Managing Congressional Collections
Society of American Archivists, 2008
eISBN: 978-1-945246-59-3
eISBN: 978-1-945246-59-3
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
As diverse and rich as the American demographic is in their contents, the personal papers of members of Congress have tremendous and often untapped historic value in documenting each members district or state and its relationship to the federal government. Yet congressional collections challenge archivists and collecting institutions with every conceivable management problem associated with twentieth- and twenty-first-century records. From soliciting the collection and working with the member's office through detailed processing guidelines to planning effective outreach activities, each chapter of this manual includes the best practices for managing these unwieldy collections.
A project of the Congressional Papers Roundtable of the Society of American Archivists and funded by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, Managing Congressional Collections serves the needs of administrators and archivists who work with these specialized collections.
A project of the Congressional Papers Roundtable of the Society of American Archivists and funded by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, Managing Congressional Collections serves the needs of administrators and archivists who work with these specialized collections.
