Reflections on the goal of archival appraisal in democratic societies

Archivaria

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 59-71

  Eastwood, Terry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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References (22)

1. T.R. Schellenberg, Modern Archives: Principles and Techniques (Chicago, 1956), p. 7.
2. Adolf Brenneke, Arkivkunde: ein Beitrag zu Theorie und Geschitedes europaischen Archi-vwessens (Wolfgang Leesch, ed.) (Leipzig, 1953), p. 38.
3. Schellenberg, Modern Archives, p. 16.
4. Hilary Jenkinson, A Manual of Archive Administration, Part III: Modern Archives. (Oxford, 1922).
5. Luciana Duranti, The Concept of Appraisal and Archival Theory The American Archivist 57 (Spring 1994), pp. 328-345.
6. Angelika Menne-Haritz, Appraisal or Documentation: Can We Appraise Archives by Selecting Content The American Archivist 57 (Summer 1994), pp. 528-542.
7. Brian Brothman, Orders of Value: Probing the Theoretical Terms of Archival Practice Archivaria 32 (Summer 1991), pp. 78-100.
8. Verne Harris, Seeing (in) Blindness: South Africa, Archives and Passion for Justice, The Records & Information Management On-line Service (RIMOS) at http://www.caldeson.com/ RIMOS/harris01.html
9. Verne Harris, Law, Evidence and Electronic Records: A Strategic Perspective from the Global Periphery, Comma 1-2 (2001), p. 33.
10. This summary is taken from Barbara Goodwin, Using Political Ideas, 2d ed. (New York, 1987), pp. 179-180.
11. Robert A. Dahl, Democracy and Its Critics (New Haven, 1989), pp. 84-85.
12. Dahl, Democracy and its Critics, p. 221.
13. John Dunn, Situating Democratic Political Accountability, in Adam Przeworski, Susan C. Stokes, and Bernard Manin (eds.), Democracy, Accountability, and Representation (Cambridge, 1999), pp. 339-341.
14. Charles Taylor, Multiculturalism and The Politics of Recognition (Princeton, New Jersey, 1992), pp. 25-26.
15. For a discussion of East German appraisal ideology see, Hans Booms, Society and the Formation of the Documentary Heritage: Issues in the Appraisal of Archival Sources, Archivaria 24 (Summer 1987), pp. 69-107.
16. These remarks were given before a Canadian parliamentary committee in 1976. Quoted in Terry Eastwood, The Disposition of Ministerial Papers, Archivaria 4 (Summer 1977), p. 19.
17. This definition of public records is taken from Trevor Livelton, Archival Theory, Records, and the Public (Lantham, Md., & London, 1996.).
18. Ian Wilson, A Noble Dream': The Origins of the Public Archives of Canada, in Tom Nesmith (ed.), Canadian Archival Studies and the Rediscovery of Provenance (Metuchen, N.J., 1993), p. 66.
19. Terry Eastwood, R.E. Gosnell, E.O.S. Scholefield, and the Founding of the Provincial Archives of British Columbia, 1894-1919, p. 121.
20. See, for example Section 2 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
21. John Ferejohn, Accountability and Authority: Toward a Theory of Political Accountability, in Adam Przeworski et al. (eds.), Democracy, Accountability, and Representation (Cambridge, 1999), pp. 131-132.
22. T.R. Schellenberg, The Appraisal of Modern Public Records, in Maygene F. Daniels and Timothy Walch (eds.), A Modern Archives Reader: Basic Readings on Archival Theory and Practice (Washington, 1984), p. 68.