Trusting archivists: The role of archival ethics codes in establishing public faith

American Archivist

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 11-30

  Dingwall, Glenn ^a  

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DOI: 10.17723/aarc.67.1.mw0914r2p52xx2t4     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Terrence Eastwood, "Reflections on the Development of Archives in Canada and Australia," in Archival Documents: Providing Accountability Through Recordkeeping, eds. Sue McKemmish and Frank Upward (Melbourne: Ancora Press, 1993), 36.
2. Johan Verstraeten, "Foreword-Professional Ethics and Ethics Education: Vision of the Core Materials Project," in Matter of Breath: Foundations for Professional Ethics, eds. Guillaume De Stexhe and Johan Verstraeten (Leuven, Belgium: Peeters, 2000), xi.
3. This is an argument made by some Kantian and virtue ethicists. I recognize the irony in using a particular normative perspective to argue that it is essential to appreciate the different normative perspectives. See Marcia Baron, Philip Pettit, and Michael Slote, Three Methods of Ethics (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 1997), 54-57.
4. Nigel G. E. Harris, "Professional Codes and Kantian Duties," in Ethics and the Professions, ed. Ruth F. Chadwick (Aldershot, England: Avebury, 1994), 109.
5. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, ed. C. B. Macpherson (1651; reprint, London: Penguin Books, 1985): chaps. 14-16.
6. Immanuel Kant, "Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals," in Kant's Critique of Practical Reason and Other Works on the Theory of Ethics, trans. Thomas Kingsmill Abbott, 2nd ed. (London: Longmans, Green, 1879)
7. as cited by Robert N. Van Wyk in Introduction to Ethics (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990), 96.
8. Harris, "Professional Codes and Kantian Duties," 105-106.
9. Van Wyk, Introduction to Ethics, 84.
10. Baron, Pettit, and Slote, Three Methods of Ethics, 94.
11. Trevor May, Archival Professionalism and Ethics: An Assessment of Archival Codes in North America (MAS thesis, University of British Columbia, 1995), 10-11.
12. Bernard Barber, "Professions and Emerging Professions," in Ethical Issues in Professional Life, ed. Joan Callahan (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 36.
13. Daryl Koehn, The Ground of Professional Ethics (London: Routledge, 1994), 11-13.
14. Amitai Etzioni, The Semi-Professions and their Organization: Teachers, Nurses, Social Workers (New York: Free Press, 1969), v.
15. Richard Cox, "Professionalism and Archivists in the United States," American Archivist 49 (Summer 1986): 238.
16. John Roberts authored two articles arguing that though archival theory exists, it is simplistic and largely irrelevant to working archivists: "Archival Theory: Much Ado About Shelving" American Archivist 50 (Winter 1987): 66-74
17. and "Archival Theory: Myth or Banality?" American Archivist 53 (Winter 1990: 110-20).
18. Cox, "Professionalism and Archivists in the United States," 236.
19. Timothy L. Ericson, " 'Preoccupied with Our Own Garden:' Outreach and Archivists," Archivaria 31 (Winter 1990-91): 120.
20. Koehn, The Ground of Professional Ethics, 8.
21. Eric Mount, Jr., Professional Ethics in Context: Institutions, Images and Empathy (Louisville, Ky.: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1990), 49.
22. T. R. Schellenberg, Modern Archives: Principles and Techniques (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956), 119.
23. Susan McClure quotes Duranti, "[archivists] serve the people by serving the polis. We serve the polis by serving the record." Luciana Duranti, "ACA 1991 Conference Overview," ACA Bulletin 15, no. 6 (July 1991): 25.
24. Cited in Government Archivists' Perceptions about Their Responsibilities to Citizens and to Government: "Simply a Matter of Serving Those around Us," MAS Thesis (University of British Columbia, 1991), 19.
25. In response to the question, "Who are the clients?," Barbara Craig says, "I suggest that in the 'trendy' imagery of modern business our real clients are the records." Barbara Craig, "What Are the Clients? Who Are the Products? The Future of Archival Public Services in Perspective," Archivaria 31 (Winter 1990-91): 141.
26. Hilary Jenkinson, A Manual of Archive Administration. rev. ed. (London: Percy Lund, Humphries & Co., 1937), 15.
27. Anne Cook, "A Code of Ethics for Archivists: Some Points for Discussion," Archives and Manuscripts 15 (November 1987): 95-96.
28. David E. Horn, "The Development of Ethics in Archival Practice," American Archivist 52 (Winter 1989): 71.
29. Association of Canadian Archivists, A Code of Ethics for Archivists in Canada (Ottawa: Association of Canadian Archivists, 1999);
30. Society of American Archivists, A Code of Ethics for Archivists with Commentary (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1992);
31. Society of Archivists, Code of Conduct (Taunton, U.K.: Society of Archivists, 1994);
32. Australian Society of Archivists, Code of Ethics (Australia: Australian Society of Archivists, 1993);
33. ACA Select Committee on Ethics, Recommendations of the ACA Select Committee on Ethics to the ACA Board of Directors (Ottawa: Association of Canadian Archivists, 1993).
34. The Society of American Archivists has just published a book that can help serve as such a roadmap. Karen Benedict, Ethics and the Archival Profession: Introduction and Case Studies (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2003).
35. Barbara L. Craig, e-mail message to author, 22 April 2003.