SIX SENSATIONAL NEW BOOKS AVAILABLE FROM SAA!
1] PHOTOGRAPHS: ARCHIVAL CARE AND MANAGEMENT
http://www.archivists.org/catalog/pubDetail.asp?objectID=1995
By Mary Lynn Ritzenthaler and Diane L. Vogt-O'Connor
with Helena Zinkham, Brett Carnell, Kit A. Peterson
"...a superb manual for the preservation of our nation's photographic
heritage at risk."
-Debra Hess Norris, Chair and Professor, Art Conservation Department,
University of Delaware
Society of American Archivists (2006)
550 pp., Hard cover / Product Code: 481
List: $84.95; SAA Member price: $59.95
SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE FOR SAA MEMBERS: $50
(through Sept. 30, 2006)
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2] ARCHITECTURAL RECORDS: MANAGING DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION RECORDS
http://www.archivists.org/catalog/pubDetail.asp?objectID=1996
By Waverly B. Lowell and Tawny Ryan Nelb
"...an essential resource for anyone interested in or responsible for
the care of architectural drawings."
-Maygene Daniels, National Gallery of Art, Chief of Gallery Archives
Society of American Archivists (2006)
250 pp., Hard cover / Product Code: 482
List: $62.00 / SAA Member price: $45.00
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3] UNDERSTANDING ARCHIVES AND MANUSCRIPTS (Archival Fundamentals Series
II)
http://www.archivists.org/catalog/pubDetail.asp?objectID=1997
By James M. O'Toole and Richard J. Cox
"This thoroughly updated version of the 1990 edition is not only the
best short introduction to archives for students, new archivists, and
anyone interested in archiving, but also provides the experienced
archivist an invaluable summary analysis of the field's burgeoning
literature and increasingly complex issues."
-Tom Nesmith, Archival Studies Program, Department of History,
University of Manitoba, Canada
Society of American Archivists (2006)
255 pp., Soft cover / Product Code: 483
List: $49.00 / SAA Member price: $35.00
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4] ARCHIVES AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST: SELECTED ESSAYS OF ERNST POSNER
(Archival Classics Series)
http://www.archivists.org/catalog/pubDetail.asp?objectID=1998
Edited by Ken Munden with a new introduction by Angelika Menne-Haritz
First compiled in 1967 for the seventy-fifth birthday of the author.
Ernst Posner wrote these 16 essays during the two decades between his
emigration from Germany in 1939 and his retirement from American
University in Washington, D.C., in 1960. This new edition reveals
Posner's role as a builder of bridges between the emerging archival
profession in the United States and the European traditions.
Society of American Archivists (2006)
232 pp., Soft cover / Product Code: 484
List: $49.00 / SAA Member price: $35.00
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5] ARCHIVES, DOCUMENTATION, AND THE INSTITUTIONS OF SOCIAL MEMORY
http://www.archivists.org/catalog/pubDetail.asp?objectID=2004
Edited by Francis X. Blouin and William G. Rosenberg
"Unraveling the mysteries of human memory, these [46 essays] show why
archives are essential in all societies. This is an indispensable guide
to social memory of the past and its impact on the present, and the best
of current international and multi-disciplinary scholarship."
-Randall Jimerson, Professor of History and Director of the Graduate
Program in Archives and Records Management at Western Washington
University
University of Michigan Press (2006)
512 pp., Hard cover / Product Code: 485
List: $95.00 / SAA Member price: $75.00
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6] ARCHIVES: RECORDKEEPING IN SOCIETY
http://www.archivists.org/catalog/pubDetail.asp?objectID=2005
Edited by Sue McKemmish, Michael Piggott, Barbara Reed, Frank Upward
Explores the role of recordkeeping in various cultural, organizational,
and historical contexts. Themes address archives as a web of recorded
information (i.e., new information technologies have presented dilemmas,
but also potentialities for managing of the interconnectedness of
archives); and the relationship between evidence and memory in archives
and in archival discourse. It also explores recordkeeping and
accountability, memory, societal power and juridical power, along with
an examination of issues raised by globalization and
internationalization.
Charles Sturt University Centre for Information Studies, Australia
(2005)
354 pp., Soft cover / Product Code: 486
List: $60.00 / SAA Member price: $48.00
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