Documenting Localities: A Practical Model for American Archivists and Manuscript Curators

Written as a companion to the author's Managing Institutional Archives: Foundational Principles and Practices (Greenwood Press, 1992), this 1996 work is here reprinted in a paperbound edition. Cox (archival studies, U. of Pittsburg) focuses on the need for a more systematic approach to the acquisition of archives and manuscripts. Coverage includes the importance of the locality to American archival practice, the primary methods archivists have used to acquire documentation about localities, the practical basis of the archival documentation strategy as a more systematic approach to archival appraisal, and a suggested schema for conducting such documentation work. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Richard J. Cox is Assistant Professor at the School of Library and Information Science, University of Pittsburgh. He is also the author of several books including American Archival Analysis (Scarecrow, 1990).