1964: University Archives

Allerton Park Institute Proceedings (No.11, 1964); Edited by Rolland E. Stevens

For its 11th Allerton Park Institute the faculty of the Graduate School of Library Science of the University of Illinois chose the topic, "University Archives." 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.

The complete text of the Institute is available here as well as the individual papers. The papers included here are:

• History And Theory Of Archival Practice - Oliver W. Holmes
• Records Management - Thornton W. Mitchell
• The Collecting Of Archival Materials At Cornell University - Edith M. Fox
• Appraisal And Processing - Maynard Brichford
• Conservation - Harold W. Tribolet
• The Reference Use Of Archives - Clifford K. Shipton
• A Scholar's View Of University Archives - Laurence R. Veysey
  

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