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Beatrice S. Bartlett - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A world-class archival achievement: the People’s Republic of China archivists’ success in opening the Ming-Qing central-Government Archives, 1949–1998
Archival Science, 2008Co-Authors: Beatrice S. BartlettAbstract:This article describes the first half century of the Communist Government’s supervision and management of the central-Government Archives of the last two dynasties. Immediately with the Communist ascent to power in 1949, the new Government took great interest in assembling and protecting the country’s archival documents, readying the Ming-Qing Archives for access to scholars, and preparing for publication of selected materials. By the 1980s Beijing’s Number One Historical Archives, in charge of the largest holding of Ming-Qing documents, had become the first Chinese authority to complete a full sorting and preliminary catalogues for such a collection. Moreover, to facilitate searches, an attempt has recently begun to create a subject-heading system for these and other holdings in the country. In the first half century’s final decades, foreign researchers were admitted for the first time and tours and international exchanges began to take place.
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a world class archival achievement the people s republic of china archivists success in opening the ming qing central Government Archives 1949 1998
Archival Science, 2007Co-Authors: Beatrice S. BartlettAbstract:This article describes the first half century of the Communist Government’s supervision and management of the central-Government Archives of the last two dynasties. Immediately with the Communist ascent to power in 1949, the new Government took great interest in assembling and protecting the country’s archival documents, readying the Ming-Qing Archives for access to scholars, and preparing for publication of selected materials. By the 1980s Beijing’s Number One Historical Archives, in charge of the largest holding of Ming-Qing documents, had become the first Chinese authority to complete a full sorting and preliminary catalogues for such a collection. Moreover, to facilitate searches, an attempt has recently begun to create a subject-heading system for these and other holdings in the country. In the first half century’s final decades, foreign researchers were admitted for the first time and tours and international exchanges began to take place.
Eleanor Mattern - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A six-stage process for recovery of public records: replevin and the state of North Carolina
Archival Science, 2016Co-Authors: Eleanor MatternAbstract:To archivists and manuscript collectors and dealers, the term replevin describes Governmental efforts to recover public records that are in the custody of a private party. Much of the existing writing on replevin and records focuses on the small number of court decisions regarding custody. More commonly, however, disputes concerning the ownership of records are settled between a Government Archives and a private party. Drawing upon active records, archival materials, and interviews with public officials, this article examines these quieter recovery cases alongside those that have resulted in a court decision and, in doing so, puts forth a representation of the replevin process. There are three layers to replevin presented in this article. First, this article outlines the general shape to the replevin process and presents a six-stage model that characterizes recovery efforts in the USA. The second layer focuses on the state of North Carolina and builds upon the six-stage model to identify common practices in each stage. The article then presents an individual example of recovery of a public record in North Carolina and, with this layer, considers what this narrative reveals about replevin.
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The Pennsylvania h is Torical and Museu M c o MM ission and T he Pa P ers of T he h ar M ony s ocie T y: a n acquisi T ion, a f ive- d ecade l oan, and r ecovery
2015Co-Authors: Eleanor MatternAbstract:Among archivists and manuscript collectors, the term "replevin" commonly describes efforts by Government Archives to recover public records that are in private hands. At times, such efforts can provoke friction, raising questions about the line between public and private property rights. This article chronicles an atypical replevin case in Pennsylvania, one that focuses on the struggles over the ownership of papers of a private origin, but which became Government property with their transfer to the Commonwealth in 1937. This is a custodial history of a collection of papers documenting the Harmony Society, a religious separatist society once located in western Pennsylvania and in southwest Indiana. It is a story that involves a former Harmonist, a scholar, misplaced trust, and recovery that highlights the complex psychology of ownership.
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The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and the Papers of the Harmony Society: An Acquisition, a Five-Decade Loan, and Recovery
Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, 2015Co-Authors: Eleanor MatternAbstract:Among archivists and manuscript collectors, the term “replevin” commonly describes efforts by Government Archives to recover public records that are in private hands. At times, such efforts can provoke friction, raising questions about the line between public and private property rights. This article chronicles an atypical replevin case in Pennsylvania, one that focuses on the struggles over the ownership of papers of a private origin, but which became Government property with their transfer to the Commonwealth in 1937. This is a custodial history of a collection of papers documenting the Harmony Society, a religious separatist society once located in western Pennsylvania and in southwest Indiana. It is a story that involves a former Harmonist, a scholar, misplaced trust, and recovery that highlights the complex psychology of ownership.
