COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF
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Richard J. Cox
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"A History of the Calvert Papers, MS. 174," Maryland Historical Magazine 68 (Fall 1973): 309-22.



"Public Records in Colonial Maryland," American Archivist 37 (April 1974): 263-75.
"The Historical Development of the Manuscripts Division of the Maryland Historical Society," Maryland Historical Magazine 69 (Winter 1974): 409-17.



co-author, "The Records of a City: Baltimore and Its Historical Sources," Maryland Historical Magazine 70 (Fall 1975): 286-310.



"Stephen Bordley, George Whitefield, and the Great Awakening in Maryland," Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church 16 (September 1977): 297-307.
"Manuscript Usage in the Private Historical Society: Maryland as a Case Study, 1970-1976," Manuscripts 29 (Fall 1977): 243-51.



"Professionalism and Civil Engineering in Early America: The Vicissitudes of James Shriver's Career, 1815-1826," Maryland Historical Magazine 74 (March 1979): 23-38.
"The Plight of American Municipal Archives: Baltimore, 1729-1979," American Archivist 42 (July 1979): 281-92.
"Donald R. McCoy's National Archives and American Archival History," Manuscripts 31 (Fall 1979): 302-08.



"Historical Demographers, Local Historians, and Genealogists: A Bibliographical Essay of Maryland Studies," Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin 21 (Winter 1980): 5-17.



"The Creation and Maintenance of Baltimore's Passenger Ship Lists by the Municipal Government, 1833-1866," Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin 22 (Winter 1981): 2-9.
"Women's History Sources, Women's History, and Archival Subject Guides," Manuscripts 33 (Spring 1981): 132-36.
"A Reappraisal of Municipal Records in the United States," Public Historian 3 (Winter 1981): 49-63.



"Understanding the Monumental City: A Bibliographical Essay on Baltimore History," Maryland Historical Magazine 77 (March 1982): 70-111.



"American Archival History: Its Development, Needs, and Opportunities," American Archivist 46 (Winter 1983): 31-41.
"A Century of Frustration: The Movement for the Founding of the State Archives in Maryland, 1811-1935," Maryland Historical Magazine 78 (Summer 1983): 106-17.
"The Varieties and Use of Historical Documentation: Five New Books," Manuscripts 35 (Winter 1983): 41-51.
"Bibliography and Reference for the Archivist," American Archivist 46 (Spring 1983): 185-87.
"The Need for Comprehensive Records Programs in Local Government: Learning by Mistakes in Baltimore, 1947-82," Provenance (Fall 1983): 14-34.
With Edwin C. Bridges, "The Condition of State and Local Government Records in the United States," NASARA Clearinghouse 6 (September 1983): 10-12.



with Anne S. K. Turkos, "Local History Research and the Records of Baltimore's Housing and Community Development Agency," Prologue 16 (Spring 1984): 49-61.
"Archivists and Public History," North Carolina Institute for Applied History Institute News 3 (March 1984): 3-6.
"Genealogy and Public History: New Genealogical Guides and their Implications for Public Historians," Public Historian 6 (Spring 1984): 89-96.
"State Government Publications and State Archival Institutions," NASARA Clearinghouse 7 (December 1984): 4-5, 16.
"Archivists and Historians: A View from the United States," Archivaria 19 (Winter 1984-85): 185-90.



"Leadership and Local Government Records: The Opportunity of the Joint Committee on the Management, Preservation, and Use of Local Government Records," Midwestern Archivist 10 (no. 1, 1985): 33-41.
"Strategies for Archival Action in the 1980s and Beyond: Implementing the SAA Goals and Priorities Task Force Report," Provenance 3 (Fall 1985): 22-37.



"Trouble on the Chain Gang: City Surveying, Maps, and the Absence of Urban Planning in Baltimore, 1730-1823; With a Checklist of Maps of the Period," Maryland Historical Magazine 81 (Spring 1986): 8-49.
"Archivists and Public Historians in the United States," Public Historian 8 (Summer 1986): 25-41.
with Anne S.K. Turkos, "Establishing Public Library Archives," Journal of Library History 21 (Summer 1986): 574-84.
"Government Publications as Archives: A Case for Cooperation Between Archivists and Librarians," Journal of Library Administration 7 (Summer/Fall 1986): 111-28.
"Professionalism and Archivists in the United States," American Archivist 49 (Summer 1986): 229-47.



"Our Disappearing Past: The Precarious Condition of America's Historical Records," OAH Newsletter 15 (February 1987): 8-9.
With Judy Hohmann, "Private Sector Fund Raising and Historical Records Programs: Learning in New York," Society of American Archivists Newsletter (September 1987): 6-7.
"Alabama's Archival Heritage, 1850-1985," Alabama Review 40 (October 1987): 284-307.
"The Origins of American Religious Archives: Ethan Allen, Pioneer Church Historian and Archivist of Maryland," Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society 29 (October 1987): 48-63.
"American Archival Literature: Expanding Horizons and Continuing Needs, 1901-1987," American Archivist 50 (Summer 1987): 306-23.



