Doctoral Seminar in Archival Research Methods and Design

IS 298B, Fall 2012

Prof. Anne Gilliland

 

Class meeting times:

9:00 – 12:20 p.m. Thursdays. Room 245 GSE&IS Building.

 

Office hours:

 

Instructor: Professor Anne Gilliland, Thursdays, 1-4pm at 212 GSEIS Building or by appointment. A sign-up sheet is available outside Professor Gilliland’s office door.

 

 

To help you prepare:

 

First read Gilliland, Anne, and Sue McKemmish. "Archival and Recordkeeping Research: Past, Present and Future," in Research Methods: Information Management, Systems, and Contexts (Prahan, Vic: Tilde University Press, 2013 (in press); and Gilliland, Anne. “Enduring Paradigm, New Opportunities: The Value of the Archival Perspective in the Digital Environment,” in Michèle V. Cloonan, ed. The Heritage of Preservation (Neals-Schuman) (forthcoming) [excerpted and updated from 2000 CLIR publication with same title].

 

October 2: Introductions and course overview. Historical perspectives on and evolution of archives, recordkeeping, and Archival Science. Introduction of “grand challenges” research agenda development.

Readings:

Cook, Terry. “Archival Science and Postmodernism: New Formulations for Old Concepts.” Archival Science 1 no.1 (2001): 3-24.

Cook, Terry. “Evidence, Memory, Identity, and Community: Four Shifting Archival Paradigms,” Archival Science (pre-print).

Cook, Terry, “What is Past is Prologue: A History of Archival Ideas Since 1898, and the Future Paradigm Shift,” Archivaria 43 (Spring 1997): 17-63.

Gilliland, Anne. “Enduring Paradigm, New Opportunities: The Value of the Archival Perspective in the Digital Environment,” in Michèle V. Cloonan, ed. The Heritage of Preservation (Neals-Schuman) (forthcoming) [excerpted and updated from 2000 CLIR publication with same title].

‡Gilliland, Anne, and Sue McKemmish. "Archival and Recordkeeping Research: Past, Present and Future," in Research Methods: Information Management, Systems, and Contexts (Prahan, Vic: Tilde University Press, 2013 (in press).

Harris, Verne. Archives and Justice: A South African Perspective (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2007): 9-22.

 

October 9: Theory-building regarding recordkeeping and the nature of the record, and proliferation of the records continuum model (2 students to lead).

Readings:

McKemmish, Sue. “Evidence of Me …” Archives and Manuscripts 29 no.1 (2001); Harris, Verne [riposte] “’On the Back of a Tiger: Deconstructive Possibilities in ‘Evidence of Me’”; and rejoinder by McKemmish and Frank Upward, “"In Search of the Lost Tiger, by Way of Sainte-Beuve: Re-constructing the Possibilities in ‘Evidence of Me…'" Available: http://www.mybestdocs.com/mckemmish-s-evidofme-ch10.htm

Oliver, Gillian. “Investigating Information Culture: Comparative Case Study Research Design and Methods,” Archival Science 4 nos.3-4 (2004): 287-314.

Trace, Ciaran B. "What is Recorded is Never Simply 'What Happened:' Record-keeping in Modern Organizational Culture," Archival Science 2 no.1 (2002): 137-159.

Schauder, Don, Larry Stillman and Graeme Johanson. “Sustaining a Community Network: The Information Continuum, eDemocracy and the Case of Vicnet,” The Journal of Community Informatics 1 no.2 (2005): 77-102. Available: www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/download/239/204

Upward, Frank. “Structuring the Records Continuum - Part One: Postcustodial Principles and Properties,” Archives and Manuscripts, 24 no.2 (1996). Available: http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/research/groups/rcrg/publications/recordscontinuum-fupp1.html

_____. “Structuring the Records Continuum, Part Two: Structuration Theory and Recordkeeping,” Archives and Manuscripts 25 no.1 (1997). Available: http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/research/groups/rcrg/publications/recordscontinuum-fupp2.html

 

October 16: Applications of diplomatics (1 student to lead)

Luciana Duranti. Diplomatics: New Uses for an Old Science.  Chicago, Ill.: Society of American Archivists, Association of Canadian Archivists, and Scarecrow Press, 1998.

Duranti, Luciana and Kenneth L. Thibodeau. “The Concept of Record in Interactive, Experiential and Dynamic Environments: The View of InterPARES, Archival Science 6 no.1 (2008): 13-68.

