From the college democrats to the falling illini: Identifying, appraising, and capturing student organization websites

American Archivist

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 344-363

  Prom, Christopher J ^a   Swain, Ellen D ^a  

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EID: 68149172649     PISSN: 03609081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17723/aarc.70.2.c8121767x9075210     Document Type: Review

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1. Lewis B. Mayhew, Patrick J. Ford, and Dean L. Hubbard, The Quest for Quality: The Challenge for Undergraduate Education in the 1990s (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1990), 96.
2. See Nicholas C. Burckel, "The Expanding Role of a College or University Archives," Midwestern Archivist 1 (Spring 1976): 3-15.
3. Marjorie Barritt, "Appraisal of Personally Identifiable Student Records," American Archivist 49 (Summer 986): 271.
4. Over the past twenty-six years, this assertion has continued to gain supporters. In 1992, SAA' college and university archives manuals highlighted the value of student documentation for historical research. William J. Maher, The Management of College and University Archives (Metuchen, N.J.: The Society of American Archivists and Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1992), 246;
5. Helen Willa Samuels, Varsity Letters: Documenting Modern Colleges and Universities (Metuchen, N.J.: The Society of American Archivists and Scarecrow Press, Inc, 1992).
6. Thomas K. B. Cherry, "Academic Archives and Student Organization Records," masters thesis, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (January 1995), 22;
7. and Lynn E. Pritcher, "Archiving the History of Higher Education: Records Management and Student Organizations," masters thesis, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, (July 1997), 31, 40.
8. The appraisal, selection, and preservation of blogs are more fully discussed in Catherine O'Sullivan's article, "Diaires, On-line Diaries, and the Future Loss to Archives; or Blogs and the Blogging Bloggers Who Blog Them," American Archvist 68 (Spring/Summer 2005): 5-73.
9. For an analysis of the class survey research and use of the student advisory committee, see Ellen Swain, "College Student as Archives' Consultant?: A New Approach to Outreach Programming on Campus," Archival Issues 29, no. 2 (2005).
10. See http://www.shout.net/∼geo, accessed 4 March 2004. The descriptions of all student organization websites are taken from the copies accessioned into the University of Illinois Archives on 4 March 2004. Copies of the site as of that date are available by contacting the University of Illinois Archives.
11. See http://www.uiuc-gradiv.com, accessed 4 March 2004.
12. See http://www.illinihillel.org, accessed 4 March 2004.
13. See https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/ro/www/CollegeDemocrats, accessed 4 March 2004.
14. See https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/ro/www/OrangeandBlueObserver, accessed 4 March 2004.
15. The sample was drawn from The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, 2000 edition. Electronic data file, third revision (2003). The Classification lists 1,506 doctoral, masters, baccalaureate, and tribal institutions. We selected every fourth institution for our sample, an oversample of 63 institutions at a 95% confidence level. Data for seven institutions was not included because the institutions were located in Puerto Rico and information regarding student organizations could not be easily located on the Spanish-language websites.
16. Adrian Cunningham, "Waiting for the Ghost Train: Strategies for Managing Electronic Personal Records Before It Is Too Late," Archival Issues 24, no. 1 (1999): 56.
17. Philip C. Bantin, "Strategies for Managing Electronic Records: A New Archival Paradigm? An Affirmation of Our Archival Traditions?" Archival Issues 23, no. 1 (1998): 24.
18. Terry Cook, "Mind Over Matter: Towards a New Theory of Archival Appraisal," in The Archival Imagination: Essays in Honour of Hugh A. Taylor, ed. Barbara L Craig (Ottawa: Association of Canadian Archivists, 1992), 41;
19. cited in Bantin, "Strategies for Managing Electronic Records," 25.
20. Linda J. Henry, "Schellenberg in Cyberspace," American Archivist 61 (Fall 1998): 317-28.
21. Richard Pearce Moses and Joanne Kaczmarek, "An Arizona Model for Preservation and Access of Web Documents, DttP: Documents to the People 33, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 17-24, available at http://www.ndiipp. uiuc.edu/pdfs/azmodel. pdf, accessed 5 November 2006.
22. In the UIUC Archives, a "record series" is functionally equivalent to what many repositories term a "record group" or a "collection." These record series are more fully described at http:// web.library.uiuc.edu/ahx/archon/?=collections/controlcard&id=936 and http://web.library.uiuc.edu/ ahx/archon/?=collections/controlcard&id=3899, accessed 4 October 2007.
23. Luciana Duranti and Heather MacNeil, "The Protection of the Integrity of Electronic Records: An Overview of the UCB-MAS Research Project," Archivaria 42 (Fall 1996): 46-67. For records created by informal groups, applying notions common to those advocating a "new paradigm" for managing electronic records (such as noncustodianship, extensive consultation with records creators, and appraisal by function) would seem particularly inappropriate.
24. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt, accessed 10 July 2007; http://www.javascriptkit.com/ howto/htaccess13.shtml, accessed 25 January 2006.
25. Cunningham, "Waiting for the Ghost Train," 61.
26. See http://www.archive.org, accessed 5 November 2006.
27. See http://www.loc.gov/minerva, accessed 5 November 2006.
28. The Internet Archive now provides a subscription service, Archive-It, that institutions can use to capture information by harvesting information from seed URLs. Content is stored on the Archive-It servers. The service was not available at the time this study was completed, but it may offer a good option for archivists seeking a relatively simple capture mechanism and off-campus storage options. See http://www.archive-it.org, accessed 5 November 2006.
29. Heritrix is the webcrawler underlying the Internet Archive. See http://crawler.archive.org, accessed 5 November 2006.
30. See http://web.library.uiuc.edu/ahx/archon/?p=collections/ controlcard&id=2527, accessed 4 October 2007.