Schellenberg & Traditional Appraisal
Schellenberg emphasized appraisal based on anticipated use by this professional group.
Who are historians (or academic researchers)?
According to Jenkinson, this is the archivist's 'Creed.'
What is the Sanctity of Evidence?
Cook argues that traditional archival principles were shaped mainly by problems in these two activities.
What is arrangement and description?
Schellenberg called this handbook, "a Bible for modern archivists."
What is the Dutch Manual?
This is the primary basis for macro-appraisal theory according to the National Archives of Canada.
What are societal values?
According to Cook, Schellenberg made appraisal the defining characteristic of this archival paradigm.
What is the second (or memory) paradigm?
Jenkinson argued that archivists should NOT do this because it would compromise their role as objective keepers.
What is appraisal, appraise records (or make selection decisions)?
Terry Cook identified these four paradigm shifts in archival identity since the 19th century.
What are Evidence, Memory, Identity, and Community?
This term refers to the evaluation process that determines which records have enduring value.
What is appraisal?
This is the year the National Archives of Canada formally adopted the societal focus of macro-appraisal.
What is 1991?
The percentage of total records typically retained as archives according to the Schellenberg era.
What is 3-5%?
Jenkinson believed the archive should be this type of "residue" left by the creator.
What is a natural (or documentary) residue?
The first paradigm, associated with Jenkinson, focused on this concept.
What is evidence (or juridical legacy)?
This framework in Canada aimed to integrate both public and private sector records into a comprehensive national archival system.
What is the 'total archives' framework?
Macro-appraisal asserts that THESE people, not researchers or creators, are society's professional agents appointed by law to form its collective memory.
Who are archivists?
Schellenberg’s term for the value of records to researchers after the records’ original administrative use has ended.
What is secondary value?
Jenkinson famously stated the good archivist is perhaps the most selfless devotee of this.
What is Truth?
Cook shows that early archival theory assumed stable organizations, which is no longer true in this environment.
What is the modern/electronic records environment?
The current acting head of the US National Archives.
Who is James Byron?
The Canadian approach deliberately shifts appraisal away from this traditional focus.
Content of records.
This type of secondary value documents the functions, programs, and activities of the creating agency.
What is informational value?
Postcustodial approaches revisit Jenkinson's model of evidence by shifting records as products to records as activities.
What is process focused activity?
Cook describes the archival profession as suffering from this because of the evidence-memory dichotomy.
What is an identity crisis (or 'fractured schizophrenia')?
Hans Booms argued that archival value should be grounded in this source of legitimacy.
Macro-appraisal shifts the primary focus of appraisal from the record to this.
What is the functional context in which the record is created?