Archives and the public good : accountability and records in modern society / edited by Richard J. Cox and David A. Wallace.

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9780313006722

9781567204698

Title:

Archives and the public good : accountability and records in modern society / edited by Richard J. Cox and David A. Wallace.

Author:

Cox, Richard J.

Publication Information:

Westport, Conn. : Quorum Books, 2002.

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1 online resource (vi, 340 pages)

Contents:

Explanation -- -- Archives on Trial : The Strange Case of the Martin Luther King, Jr, Papers / James M. O'Toole -- "A Monumental Blunder" : The Destruction of Records on Nazi War Criminals in Canada / Terry Cook -- Information for Accountability Workshops : Their Role in Promoting Access to Information / Kimberly Barata, Piers Cain, Dawn Routledge, andJustus Wamukoya -- -- Secrecy -- -- Implausible Deniability : The Politics of Documents in the Iran-Contra Affair and Its Investigations / David A. Wallace -- The Failure of Federal Records Management : The IRS versus a Democratic Society / Shelley Davis -- Lighting Up the Internet : The Brown and Williamson Collection / Robin L. Chandler and Susan Storch -- -- Memory -- -- The Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the Politics of Memory / Tywanna Whorley -- Turning History into Justice : The National Archives and Records Administration and Holocaust-Era Assets, 1996-2001 / Greg BradSher -- "They Should Have Destroyed More" : The Destruction of Public Records by the South African State in the Final Years of Apartheid, 1990-1994 / Verne Harris -- Trying to Write "Comprehensive and Accurate" History of the Foreign Relations of the United States : An Archival Perspective / Anne Van Camp -- -- Trust -- -- What You Get Is Not What You See : Forgery and the Corruption of Recordkeeping Systems / David B. Gracy II -- The Jamaican Financial Crisis : Accounting for the Collapse of Jamaica's Indigenous Commercial Banks / Victoria L. Lemieux -- The Anchors of Community Trust and Academic Liberty : The Fabrikant Affair / Barbara L. Craig -- Records and the Public Interest : The "Heiner Affair" in Queensland, Australia / Chris Hurley.

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Subject Term:

Archives -- Social aspects.

Archives -- Administration -- Case studies.

Records -- Management -- Case studies.

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Wallace, David A., 1961-

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2002

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Westport, Conn. : Quorum Books, 2002.

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This volume widens the perspective of the roles that records play in society. As opposed to most writings in the discipline of archives and records management which view records from cultural, historical, and economical efficiency dimensions, this volume highlights that one of the most salient features of records is the role they play as sources of accountability--a component that often brings them into daily headlines and into courtrooms. Struggles over control, access, preservation, destruction, authenticity, accuracy, and other issues demonstrate time and again that records are not mute observers and recordings of activity. Rather, they are frequently struggled over as objects of memory formation and erasure.The 14 powerful case studies focus around four closely related themes--explanation, secrecy, memory, and trust. They demonstrate how records compel, shape, distort, and recover social interactions across space and time. The diverse range of case studies includes the ownership of the Martin Luther King, Jr. papers, the destruction of records on Nazi war criminals in Canada, the politics of documents in the Iran-Contra affair, the failure of records management in the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, the publication of tobacco company documents on the World Wide Web, access to records associated with the U.S. government's infamous Tuskegee syphilis study, the role of the U.S. National Archives in identifying assets looted by the Nazis in the wake of the Holocaust, the destruction of public records by the South African government during apartheid's final years, the construction of foreign relations of the U.S. documentary histories, the forgery corrupting recordkeeping systems, and the collapse of foreign indigenous commercial banks.

Author Notes

Richard J. Cox is a professor in Library and Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences
David A. Wallace is an assistant professor at the School of Information, University of Michigan
Kimberly Barata is the research manager, Rights and Records Institute, International Records Management Trust, London, United Kingdom
Greg Bradsher is director, Holocaust-Era Assets Records Project, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Piers Cain has extensive operational experience in a wide range of organizations, including business, international financial institutions, and local government. Formerly the founding director of the International Records Management Trust's Rights and Records Institute, in 2001, Mr. Cain co-founded the Missenden Group. As a director he provides consultancy
Robin L. Chandler is the manager of the Online Archive of California (OAC), a digital information resource of the California Digital Library (CDL)
Terry Cook is visiting professor in the archival studies program at the University of Manitoba
Barbara L. Craig is an associate professor of archives in the Faculty of Information Studies of the University of Toronto
Shelley Davis worked for sixteen years as a historian for the federal government, spending nine years with the Department of Defense and eight years as the only historian to ever work for the Internal Revenue Service. At the end of 1995 Ms. Davis resigned from her position with the IRS in protest the agency's failure to halt the illegal destruction of government documents, including its historical record
David B. Gracy II, archivist, historian, and educator, is the Governor Bill Daniel Professor in Archival Enterprise in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Texas at Austin
Verne Harris is the director of the South African History Archive
Chris Hurley has been general manager (Archives Business) at Archives New Zealand since 1997
Victoria L. Lemieux has long service as a government archivist, presently holding a position as campus records manager for the University of the West Indies' Mona Campus in Kingston, Jamaica
James M. O'Toole is associate professor of history at Boston College
Dawn Routledge is the archives development officer for the Regions of the National Council on Archives
Susan Storch is a project archivist at the Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley, California, and works as an archival consultant
Anne Van Camp is currently manager of Member Initiatives for the Research Libraries Group, Inc.
Justus Wamukoya is a senor lecturer and head of Archives and Records Management in the Faculty of Information Sciences at Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya
Tywanna Whorley is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences

Richard J. Cox and David A. WallaceJames M. O'TooleTerry CookKimberly Barata and Piers Cain and Dawn Routledge and Justus WamukoyaDavid A. WallaceShelley DavisRobin L. Chandler and Susan StorchTywanna WhorleyGreg BradsherVerne HarrisAnne Van CampDavid B. Gracy IIVictoria L. LemieuxBarbara L. CraigChris Hurley

Introduction	p. 1
Explanation	p. 19
Archives on Trial: The Strange Case of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers	p. 21
"A Monumental Blunder": The Destruction of Records on Nazi War Criminals in Canada	p. 37
Information for Accountability Workshops: Their Role in Promoting Access to Information	p. 67
Secrecy	p. 89
Implausible Deniability: The Politics of Documents in the Iran-Contra Affair and Its Investigations	p. 91
The Failure of Federal Records Management: The IRS versus a Democratic Society	p. 115
Lighting Up the Internet: The Brown and Williamson Collection	p. 135
Memory	p. 163
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the Politics of Memory	p. 165
Turning History into Justice: The National Archives and Records Administration and Holocaust-Era Assets, 1996-2001	p. 177
"They Should Have Destroyed More": The Destruction of Public Records by the South African State in the Final Years of Apartheid, 1990-1994	p. 205
Trying to Write "Comprehensive and Accurate" History of the Foreign Relations of the United States: An Archival Perspective	p. 229
Trust	p. 245
What You Get Is Not What You See: Forgery and the Corruption of Recordkeeping Systems	p. 247
The Jamaican Financial Crisis: Accounting for the Collapse of Jamaica's Indigenous Commercial Banks	p. 265
The Anchors of Community Trust and Academic Liberty: The Fabrikant Affair	p. 283
Records and the Public Interest: The "Heiner Affair" in Queensland, Australia	p. 293
Index	p. 319
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 335

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