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Title Archives and the public good : accountability and records in modern society / edited by Richard J. Cox and David A. Wallace
Published Westport, Conn. : Quorum Books, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 340 pages)
Contents Introduction; EXPLANATION; Archives on Trial: The Strange Case of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers; "A Monumental Blunder": The Destruction of Records on Nazi War Criminals in Canada; Information for Accountability Workshops: Their Role in Promoting Access to Information; SECRECY; Implausible Deniability: The Politics of Documents in the Iran- Contra Affair and Its Investigations; The Failure of Federal Records Management: The IRS versus a Democratic Society; Lighting Up the Internet: The Brown and Williamson Collection; MEMORY
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the Politics of MemoryTurning History into Justice: The National Archives and Records Administration and Holocaust- Era Assets, 1996- 2001; "They Should Have Destroyed More": The Destruction of Public Records by the South African State in the Final Years of Apartheid, 1990- 1994; Trying to Write "Comprehensive and Accurate" History of the Foreign Relations of the United States: An Archival Perspective; TRUST; What You Get Is Not What You See: Forgery and the Corruption of Recordkeeping Systems
The Jamaican Financial Crisis: Accounting for the Collapse of Jamaica's Indigenous Commercial BanksThe Anchors of Community Trust and Academic Liberty: The Fabrikant Affair; Records and the Public Interest: The "Heiner Affair" in Queensland, Australia; Index; About the Editors and Contributors
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Archives -- Social aspects
Archives -- Administration -- Case studies
Records -- Management -- Case studies
Common good.
Public interest.
Responsibility.
public interest.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Library & Information Science -- Archives & Special Libraries.
Archives -- Social aspects
Archives -- Administration
Common good
Public interest
Records -- Management
Responsibility
Archieven.
Collectieve verantwoordelijkheid.
Informatiemanagement.
Archiv -- Verwaltung -- USA -- Aufsatzsammlung.
Verwaltung -- Archiv -- USA -- Aufsatzsammlung.
USA -- Archiv -- Verwaltung -- Aufsatzsammlung.
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Cox, Richard J
Wallace, David A., 1961-
ISBN 0313006725
9780313006722
1567204694
9781567204698