American archival studies: readings in theory and practice

American archivists and the search for professional identity / Randall C. Jimerson

"Dear Mary Jane" : some reflections on being an archivist / John A. Fleckner

To remember and forget : archives, memory, and culture / Kenneth E. Foote

The symbolic significance of archives / James M. O'Toole

"Mind and sight" : visual literacy and the archivist / Elisabeth Kaplan and Jeffrey Mifflin

Liberty, equality, posterity? Some archival lessons from the case of the French Revolution / Judith M. Panitch

The provenance of a profession : the permanence of the public archives and historical manuscripts traditions in American archival history / Luke J. Gilliland-Swetland

The blessings of providence on an association of archivists / J. Frank Cook

At the "rim of creative dissatisfaction" : archivists and acquisition development / Timothy L. Ericson

Who controls the past / Helen Willa Samuels

The documentation strategy and archival appraisal principals : a different perspective / Richard J. Cox

On the idea of uniqueness / James M. O'Toole

Exploring the black box : the appraisal of university administrative records / Frank Boles and Julia Marks Young

"The surest proof" : a utilitarian approach to appraisal / Mark Greene

The power of the principal of provenance / David A. Bearman and Richard H. Lytle

Description and reference in the age of automation / Avra Michelson

Descriptive practices for electronic records : deciding what is essential and imagining what is possible / Margaret Hedstrom

Encoded archival description : the development of an encoding standard for archival finding aids / Daniel V. Pitti

In the eye of the beholder : archives administration for the user's point of view / Elsie Freeman Finch

Facts and frameworks : an approach to studying the users of archives / Paul Conway

Understanding administrative use and users in university archives / Elizabeth Yakel and Laura L. Bost Hensey

On the idea of permanence / James M. O'Toole

Archival preservation practice in a nationwide context / Paul Conway

Preservation re-recording of audio recordings in archives : problems, priorities, technologies, and recommendations / Christopher Ann Paton

Reinventing archives for electronic records : alternative services delivery options / David A. Bearman and Margaret Hedstrom

Schellenberg in cyberspace / Linda J. Henry

Digital communications : documentary opportunities not to be missed / Anne Gilliland-Swetland

Redefining archival identity : meeting user needs in the information society / Randall C. Jimerson

Keepers, users, and funders : building an awareness of archival value / John J. Grabowski.