"On the Value of Archival History in the United States," Libraries & Culture 23 (Spring 1988): 135-51.
with Helen W. Samuels, "The Archivist's 'First Responsibility': A Research Agenda for the Identification and Selection of Records of Enduring Value," American Archivist 51 (Winter/Spring 1988): 28-42.
"Educating Archivists: Speculations on the Past, Present, and Future," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 39 (September 1988): 340-43.
"Fundraising for Historical Records Programs: An Undeveloped Archival Function," Provenance 6 (Fall 1988): 1-19.



"Selecting Historical Records for Microfilming: Some Suggested Procedures for Repositories," Library & Archival Security 9 (no. 2, 1989): 21-41.
"A Documentation Strategy Case Study: Western New York," American Archivist 52 (Spring 1989): 192-200.
"Religious Archivists Meet the Archival Profession: The Proceedings of the Evangelical Archives Conference," Provenance 7 (Spring 1989): 66-79.
"La formation en archivistique: Besoins et realisations," Archives 20 (hiver 1989): 33-42.
"Archival Education in the New York Library Environment," Bookmark 48 (1989): 32-36.



"Textbooks, Archival Education, and the Archival Profession: A Review Essay," Public Historian 12 (Spring 1990): 73-81.
"Professionalism and Archivists Revisited: A Review Essay," Midwestern Archivist 15, no. 2 (1990): 5-15.
"RAMP Studies and Related UNESCO Publications: An International Source for Archival Administration," American Archivist 53 (Summer 1990): 488-95.
"The History of Primary Sources in Graduate Education: An Archival Perspective," Special Collections 4, no. 2 (1990): 39-78.



"Library History and Library Archives," Libraries & Culture 26 (Fall 1991): 569-93.
"Managing Business Archives: Basic Considerations," Records & Retrieval Report 7 (November 1991): 1-16.



"Researching Archival Reference as an Information Function," RQ 31 (Spring 1992): 387-97.
"Electronic Information Technology and the Archivist: Bright Lights, Lingering Concerns," American Archivist 55 (Spring 1992): 232-34.
"The Archival Profession and Information Technology Standards," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 43 (September 1992): 571-75.
With Christinger Tomer, "Electronic Mail: Implications and Challenges for Records Managers and Archivists," Records & Retrieval Report 8 (November 1992).
"Archival Preservation Interests and Issues: An Archival Perspective." Advances in Preservation and Access (New York: K. G. Saur, 1992), I: 228-43.
"Archivists and the Use of Archival Records: Or, A View from the World of Documentary Editing," Provenance 9 (1991 [1992]): 89-110.



"The Roles of the Editor: Some Additional Reflections," American Archivist 56 (Winter 1993): 10-14.
"The Context of Archives and Archivists," American Archivist 56 (Spring 1993): 230-32.
"The Concept of Public Memory and Its Impact on Archival Public Programming," Archivaria 36 (Autumn 1993): 122-35.
"The Masters of Archival Studies and American Education Standards: An Argument for the Continued Development of Graduate Archival Education in the United States," Archivaria 36 (Autumn 1993): 221-31.
"International Perspectives on the Image of Archivists and Archives: Coverage by The New York Times, 1992-93," International Information & Library Review 25 (1993): 195-231.
"The Roles of Graduate and Continuing Education in Preparing Archivists for the Information Age," American Archivist 56 (Summer 1993): 444-57.



"An Analysis of Archival Research, 1970-1992, and the Role and Function of the American Archivist," American Archivist 57 (Spring 1994): 278-288.
"The Record: Is It Evolving?" Records and Retrieval Report 10 (March 1994): 1-16.
"Re-Discovering the Archival Mission: The Recordkeeping Functional Requirements Project at the University of Pittsburgh; A Progress Report." Archives and Museum Informatics 8, no. 4 (1994): 279-300.
"The Documentation Strategy and Archival Appraisal Principles: A Different Perspective." Archivaria 38 (Fall 1994): 11-36.



"What's In A Name? Archives as a Multi-faceted Term in the Information Professions." Records & Retrieval Report 11 (March 1995): 1-15.
"Collectors and Archival, Manuscript, and Rare Book Security." Focus on Security: The iMagazine of Library, Archive, and Museum Security 2 (April 1995): 19-27.
"The Archival Documentation Strategy: A Brief Intellectual History, 1984-1994 and Practical Description." Janus no. 2 (1995): 76-93.
"Continuing Education and Special Collections Professionals: The Need for Rethinking," Rare Books & Manuscripts Librarianship 10, no. 2 (1995): 78-96.
"Archives and Archivists in the Twenty-First Century: What Will We Become?" Archival Issues 20, no. 2 (1995): 97-113.



