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Archivists, Collectors, Dealers, and Replevin

Case Studies on Private Ownership of Public Documents

By: Elizabeth H. Dow

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Archivists, Collectors, Dealers, and Replevin

Case Studies on Private Ownership of Public Documents

By: Elizabeth H. Dow

Today, government archivists and manuscript collectors are often in conflict over government-created documents that come up for sale out of private hands. Such manuscripts are often archival material that escaped government control, and government archivists want that missing material back to complete the historic record. Collectors and dealers, however, assert that since the government didn’t take care of their documents properly at the time of their creation, they lost the right to claim them now. This divide between government archivists and collectors has become especially acute for “trophy” documents written by a person of note or about a well-known person or event. Archivists, Collectors, Dealers, and Replevin does not serve as a legal guide to the issues that arise in this divide; instead, it presents both sides of the conflict and examines them dispassionately. The book begins with an historical review of institutional and state-sponsored collecting and the care of historical documents in the United States. The review is followed by a selection of tales of theft and neglect in the past. The third chapter examines the origins and maturation of the archival profession in the United States, and the next discusses the phenomenon of collecting, both as a hobby and as an institutional activity. The fifth chapter provides a general summary of state and federal statutes on public documents in private hands, and with that background in place, the sixth chapter distills the perspectives of the various parties in the struggle. The seventh presents a series of case studies developed to evoke the complexity of these conflicts. The book concludes with steps that holders of public documents can take to avoid conflicts, as well as steps an archive can take to protect its collection.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810883783

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9780810883789

Electronic Records in the Manuscript Repository

By: Elizabeth H. Dow

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Electronic Records in the Manuscript Repository

By: Elizabeth H. Dow

Electronic Records in the Manuscript Repository defines the problems related to electronic records and digital documents, describes the steps the curator should take to manage those electronic records and digital documents, and suggests ways to learn the specific skills and perspectives needed to do the job well. It provides an introduction to vocabulary, basic concepts, and best practices to date by collecting and contextualizing data from several real-world projects, and it contains almost 30 pages of references to resources that the curator can consult for information on specific topics. Dow starts with a review of archival concepts, including a look at archival practices, and then discusses the problems created by electronic materials in that context, as well as the research in progress to tackle these problems.

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208

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Scarecrow Press

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0810867087

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9780810867086

How to Weed Your Attic

Getting Rid of Junk without Destroying History

By: Elizabeth H. Dow,Lucinda P. Cockrell

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How to Weed Your Attic

Getting Rid of Junk without Destroying History

By: Elizabeth H. Dow,Lucinda P. Cockrell

How to Weed Your Attic: Getting Rid of Junk without Destroying History provides answers to the question: when someone dies or it’s time to move --- or just clean out the attic, garage, or basement, what papers and other things should we save for the sake of history and what can we safely toss? After reading this clearly written book by a retired archivist and a retired museum curator, you can comfortably clean out your attic – or office, garage, basement, cupboards – with confidence that you’re not tossing out historically valuable (or invaluable) things, and that you will not ask your local museum to take things that really belong in a thrift store, junk yard, or recycle center. The book first describes how to identify historically important documents and artifacts. The authors explain a few simple rules: 1) a complete or long collection has more value than a partial one; 2) emotive material provides a richer picture than factual material; 3) unique usually has more value than mass produced; 4) documents and objects carry more information than they intend to; and 5) a 25-year rule exists without our consciously recognizing it. They then apply the rules and assess the probable historical value of four different types of materials: mass produced (from books to vehicles), individually created (from art work to toys), business materials (from governance documents to uniforms), and commemorative materials (from awards to wedding dresses). The book includes a brief description of the basics for preserving materials the reader wants to keep and references sources for more detail. It also recognizes that the reader may not want to keep stuff that clearly has historical value. For those readers, the authors describe how to donate materials to a cultural repository. In broad strokes, they explain how repositories differ, what the repository will want to know about the stuff you're offering, where an appraiser and/or tax advisor fits into the process, and what the reader can expect the repository to do and not do. Finally, the book addresses unexpected issues that may arise around questions of legal ownership and privacy. Throughout the book, the authors illustrate their points using photographs and vignettes.

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153

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538115476

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9781538115473

Creating EAD-compatible Finding Guides on Paper

By: Elizabeth H. Dow

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Creating EAD-compatible Finding Guides on Paper

By: Elizabeth H. Dow

Many archivists work in a repository that cannot consider publishing its inventories on the World Wide Web at this time. They have watched the growing use of the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) for publishing inventories and other finding aids on the Web, and they look forward to the day when their repository will also have a place in the Internet's mega-library of intellectual resources. This book shows those archivists how to create clear and precise archival description in order to start preparing for that day. Dow focuses on the information needed to collect and describe one's collection, where to put it in relation to other information, and what standards to use in the process. Rounding out this publication is a bibliography, a glossary of terms, and an index.

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178

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Scarecrow Press

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0810851660

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9780810851665

Genealogist's Address Book. 6th Edition

By: Elizabeth Petty Bentley

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Genealogist's Address Book. 6th Edition

By: Elizabeth Petty Bentley

This book is the answer to the perennial question, "What's out there in the world of genealogy?" What organizations, institutions, special resources, and websites can help me? Where do I write or phone or send e-mail? Once again, Elizabeth Bentley's Address Book answers these questions and more. Now in its 6th edition, The Genealogist's Address Book gives you access to all the key sources of genealogical information, providing names, addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, websites, names of contact persons, and other pertinent information for more than 27,000 organizations, including libraries, archives, societies, government agencies, vital records offices, professional bodies, publications, research centers, and special interest groups.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806317965

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9780806317960

The Complete Guide to Single Stock Futures

What They are and how to Trade Them

By: Russell R. Wasendorf,Elizabeth Thompson

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The Complete Guide to Single Stock Futures

What They are and how to Trade Them

By: Russell R. Wasendorf,Elizabeth Thompson

This work provides a comprehensive overview of how single stock futures work and then explores the most effective trading strategies of those traders who trade single stock futures every day. Topics include the differences between stocks and single stock futures.

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392

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0071434135

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9780071434133

Michigan

By: Elizabeth M. Johnson

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Michigan

By: Elizabeth M. Johnson

Describes the geography, plants and animals, history, economy, language, culture and people of the state of Michigan

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051622316X

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Electronic Records in the Manuscript Repository

Electronic Records in the Manuscript Repository

How to Weed Your Attic

How to Weed Your Attic

Creating EAD-compatible Finding Guides on Paper

Creating EAD-compatible Finding Guides on Paper

Genealogist's Address Book. 6th Edition

Genealogist's Address Book. 6th Edition

The Complete Guide to Single Stock Futures

The Complete Guide to Single Stock Futures

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