Archivists' Report; Lincolnshire Archives Committee

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Archivists' Report; Lincolnshire Archives Committee Women in Archives: A Summary Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Archival Profession, at the opposite end of the educational scale, men with less 1 Copies of the entire report are available for $2.00 from the Executive Director, Society of American Archivists, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Box 8198, Chicago, 111. 60680. 43 Page. Electronic Records Research Working Meeting, May 28รข 30, 1997: A Report from the Archives Community, electronic Records Research Working Meeting, May 28-30, 1997: A Report from the Archives Community. A decade ago, most archivists thought about electronic records issues much the way that librarians do today - as a problem of documenting and preserving data files. A profile of college and university archives in the United States, similar- ly one-third of the Canadian institutions have no professional archivists.13 While 25 percent of public institutions have two or more professional staff. Even 19 percent of large institu- tions report no professional staff and only 17 percent have more than two pro- fessionals. Continuing education for archivists: a status report, the issue of continuing education for archivists has generally taken a back seat to more general discussions concerning preparation for the profession. In large measure this situation has re-sulted from a historic absence of con-sensus among archivists regarding. Postappointment archival training: A proposed solution for a basic problem, 30 Ibid., pp. 169-72. 31 Unpublished appendix to Society of American Archivists, Report of the Committee for the 1970s. 34 Philip F. Mason, The Society of American Archivists in the Seventies: Report of the Committee for the 1970s American Archivist 35 (April 1972):207-10. The Society of American Archivists and graduate archival education: a sneak preview of future directions, 11 Guidelines for the Development of a Curriculum for a Master of Archival Studies Degree, 2. 12 Society of American Archivists, Report on Membership Forum Feedback to Proposed SAA 2000 Strategic Plan Goals and Objectives 10 April 2000. Intellectual access to archives: II. Report of an experiment comparing provenance and content indexing methods of subject retrieval, bRISC ASSOCIATE/ \ ARCHIVIST / \ CLARIFIES / \ QUESTION / P 8 CI ARCHIVISTS/ \ INTERVIEW USER V \ CLARIFY / \ QUESTION / P METHOD CLARIFIEn/NFfnTIATEn QIESTION I CI METHOD. Page 9. Intellectual Access to Archives: Report of an Experiment. The long-range implications for historians and archivists of the charges against the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, there is a certain amount of validity in the thesis that publishing a statement in the annual report of the Administra- tor of General Services is as good a way of keeping it a secret as can be found, but I have mixed feelings about the notion that it is the duty of archivists to keep. Towards a vision of archival services, clear. We bear out the observation, made in the Society of American Archivists' report on goals and priorities, that Archivists tend to think about their work in the order in which it is performed. Inevitably, use comes last. Since. The fonds concept in the working group on archival descriptive standards report, page 8. ARCHIVARIA 25 Notes Bureau of Canadian Archivists, Toward Descriptive Standards: Report and Recommendations of the Canadian Working Group on Archival Descriptive Standards (Ottawa, 1986). Bureau of Canadian Archivists. The English land market in the eighteenth century: the case of Lincolnshire, 294-309. 1 LAO Tennyson d'Eyncourt archive, Clayton family papers re Grimsby, Grainsby, and Gosberton estates; Archivists' Report 8, 8 ff; T. Tombleson, Notes towards a History of Barton upon Humber (1906), p. 51; LAO 2/TGH/1/34; LAO Brackenbury MSS; Notts. The Society of American Archivists in the Seventies: Report of the Committee for the 1970's, by PHILIP P. MASON 1970 the president of the Society, with the approval of the Council, appointed a special committee to analyze the present structure of the Society, its program and objectives, its relation-ship with other professional organizations, and most importantly. Is There a Future in the Use of Archives, repeated often enough, in enough forums, is heard. Resource allocators, those persons to whom archivists report in their organizational hierarchies, have heard it. The researcher who recently surveyed the attitudes of resource. The First Conference of Archivists, December 1909: the beginnings of a profession, 4 Proceedings of First Annual Conference of Archivists. Annual Report of the Amer- ican Historical Association, 1909, pp. 337-378. P. 272. 15 Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference of Archivists, Annual Report of the American Historical Association, 1917, p. 103-135. Perspectives on archival resources: the 1985 census of archival institutions, for his SAA presiden- tial address in 1956, Ernst Posner sum- marized responses to questionnaires re- turned for the Society's first membership directory. He limited his report to gender differences and the educational back- ground of archivists.1 In 1965 Philip. Electronic Records Planning in Collecting Repositories, academic archivists report lit- tle involvement with recordkeeping initiatives on campus and tend to conflate their responses about institutional records and collections from other sources. Thus, the survey data does not differentiate between the two types of collections. Archivists and librarians: a common mission, a common education, allen du Pont Breck, New Dimensions in the Education of American Archivists, AA 29 (April 1966): 173-86; Philip P. Mason, The Society of American Archivists in the Seventies: Report of the Com- mittee for the 197O's,/M 35 (April 1972): 193-217; Wilfred I. Smith, Broad. Education for American archivists: a view from the trenches, and while I do have great concern about institutionalizing programs 12Michael Cook, The Education and Training of Archivists Status Report of Archival Training Pro- grammes and Assessment of Manpower Needs (Paris: UNESCO, 1979), p. 6. Page. The first generation of electronic records archivists in the United States: a study in professionalization, 8-13; The Record in the Information Age: A Progress Report on Research, Records & Retrieval Report 12 (January 1996); Computer Literacy for Records Managers and Archivists, Records & Retrieval Report 12 (October 1996); The Importance of Records in the Information. The Education and Training of Archivists. Status Report of Archival Training Programmes and Assessment of Manpower Needs, this overview of the current situation in archival training and education worldwide describes the regional characteristics of training schools in Europe, North America, Latin America, the Arab states, Africa, Asia, and Oceania. The training capacities of both developed.