"The Record in the Information Age: A Progress Report on Research." Records and Retrieval Report 12 (January 1996): 1-16.
"The Record in the Manuscript Collection," Archives and Manuscripts 24 (May 1996): 46-61.
"The Long-Term Maintenance of Records." Records and Retrieval Report 12 (April 1996): 1-16.
"Re-Defining Electronic Records Management," Records Management Quarterly 30 (October 1996): 8-13.
"Computer Literacy and Records Professionals." Records and Retrieval Report 12 (October 1996): 1-16.
"The Archival Documentation Strategy and Its Implications for the Appraisal of Architectural Records," American Archivist 59 (Spring 1996): 144-154.
"The Archivist and Collecting: A Review Essay," American Archivist 59 (Fall 1996): 496-512.



"Debating the Future of the Book," American Libraries 28 (February 1997): 52-55.
"More Than Diplomatic: Functional Requirements for Evidence in Recordkeeping." Records Management Journal 7 (April 1997): 31-57.
"Advocacy in the Graduate Archives Curriculum: A North American Perspective," Janus no. 1 (1997): 30-41.
"Electronic Systems and Records Management in the Information Age: An Introduction." Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, (June 1997), available at http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Jun-97/cox.html.
"Messrs. Washington, Jefferson, and Gates: Quarelling about the Preservation of the Documentary Heritage of the United States." First Monday 2 (August 1997).
With Wendy Duff. " Warrant and the Definition of Electronic Records: Questions Arising from the Pittsburgh Project." Archives and Museum Informatics 11 (1997): 223-231.
with Edie Rasmussen. Reinventing the Information Professions and the Argument for Specialization in LIS Education: Case Studies in Archives and Information Technology. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 38 (Fall 1997): 255-267.
"Why Technology Convergence Is Not Enough for the Management of Information and Records." Records & Retrieval Report 13 (October 1997): 1-16.



"The Importance of Records in the Information Age," Records Management Quarterly 32 (January 1998): 36-46, 48-49, 52.
"Access in the Digital Information Age and the Archival Mission: The United States." Society of Archivists Journal, 19, no. 1 (1998): 25-40.
"Do We Understand Information in the Information Age?" Records & Information Management Report 14 (March 1998): 1-12.
"Archival Anchorites: Building Public Memory in the Era of the Culture Wars." Multicultural Review, 7 (June 1998): 52-60.
With Jane Greenberg and Cynthia Porter. "Access Denied: The Discarding of Library History." American Libraries 29 (April 1998): 57-61.
"Records Management Scheduling and Archival Appraisal," Records and Information Management Report 14 (April 1998): 1-16.
"Drawing Sea Serpents: The Publishing Wars on Personal Computing and the Information Age." First Monday (May 1998).



"Buscant l'autoritat: arxivers i documents electronics al Nou Mon de fi de segle," Lligall: Revista Catalana d'Arxivistica 14 (1999): 133-149.
"Millennial Thoughts on the Education of Records Professionals," Records and Information Management Report 15 (April 1999): 1-16.
"Declarations, Independence, and Text in the Information Age," First Monday 4 (June 1999).
"Privacy, Access, and Human Values in the World of the Records Professional," Records and Information Retrieval Report 15 (October 1999): 1-16.
"Records Professionals and the Understanding of Records Systems: Letter Writing Manuals," Records and Information Retrieval Report, 15 (December 1999): 1-16.



"Employing Records Professionals in the Information Age: An Analysis of Entry-Level Archives Advertisements, 1976-1997, in the United States." The Information Management Journal 34 (January 2000): 18-33.
"The Failure or Future of American Archival History: A Somewhat Unorthodox View," Libraries & Culture, 35 (Winter 2000): 141-154.
"Searching for Authority: Archivists and Electronic Records in the New World At the Fin-de-Sie¢cle," First Monday (January 2000).
"Hiring an Archivist," Records and Information Management Report 16 (February 2000): 1-15.
"Accountability, Public Scholarship, and Library, Information, and Archival Science Educators," Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 41 (Spring 2000): 94-105.
"The Information Age and History: Looking Backward to See Us,"Ubiquity (26 September-October 4, 2000).
"Report of the SAA Task Force on Continuing Education," Archival Outlook (September/October 2000): 4-9, also available at http://www.archivists.org/governance/tfce.html
"The Great Newspaper Caper: Backlash in the Digital Age," First Monday 5 (December 4, 2000). Reprinted in Collection Building 20, no. 2 (2001): 88-103, named as the most "outstanding paper" in Collection Building for the 2001 issue.
"The Society of American Archivists and Graduate Education: Meeting at the Crossroads," American Archivist 63 (Fall/Winter 2000): 368-379.



