Many libraries have archives, which serve a distinct function, albeit in a shared setting. Reconciling differences between archivists and librarians has been a long-standing issue for the information professions in the United States. Today more than ever, librarians and archivists need to understand one another and harmonize their divergent but complementary professional paths. ARCHIVES IN LIBRARIES: WHAT LIBRARIANS AND ARCHIVISTS NEED TO KNOW TO WORK TOGETHER builds a bridge toward that harmonization, suggesting ways in which archivists working in libraries can better negotiate their relationships with the institution and with their library colleagues. It also helps librarians and library directors better understand archival work by providing overviews of archival concepts, policies, and best practices. Vignettes and interviews throughout the book articulate similarities and points of departure between libraries and archives while highlighting the issues and offering solutions to practical problems.

Jeannette A. Bastian is Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College where she also directs their Archives Management concentration. She worked as a public librarian for over twenty years in the United States Virgin Islands ultimately serving as Director of Libraries and Archives for the Territory and starting their local government archives. She received a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 1999 and is widely published in the archival literature. Her books include West Indian Literature, A Critical Index, 1930–1975 (1982), Owning Memory, How a Caribbean Community Lost Its Archives and Found Its History (2003), Archival Internships: A Guide for Faculty, Supervisors, and Students (2008), and Community Archives, The Shaping of Memory, ed. with Ben Alexander (2009).

Megan Sniffin-Marinoff is University Archivist at the Harvard University Archives, the oldest and largest academic archives in the nation. She has worked for more than thirty years as an archivist and was previously Deputy Director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Institute Archivist/Head of Special Collections at MIT, and College Archivist at Simmons College. She taught at the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science, where she co-founded the dual degree program in archives and history, and has consulted widely for a variety of archives sectors, both public and private. She holds a BS degree from Boston University, an MA/Certificate in Archives Management from New York University, and is a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists.

Donna Webber is Associate Professor of Practice at the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College. She has spent more than thirty years working in academic archives at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Simmons College. She coauthored with Jeannette A. Bastian Archival Internships: A Guide for Faculty, Supervisors, and Students (2008). She received a BA in History from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, and an MA in History and in Library Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction

Part I Setting the Stage
1 Finding Common Ground: Mission, Professional Roots, Identity, and Values
2 Finding Common Ground: Language
3 Educating Archivists and Librarians

Part II Considering the Work
4 What Archivists Do, Part I: Collecting, Records Management, and Appraisal
5 What Archivists Do, Part II: Processing, Preservation, Access, Reference, and Outreach
6 When a Library Starts an Archives: Establishing, Planning, and Managing

Part III Considering the Issues
7 Archival Ethics
8 Issues in Common: Information Literacy, Digital Access, and Digital Preservation
9 Convergences and Divergences

Appendix: Archival Standards
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors