http://hdl.handle.net/2142/427 Allerton Park Institute Proceedings (no.11, 1964). Edited by Rolland E. Stevens http://hdl.handle.net/2142/440 A scholar's view of university archives Veysey, Laurence R. While working on "The Emergence of the American University, 1865-1910," for my doctoral dissertation in American history at the University of California at Berkeley, I visited the archives of eleven leading universities. My study was an investigation of major trends in thinking about the ideal nature of the university in this formative period of university education in America, and it was also a comparative look at the actual policies and practices of about a dozen leading academic institutions during this fast-changing span of time. Archives http://hdl.handle.net/2142/439 Conservation Tribolet, Harold W. Librarians and archivists face a great number of administrative problems: personnel, building programs, heating, air-conditioning, trustees, and so on. This discussion adds a new dimension conservationto their problems. Many of the points touched upon will not help specifically in handling the tons of day-to-day materials charged to their care, but they will consider the hazards of disintegration and the techniques of preservation of rarities. Conservation http://hdl.handle.net/2142/438 The reference use of archives Shipton, Clifford K. In this paper the archivist's obligations to his clientèle; administrative, scholarly, and other will be discussed, and archivists will be warned of the pitfalls into which we in Cambridge have fallen. Archives Reference services (Archives) http://hdl.handle.net/2142/437 Records management Mitchell, Thornton W. In recent years, records have become a matter of increasing concern. For a long time, there have been archival establishments in which valuable records or presumably valuable records have been kept. But modern reproducing methods and natural growth have resulted in more records of less quality for the archivist to deal with. Since World War n, under the leadership of the federal government, there has been a concerted effort to reduce the backlog of old records, to insure the preservation of valuable records, to make records and recorded information more accessible to administrators and researchers, and to create records of high quality. This effort has been directed toward managing the flood of records and paper work that threatens to swamp the activities that create and handle them. There has been discussion for many years about what this effort should be called, and there have been many names applied to it. Since it is concerned with the management of records, the term "records management" seems to be a simple and all-inclusive solution to the problem of a name. Archives Records management http://hdl.handle.net/2142/436 History and theory of archival practice Holmes, Oliver W. Knowledge exists in two forms: (1) "active knowledge," meaning that to be found in the brains of living human individuals and therefore available to them at any given moment as bases for actions, and (2) "passive (or potential) knowledge," which exists in the great reservoir of documents in which have been recorded the experiences, observations, thoughts, and discoveries of other men, chiefly those of the past. The custody of this great, and ever increasing, reservoir of passive knowledge is the responsibility of the archivist and the librarian. They must preserve it safely and impartially, and they must ever seek better ways to make it increasingly available to mankind so that it becomes part of the active knowledge by which they are guided. Archives http://hdl.handle.net/2142/435 Foreword and Table of Contents to University archives (Papers presented at the Allerton Park Institute November 1-4, 1964) Stevens, Rolland E. Archival administration has been paid scant attention by librarians and by teachers of library science. In spite of its resemblance, at least in externals, to the management of libraries, it has been the historians who first appreciated the value of archives and who developed principles and methods for their administration. Recognition by librarians of this important kindred study is long overdue. There are signs that in our universities we are emerging from the stage in which the task of preserving and arranging the past records of the institutions is given to a semi-retired professor of Greek or medieval history. For its llth Allerton Park Institute, therefore, the faculty of the Graduate School of Library Science of the University of Illinois chose the topic, "University Archives." Table of Contents Archives http://hdl.handle.net/2142/434 The collecting of archival materials at Cornell University Fox, Edith M. Cornell University was among the pioneers in the development of a university archives and a regional history collection. The physical results of that endeavor are at times so annoyingly apparent in expanding stacks and worrisome storage places as to obscure the research values of the bulky records that cause the trouble. In contrast, the books and articles which have been wholly or partially based on these materials take little room, although a surprisingly large number of them are scattered through any major library. Archives Cornell University http://hdl.handle.net/2142/433 Appraisal and processing Brichford, Maynard How records are appraised and processed in the University Archives at Illinois will be the subject of this discussion. At the University of Illinois, the University Archives is located in the Library. Wherever the archivist may be located organizationally, he should be out of his office two-thirds of the time. While processing must be done in the Archives, the archivist should define and standardize processing procedures so that he may spend his time in locating the historical documentation relating to the activities of the university's staff and students. Effective appraisal must be done in offices, storerooms, stockrooms, and basements. Every time records are moved the chances of disarrangement and loss increase. Archives Appraisal http://hdl.handle.net/2142/428 University archives (Papers presented at the Allerton Park Institute November 1-4, 1964) Archival administration has been paid scant attention by librarians and by teachers of library science. In spite of its resemblance, at least in externals, to the management of libraries, it has been the historians who first appreciated the value of archives and who developed principles and methods for their administration. Recognition by librarians of this important kindred study is long overdue. There are signs that in our universities we are emerging from the stage in which the task of preserving and arranging the past records of the institutions is given to a semi-retired professor of Greek or medieval history. For its llth Allerton Park Institute, therefore, the faculty of the Graduate School of Library Science of the University of Illinois chose the topic, "University Archives." Academic libraries Archives