Archives for all: Professional responsibility and social justice

American Archivist

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 252-281

  Jimerson, Randall C ^a  

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EID: 77952430949     PISSN: 03609081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17723/aarc.70.2.5n20760751v643m7     Document Type: Review

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1. I explored this theme in my presidential address to the Society of American Archivists in 2005, which serves as the starting point for the present article. See Jimerson, "Embracing the Power of Archives," 19-32.
2. Chomsky as paraphrased by Verne Harris, "Archives, Politics, and Justice," in Political Pressure and the Archival Record, ed. Margaret Procter, Michael Cook, and Caroline Williams (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2005), 175.
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31. See for example these articles in Procter, et al., Political Pressure: Masahito Ando, "The Asian-Pacific War and the Fate of Archives," 3-23;
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78. Paraphrased from Tom Nesmith's commentary on Hugh Taylor, "Transformation in the Archives: Technological Adjustment or Paradigm Shift?" (1970), in Canadian Archival Studies and the Rediscovery of Provenance, ed. Tom Nesmith (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1993), 17.
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