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The replevin process in Government Archives: Recovery and the contentious question of ownership
2014Co-Authors: Eleanor MatternAbstract:To an attorney practicing law in the common law system, the term “replevin” describes a legal remedy for recovering personal property held by another party. In this civil procedure, the determination of rightful ownership falls to the court. Archivists and manuscript collectors have appropriated this same term to describe any effort by a Government Archives to recover public records in private hands, whether these efforts involve the courts or are carried out informally through discussions and negotiations with private parties. The number of “true” replevin cases involving disputed public records is small and existing commentary in the archival literature focus on these judicial decisions. This dissertation examines the quieter cases, developing a sharper understanding of what replevin means to individuals who are charged with preserving records and to those who are personally driven to collect. Three state Archives serve as case studies and semi-structured interviews with institutional employees, archival records, active records, statute and case law as data sources. A consistent message emerging from discussions with Government officials is that each replevin case is singular in the manner in which it is resolved. Still, there is an apparent pattern to the replevin of public records, conceptualized in this dissertation as a six-stage process. Each case begins with the discovery of the alienated record and results in a custody determination favoring either the Government or the private party. This dissertation determines that variances in statute, case law, and the involvement of legal counsel strongly influence a Government’s decision to pursue, the shape of negotiations, and the state’s ultimate ability to recover the targeted record. The issue of replevin is one that has provoked friction between the community of Government archivists and some members of the collecting community, a friction largely stemming from an ambiguous understanding of the nature of a “public record” and disagreement as to whether an Archives should lay claim to records that never have been in its possession. This study probes the motivations of public officials pursuing public records and argues that it is in the public interest for public Archives to have an active replevin agenda.
Hea Lim Rhee - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Archival appraisal practice in U.S. state Archives and records management programs
Archival Science, 2016Co-Authors: Hea Lim RheeAbstract:The quantity of Government records has grown dramatically since the rapid development of information technology starting in the mid-twentieth century. This ever-expanding body of records has challenged the limited resources of Government Archives. Though U.S. Government archivists constantly try to identify valuable Government records among the geometrically increasing total, in order to justify spending public money on their preservation, little is known about how U.S. state Archives and records management programs go about the process. The study discussed in this paper is the first to empirically investigate nationwide archival appraisal practice in U.S. state Archives and records management programs. The study answered two research questions: How do U.S. state archivists and records managers conceptually define archival appraisal? How do U.S. state archivists and records managers practice archival appraisal of state Government records? The study used an online survey and interviews for data collection and SPSS software and NVivo8 software for data analysis. This paper discusses the research topic and concludes with recommendations for practitioners and further studies.
Richard J. Cox - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Empty Temples: Challenges for Modern Government Archives and Records Management
Records & Information Management Report, 2006Co-Authors: Richard J. CoxAbstract:The past is also the repository of downright failures, monuments to ignorance, excessive optimism, and hubris. If heeded, the past thus provides caveats and lessons for future designs. If shunned, it will still haunt the future, always lurking in the shadows of success.
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The First Generation of Electronic Records Archivists in the United States: A Study in Professionalization
1995Co-Authors: Richard J. CoxAbstract:ContentsPreface * Foreword * Introduction: Archival Professionalization in the United States and This Study Personal Notes and Acknowledgments * Prolegomenon * State Government Archives and Position Descriptions: A Case Study of Archivists and Archival Work in the Information Age * Archival Position Advertisements: Trends and Practices in the Information Age, 1976?1990 * Graduate Archival Education and Electronic Records: An Analysis of Current Approaches and Their Strengths and Weaknesses * The NAGARA Institute: An Evaluation of Its Effectiveness as a Form of Advanced Archival Education * Archivists, Archival Institutions, and Electronic Records: Problems, Challenges, Opportunities, and Needs for Additional Research * Works Cited * Index
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RAMP Studies and Related UNESCO Publications: An International Source for Archival Administration
The American Archivist, 1990Co-Authors: Richard J. CoxAbstract:UNESCO's Paris-based Records and Archives Management Program (RAMP), has sponsored and published many studies of archival institutions, functions, and education that provide a valuable picture of archival practice worldwide. The author reviews selected RAMP publications that have general value for North American archivists in the areas of archival education, appraisal, arrangement and description, reference and access, preservation, Government Archives, the relevance of other disciplines for archival work, and international archival protocol and standards.
Ian E. Wilson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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“Peace, order and good Government”: Archives in society
Archival Science, 2012Co-Authors: Ian E. WilsonAbstract:The phrase “peace, order and good Government,” common to the definition of federal powers in both the Australian and the Canadian constitutions, has defined the relationship of the Crown and the citizen for more than five centuries. The archival record is fundamental to that relationship, providing its authoritative legal basis, documenting its evolution and continuing as a reminder of both our proudest achievements and our most dismal failures as a society. This paper reflects on the role of Archives in recent Canadian human rights issues, highlighting both the strengths and the weaknesses of the record, the perception of Archives as an agency of the state and the role of Archives in helping society address highly contentious issues.
