In this debut volume in a new series stressing the importance of archives and archivists to scholarship in the digital age, Cox (library and information science, U. of Pittsburgh) reviews knowledge ma
Libraries and archives have violated their public trust, argues Nicholson Baker in his controversial book Double Fold, by destroying their paper-based collections. The present work critiques Mr. Bake
Cox, presumably a professional archivist in some capacity, does not join the vociferous lamentations that first camcorders and then digital cameras are making family records temporary, contingent on t
Cox covers all aspects of the management of archival programs, including appraisal and acquisition, preservation and security, arrangement, description, and reference, fund-raising, grantsmanship, an
Cox (information sciences, U. of Pittsburgh) offers an examination of the creation of archival repositories, describing the ways in which they are consciously shaped (and sometimes distorted) by archi
This work is characterized by the author as a series of personal reflections on the role of library and information science schools within the contemporary corporate university expressed in reaction t
For the past three decades, policies regarding a variety of information issues have emanated from federal agencies, legislative chambers, and corporate boardrooms. Despite the focus on information pol
The importance of records in modern society is explored by re-examining some of the historical antecedents for critical functions in the modern records professions. The motivation for writing this boo
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 (
In this series of four essays, Richard J. Cox explores the social and professional ramifications of 9/11 on our information landscape. "Musing," written on the first anniversary of the terrorist attac
This collection of fifteen essays about archival research and studies, written by experts in the field, were first presented at the 2014 Archival Education and Research Institute conference. Essay tit
Cox (library and information science, U. of Pittsburgh) and Wallace (School of Information, U. of Michigan) present fourteen case studies that focus on the intersection between accountability, on the