Foscarini, Fiorella. “Diplomatics and Genre Theory as Complementary Approaches,” Archival Science (pre-print).

MacNeil, Heather. “Contemporary Archival Diplomatics as a Method of Inquiry: Lessons Learned from Two Research Projects,” 4 nos. 3-4 (2004): 199-232

 

October 23: Research on electronic records (1 student to lead)

Guest presenter: Dr. An Xiaomi, Renmim University of China,” Meta-synthetic Strategies for Digital Recordkeeping.”

Readings:

An, Xiaomi. “Meta-Synthetic Strategies for Digital Recordkeeping: International Trends and Future Directions,” paper presented at the International Congress on Archives, Brisbane, August 2012.

Bantin, Philip. “Developing a Strategy for Managing Electronic Records: The Findings of the Indiana University Electronic Records Project,” American Archivist 61 no. 2 (Fall 1998).

Cox, Richard J. 1994. Re-Discovering the Archival Mission: The Recordkeeping Functional Requirements Project at the University of Pittsburgh, A Progress Report. Archives and Museum Informatics 8:279–300.

Cox, Richard J. “Searching for Authority: Archivists and Electronic Records in the New World at the fin-de-siécle,” First Monday 5 nos. 1-3 (January 2000). Available: http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/721/630

Duff, Wendy. “Harnessing the Power of Warrant,” American Archivist 61 no.1 (1998).

Gilliland, Anne. “From Machine-Readable to Digital Records,” Chapter 4 in Conceptualizing Archives for a Digital Age (draft).

Hedstrom, Margaret. “Understanding Electronic Incunabula: A Framework for Research on Electronic Records,” American Archivist (Summer 1991).

Moore, Reagan W. “Building Preservation Environments with Data Grid Technology,” American Archivist, vol. 69, no. 1 (July 2006): 139-158

 

October 30: Archival ethnography and ethnography of the archive (1 student to lead). Reconciliation/reformulation of Grand Challenges areas.

Readings:

Gracy, Karen. “Documenting Communities of Practice: Making the Case for Archival Ethnography,” Archival Science 4, no. 3-4 (2004).

Shankar, Kalpana. “Order from Chaos: The Poetics and Pragmatics of Scientific Recordkeeping,” JASIST 58 (2007): 1457-1466.

_____. “Recordkeeping in the Production of Scientific Knowledge: An Ethnographic Study”, Archival Science 4 (2006): 367-382.

Stoler, Ann Laura. “The Pulse of the Archive,” in Along the Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense (Princeton University Press, 2009): 17-53.

Trace, Ciaran B. "For Love of the Game: An Ethnographic Analysis of Archival Reference Work," Archives and Manuscripts 34 no.1 (May 2006): 124-143.

 

November 6: Documenting through oral and video history (1 student to lead). Guest presenter (tentative): Teresa Barnett, Head, Center for Oral History Research, UCLA Library.

Readings:

Blassingame, John. "Using the Testimony of Ex-Slaves:  Approaches and Problems," Journal of Southern History 41 no. 4 (1975): 473-92. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2205559

‡Frisch, Michael. "Oral History and the Digital Revolution: Toward a Post-Documentary Sensibility," in Robert Perks and Alistair Thomson, eds. The Oral History Reader 2nd. ed. (NY.NY: Routledge, 2006).

Davidson, James West and Mark Hamilton Lytle. “The View from the Bottom Rail,” in After the Fact Volume II 6th ed. (McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2009).

Kerr, Daniel. "'We Know What the Problem Is': Using Video and Radio Oral History to Develop Collaborative Analysis of Homelessness," Oral History Review 30, no. 1 (2003): 27-45.  http://www.jstor.org/stable/3675350

Stoler, Ann Laura. "Memory Work in Java: A Cautionary Tale," in Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (also in Robert Perks and Alistair Thompson, eds. The Oral History Reader, 2nd. ed. (NY.NY: Routledge, 2006)).

Yow, Valerie. “DO I LIKE THEM TOO MUCH? Effects of the Oral History Interview on the Interviewer and Vice-Versa,” in Robert Perks and Alistair Thompson, eds. The Oral History Reader, 2nd. ed. (NY.NY: Routledge, 2006): 54-72.

