Archives and the public good
Subtitle: accountability and records in modern society
By: edited by Richard J. Cox and David A. Wallace.
Contributors: Cox, Richard J.; Wallace, David A., 1961-
Publisher: Quorum Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Archives -- Social aspects.; Archives -- Administration -- Case studies.; Records -- Management -- Case studies.; Common good.; Public interest.; Responsibility.
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Explanation; title: Archives on Trial: The Strange Case of the Martin Luther King, Jr, Papers; title: James M. O'Toole; title: "A Monumental Blunder": The Destruction of Records on Nazi War Criminals in Canada; title: Terry Cook; title: Information for Accountability Workshops: Their Role in Promoting Access to Information; title: Kimberly Barata, Piers Cain, Dawn Routledge, andJustus Wamukoya; title: Secrecy; title: Implausible Deniability: The Politics of Documents in the Iran-Contra Affair and Its Investigations; title: David A. Wallace; title: The Failure of Federal Records Management: The IRS versus a Democratic Society; title: Shelley Davis; title: Lighting Up the Internet: The Brown and Williamson Collection; title: Robin L. Chandler and Susan Storch; title: Memory; title: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the Politics of Memory; title: Tywanna Whorley; title: Turning History into Justice: The National Archives and Records Administration and Holocaust-Era Assets, 1996-2001; title: Greg BradSher; title: "They Should Have Destroyed More": The Destruction of Public Records by the South African State in the Final Years of Apartheid, 1990-1994; title: Verne Harris; title: Trying to Write "Comprehensive and Accurate" History of the Foreign Relations of the United States: An Archival Perspective; title: Anne Van Camp; title: Trust; title: What You Get Is Not What You See: Forgery and the Corruption of Recordkeeping Systems; title: David B. Gracy II; title: The Jamaican Financial Crisis: Accounting for the Collapse of Jamaica's Indigenous Commercial Banks; title: Victoria L. Lemieux; title: The Anchors of Community Trust and Academic Liberty: The Fabrikant Affair; title: Barbara L. Craig; title: Records and the Public Interest: The "Heiner Affair" in Queensland, Australia; title: Chris Hurley.