The appraisal of personal papers: A Critical literature Review

Archivaria

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 136-150

  Pollard, Riva A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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References (51)

1. Lewis J. Bellardo and Lynn Lady Bellardo, eds., A Glossary for Archivists, Manuscript Curators, and Records Managers (Chicago, 1992).
2. Society of American Archivists, Guide to Donating Your Personal or Family Papers to a Repository (1994) .
3. S. Muller, J.A. Feith, and R. Fruin, Manual for the Arrangement and Description of Archives (1898), 2d ed. (1940) Arthur H. Leavitt, trans. (New York, reissued 1968).
4. Quoted in Terry Cook, "What is Past is Prologue: A History of Archival Ideas Since 1898, and the Future Paradigm Shift," Archivaria 43 (Spring 1992), p. 21.
5. Terry Cook, "What is Past is Prologue," p. 21.
6. Hilary Jenkinson, A Manual of Archival Administration, Reprint of the 2d ed. (1937) (London, 1966), pp. 3-4.
7. Ibid., p. 11.
8. Theodore R. Schellenberg, "The Appraisal of Modern Public Records," in A Modern Archives Reader: Basic Readings in Archival Theory and Practice, Maygene F. Daniels and Timothy Walch, eds. (Washington, 1984), p. 57.
9. Ibid., p. 58.
10. Robert A.J. McDonald and Christopher Hives, "Acquiring and Preserving Private Records - A Debate," Archivaria 38 (Fall 1994), pp. 155-56.
11. Ibid., pp. 158-161.
12. Ibid., p. 162.
13. Adrian Cunningham, "Beyond the Pale? The 'Flinty' Relationship between Archivists Who Collect the Private Records of Individuals and the Rest of the Archival Profession," Archives and Manuscripts 24, no. 1 (May 1996), p. 23.
14. Ibid., p. 22.
15. Theodore R. Schellenberg, "The Appraisal of Modern Public Records," pp. 57-66.
16. Mary Lynn McCree, "Good Sense and Good Judgment: Defining Collections and Collecting," in A Modern Archives Reader: Basic Readings in Archival Theory and Practice, Maygene F. Daniels and Timothy Walch, eds. (Washington, 1984), p. 105.
17. Ibid., p. 107.
18. Ibid., p. 108.
19. Judi Cumming, "Beyond Intrinsic Value Towards the Development of Acquisition Strategies in the Private Sector: the Experience of the Manuscript Division, National Archives of Canada," Archivaria 38 (Fall 1994), p. 233.
20. Megan Floyd Desnoyers, "Personal Papers," in Managing Archives and Archival Institutions, James Gregory Bradsher, ed. (London, 1989), p. 80.
21. Graeme Powell, "The Collecting of Personal and Private Papers in Australia," Archives and Manuscripts 24, no. 1 (May 1996), p. 72.
22. Ibid., p. 73.
23. Ibid., p. 68.
24. Gerald Ham, "The Archival Edge," in A Modern Archives Reader: Basic Readings in Archival Theory and Practice, Maygene F. Daniels and Timothy Walch, eds. (Washington, 1984), pp. 328-29.
25. Graeme Powell, "The Collecting of Personal and Private Papers in Australia," p. 73.
26. Philip N. Cronenwett, "Appraisal of Literary Manuscripts," in Archival Choices: Managing the Historical Record in an Age of Abundance, Nancy Pease, ed. (Lexington, 1984), pp. 105-116.
27. Mary Lynn McCree, "Good Sense and Good Judgement: Defining Collections and Collecting," p. 106.
28. Ibid., p. 110.
29. Virginia R. Stewart, "A Primer on Manuscript Field Work," in A Modern Archives Reader: Basic Readings in Archival Theory and Practice, Maygene F. Daniels and Timothy Walch, eds. (Washington, 1984), p. 129.
30. Ibid., p. 125.
31. Ibid., p. 130.
32. Judi Cumming, "Beyond Intrinsic Value Towards the Development of Acquisition Strategies in the Private Sector" p. 232.
33. Ibid., p. 235.
34. Ibid., p. 236.
35. Ibid., p. 238.
36. Timothy L. Ericson, "At the 'rim of creative dissatisfaction': Archivists and Acquisition Development," Archivaria 33 (Winter 1991-92), p. 68.
37. Ibid., p. 68.
38. Ibid., p. 69.
39. Ibid., p. 73.
40. Sue McKemmish, "Evidence of Me...," Archives and Manuscripts 24, no. 1 (May 1996), p. 29.
41. Ibid., p. 30.
42. Ibid., p. 41.
43. Hans Booms, "Society and the Formation of Documentary Heritage: Issues in the Appraisal of Archival Sources," Archivaria 24 (Summer 1987), p. 104.
44. Terry Cook, "What is Past is Prologue: A History of Archival Ideas Since 1898, and the Future Paradigm Shift," Archivaria 43 (Spring 1992), p. 31.
45. Terry Cook, "Mind Over Matter: Towards a New Theory of Archival Appraisal," in The Canadian Archival Imagination: Essays in Honour of Hugh A. Taylor, Barbara L. Craig, ed. (Ottawa, 1992), p. 47.
46. Ibid., p. 47.
47. Helen Samuels, "Who Controls the Past?" American Archivist 49, no. 2 (Spring 1986), p. 111.
48. Helen Samuels, Varsity Letters: Documenting Modern Colleges and Universities (Metuchen, 1992), p. 5.
49. Ibid., p. 1.
50. Studies of this nature have been done by historians and sociologists concerning materials typically found within collections of personal papers, such as personal letters, family photographs, memoirs, and diaries.
51. See, for example, Susan Whyman, "'Paper visits': the postRestoration Letter as Seen Through the Verney Family Archive," in Epistolary Selves: Letters and Letter-Writers, 1600-1945, Rebecca Earle, ed. (Aldershot, 1999), pp. 15-36.