"Information 'Documents': How People and Organizations Acquire Information," Records and Information Management Report 17 (January 2001): 1-16.
"The Traditional Archival and Historical Records Program in the Digital Age: A Cautionary Tale," Records and Information Management Report 17 (May 2001): 1-16.
"Don't Fold Up: Responding to Nicholson Baker's Double Fold," Archival Outlook (May/June 2001): 8-14.
With Elizabeth Yakel, David Wallace, Jeannette Bastian, and Jennifer Marshall, "Archival Education in North American Library and Information Science Schools: A Status Report," Library Quarterly 71 (April 2001): 141-194. A shorter version was published in the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 42 (Summer 2001): 228-240.
"Review Article: Nicholson Baker, Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper," Archival Science, 1 (2001): 183-217.
"Testing the Spirit of the Information Age," Journal of Information Ethics, 10 (Fall 2001): 51-66.
with Mary K. Biagini, Toni Carbo, Tony Debons,Ellen Detlefsen, Jose Marie Griffiths, Don King, David Robins, Richard Thompson, Chris Tomer, and Martin Weiss, "The Day the World Changed: Implications for Archival, Library, and Information Science Education," First Monday 6-(December 3rd 2001), available at http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_12/cox/
"Making the Records Speak: Archival Appraisal, Memory, Preservation, and Collecting; A Review Essay," American Archivist 64 (Fall/Winter 2001): 394-404.
"Explaining Ourselves: Always A Challenge," Records and Information Management Report 17 (October 2001): 14-16.
"Evidence and Archives," Records and Information Management Report 17 (November 2001): 1-14.
"Access to Business Archives: Edwin Black's IBM and Records Management," Records and Information Management Report, 17 (November 2001): 15-16.
"Hiring an Archives Consultant," Records and Information Management Report 17 (December 2001): 1-16.
"Map Thefts, Library Security, Collecting, and Me: A Review of Harvey's The Island of Lost Maps," Library and Archival Security, 17, n2. (2001): 45-58.



"Records Programs, Disaster Preparedness and Recovery: A New Urgency," Records and Information Management Report 17 (January 2002): 1-14.
"Scribbling as Records," Records and Information Management Report 18 (January 2002): 15-16.
"Lying About Records," Records and Information Management Report 18 (February 2002): 14-15.
"Rediscovering the Document: Three Recent Views," Records and Information Management Report, 18 (March 2002): 1-13.
"Perceptions of Federal Recordkeeping Practices," Records and Information Management Report 18 (March 2002): 14-16.
Review of Adam Sisman, Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000), American Archivist 65 (Spring/Summer 2002): 138-142.
"Public Scholarship and Records Professionals," Records and Information Management Report 18 (April 2002): 1-13.
"America's Pyramids: Presidents and Their Libraries," Government Information Quarterly 19, no. 1 (2002): 45-75.
"The End of Collecting: Towards a New Purpose for Archival Appraisal," Archival Science, 2, nos. 3-4 (2002): 287-309.
"Does Strategic Information Management Have ARMs?" Records & Information Management Report 18 (September 2002): 1-13.
"History and Records Management," Records & Information Management Report 18 (September 2002): 14-16.
"Reaching Out and Taking Cover," Records & Information Management Report 18 (October 2002): 15-16.
"Unfair Use: Advice to Unwitting Authors," Journal of Scholarly Publishing 34 (October 2002): 31-42.
"Legal and Practical Solutions for Electronic Records Management," Records & Information Management Report 18 (November 2002): 15-16.
"Who Are We? Who Knows What We Are? Some Thoughts on the Continuing Debate About Credentials and Professional Identity," Records & Information Management Report 18 (December 2002): 1-14.
"Getting It Right," Records & Information Management Report 18 (December 2002): 15-16.
"Archives and the Digital Future," Journal of the Irish Society of Archivists, 8 (2001-2): 35-48.



