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Ethics and Reference Services

Pages 107-124 | Published online: 20 Oct 2008

References

  • Margolick , David . 1992 . “After 40 Years, a Postscript on Hiss: Russian Official Calls Him Innocent” . New York Times , October 29 : B14 The November 1992 conversation took place at Rosarkhiv in Moscow, with the author present. The retraction was reported in an article by Serge Schmemann, “Russian General Retreats on Hiss,” New York 77/nes, December 17, 1992, p. A17
  • Danielson , Elena S. 1989 . “The Ethics of Access” . The American Archivist , 52 Winter : 52 – 62 . For a discussion of equal access, see
  • 1970 . Final Report of the Joint AHA-OAH Ad Hoc Committee to Investigate the Charges Against the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Related Matters , Washington : American Historical Association .
  • 1992 . Code of Ethics for Archivists and Commentary , Chicago : Society of American Archivists . This statement is available at a nominal price as a brochure from the Society of American Archivists, 600 South Federal, Suite 504, Chicago, Illinois 60605. Both the code and the ALA-SAA Joint Statement on Access can be found on the SAA Web site, http://volvo.gslis.utexas.edu/~us-saa/infosaa.html. An early version can be found in “The Archivist's Code,” The American Archivist, 18, 1955, pp. 307–308. For a critique of code based and case study based ethics, see Gregory E. Koster, “Ethics in Reference Service: Codes, Case Studies or Values,” Reference Services Review, Vol.20, No. I, 1990
  • Pugh , Mary Jo . 1992 . Providing Reference Services for Archives and Manuscripts , 3 Chicago : The Society of American Archivists . Here she is reiterating long-standing platitudes in the archival literature. For a succinct summary of the basic issues, see Nancy Lankford, “Ethics and the Reference Archivist,” The Midwestern Archivist, Vol. VIII, No. 1, 1983. A worthwhile book (though due for an update) on the legal ramifications of archival work can be found in Archives & Manuscripts: Law by Gary M. Peterson and Trudy Huskamp Peterson, (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1985)
  • 1993 . “Standards for Ethical Conduct for Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Librarians, with Guidelines for Institutional Practice in Support of the Standards” . College & Research Libraries News , 54 April : 207 – 215 . Also available as a separate brochure
  • The text as approved by ALA Council, June 28, 1995 is available on the ALA Web site, at htttp://www.ala.org. Another useful document on the ALA Web site is the Library Bill of Rights
  • Pugh . 5 op. cit.
  • Glantz , Stanton . 1996 . The Cigarette Papers , Berkeley : University of California Press . This volume contains 539 pages. The Web site has 8,000 pages of actual documents from the set of papers and can be accessed at http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco
  • MacNeil , Heather . 1992 . Without Consent: The Ethics of Disclosing Personal Information in Public Archives , 199 Metuchen and London, NJ : The Society of American Archivists and The Scarecrow Press, Inc. .
  • Middlebrook , Diane . 1991 . Anne Sexton , New York : Random House .
  • Gill , David and Schroeter , Ulrich . 1991 . Das Ministerium fuer Staatssicherheit: Anatomie des Mielke-Imperiums , Hamburg : Rohwolt . A handbook that explains how to gain access to one's own records can be found in Tina Krone, Irena Kukutz, and Henry Leide, Wenn Wir Unsere Akten Lesen: Handbuch zum Umgang mit den STASI-Ak-ten, (Berlin: Basisdruck, 1992). A useful summary of the issues was made by Kjell Engelbrekt, “The Stasi Revisited,” RFE/RL Research Report, Vol. 2., Nr. 46, November 19, 1993
  • Sara , S. 1991 . Hodson provides a balanced view of the issues on both sides in “Private Lives: Confidentiality in Manuscript Collections” . Rare Books and Manuscript Librarianship , 6 : 108 – 118 . Mark A. Greene explains the discrepancy between privacy law and archival practice in “Moderation in Everything, Access in Nothing?: Opinions About Access Restrictions on Private Papers,” Archival Issues, Vol. IS, No. I, 1993

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