New respect for the old order: The context of the Dutch manual

American Archivist

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 249-270

  Horsman, Peter ^a   Ketelaar, Eric ^a   Thomassen, Theo ^a  

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EID: 79959010683     PISSN: 03609081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17723/aarc.66.2.452235k813568872     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. A charter is a document, usually sealed, granting specific rights, setting forth aims and principles, embodying formal agreements, authorizing special privileges or exemptions: Peter Walne, ed., Dictionary of Archival Terminology (München: K.G. Saur, 1984), no. 75.
2. Peter Horsman, "Taming the Elephant. An Orthodox Approach to the Principle of Provenance," in K. Abukhanfusa and J. Sydbeck, eds., The Principle of Provenance. Report from the First Stockholm Conference on Archival Theory and the Principle of Provenance (Stockholm: Swedish National Archives, 1994), 51-63.
3. Verslagen's Rijks Oude Archieven (VROA) 1888 [Annual Reports of the State Archives], 2;
4. VROA 1907, 793-95;
5. Archievenblad 17 (1908/1909): 5.
6. Leavitt translates this as "reflection": "...an archival collection... is always the reflection of the functions of that body or of that official." Manual for the Arrangement and Description of Archives, 19.
7. Theo Thomassen, "Archivists Between Knowledge and Power: On the Independence and Autonomy of Archival Science and the Archival Profession," paper presented at the 1999 International Archival Conference, "The Destruction and Reconstruction of Historical Memory: Integrity and Autonomy of Archives,"
8. Dubrovnik, in Arhivski Vjesnik 42 (Zagreb, 1999): 149-67. Also available at www.archiefschool.nl/docs/thomarch.pdf.
9. Marjorie Rabe Barritt, "Coming to America: Dutch Archivistiek and American Archival Practice," Archival Issues 18, no. 1 (1993): 43-54.
10. Frank Upward criticized Leavitt on this point: "I do not know to what he thought Jenkinson's lengthy section on Archive Making in his Manual referred, or perhaps that section was too English to be read in the USA," Frank Upward, "In Search of the Continuum: Ian Maclean's 'Australian Experience' Essays on Recordkeeping," in Sue McKemmish and Michael Piggott, eds., The Records Continuum: Ian Maclean and Australian Archives First Fifty Years (Ancora Press in association with Australian Archives, 1994), 127, note 14.
11. The expression was used by a number of people including Theodore R. Schellenberg, Modern Archives: Principles and Techniques (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956), 175;
12. Elio Lodolini, Archivistica: Principi e problemi (Milano, 1984), 61;
13. Cornelis Dekker, "La Bibbia archivistique néerlandaise et ce qu' il en est advenu," in Oddo Bucci, ed., Archival Science on the Threshold of the Year 2000 (Ancona, Italy: University of Macerata, 1992), 69-79
14. (also published in Italian: "Che ne è stato della 'Bibbia' degli archivisti olandesi," in Oddo Bucci, ed., L'archivistica alle soglie del 2000 [Ancona, Italy: University of Macerata, 1992], 67-77).
15. See also Joan van Albada, "On the Identity of the American Archival Profession: A European Perspective," American Archivist 54 (Summer 1991): 401.
16. Eric Ketelaar, "Archival Theory and the Dutch Manual," Archivaria 41 (Spring 1996): 31-40
17. repr. In Eric Ketelaar, The Archival Image: Collected Essays (Hilversum: Verloren, 1997), 55-65.
18. Terry Cook, "Archives in the Post-Custodial World: Interaction of Archival Theory and Practice since the Publication of the Dutch Manual in 1898," Archivum 43 (1997): 193-94;
19. 4Terry Cook, " 'What Is Past Is Prologue': A History of Archival Ideas Since 1898
20. and the Future Paradigm Shift," Archivaria 43 (1996): 22.