 

November 13: Research engagement with community-based archives, memory systems and recordkeeping (1 student to lead). Guest presenter: Dr. Michelle Caswell.

Readings:

Flinn, Andrew. “Archival Activism: Independent and Community-led Archives, Radical Public History and the Heritage Professions,” InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies 7 no.2 (2011).

Lau, Andrew, Anne Gilliland, and Anderson, Kim. “Naturalizing Community Engagement in Information Studies: Pedagogical Approaches and Persisting Partnerships,” Information, Communication & Society, DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2011.630404.

McKemmish, Sue, Shannon Faulkhead and Lynette Russell. “Distrust in the Archive: Reconciling Records,” Archival Science 11 nos. 3-4 (2011): 211-239.

McKemmish, Sue, Gilliland-Swetland, Anne, and Eric Ketelaar. "'Communities of Memory': Pluralizing Archival Research and Education Agendas," Archives and Manuscripts 33 (2005): 146-75.

Stevens Mary, Andrew Flinn and Elizabeth Shepherd. “New Frameworks for Community Engagement in the Archives Sector: From Handing Over to Handing On International Journal of Heritage Studies 16 nos.1-2 (Jan-March, 2010): 59-76.

 

November 20: Research on archives and recordkeeping metadata and metadata modeling (1 student to lead). Presentation by Anne Gilliland on the Metadata Archaeology Project.

Readings:

Evans, Joanne, Sue McKemmish and Karuna Bhoday. “Create Once, Use Many Times: The Clever Use of Recordkeeping Metadata for Multiple Archival Purposes,” Archival Science 5 no.1 (2005): 17-42.

Evans, Joanne and Nadav Rouche. “Utilizing Systems Development Methods in Archival Systems Research: Building a Metadata Schema Registry,” Archival Science 4 nos. 3-4 (2004): 315–334.

*Gilliland, Anne. J. “American Archivists, the International Documentation Movement, and the American Documentation Institute, 1900-1950,” Chapter 2 in Conceptualizing Archives for a Digital Age (draft).

*Gilliland, Anne J. “Contemplating Co-creator Rights in Archival Description,” Knowledge Organization (in press).

Gilliland, Anne J. “Reflections on the Value of Metadata Archaeology for Recordkeeping in a Global, Digital World,” Journal of the Society of Archivists 32 no.1 (April 2011): 97-112.

McKemmish, Sue, Glenda Acland, Nigel Ward and Barbara Reed. “Describing Records in Context in the Continuum: The Australian Recordkeeping Metadata Schema,” Archivaria, 48 (1999): 3-43.

 

November 27: Research on archival access and use (1 student to lead). Reconciliation of actual or potential areas of archival and recordkeeping research activity.

Readings:

Duff, Wendy and Joan M. Cherry. “Archival Orientation for Undergraduate Students: An Exploratory Study of Impact,” American Archivist 71 no.3 (Fall/Winter 2008): 499-529.

GillilandSwetland, Anne J. and Carol Hughes. “Enhancing Archival Description for Public Computer Conferences of Historical Value: An Exploratory Study,” American Archivist 55 no.2 (Spring 1992): 316-330.

Krause, Magda G. and Yakel, Elizabeth. “Interaction in Virtual Archives: The Polar Bear Expedition Digital Collections Next Generation Finding Aid,” American Archivist 70 (2007): 282-314.

Yakel, Elizabeth and Laura Bost, "Administrative Use and Users in College and University Archives," American Archivist 57 no.4 (Fall) 1994.

Yakel, Elizabeth and Deborah Torres. "Genealogists as a 'Community of Records'" American Archivist 70 (2007): 93-113.

 

 

 

 

September 27: Introductions; course objectives; assignments. The societal role of records, recordkeeping and archives. Core concept definitions.

Required readings:

Cook, Terry. “The Archive(s) Is a Foreign Country: Historians, Archivists, and the Changing Archival Landscape,” American Archivist 74 no.2 (Fall/Winter 2011).

Ketelaar, Eric. “Time Future Contained in Time Past: Archival Science in the 21st Century.” Journal of the Japan Society for Archival Science 1 (2004): 20-35. http://cf.hum.uva.nl/bai/home/eketelaar/timefuture.doc

Foote, Kenneth. “To Remember and Forget: Archives, Memory, and Culture,” American Archivist 53 no.3 (Summer 1990): 378-392.

