Bastian / Yakel (15 July 2004) ICA Vienna 18
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Providing Reference Services for Archives and Manuscripts (18)
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Selecting and Appraising Archives and Manuscripts (18)
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Understanding Archives and Manuscripts (18)
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Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts (16)
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Archival Arrangement - Five Different Operations (14)
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In the Eye of the Beholder: Archives Administration from the Users Point of View
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Managing Archival and Manuscript Repositories (13)
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Encoded Archival Description: The Development of an Encoding Standard for
Archival Finding Aids (12)
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Exploring the Black Box (12)
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On the Idea of Permanence (12)
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Code of Ethics for Archivists (11)
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Who Controls the Past? (11)
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Dear Mary Jane: Some Reflections on Being an Archivist (10)
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Good Sense and Good Judgment (10)
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Power of the Principle of Provenance (10)
There are several other interesting features of this list. First, only one title, Encoded Archival
Description, dates after 1990. Second, the other volumes of the SAA Archival Fundamental
Series (Arranging and Describing and Managing Archival and Manuscript Repositories) also
rank very high. Taken together this is a bit disturbing because the Fundamental series was
designed for a different audience and the volumes are more heavily weighted toward practice
rather than theory. The lack of more recent and modern readings being widely adopted is
also a concern. While this does show there is a core knowledge, the content of that core is
not encouraging.
Network Analysis
The network analysis of the citations presents a slightly different picture. The
network analysis identifies the number of common readings between pairs of schools. The
more pairs, the closer the tie and the thicker the line. Figure 6 shows common pairs in the
entire group of 33 introductory courses.