Review of Effective Approaches for Managing Electronic Records and Archives, ed. Bruce W. Dearstyne. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2002. and Managing Historical Records Programs: A Guide for Historical Agencies, Bruce W. Dearstyne. Walnut Creek, California, 2000. Portal: Libraries and the Academy 3 (January 2003): 159-161.
Review of Gary Edgerton, Ken Burns' America in The Moving Image 3, no. 1 (2003), 190-192.
"From the Boardroom to the Flea Market," Records & Information Management Report 19 (February 2003): 14-16.
"Ruling the Waves in an Imperfect World," Records & Information Management Report 19 (March 2003): 13-15.
"The Records Speak to Us," Records & Information Management Report 19 (April 2003): 15-16.
"Records Life Cycle and Records Continuum," with Margaret Pett, Records & Information Management Report, 19 (May 2003): 1-14.
"Right, Left, and Refiguring the Record," Records & Information Management Report 19 (May 2003): 15-16.
"Records Administration and Predicting the Future," Records & Information Management Report 19 (June 2003): 14-16.
"Records Controversies, Old and New," Records & Information Management Report 19 (September 2003): 15-16.
"Archives and Records: An Unquiet History," Records & Information Management Report 19 (October 2003): 14-16.
"Revisiting IBM and the Holocaust," Records & Information Management Report 19 (June 2003): 13-14.
"Appraising and Scheduling Organizational Records: Two Case Studies," with Matt Herbison and Michael O'Malley, Records & Information Management Report 19 (September 2003): 1-14.
"Records, Documents, and Stuff in the Digital Era," Records & Information Management Report 19 (October 2003): 1-13.
"Records in the Hands of an Angry God: Jonathan Edwards and Eighteenth Century Records Management," Records & Information Management Report 19 (November 2003): 7-11.
"Establishing and Reinventing Institutional Records Programs: Four Case Studies," Records & Information Management Report 19 (December 2003): 1-13 [Part One]; [Part Two] Records & Information Management Report 20 (January 2004): 1-13.
"Government Records, Inside and Out," Records & Information Management Report 19 (November 2003): 12-16.
"Records as Technology," Records & Information Management Report 19 (December 2003): 14-16.
"La valoracion como un acta de memoria," Tabula: Revista De Archivivos De Castilla Y Leon no. 6 (2003): 51-73.
Review of Elizabeth Shepherd and Geoffrey Yeo, Managing Records: A Handbook of Principles and Practice (London: Facet Publishing, 2003) in Journal of the Society of Archivists 24, no. 2 (2003): 241-243.



"Los Principios De La Estrategia De La Documentacion Y De La Valoracion Archivistica: Una Perspectiva Diferente," Revista D'Arxius: Associaio D'Arxivers Valencians (2004): 177-215.
"Invisible Professionals," Records & Information Management Report 20 (January 2004): 14-16.
"Contesting Photographs (And Other Things)," Records & Information Management Report, 20 (February 2004): 15-16.
"New Media," Records & Information Management Report, 20 (March 2004): 14-15.
"Forming the Records Professional's Knowledge: North American Archival Publishing in the 20th Century," Records & Information Management Report 20 (March 2004): 1-13.
"The Mythology of the Basic Archives Textbook," Archival Outlook (March/April 2004): 12-13.
"A Glance at the Past: Records, Organizations, and Clerks," Records & Information Management Report, 20 (April 2004): 14-15.
"Archives, Records, and Knowledge Management in the Twenty-first Century: What is the Future of the Records Professional?," Records & Information Management Report 20 (April 2004): 1-13.
"Back to Basics: Speaking, Writing, Reading -- and Records," Records & Information Management Report 20 (May 2004): 1-13.
"The Expanding Vision of SAA's Publications Program," Archival Outlook (May/June 2004): 16-17.
"Collecting 'Stuff,'" Records & Information Management Report, 20 (May 2004): 14-16.
"Records and Technology's Mysteries," Records & Information Management Report, 20 (May 2004): 15-16.
"Creating a Classic: Rediscovering Lester J. Cappon," Archival Outlook (July/August 2004): 14-15.
"All SAA Publications Must Be in Agreement? Consensus and Conflict in Archival Literature," Archival Outlook (September/October 2004): 22-23.
"False Promises," Records & Information Management Report 20 (September 2004): 15-16.
"Why the Archivist of the United States is Important to Records Professionals and America," Records & Information Management Report 20 (October 2004): 1-14.
"Three for Records Managers," Records & Information Management Report 20 (October 2004): 15-16.
"The World is a Dangerous Place: Recordkeeping in the Age of Terror," Records & Information Management Report 20 (November 2004): 1-14.
"The Textualization of Society: Records Everywhere," Records & Information Management Report 20 (November 2004): 15-16.
"Publishing, not Perishing," Archival Outlook (November/December 2004): 14-15.
"Technology, the Future of Work, and Records Professionals," Records & Information Management Report 20 (December 2004): 1-12.
"Intellectual Property as a Challenge for Records Professionals," Records & Information Management Report 20 (December 2004): 13-16.
"Los Principios De La Estrategia De La Documentacion Y De La Valoracion Archivistica: Una Perspectiva Diferente," Revista D'Arxius: Associaio D'Arxivers Valencians (2004): 177-215.



