the American Archivist,
- Provenance,
- Midwestern Archivist (now Archival Issues),
- Archivaria,
- Journal of Library History,
- Libraries and Culture,
- Journal of Library Administration,
- Public Historian,
- Library and Archival Security,
- RQ,
- the ASIS
Proceedings,
- Records
Management Journal,
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Information Management Journal,
- International Information and Library
Review,
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Janus,
- Archives
and Museum Informatics,
- Journal of Education for Library and
Information Science,
- First
Monday,
- Archival
Science,
- Archives
and Manuscripts,
- Journal
of the Society of Archivists
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
RICHARD J. COX
PROFESSOR
ARCHIVAL STUDIES
Richard J. Cox is a Professor in Library and Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences where he is responsible for the archives and records management concentration in the MLIS degree. Prior to his current position he worked at the New York State Archives and Records Administration, Alabama Department of Archives and History, the City of Baltimore, and the Maryland Historical Society. He chaired the Society of American Archivists (SAA) committee that drafted new graduate archival education guidelines adopted by its Council in 1988, served for four years as a member of that association's Committee on Education and Professional Development, and was a member of the Society's governing Council from 1986 through 1989. Dr. Cox served as Editor of the American Archivist from 1991 through 1995, and he is currently Editor of the Records & Information Management Journal published by M.E. Sharpe and the Publications Editor for the Society of American Archivists.
He has written extensively on archival and records management professional issues, publishing articles in such journals as:
He was also principal author of a major evaluation of Alabama's historical records, Assessing Alabama's Archives (1985), and a self-study guide for New York's historical records programs, Strengthening New York's Historical Records Programs (1988), winner of the Arline Custer Memorial Award given by the Mid-Atlantic Region Archives Conference for publishing excellence in the field of archival administration. Dr. Cox also won the Custer Award in 1979. He has published ten books on archival topics: American Archival Analysis: The Recent Development of the Archival Profession in the United States (1990) -- winner of the Waldo Gifford Leland Award given by the Society of American Archivists; Managing Institutional Archives: Foundational Principles and Practices (1992); The First Generation of Electronic Records Archivists in the United States: A Study in Professionalization (1994); and Documenting Localities (1996); Closing an Era: Historical Perspectives on Modern Archives and Records Management (2000); Managing Records as Evidence and Information (2000), winner of the Leland Award in 2001; Co-editor, with David Wallace, Archives and the Public Good: Accountability and Records in Modern Society (Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, 2002); Vandals in the Stacks? A Response to Nicholson Baker's Assault on Libraries (Westport, Conn,: Greenwood Press, 2002); Flowers After the Funeral: The Implications of 9/11 in the Digital Era (Metucehn, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 2003); and No Innocent Deposits: Forming Archives by Rethinking Appraisal (Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 2004), winner of the Leland Award in 2005.
Dr. Cox has two more books scheduled for publication in 2006 or early 2007. He is co-author with James M. O'Toole of the second edition of Understanding Archives and Manuscripts, being published by the Society of American Archivists. Facet Publishing will be handling his new book on archival ethics and accountabilty, scheduled to appear in late 2006 or early 2007.
