This class follows a Zero-Cost Textbook model that will use various Open Educational Resources and/or library materials. You will not need to purchase a textbook for this class.
That means that all materials will be available one of the following ways:
– Linked directly from this website
– Sourced through QC Library resources like databases and journals
Session one: Introduction to repository and collection
Thursday, July 6
- Syllabus, LBSCI 790.3: Advanced Archival Practice
Session two: Arrangement and description, part 1
Tuesday, July 11
- Meehan, Making the Leap from Parts to Whole: Evidence and Inference in Archival Arrangement and Description.
- Queens College Special Collections and Archives Processing Guide.
- Miller, Chapter 4: Processing a congressional collection, in Managing congressional collections.
- Melvin, Appraisal of John J. Williams Papers.
Session three: Congressional archives, part 1
Thursday, July 13
- H.Con.Res.307 – 110th Congress (2007-2008): Expressing the sense of Congress that Members’ Congressional papers should be properly maintained and encouraging Members to take all necessary measures to manage and preserve these papers.
- H.R.13500 – 95th Congress (1977-1978): Presidential Records Act.
- Miller, Introduction, in Managing congressional collections.
- Miller, Appendix A: Chronology of advances in managing Congressional collections, in Managing congressional collections
- Cook, “Private Papers” of Public Officials.
Session four: Acquisitions and donor relations
Tuesday, July 18
- Miller, Chapter 1: Soliciting or donating a Congressional collection, in Managing congressional collections
- Gray & Paul, A Hint of Scandal: Problems in Acquiring the Papers of Herman E. Talmadge.
- Purcell, Chapter 7: Donor types, in Donors and archives : A guidebook for successful programs.
Session five: Arrangement and description, part 2
Thursday, July 20
In-class visit: former Congressman Joseph Crowley, 7-8 PM
- Miller, Chapter 5: Reference services and outreach, in Managing congressional collections.
- Darms, The Archival Object: A Memoir of Disintegration.
Session six: Standards and strategies—DACS
Tuesday, July 25
- Society of American Archivists, Describing Archives: A Content Standard.
- Douglas, A call to rethink archival creation: exploring types of creation in personal archives.
Session seven: Congressional archives, part 2
Thursday, July 27
- Baldock & Cox, New Perspectives on Congressional Collections: A Study of Survey and Assessment.
- Novara, Documenting Maryland Women State Legislators: The Politics of Collecting Women’s Political Papers.
- Paul, Summary report and recommendations in The documentation of Congress : report of the Congressional Archivists Roundtable Task Force on Congressional Documentation.
Session eight: Archival software, part 1
Tuesday, August 1
RO-227, computer lab on second floor of Library (not GSLIS wing)
Session nine: Archival software, part 2
Thursday, August 3
RO-227, computer lab on second floor of Library (not GSLIS wing)
- University of Denver Special Collections, Special Collections Processing Manual: Field guidelines for Archival Objects.
- University of Denver Special Collections, Special Collection processing manual: Field guidelines for Container Profiles.
Session ten: Access, use, privacy
Tuesday, August 8
- Paul, Chapter VII: The research use of Congressional collections in The documentation of Congress : report of the Congressional Archivists Roundtable Task Force on Congressional Documentation.
- Dickson, Due Diligence, Futile Effort: Copyright and the Digitization of the Thomas E. Watson Papers.
- Robertson, Confidentiality in Government.
- Emerling, Civics in the Archives: Engaging Undergraduate and Graduate Students with Congressional Papers.
Session eleven: Acquisitions and donor relations, part 2
Thursday, August 10
In-class visit: Annie Tummino, Head of Queens College Special Collections and Archives
- George, Archives Beyond the Pale: Negotiating Legal and Ethical Entanglements after the Belfast Project.
- Purcell, Chapter 4: Negotiating and reviewing a potential donation, in Donors and archives : A guidebook for successful programs.
- Purcell, Chapter 5: The details of a donation, in Donors and archives : A guidebook for successful programs.
Session twelve: Presentations and reflections
Tuesday, August 15
