slim:classes:809:li809_reading_list
Recommended Readings
| Link | Description |
|---|---|
| Week One | |
| Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives | Hunter, Gregory S. Hunter is my favorite textbook for this course. Unfortunately, he has been very, very slow in putting a new edition together. It should have been out last year, then this spring, then summer, now 2018. For that reason, I went with the newer Millar book for this term. However, if you want another view of the concepts Millar discusses, you can take a look at Hunter’s chapter. |
| 2006Jimerson | Embracing the power of archives. Archivists may aspire to be neutral and objective, but – with a nod to postmodernism – we are not, and we can’t be. This makes the role of the archive and the archivist even more important. He describes three modalities: the archive as temple, or prison, or (yes) restaurant. What does this mean? |
| Enduring Paradigm, New Opportunities | Gilliland-Swetland, Ann Comparison chart (LAM). |
| From Polders to Postmodernism A Concise History of Archival Theory | Ridener (2009), From Polders to Postmodernism, Ch. 7 If you want more historical background, this chapter is well-written and interesting. |
| 2005Greene | More product, less process - This is one of the most influential articles in archival scholarship…ever. If you didn't live through it, you can't imagine how massive the processing backlogs were, even in reputable, well-financed, and well-staffed repositories. Greene & Meissner fired the proverbial shot across the bow. I agree with the article's premise (though this is not to say that I agree with every statement in it.) I’ve seen way, way too much time being devoted to the micro-level writing and re-writing of finding aids, while numerous equally worthy collections sit inaccessibly in untouched boxes. Ironically, it’s often not the “best” collections, or even the ones at greatest risk, that receive the most attention. As a matter of policy – when you have to choose – I side with Greene and would rather see more product, less process. Others, of course, disagree, and would prefer to get the finding aids for a few collections in impeccable order before moving on to the next chunk… I always think about an archivist who laughed and told me, “That box has been under my desk for 25 years.” |
| 1993OToole | The symbolic significance of archives. What are the parallels between archives and symbolic modes of recordkeeping (e.g., Bibles, diplomas, ledgers)? |
http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-2/archives-in-context-and-as-context-by-kate-theimer/
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