Toward Better Documenting and Interpreting of the Past: What History Graduate Programs in the Twenty-first Century Should Teach About Archival Practices

Bridges, Edwin M.; Hunter, Gregory S.; Miller, Page Putnam; Thelen, David; Weinberg, Gerhard L.

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“…40 A team of archivists and historians in the early 1990s pinpointed the "natural partnership" among those who rendered evidence available and those who exploited it. 41 The relationship between archivists and historians also appeared closeknit in the 2000s. Library and information science professor Wendy Duff and LIS doctoral student Catherine Johnson believed archivists key in orienting historians to new archives and new collections.…”

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Archival Divides and Foreign Countries? Historians, Archivists, Information-Seeking, and Technology: Retrospect and Prospect

Poole¹

2015

The American Archivist

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Rumors of the deterioration of the historian-archivist relationship have been exaggerated. This article first traces the evolving historian-archivist bond over the last eight decades. Second, it discusses the methods scholars have employed in studying historians, namely bibliometrics, questionnaires, interviews, and a combination. Third, it describes the results and implications of those studies in three areas: locating sources, using primary and nontextual materials, and overall information-seeking and use. Fourth, it considers the evolving and still ambivalent role of information technology in historians' research. Finally, it suggests possibilities for future research, highlighting digital history, personal archiving, Web 2.0, democratization and public history, crowdsourcing and citizen archivists, digital curation, activist archivists and social justice, diversity and the changing demographics of the archival profession, and education and training. Though historians and archivists may not always have used their relationship to Clio's maximum advantage, digital technology and an improved knowledge of historians' work practices based on investigations by archival scholars engender new and better possibilities for collaboration.

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Section: Introduction: Why Study Historians?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Archival Divides and Foreign Countries? Historians, Archivists, Information-Seeking, and Technology: Retrospect and Prospect

Poole¹

2015

The American Archivist

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“…A total of 15 years after their impassioned “rational for cooperation” appeared in the Journal of American History, American Archivist , and Chronicle of Higher Education , we echo this call for cooperation and collaboration between the historical and archival professions (Bridges et al , 1993a, b; Miller and Thelen, 1993). These issues linger unresolved.…”

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Reappraising archival practice in light of the new social history

Wingen¹,

Bass

2008

Library Hi Tech

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PurposeThis paper aims to explore the relationship between historiography and archival practices. It takes the new social history approach to history as a case study for examining how historians' changing theories and methods may affect solicitation, acquisition, appraisal, arrangement, description, reference, outreach, and other aspects of archival administration.Design/methodology/approachThe paper presents a review of the archival and historical literature since the late 1970s.FindingsThe paper finds that many aspects of archival administration have been and continue to be affected by the new social history trend in historical scholarship. The paper suggests that archivists and archival educators be trained in historiography as a way to understand historians' craft and develop strong documentation strategies to anticipate future archival needs.Research limitations/implicationsBecause the paper is primarily a literature review, it does not test real‐life examples or case studies that would be useful in understanding the relationship between historians and archivists.Practical implicationsThe paper includes implications for the development of archival administration and education strategies.Originality/valueThe paper draws from a range of literature to consider the impact of scholarly practices on professional archival work.

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“…Fifth, cross-checking: this is the final step and refers to triangulation both data-wise and methodologically. Bridges et al (1993) developing a knack for understanding some of the basic archival principles may come in handy while locating evidence. On the other hand, with specific reference to electronic archives, other scholars have demonstrated the value of "indexing" and other associated techniques (Feeney, 1999;Yakel, 2003).…”

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Archival research: a neglected method in organization studies

Das

Jain²,

Mishra

2018

BIJ

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Purpose Archival research is a much under-rated and under-utilized method of research in management studies. Yet multi-disciplinary undertakings being observed in recent times, such as in knowledge management (KM) systems, business history and social network studies, among others, indicate that there is a lot of potential to be explored. The purpose of this paper is to highlight this point and make a case for its inclusion in the researcher’s toolkit in the future. Design/methodology/approach The authors follow a two-stage method here: the first stage being an improvised process to benchmark articles for this review; while the second stage involves content analysis and synthesis of the same. Findings The authors have dealt with the intricacies of the archival research methodology by minutely examining the fieldwork steps, proxies generation, other related processes of triangulation, etc. With the discussion on “multi-disciplinary undertakings,” the authors offer not only a selective bibliography of works that have effectively harvested this family of methods, but also critique the nuances involved. Finally, coming into more contemporary concerns and developments, the authors undertake an in-depth look at technological applications in the domain of KM, in case study mode. Methodological richness leads to substantive granularity. As such, the authors argue that archival methods contribute to the robustness, contextuality and holism of any research endeavor, more so in the study of business and organizations. Research limitations/implications This paper is based on the literature review. Practical implications This paper makes a case for archival method’s contribution toward the robustness, contextuality and holism of any research endeavor, more so in the study of business and organizations. Originality/value This paper re-positions the method of archival research as a viable and sophisticated tool for researchers to employ effectively in singular or mixed method studies.

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Toward Better Documenting and Interpreting of the Past: What History Graduate Programs in the Twenty-first Century Should Teach About Archival Practices

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Archival Divides and Foreign Countries? Historians, Archivists, Information-Seeking, and Technology: Retrospect and Prospect

Archival Divides and Foreign Countries? Historians, Archivists, Information-Seeking, and Technology: Retrospect and Prospect

Reappraising archival practice in light of the new social history

Archival research: a neglected method in organization studies

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