Archival Appraisal, Arrangement, and Access

Unit two: Appraisal

_{Students sitting outside Student Union, by Richard Lee, 1984}

Session three: Archives building
Thursday, February 11

Readings

Required reading – annotation and discussion:
- Sauer’s “Doing the Best We Can? The Use of Collection Development Policies and Cooperative Collecting Activities at Manuscript Repositories“
- Geoff Wexler’s and Linda Long’s “Lifetimes and Legacies: Mortality, Immortality, and the Needs of Aging and Dying Donors“
Optional – foundational reading:
- Terry Cook’s “Building an Archives: Appraisal Theory for Architectural Records“
- Society of American Archivists’ “SAA Core Values Statement and Code of Ethics“
- Laura Millar’s “Archives: Principles and practices; Chapter 10″
- Jennifer Douglas’ “Love In the Archives: Towards a Theory and Praxis of Archival Care“

Assignments due

none

Review

Session four: Making the appraisal decision
Thursday, February 18

Readings

Required reading – annotation and discussion:
- Christine A. Lutz’s “Making a Scene: A Scenes Approach to a Local Music Archives“
- Steinwall’s “Appraisal and the FBI Files Case: For Whom Do Archivists Retain Records?“
Optional – foundational reading:
- Frank Boles’ and Julia Marks Young’s “Exploring the Black Box: The Appraisal of University Administrative Records“
- Aaron Purcell’s “Donors and Archives: A Guidebook for Successful Programs; Chapter 1″

Assignments due

none

Review

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