archivist / Mary Jo Pugh -- 8. Public programs. Education programs : outreach as an administrative function / Elsie Freeman [Freivogel] -- Archival exhibits : considerations and caveats / Joan Rabins -- 9. Establishing priorities. Management concepts and archival administration / James C. Worthy -- When is a collection processed? / Megan Floyd Desnoyers -- The archival edge / F. Gerald Ham -- Appendix. Introduction to archival terminology / Maygene F. Daniels.
Also issued online.

ISBN:

0911333118
9780911333114
0911333126 (paperback)
9780911333121 (paperback)

Subject:

Archives Administration.
Archives Processing Reference books.
Archival materials.
Archives, Technical.
Government publications United States.
Archives
Archives Gestion.
Archivistique Ouvrages de référence.
Documents d'archives.
Archives techniques.
Publications officielles États-Unis.
Archives Processing
Archivverwaltung
Aufsatzsammlung

Form/genre:

Essay
Aufsatzsammlung.
essays.
Essays
Reference works
Essais.

Added entries:

Daniels, Maygene F., editor.
Walch, Timothy, 1947- editor.
United States. National Archives and Records Service, publisher.

Holdings:

Location: Library main archives 116492
Call No.: ID ARCH; ID:86-B3490
Status: Available