"Reading Photographs as Evidence," Records & Information Management Report 21 (January 2005): 11-16.
"Archival Satisfaction: Writing and the Professional Community," Archival Outlook (January/February 2005): 10-11.
"Truth and the Record in the Post-Truth Society," Records & Information Management Report 21 (February 2005): 1-13.
"Information Technology and the Competitive Advantage," Records & Information Management Report 21 (February 2005): 14-16.
"Archiving Archives: Rethinking and Revitalizing a Concept," Records & Information Management Report 21 (March 2005): 1-13.
"Recordkeeping in Merry Old England (and Other Places): The Value of a Historical Perspective," Records & Information Management Report 21 (March 2005): 14-16.
"Reading and Archival Knowledge," Archival Outlook (March/April 2005): 14, 23.
"Censorship and Records," Records & Information Management Report 21 (April 2005): 1-12.
"Records of Life: The Resurgence of Scholarly Interest in How People Create Records," Records & Information Management Report 21 (April 2005): 13-14.
"Playing Publisher, Building Knowledge, and Providing Opportunities: Rethinking a Professional Association's Publications Program," Records & Information Management Report 21 (May 2005): 1-13.
"Keepers, One and All," Records & Information Management Report 21 May 2005): 14-15.
"Records on Trial," Records & Information Management Report 21 (June 2005): 14-16.
"Lester J. Cappon and the Relationship of History, Archives, and Scholarship in the Golden Age of Archival Theory," American Archivist 68 (Spring/Summer 2005): 74-111.
"American Archivist Cover Controversy," American Archivist 68 (Spring/Summer 2005): 8-11 (letter to the editor).
"Scandal, Scoundrels, and Something Spicy," Archival Outlook (July/August 2005): 8-9.
"Information Technology and Work: A Historical Case Study," Records & Information Management Report 21 (September 2005): 15-16.
"A "Harmless Whiff of Disturbed Air": "Sound" Records," Records & Information Management Report 21 (October 2005): 1-13.
"Are There New Information Professionals?" Records & Information Management Report 21 (October 2005): 14-16.
"Teaching About Records, Ethics, and Accountability: Three Cases," co-authored with Barbara Meister, David Reynolds, and Anne Salsich, Records & Information Management Report 21 (November 2005): 1-13.
"Recordkeeping in Society," Records & Information Management Report 21 (November 2005): 14-16.
"The Need for Case Studies - and a Start," Records & Information Management Report 21 (December 2005): 14-15.
"Public Memory Meets Archival Memory: The Interpretation of Williamsburg's Secretary's Office," American Archivist 68 (Fall/Winter 2005): 279-296. Also published in Archives & Social Studies 1 (March 2007): 13-42.
Review of Barbara Craig, Archival Appraisal: Theory and Practice (Munchen: K. G. Saur, 2004), American Archivist 68 (Fall/Winter 2005): 346-350.



"The Romance of the Document," Records & Information Management Report 22 (January 2006): 1-13.
"The Continuing Search for Order: A Historical Perspective," Records & Information Management Report 22 (January 2006): 14-16.
"A "Therapeutic Function": Personal Recordkeeping," Records & Information Management Report 22 (February 2006): 1-13.
"Are Archivists and Records Managers Knowledge Workers?" Records & Information Management Report 22 (February 2006), 14-16.
"Human Impulses and Personal Archives," Records & Information Management Report 22 (March 2006),1-13.
"Preserving Digital Stuff," Records & Information Management Report 22 (March 2006), 14-15.
"Traces of Ourselves: Concluding Thoughts on Personal Recordkeeping," Records & Information Management Report 22 (April 2006), 1-14.
"A Sea Change in Electronic Records Management?" Records & Information Management Report 22 (April 2006), 15-16.
"Debits and Credits for the Soul," Records & Information Management Report 22 (May 2006), 15-16.
"The Demise of the Library School," American Libraries, forthcoming.
"The Task Is Not Too Big (Maybe)," Records & Information Management Report 22 (June 2006): 15-16.
"Cyber-Democracy and the Role of Records Professionals," Records & Information Management Report 22 (September 2006): 14-16.
"Empty Temples: Challenges for Modern Government Archives and Records Management," Records & Information Management Report 22 (October 2006): 1-13.
"Are Corporations Accountable?" Records & Information Management Report 22 (October 2006): 14-15.
"The National Archives Reclassification Scandal," Records & Information Management Report 22 (November 2006): 1-13.
"The Emotional and Social Energy of Documents," Records & Information Management Report 22 (November 2006): 14-16.
"Adding to the Professional Bookshelf," Records & Information Management Report 22 (December 2006): 14-15.




