n.the activities performed in archives, especially relative to their managementGersack 1964, 339The president proposed that the Society sponsor, under the auspices of the Membership Development Committee, a series of regional symposia on archival administration.Scott 1973, 113There has been a considerable degree of centralisation in archival administration in the U.S.S.R., with particular standardisation in methods of arrangement and description.Maher 1978, 12They [keeping statistics] provide a solid basis for three areas of archival administration that relate to the budgeting process: evaluation, operations improvement, and financial justification.Worthy 1979, 81On the positive side, I want to emphasize that in modern management theory there are a number of creative and highly productive ideas that can be applied with particular effectiveness in archival administration. These ideas include: knowing the job, setting objectives, organizing to meet objectives, managing by objectives, managing by participation, and evaluating performance.Worthy 1979, 83Aside from the danger of failing to establish the archives’ relevance to the host organization, the greatest menace to successful archival administration is failure to establish realistic priorities.Geselbracht 1986, 154Restrictions on access were a necessary part of archival administration, but no document, no part of a document, should be closed unnecessarily.Kurtz 1989, 242Effective archival administration requires successful integration of the principles and practices of archives administration with the management techniques of business or public administration.Yuqing 1991, 207Approaches to archival administration in China and America bear marked similarities, especially the procedures of acquisition, arrangement, description, preservation, and reference.Ress 1992, 87The existence of closed files and the use of differing but determined access dates are not unknown in the archival administration of any country, but the common Eastern Middle European practice regarding access restriction was the use of indeterminate access dates.Bellardo and Bellardo 1992, 2–3ARCHIVAL ADMINISTRATION[:] The management or direction of the program of an ARCHIVES (3) or MANUSCRIPT REPOSITORY, including the following archival functions: APPRAISAL and DESCRIPTION, ACQUISITION, ARRANGEMENT, DESCRIPTION, PRESERVATION, REFERENCE SERVICE, OUTREACH, and other user services.Gilliland-Swetland 1993, 536The fact that publications in SAA’s new Fundamentals Series make only passing references to this fundamental aspect of archival administration reinforces how far archival thinking and education regarding electronic records still have to develop before such materials are viewed as integral to archival theory and practice.Duffy and Taylor 2005, 210Fundamental to the archival administration of access to organizational records is an understanding of appropriate case law and legal concepts.Craig 2005, 252But acquisition also raises other issues of archival administration, especially relating to the problem of continuing preservation and its costs.Posner 2006, 134In appraising what has happened, one naturally wonders whether ours is a unique development of whether other countries are going to follow our example, combining in one agency responsibility for records management and archival administration.Searcy 2017, 173Although the corpus of scholarship on accessioning remains slim, recent years have shown an increased awareness in the importance of the function in a holistic view of archival administration, as well as its potential to operationalize iterative, access-driven workflows.Meissner 2019, 69Accessioning really encompasses a small but crucial set of activities that occupy a transition from the acquisition phase to the processing phase in archival administration.Joffrion and Cloonan 2020, 162A commitment to long-term archival administration essentially expands the organization’s mission beyond political activism and social justice to service and scholarship.the field and discipline committed to maintaining archivesGersack 1964, 339These meetings would be designed to bring together persons from business firms, local governmental agencies, colleges, universities, public school systems, professional organizations, local historical societies, and others who have an interest in the broad field of archival administration.Iwakura 1978, 78In addition to this consultation, a “Liaison Meeting with Government Agencies” is held regularly each year between the National Archives and government departments and agencies to promote mutual understanding in the field of archival administration.Russell 1983, 278There are some historians who feel that archivists have come to ignore their professional forebears and no longer realize the importance of historical training for archival administration.Vaganov 1988, 485We believe that international cooperation of archivists assists in the exchange of experiences in the field of archival administration accumulated by different countries.Cox 1990b, 495North American archivists long have lamented the absence of a basic text on archival administration, many relying on the complete SAA Basic Manual Series or, more indicative of the problem, a reader recently produced by the Society of Australian Archivists.Yakel and Bost 1994, 597Administrative use of archival records is an understudied aspect of archival administration.Norton 2003, 77In saying that records of historical importance are suitable for transfer to the archives, it should be noted that the practice of abstracting individual documents from files to put them in the archives is frowned upon, since integrity of files is a basic principle in archival administration.MacNeil 2005a, 79–80One means by which the archival profession might demonstrate that altruism in the specific area of privacy is to formally articulate, for the benefit of both archivists and users, the basic ethical standards that should inform the archival administration of access to records containing personal information.Galloway 2006, 115As to archival practice, Rowland was influenced by his own professional training in the law, but was also an active participant in the early professionalization of archival administration.Posner 2006, 59As early as 1909 Waldo G. Leland, whose name will always be linked to the beginning and progress of archival administration in the United States, very clearly identified and defined the kind of archival training that seemed to be needed when he read his fundamental papers on “American Archival Problems” before the Conference of American Archivists.Blouin and Rosenberg 2011, 92Perhaps to the surprise of historians, archival administration has evolved in the digital age into a complex discipline based on its own set of practices, principles, and assumptions.Leland 2011c, 140We shall now pass on to