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{"title":"Controlling the Past: Documenting Society and Institutions","authors":"Michael Cook","doi":"10.1080/00379816.2011.603891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00379816.2011.603891","url":null,"abstract":"As I was sitting down to begin writing this review, I caught sight of that day’s feature article in the Guardian, on MIT, which is celebrating its 150th anniversary around now. Undisputed as one of the world’s leading universities, it is noted as a ‘maverick community . . . [which] brings highly gifted, highly motivated individuals together from a vast range of disciplines but united by a common desire: to leap into the dark and reach for the unknown’. It struck me at once that Helen Samuels must have found her true home when she joined its staff in 1977, and also that she must from the start have thrown herself into MIT’s full life. This comment may seem superficial, but Helen was certainly one of the most outstanding and influential writers and thinkers in archivology, whose work has marked a major turning point in the theory and practice of archival management. I am not sure that she has been generally accorded this status among European archivists, or not yet (perhaps because she is a woman?). At all events, there is surely no one in the archival world that better deserves a substantial festschrift; in this volume she has been well rewarded. There are 17 essays in this volume, plus a substantial overview by Terry Cook, and a reflective commentary by Helen Samuels herself. Every one of these is by a colleague who has achieved international recognition, has something worthwhile to say, and says it well. The editor has divided these papers into two main sections, on the idea and practice of documenting society, and then on the influence of all this on the nature of archives work. This division works well enough (in a book of collected essays there are always some that do not quite fit in), but in reading it I have tended to think in terms of a threefold division of topics. There are some contributions that are clearly historical, there are some on the ethical and (as it were) political difficulties in running archives services in particular types of business; but the main thrust of most of the participants is in explaining and extending the many aspects that are called into inclusion when we consider all the ramifications of contextuality. All this is evidence of Helen’s lasting influence. Her principal contribution has been to solidify the concept of documenting the activities of her employing institution (and hence of society) and to use this concept as the basis of her work in appraisal. Journal of the Society of Archivists Vol. 32, No. 2, October 2011, 305–317","PeriodicalId":81733,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Archivists. Society of Archivists (Great Britain)","volume":"32 1","pages":"305 - 307"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00379816.2011.603891","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58835967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘We Are What We Keep; We Keep What We Are’: Archival Appraisal Past, Present and Future","authors":"Terry Cook","doi":"10.1080/00379816.2011.619688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00379816.2011.619688","url":null,"abstract":"Archival appraisal has its own history and is highly contested ground within the profession, and increasingly with our external communities. This article analyses the evolution of appraisal thinking through three well-established phases: the curatorial guardian assigning appraisal responsibility to the creator or administrator of records; the historian-archivist making appraisal decisions indirectly through the filter of trends in academic History; and the archivist as expert directly assessing contexts of function and activity to discern appraisal value. A fourth phase is now beckoning: participatory appraisal with various communities of citizens so that silences long haunting our archives may at last be heard.","PeriodicalId":81733,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Archivists. Society of Archivists (Great Britain)","volume":"32 1","pages":"173 - 189"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00379816.2011.619688","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58836185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Archives, Artists and Designers","authors":"K. Magee, S. Waters","doi":"10.1080/00379816.2011.619707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00379816.2011.619707","url":null,"abstract":"The University of Stirling Archives and Glasgow School of Art recently undertook a number of projects in collaboration with artists, designers and galleries to create new work inspired by the study of their collections, bringing their archives to new audiences. These collaborations provided an insight into the art and design world's attitude to archives. The discussions held and decisions made highlighted the tensions often present between archival methods and creative choices and highlighted the visual, aesthetic beauty of archives, something the profession often overlooks, preoccupied with the evidential value of the material we manage. This article looks at the issues raised by these often fretful, but always fruitful collaborations.","PeriodicalId":81733,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Archivists. Society of Archivists (Great Britain)","volume":"32 1","pages":"273 - 285"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00379816.2011.619707","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58836807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Notices of New Publications Received","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/00379816.2011.603890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00379816.2011.603890","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81733,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Archivists. Society of Archivists (Great Britain)","volume":"32 1","pages":"319 - 319"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00379816.2011.603890","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58835934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Using Archives to Inform Contemporary Policy Debates: History into Policy?","authors":"Valerie Johnson, Caroline Williams","doi":"10.1080/00379816.2011.619696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00379816.2011.619696","url":null,"abstract":"Evidence-based policy-making has long been a significant method of government. Academics in a range of disciplines have contributed in supplying the evidence on which, in part, governments develop their policies. However, the arts and humanities, and in this case historians, are less well represented in this influencing role. In May 2008, The National Archives, in partnership with History and Policy, was awarded a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to run a series of workshops under its Collaborative Research Training Scheme, on ‘Using Archival Sources to Inform Contemporary Policy Debates.’ The purpose was to explore the relevance of history—and the archival sources that underpin it—to policy-making and to identify areas where this had been done, more or less successfully. In describing the workshop and analyzing its outcomes, the authors identify emerging themes and explore ways in which other archive services might implement similar initiatives.","PeriodicalId":81733,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Archivists. Society of Archivists (Great Britain)","volume":"32 1","pages":"287 - 303"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00379816.2011.619696","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58836438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"With a Little Help from OAIS: Starting down the Digital Curation Path","authors":"Sharon McMeekin","doi":"10.1080/00379816.2011.619697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00379816.2011.619697","url":null,"abstract":"Embarking on a digital curation programme can be a daunting prospect as it is thought to be an expensive and complex endeavour, beyond the capability and resources of most archives. Added to this is the fact that the overabundance of resources now available is almost as much of a deterrent to those entering the field as the lack of resources was 10 years ago. This article, based on a paper given to the Society of Archivists' Conference in 2010, will discuss why the fear might be, to a certain extent, unjustified, and how organizations can take the first steps towards developing systems and procedures for managing digital objects in their care. Using work carried out at the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland as an example, it will focus on issues relating to the development of ingest systems and procedures and will raise a number of questions relating to acquisition and appraisal of digital collections that would benefit from further discussion within the archival community.","PeriodicalId":81733,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Archivists. Society of Archivists (Great Britain)","volume":"32 1","pages":"241 - 253"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00379816.2011.619697","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58836610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Creative Archiving: A Case Study from the John Latham Archive","authors":"A. Velios","doi":"10.1080/00379816.2011.619705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00379816.2011.619705","url":null,"abstract":"This article looks at the history of the archive profession and emphasises the perceived role of the archivist as the keeper of truth. It focuses on the recent developments in archival practice with the adoption of post-modern thinking and its implementation with open-access archives online. Following a discussion of that approach, it introduces the concept of creative archiving as an alternative approach to archival practice and continues with the presentation of a case study from the John Latham Archive. It concludes with a discussion of the main pros and cons of creative archiving.","PeriodicalId":81733,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Archivists. Society of Archivists (Great Britain)","volume":"32 1","pages":"255 - 271"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00379816.2011.619705","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58836717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ethical Editing of Oral Histories: The Experience of the Birmingham Children's Homes Project Archivist","authors":"S. Pymer","doi":"10.1080/00379816.2011.619690","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00379816.2011.619690","url":null,"abstract":"This article describes the legal and ethical problems encountered by the Birmingham Children's Homes Project while collecting oral history interviews from former residents and staff of children's homes. The article briefly discusses the background to the project and the wider debate about re-use of data. It then explains the measures considered and undertaken to edit transcripts of the interviews in order to avoid identifying former looked-after children and to remove remarks made by interviewees which could amount to defamation, while retaining enough content and context to make them valuable resources for both general researchers and former residents of children's homes.","PeriodicalId":81733,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Archivists. Society of Archivists (Great Britain)","volume":"32 1","pages":"191 - 204"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00379816.2011.619690","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58836256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Records Making, Office Machines, and Workers in Historical Contexts: Five Photographs of Offices in the British Civil Service c. 1919 and 1947","authors":"B. Craig, Heather MacNeil","doi":"10.1080/00379816.2011.619692","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00379816.2011.619692","url":null,"abstract":"This article uses five images selected from the Stationery Office and the Treasury to anchor a discussion of copying technologies in office processes in the British Civil Service between circa 1919 and 1947. The first section situates the photographs within a specific history of the use of copying technologies within administrative offices based on reading the images in concert with the surviving textual records of these departments. The second section views the photographs as visual symbols of the feminization of clerical work during this time period, a view informed by reading the images in conjunction with the literature exploring the ‘white blouse’ revolution and the proletarianization of typing work.","PeriodicalId":81733,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Archivists. Society of Archivists (Great Britain)","volume":"32 1","pages":"205 - 220"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00379816.2011.619692","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58835881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Future of Archives and Recordkeeping: a Reader","authors":"Anne Barrett","doi":"10.1080/00379816.2011.603893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00379816.2011.603893","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81733,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Archivists. Society of Archivists (Great Britain)","volume":"32 1","pages":"313 - 314"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00379816.2011.603893","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58836039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}