"Hearing the Call," Records & Information Management Report 23 (January 2007): 1-13.
"Building a Foundation for the Future," Records & Information Management Report 23 (January 2007): 14-15.
"Heeding the Call," Records & Information Management Report 23 (February 2007): 1-13.
"Blogging Archives and Records," Records & Information Management Report 23 (February 2007): 14-16.
"Are There Really New Directions and Innovations in Archival Education?" Archival Science 6 (2006): 247-261.
"Professing the Call: The Importance of Professional Education," Records & Information Management Report 23 (March 2007): 1-14.
"Understanding Cyberspace: A Good Place to Start," Records & Information Management Report 23 (March 2007): 15-16.
"Former President Giuliani and His Library?" Archives & Social Studies 1 (March 2007): 475-478.
Review of Antoinette Burton, Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005) in American Archivist 69 (Fall/Winter 2006): 535-539.
"Preserving Digits," Records & Information Management Report 23 (April 2007): 15-16.
"Sustaining the Call," Records & Information Management Report 23 (April 2007):1-14.
"Handwriting in the Digital Era," Records & Information Management Report 23 (May 2007): 15-16.
"Two Sides of the Coin: Archivists and Records Managers Consider Electronic Mail; The Records Managers Speak," Records & Information Management Report 23 (May 2007):1-14.
"Listservs and Difficult Appraisal Decisions: The Archives and Archivists List Great Debate," Records & Information Management Report 23 (September 2007): 1-14.
"Archive Junkies: In Search of Records," Records & Information Management Report 23 (September 2007): 15-16.
"Listservs and Difficult Appraisal Decisions: The Archives and Archivists List Great Debate (Part Two)," Records & Information Management Report 23 (October 2007): 1-14.
"Old Technologies, Same Challenges," Records & Information Management Report 23 (October 2007): 15-16.
With the University of Pittsburgh Archives Students, "Machines in the Archives: Technology and the Coming Transformation of Archival Reference," First Monday, 12 (November 2007), available at http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2029/1894.
"The Web of Records: The World Wide Web and the Records Professions," Records & Information Management Report 23 (November 2007): 1-14.
"Understanding Archival Texts," Records & Information Management Report 23 (November 2007): 15-16.
"The Web of Records: Blogs and the Records Professions," Records & Information Management Report 23 (December 2007): 1-12.



