Research and the manuscript tradition

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    • Burke, Frank G.

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Research and the manuscript tradition

Frank G. Burke

Scarecrow Press , Society of American Archivists, 1997

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Bibliography: p. 291-300

Includes index

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内容説明

Researchers faced with using documentary sources for the first time, such as correspondence, diaries, and literary manuscripts, are plunged into a world far different from the familiar library setting, with its card or computer catalogs, bibliographies, and other resource-finding tools. Over and over, studies of research methodology among scholars reveal that they learn by some sort of collegial osmosis and general fumbling about until they figure things out. There is an easier way. Burke explains the professional techniques employed by archivists and manuscript curators, describing what they do and why, so the beginning researcher has a foundation for understanding how to search and access personal papers. Burke surveys problems of organization, access, alternative sources, and legal issues with amusing anecdotes and examples. Research and the Manuscript Tradition is a reflection on using manuscripts for research, administering manuscript and archival collections and institutions, and the lessons learned from teaching a manuscripts administration course for more than twenty years. It provides a solid theoretical base as well as practical advice and a glimpse of the satisfaction that can come from working with personal papers. Contents: Yuan Shih-Kai, Harriet Monroe, and the Manuscript Tradition; The Recovery of Reality; Opening the Doors to Scholarship; Gathering the Evidence; Mapping the Roads to the Past; Tradition Confronts Technology; Organizing a Life; Good Deeds Do Not Go Unrewarded; The Cultural Crypt; Not by Vaults and Locks...; Law, Curatorial Ethics, and the Researcher; Personal Communication in the Electronic Age.

目次

Part 1 Preface Part 2 Introduction Chapter 3 1 Yean Shih-Kai, Harriet Monroe, and the Manuscript Tradition Chapter 4 2. The Recovery of Reality Chapter 5 3. Opening the Doors to Scholarship Chapter 6 4. Gathering the Evidence Chapter 7 5. Mapping the Roads to the Past Chapter 8 6. Tradition confronts Technology Chapter 9 7. Organizing a life Chapter 10 8. Good deeds do not go unrewarded Chapter 11 9. The cultural crypt Chapter 12 10. Not by Vaults and Locks... Chapter 13 11. Law, Curatorial Ethics, and the Researcher Chapter 14 12. Personal Communication in the Electronic Age Part 15 Appendix: Freedom of Information Act Exemptions Part 16 Glossary of Terms Part 17 Bibliography Part 18 Index Part 19 About the Author

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