Product Description: Celebrates the founding, history and growth of a renowned collection of books and manuscripts. Among the subjects represented in the Department of Special Collections and Archives of Kent State University are Americana, children's literature, cryptology, fiction, and gestalt and human potential...read more

Product Description: Now in Paperback! As institutional budgets become tighter and information sources wider and more complex, archivists, manuscript curators and staff of special collections seek ways to broaden the use of their materials, bringing their services and their story to wider publics...read more

Product Description: Archives are unique in that the records which they contain are irreplaceable; and decisions as to what to include in the collection are final and irrevocable. "Archival Appraisal" by Frank Boles, with the assistance of Julia Marks Young, seeks to increase the understanding of how archivists select records by developing a better understanding of the methodology underlies this selection process...read more

Collection appraisal is an integral part of archival work and this unique professional reference source provides detailed information on the most recent techniques and recommendations in the face of the flood of information now facing information specialists, records managers, knowledge managers, and archivists. Archival Appraisal provides examples of: acquisition planning processes; acquisition policies; acquisition procedures; appraisal criteria and appraisal report forms. It is an excellent introduction to the subject and is clearly laid out, giving sound explanations of theory and explaining the practices of archive appraisal. There is also a glossary of terms with detailed explanations of their meanings. This work is an essential reference work for anyone who has responsibilities for archives and their management and use. Thanks to its reader-friendly layout, numerous clear examples and practical explanations, this volume offers an excellent introduction to the subject. (view table of contents)

Product Description: "The Archival Enterprise" from the first word recognises professional archival work as an "enterprise" - a big, bold and sometimes difficult undertaking requiring energy and initiative. Canons of good practice, tightened educational guidelines, and a certification programme indicate the dynamic, adaptive, and ever-changing nature of the archival profession...read more

Product Description: Historical and biographical work is becoming a more common type of qualitative research done by social scientists and usually requires the extensive use of formal archives housed in universities, governments, museums and other institutions...read more

Product Description: Now in paperback! Livelton considers the nature of public records from an archival perspective, analyzing concepts rather than the daily realities with which public records archivists deal. However, his carefully reasoned conclusions provide a strong foundation on which principled rather than ad hoc decisions can be made, and so will be of interest to teachers, students and practitioners of archival science...read more

Product Description: Countries around the globe are grappling with issues of archive legislation -- both in established societies where old laws no longer respond to modern realities and in the growing number of new states seeking to establish their own legal framework...read more

Product Description: Book by Ritzenthaler, Mary Lynn, Munoff, Gerald J., Long, Margery S.

Product Description: Sections on Computer Operations and Archival Objectives; Archives and Computers at Work; Implementing Automated Techniques; and a Glossary. Describes SPINDEX, SELGEM, GRIPHOS, CODOC, MRMC II, ARCHON, PARIDIGM, NARS, and an early system developed for the survey of sources for the history of biochemistry and molucular biology...read more

Product Description: A manual on physical care and management. published by the Society of American Archivists.

Product Description: Book by Sung, Carolyn Hoover

Product Description: The first bibliography to systematically list the numerous articles describing archives and manuscript collections in the United States, this volume includes over 2,200 titles. It goes beyond the continental United States, including articles describing foreign archives that hold records and manuscripts documenting U...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)