"The Academic Archives of the Future," EDUCAUSE Review 43 (March/April 2008): 10-11.
"Archival Ethics: The Truth of the Matter," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59, no. 7 (2008): 1128-1133.
Review of Francis X. Blouin, Jr., and William G. Rosenberg, eds., Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory: Essays from the Sawyer Seminar (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006) in Journal of Archival Organization 5, no. 3 (2007): 79-82.
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American Archival Analysis: The Recent Development of the Archival Profession in the United States (Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1990). [Winner, Leland Award, 1991] Managing Institutional Archives: Foundational Principles and Practices (New York: Greenwood Press, 1992).
The First Generation of Electronic Records Archivists in the United States: A Study in Professionalization (New York: Haworth Press, 1994).
Documenting Localities: A Practical Model for American Archivists and Manuscripts Curators (Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1996).
Closing an Era: Historical Perspectives on Modern Archives and Records Management (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2000).
Managing Records as Evidence and Information (Westport, Connecticut: Quorum Books, 2000).
Co-editor, with David Wallace, Archives and the Public Good: Accountability and Records in Modern Society (Westport, Connecticut: 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: Reflections on the Post 9/11 Digital Age (Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 2003).
No Innocent Deposits: Rethinking Archival Appraisal(Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 2004).
Lester J. Cappon and the Relationship of History, Archives, and Scholarship in the Golden Age of Archival Theory (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2004).
Archives and Archivists in the Information Age (New York: Neal-Schuman, 2005).
With James M. O'Toole,Understanding Archives and Manuscripts(Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2006).
Ethics, Accountability and Recordkeeping in a Dangerous World (London: Facet, 2006)
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"From Feudalism to Freedom: Maryland in the American Revolution," in Maryland Heritage: Five Baltimore Institutions Celebrate the American Bicentennial, ed. John B. Boles (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1976), pp. 125-79.
with Lynn W. Cox, "Selecting Information of Enduring Value for Preservation: Contending With the Hydra-Headed Monster," in Rethinking the Library in the Information Age: Issues in Library Research: Proposals for the 1990s (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988), pp. 115-30.
"Readings in Archives and Electronic Records: Annotated Bibliography and Analysis of the Literature," in Electronic Records Management Program Strategies, ed. Margaret Hedstrom (Pittsburgh: Archives and Museum Informatics, 1993), pp. 99-156.
"Archives," Encyclopedia of Library History, eds. Wayne A. Wiegand and Donald G. Davis, Jr. (New York: Garland Publishing Co., Inc., 1994), pp. 39-43.
"John Franklin Jameson," "John Clement Fitzpatrick," and "Jared Sparks," American National Biography, forthcoming.
"Other Atlantic States: Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, and South Carolina," in H.G. Jones, ed., Historical Consciousness in the Early Republic: The Origins of State Historical Societies and Collections, 1791-1861 (Chapel Hill: North Caroliniana Society, Inc. and North Carolina Collection, 1995), pp. 102-124.
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"The Documentation Strategy and Archival Appraisal Principles: A Different Perspective," in Randall C. Jimerson, ed., American Archival Studies: Readings in Theory and Practice (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2000), This was originally published as "The Documentation Strategy and Archival Appraisal Principles: A Different Perspective." Archivaria 38 (Fall 1994): 11-36.
"The Failure or Future of American Archival History: A Somewhat Unorthodox View," in Andrew B. Wertheimer and Donald G. Davis, Jr., eds., Library History Research in America: Essays Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Library History Round Table (Washington, D.C.: The Center for the Book, Library of Congress, 2000), pp. 141-154.
"Leadership and Archival Education," in Bruce W. Dearstyne, ed., Leadership and Administration of Successful Archival Programs (Westport,Conn.: Greenwood, 2001), pp. 1-17.
"The Archivist and Collecting," Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, vol. 70, supp. 33 (New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2002), pp. 1-21
"What Do We Mean by 'Yesterday's Papers'?" in Who Wants Yesterday's Papers? The Research Value of Printed Materials in the Digital Age, (Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 2004).
"Local Government Records Programs," Documenting America: Assessing the Condition of Historical Records in the States, ed. Lisa B. Weber (Albany, New York): National Association of State Archives and Records Administrators and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, (1984), pp. 19-36.
Editor, "Educating the American Archivist for the Twenty-First Century," Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 34 (Winter 1993).
"The Federal Government's Interest in Archives of the United States," in Oddo Bucci. ed., Archival Science on the Threshold of the Year 2000 (Macerata, Italy: University of Macerata, 1993), pp. 207-41.
"Standardizing Archival Practices: A Tool for the Information Age," International Congress on Archives Proceedings 1992 (Paris: ICA, 1994), pp. 165-179.
"A Sense of the Future: A Child's View of Archives," Archivists: The Image and Future of the Profession; 1995 Conference Proceedings, eds. Michael Piggott and Colleen McEwen (Canberra: Australian Society of Archivists Inc., 1996), pp. 189-209.
"A Sense of the Future: An Adult's View of Archives," Archivists: The Image and Future of the Profession; 1995 Conference Proceedings, eds. Michael Piggott and Colleen McEwen (Canberra: Australian Society of Archivists Inc., 1996), pp. 219-224.
"Blown to Bits: Electronic Records, Archivy, and the Corporation," in James M. O'Toole, ed. The Records of American Business (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1997).
"Meta-Scheduling: Rethinking Archival Appraisal and Records Management Scheduling," in Bridging Records, Information, and Knowledge: ARMA Proceedings (Prairie Village, KS: ARMA, 1999), 59-66.
"Relações perigosas: o governo norte-americano e seus arquivos," in Documentos privados de interesse publico: o acesso em questão (Sau Paulo: Instituo Fernando Henrique Cardoso, 2005), pp. 69-88.
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A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Calvert Papers (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1973).
A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Mordecai Gist Papers (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1975).
Tracing the History of the Baltimore Structure: A Guide to the Primary and Secondary Sources (Baltimore: Baltimore City Archives and Records Management Office, 1980).
"An Annotated Bibliography of Basic Readings in Archives and Manuscripts," History News 35 (September 1980): 21-32.
co-editor, A Guide to the Research Collections of the Maryland Historical Society: Historical and Genealogical Manuscripts and Oral History Interviews (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1981).
Principal author, Assessing Alabama's Archives: A Plan for the Preservation of the State's Historical Records (Montgomery: Alabama Historical Records Advisory Board, 1985).
Principal author, Strengthening New York's Historical Records Programs: A Self-Study Guide (Albany: New York State Archives and Records Administration, 1988). [Winner, Arline Custer Memorial Award, 1989]
"Compiling Local History Bibliographies," History News 37 (August 1981): 19-22.
An Annotated Bibliography on the Administration of Archives and Manuscripts (Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1989).
"Reading Archives Part One. Classics, Textbooks, Manuals, Monographs, Edited Works, Conference Proceedings and Project Reports," Records and Information Management Report 16 (May 2000): 1-16.
"Reading Archives Part Two: Research, Case, Management, and Historical Studies,"Records and Information Management Report 16 (June 2000): 1-16.
"Records Professionals and the World Wide Web: Resources and Responsibilities; Part One: Basic Professional Information Sources," Records and Information Management Report 16 (October 2000): 1-13.
"Records Professionals and the World Wide Web: Resources and Responsibilities; Part Two New and Better Uses of the Web for Records Work," Records and Information Management Report 16 (November 2000): 1-16.
“Advice on Records Management Policy: Comments on RIMR's Twenty Years,Records & Information Management Report 21 (January 2005): 1-10.
A Minor Nuisance Spread Across the Organization: Factors Leading to the Establishment and Support of Records and Information Management Programs (Pittsburgh, PA: ARMA International Educational Foundation, October 2005).
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