Gilliland, Anne. “Enduring Paradigm, New Opportunities: The Value of the Archival Perspective in the Digital Environment,” in Michèle V. Cloonan, ed. The Heritage of Preservation (Neals-Schuman) (in press).

O’Toole, James M. “The Symbolic Significance of Archives,” American Archivist 56 (Spring 1993): 2344-2355.

Valderhaug, Gudmund. “Memory, Justice and the Public Record,” Archival Science 11 (2011).

 

 

October 4: Historical overview of the development of archives and archival consciousness and values. History and development of the public archives and historical manuscripts traditions in the United States.

Required readings:

Cook, Terry, “What is Past is Prologue: A History of Archival Ideas Since 1898, and the Future Paradigm Shift,” Archivaria, 43 (Spring 1997), 17-63.

Duranti, Luciana. “Archives as a Place,” Archives and Manuscripts (November 1996): 242-255.

Gilliland-Swetland, Luke J. “The Provenance of a Profession: The Permanence of the Public Archives and Manuscript Traditions in American Archival History,” American Archivist 54 (Spring 1991): 160-175.

McCoy, Donald. "The Struggle to Establish a National Archives in the United States," in Timothy Walch, ed. Guardian of Heritage: Essays on the History of the National Archives (Washington: National Archives and Records Administration, 1985): 116.

Panitch, Judith M. “Liberty, Equality, Posterity?: Some Archival Lessons from the Case of the French Revolution,” American Archivist 59 (Winter 1996): 30-47.

 

Suggested background readings on U.S. state archives:

Posner, Ernst. American State Archives (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964): 7-35.

Walch, Victoria Irons. “State Archives in 1997: Diverse Conditions, Common Directions,” American Archivist 60 (Spring 1996): 132-151.

 

 

October 11: History and development of American archival and records professions and professional groups. Professional values and ethics.

Required readings (the ethics statements will be the subject of in-class exercises, so be sure to read them before class):

Evans, Frank B. “Archivists and Records Managers: Variations on a Theme,” American Archivist 30 (January 1967): 45-58.

Harris, Verne. “Jacques Derrida Meets Nelson Mandela: Archival Ethics at the Endgame,” Archival Science (2011).

Hurley, Chris. “Political Pressure and the Archival Record Revisited: The Role of the Archives in Protecting the Record from Political Pressure,” 15th International Congress on Archives 2004 - Archives, Memory and Knowledge, Vienna, 25th August 2004 - reprise of paper delivered in Liverpool at Liverpool University Centre for Archive Studies in July 2003. http://infotech.monash.edu/research/groups/rcrg/hurley.html

Iacovino, Livia. “Rethinking Archival, Ethical and Legal Frameworks for Records of Indigenous Australian Communities: A Participant Relationship Model of Rights and Responsibilities,” Archival Science (2011).

Ketelaar, Eric. “The Right to Know, the Right to Forget? Personal Information in Public Archives,” Archives and Manuscripts 23 (1995): 8-17.

ALA/SAA Joint Statement on Access to Research Materials in Archives and Special Collections Libraries, http://www2.archivists.org/statements/alasaa-joint-statement-on-access-to-research-materials-in-archives-and-special-collection

International Council on Archives, Code of Ethics, http://www.ica.org/5555/reference-documents/ica-code-of-ethics.html

Society of American Archivists, Core Values Statement and Code of Ethics, http://www2.archivists.org/statements/saa-core-values-statement-and-code-of-ethics

 

Reference texts:

Behrnd-Klodt, Menzi L. and Peter J. Wosh, eds. Privacy and Confidentiality Perspectives: Archivists and Archival Records, Chicago, IL: SAA, 2005.

Danielson, Elena. The Ethical Archivist (Chicago, IL: Society of American Archivists, 2010).

Iacovino, Livia, Recordkeeping, Ethics and Law: Regulatory Models, Participant Relationships and Rights and Responsibilities in te Online World, Springer, 2006.

MacNeil, Heather, Trusting Records: Legal, Historical and Diplomatic Perspectives, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2000.

MacNeil, Heather, Without Consent: The Ethics of Disclosing Personal Information in Public Archives, Lanham, MD: Scarecrow and SAA, 1992.

 

October 18: The development of appraisal theory and practice

Required readings:

Boles, Frank and Mark Greene,. “Et Tu Schellenberg? Thoughts on the Dagger of American Appraisal Theory,” American Archivist 59 (Summer 1996): 298-310.

Flinn, Andrew, Mary Stevens, and Elizabeth Shepherd. “Whose Memories, Whose Archives? Independent Community Archives, Autonomy and the Mainstream,” Archival Science 9 (2009): 71-86.

Greene, Mark. “’The Surest Proof’: A Utilitarian Approach to Appraisal,” Archivaria 45 (Spring 1998): 127-169.

Kaplan, Elisabeth. “We Are What We Collect, We Collect What We Are: Archives and the Construction of Identity,” 63 no.1 American Archivist (Spring 2000).

Library and Archives Canada. Appraisal Methodology: Macro-Appraisal and Functional Analysis (2000). http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/government/disposition/007007-1035-e.html

Schellenberg, Theodore R. The Appraisal of Modern Public Records: National Archives Bulletin 8 (Washington: National Archives and Records Service, 1956).

 

October 25: Manuscript selection and collection. Documentation strategies. Accessioning archives materials.

Required readings:

Blake, Ben, “The New Archives for American Labor: From Attic to Digital Shop Floor,” American Archivist 70 (Spring/Summer 2007): 130-150.

Chodorow, Stanley. “To Represent Us Truly: The Job and Context of Preserving the Cultural Record,” Libraries & the Cultural Record 41, no. 3 (Summer 2006): 372-380.

Cox, Richard J. “The Documentation Strategy and Archival Appraisal Principles: A Different Perspective,” Archivaria 38 (Fall 1994): 11-36.

Ericson, Timothy L. “At the ‘Rim of Creative Dissatisfaction’: Archivists and Acquisition Development,” Archivaria 33 (Winter 1991-1992): 66-77.

Hackman, Larry J. and Joan Warnow-Blewett. “The Documentation Strategy Process: A Model and a Case Study,” American Archivist 50 (Winter 1987): 12-29.

Ham, F. Gerald. "Archival Choices: Managing the Historical Record in an Age of Abundance," American Archivist 47 (Winter 1984): 11-22.

 

 

November 1: History and philosophy of archival arrangement.

Required readings:

Bearman, David A. and Richard H. Lytle. “The Power of the Principle of Provenance,” Archivaria 21 (Winter 1985-86): 14-27.

Boles, Frank. "Disrespecting Original Order," American Archivist 45 (Winter 1982): 26-32.

Duchein, Michel. “Theoretical Principles and Practical Problems of Respect des Fonds in Archival Science,” Archivaria 16 (1983): 64–82.

Holmes, Oliver W. “Archival Arrangement—Five Different Operations at Five Different Levels,” American Archivist 27 (January 1964): 21-41.

Monks-Leeson, Emily. “Archives on the Internet: Representing Contexts and Provenance from Repository to Website,” American Archivist 74 no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2011).

Schellenberg, Theodore R. “Archival Principles of Arrangement,” American Archivist 24 (January 1961): 11-24.

 

Reference text:

Muller, S., J.A. Feith and R. Fruin, Manual for the Arrangement and Description of Archives, Chicago, IL: SAA, 2003 new edition).

 

 

November 8. Analysis assignment due in class. Guest presenter, Michelle Caswell. Reference techniques for archival records. Archival user issues major categories of users, determining user needs, archival outreach.

Required readings:

Finch, Elsie Freeman. “In the Eye of the Beholder: Archives Administration from the User’s Point of View,” American Archivist 47 (Spring 1984): 111-123.

Hastings, Emiko. “’No Longer a Silent Victim of History:’ Repurposing the Documents of Japanese American Internment” Archival Science (2011).

Pugh, Mary Jo. “The Illusion of Omniscience: Subject Access and the Reference Archivist,” American Archivist 45 (Winter 1982): 33-44.

Yakel, Elizabeth and Laura L. Bost Hensey. “Understanding Administrative Use and Users in University Archives,” American Archivist (Fall 1994): 596-615.

Yakel, Elizabeth and Deborah Torres, “Genealogists as a ‘Community of Records’,” American Archivist 70 (Spring/Summer 2007): 93-113.

 

Reference texts:

Council on Library and Information Resources. Working Together or Apart:
Promoting the Next Generation of Digital Scholarship, Report of a Workshop Cosponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources and National Endowment for the Humanities (Washington, D.C.: CLIR, March 2009). http://www.clir.org/pubs/execsum/sum145.html

Pugh, Mary Jo. Providing Reference Services for Archives and Manuscripts, Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1992.

