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Leading and Managing Archives and Manuscripts Programs
Peter Gottlieb
Society of American Archivists, 2019
Book 1 of the Archival Fundamentals Series III
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Leading and Managing Archives and Records Programs
Bruce W. Dearstyne
American Library Association, 2008

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Legal Records at Risk
A Strategy for Safeguarding our Legal Heritage
Clare Cowling
University of London Press, 2019
Why do so few institutions in the legal sector have professional records managers or archivists on their staff? This book is the culmination of a three year project by experienced archivist and records managers on private sector legal records at risk in England at Wales. It summarises the work of the Legal Records at Risk (LRAR) project and its predecessors, diagnoses the problems of preservation of archives in the legal sector in England and Wales and outlines a national strategy for such records.
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The Library Innovation Toolkit
Ideas, Strategies, and Programs
Anthony Molaro
American Library Association, 2015

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Library’s Crisis Communications Planner
A PR Guide for Handling Every Emergency
Jan Thenell
American Library Association, 2004

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Life in Laredo
A Documentary History from the Laredo Archives
Robert D. Wood
University of North Texas Press, 2004

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Local Histories
Reading the Archives of Composition
Patricia Donahue
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007

In Local Histories, the contributors seek to challenge the widely held belief that the origin of American composition as a distinguishable discipline can be traced to a small number of elite colleges such as Harvard, Yale, and Michigan in the mid- to late nineteenth century. Through extensive archival research at liberal arts colleges, normal schools, historically black colleges, and junior colleges, the contributors ascertain that many of these practices were actually in use prior to this time and were not the sole province of elite universities. Though not discounting the elites' influence, the findings conclude that composition developed in many locales concurrently.

Individual chapters reflect on student responses to curricula, the influence of particular instructors or pedagogies in the context of compositional history, and the difficulties inherent in archival research. What emerges is an original and significant study of the developmental diversity within the discipline of composition that opens the door to further examination of local histories as guideposts to the origins of composition studies.

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