the consideration of the proposed chapters, seriatim. About some of them we shall have very little to say, either because they are self-evident accompaniments of archival administration or because we prefer to leave them for future conferences.Greene 2014, 33If Western methods of interpreting sources complicate the effort to represent underdocumented communities effectively in repositories so, too, by extension, do Western approaches to archival administration itself.the organizational entity or designated people within it having responsibility for direct oversight and management of an archivesColeman 1941, 152Shall the transfer of material be left to the initiative of the office to which it belongs, or shall it be determined by the archival administration, or by a third office?Crittenden 1941, 266These, briefly, are a few of the present problems in the field of state archival administration: winning recognition as the official archival agency, establishing better public relations, financing our program, dealing with federal relief projects, and formulating a workable plan for the destruction of useless records.Lethbridge 1951b, 382It is controlled by the Archives Division (Hauptabteilung Archivwesen) of the Ministry of the Interior to which the German Central Archives in Potsdam and the archival administrations of the Länder Brandenburg, Mecklenburg, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia are responsible. The archival administrations of the Länder, in turn, control the Land Archives and the other public archives, including the economic archives (Betriebsarchive) which, as a result of the confiscation of the greater part of private business, have become of major importance.Green 1965, 31It gives, in commendable detail, the current controlling body of Archival administration, a history of the legislation dealing with the preservation of government records, and the present state of the programme.Tener 1978, 21In the Soviet Union, “the most politically important and sensitive records, and some of the most culturally and scientifically significant are outside the jurisdiction” of the Main Archival Administration, the government bureaucracy charged with responsibility for archival material.Iwakura 1978, 80There are several other institutions with archival functions which preserve national administrative records in certain specific subject fields, thereby supplementing the function of the National Archives in the archival administration of the records of the nation as a whole.Vaganov 1988, 482The Main Archival Administration of the USSR Council of Ministers exercises archival control on an all-union scale. There are corresponding main archival administrations of the councils of ministers of the union republics; and in territories and regions, there are archival administrations or departments of executive committees of councils of peoples deputies.Yuqing 1991, 209Since the founding of New China in 1949, the People’s Government continues to implement a unified and centralized system and the archival work of the whole nation is under the control of the central archival administration agency, the State Archives Bureau (SAB).Schellenberg 1996, 5The recognition of the importance of records to society was one of the important gains of the French revolution. This recognition resulted in three important accomplishments in the archival field: (1) an independent, national, archival administration was established, (2) the principle of public access to archives was proclaimed, and (3) the responsibility of the state for the care of the valuable documents of the past was recognized.Schellenberg 1996, 120From the nature of the functions it is to accomplish, it is obvious that an archival administration should be given a place in the governmental hierarchy that will enable it to deal independently with all units of the government.Blouin and Rosenberg 2011, 162The other suggested principles elaborated this theme: that restrictions to archival access be accepted only when it could be clearly and legally demonstrated that the harm to public or personal interests warranted an exemption to the public’s legally guaranteed right to know; that archival administrations, and especially national archival administrations, had to represent not simply the interests of the proprietors that appoint and support them, but those of the scholarly and research communities themselves, whose public interests they had a duty and responsibility to defend; and finally, that archivists were bound by the importance of their political, social, and professional roles to provide full and accurate representation of the general nature and content of their collections, including materials whose specific contents for appropriate reasons might be restricted from scholarly review for some fixed period of time.Wong et al. 2014, 116–117The predecessor of the modern archive can be traced back to the French Revolution, considered the watershed event during which the fundamental ideas for the modern archival institution coalesced. It marked a change in archival administration and provided the framework for a nationwide archival institution that serves as the contemporary model for the national archives as the central and primary archiving institution for the state.Haas and Schürrer 2022, 239, fn. 5The majority of the archives in the French occupation zone had not been part of the Prussian archival administration and had therefore been influenced by Prussian archival science at most indirectly.the educational curricula or formal training covering the theories and practices of archivySmith 1951, 360The course is intended to instruct the student in the techniques of modern archival administration, in the theory of administrative organization, and in the fields of documentation and economics.Lukis 1965, 6The post-graduate diploma courses in Archives at London and Liverpool Universities and the short courses in archival administration conducted by several universities in the U.S.A. are comparatively recent developments.Koucky 1973, 472The committee asked the participants to discuss courses currently given in archival administration and, if possible, to draw up a set of minimal standards for the subjects taught and the qualifications of the instructor.Goggin 1984, 249The American University courses in archival administration served as models for courses later established by other institutions.Posner 2006, 72The curriculum combines lectures with practical training and on-the-job experience and thus provides the students with a good grounding in archival administration and the additional field of his choice.
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Terms often used interchangeably for one or more of these senses include archival management, archive administration, archive management, archives administration, and archives management.
