n.a repository that collects materials from individuals, families, and organizations other than the parent organizationWilsted 1993, 26Both the 1980 code and the current code of ethics principally address relationships between three groups: archivists and other archivists, archivists and researchers, and archivists and donors. While the ethics of collecting archives and manuscripts primarily affects the latter group, it also affects the other groups in lesser ways.Henry 1998, 316It is also unclear why the new definition of a record applies only to electronic records and apparently not to records in other media, or what a collecting archives would do with such a definition.O’Sullivan 2005, 54How do digital records factor into the collection development policies of collecting archives?Daniel 2010, 84Searching for information on marginalized or anonymous individuals and groups could therefore be a time-consuming and labor-intensive task across geographically scattered local historical societies or collecting archives . . .