 

November 15: Archival descriptive practices.

Required readings:

Gilliland-Swetland, Anne J. “Popularizing the Finding Aid: Exploiting EAD to Enhance Online Browsing and Retrieval in Archival Information Systems by Diverse User Groups,” Journal of Internet Cataloging 4 nos. 3/4 (2001): 199-225.

Greene, Mark A. and Dennis Meissner. More Product, Less Process: Pragmatically Revamping Traditional Processing Approaches To Deal With Late 20th Century Collections. http://ahc.uwyo.edu/documents/faculty/greene/papers/Greene-Meissner.pdf

Hensen, Steven L. "Squaring the Circle: The Reformation of Archival Description," Library Trends 36 no. 3 (Winter 1988): 539-552.

Mandel, Carol. “Hidden Collections: The Elephant in the Closet” (ca. 2004). http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/rbm/backissuesvol5no2/mandel.pdf

Millar, Laura, “An Obligation of Trust: Speculations on Accountability and Description,” American Archivist 69 (Spring/Summer 2006): 60-78.

McKemmish, Sue et al. “Describing Records in Context in the Continuum: the Australian Recordkeeping Metadata Schema,” Archivaria 48 (Fall 1999): 3-43.

 

Reference texts:

EAD Official Site. http://www.loc.gov/ead/

International Council on Archives Committee on Descriptive Standards. http://www.icacds.org.uk/eng/standards.htm

Society of American Archivists, Describing Archives: A Content Standard (Chicago, IL: Society of American Archivists, 2007).

 

November 22: Thanksgiving Holiday

 

November 29: Preservation and persistence of physical, born-digital and digitized archives and manuscript materials.

O’Toole, James. “On the Idea of Permanence,” American Archivist 52.1 (Winter 1989): 11-25.

Society of American Archivists, “Statement on the Preservation of Digitized Reproductions,” 1997. http://www2.archivists.org/statements/statement-on-the-preservation-of-digitized-reproductions

 

Reference texts:

Council on Library and Information Resources. The State of Recorded Sound Preservation in the United States:
A National Legacy at Risk in the Digital Age, Commissioned for and sponsored by the National Recording Preservation Board, Library of Congress (Washington, D.C: CLIR, August 2010). http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub148abst.html

Gracy, Karen. Film Preservation: Competing Definitions of Value, Use, and Practice (Chicago, IL: Society of American Archivists, 2007).

National Film Preservation Foundation. Film Preservation Guide: The Basics for Archives, Libraries and Museums (2004).

Rieger, Oya. Preservation in the Age of Large-scale Digitization: A White Paper (Washington, D.C.: CLIR, February 2008). http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub141abst.html

Ritzenthaler, Mary Lynn et al. Photographs: Archival Care and Management (Chicago, IL: Society of American Archivists, 2006).

Ritzenthaler, Mary Lynn. Preserving Archives and Manuscripts 2nd ed. (Chicago, IL: Society of American Archivists, 2010).

 

 

December 6: Legal and cultural protocols issues relating to archives and manuscript materials.

Required readings:

Christen, Kimberly. “Opening Archives: Respectful Repatriation,” American Archivist (Spring 2011): 185-210.

Finlay, Cassie. “People, Records and Power: What Archives Can Learn from WikiLeaks,” paper presented at the International Congress on Archives, Brisbane, Australia, August 2012. http://www.ica2012.com/files/data/Full%20papers%20upload/ica12Final00220.pdf

Hensen, Steven L. “The President’s Papers are the People’s Business,” editorial from the Washington Post 2001. http://www2.archivists.org/statements/hensens-editorial-the-presidents-papers-are-the-peoples-business

Maher, William J. “Between Authors and Users: Archivists in the Copyright Vise,” Archival Issues 26 no 1, 2001: 63-75.

Protocols for Native American Archival Materials (2007). http://www2.nau.edu/libnap-p/protocols.html

Society of American Archivists. “Basic Principles for Managing Intellectual Property in the Digital Environment: An Archival Perspective,” 1997. http://www2.archivists.org/statements/basic-principles-for-managing-intellectual-property-in-the-digital-environment-an-archiva

 

Reference text:

Behrnd-Klodt, Menzi L. Navigating Legal Issues in Archives (Chicago, IL: Society of American Archivists, 2008).